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Miami's new duo in their first win of the season 🔥
Bam: 24 PTS, 9 REB
Giannis: 24 PTS, 18 REB
Finally in the win column!! Great Dub tonight fellas along with a good bounce back game Bam 🫡 let’s continue to build off of this!! #HeatNation
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August 3, 1995. The Source Awards in New York City. OutKast had just won Best New Rap Group, but the room did not exactly welcome them with open arms. As André 3000 and Big Boi stepped up to accept the award, the crowd booed. At the time, hip-hop was caught between the East Coast and West Coast, and Southern rap was often treated like it had something to prove.
André did not give a long speech. He barely had time to say much at all. But then he delivered the line that would follow Southern hip-hop for years: “The South got something to say.”
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Jay-Z stopped promoting Cristal. Years later, Moët Hennessy bought 50% of the champagne brand he helped build.
Rick Rubin’s retelling focuses on the order of those decisions.
He recalls Jay-Z feeling insulted by comments about hip-hop customers and deciding to stop supporting Cristal. In Rubin’s account, Jay had already walked away when somebody approached him about building another brand together.
Rubin says Jay liked the gold bottle. The opportunity became Armand de Brignac, widely known as Ace of Spades.
The public record gives that story a concrete ownership outcome. On February 22, 2021, Moët Hennessy announced it was acquiring half of Armand de Brignac and entering a global distribution agreement. Its announcement describes a 50–50 partnership.
LVMH dates Jay-Z’s involvement with the champagne house to 2006, working with the Cattier family. This was a business built over years.
The Cristal dispute also had two sides. Louis Roederer issued a response defending its openness to different cultures, including hip-hop. Rubin is describing how Jay-Z experienced the episode, rather than establishing the company’s intent.
What changed financially was Jay’s position in the product he was associated with. He became an owner of the brand, with an interest in the business his audience helped support.
When should the person helping create demand start asking for ownership?
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Introducing the transparent Prism Collection, launching February 4
🧡 Flare Orange
💚 Emerald Green
🩶 Graphite Gray
First details on the DualSense controllers: play.st/47QnvE7
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for my latest interview, linked J. Cole and his longtime manager the legend Mark Pitts to reminisce on Mark steering Cole's come-up, the early Roc Nation days and Usher and Chris Brown's R&B Tour
watch the full convo here: youtube.com/watch?v=JiyXAm3y…
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J. Cole writes a letter in support of Lil Durk, ahead of his upcoming trial:
“To the Honorable Judge Fitzgerald,
I hope this letter reaches you in good spirits. My name is Jermaine Cole, professionally, I’m a musician known by my stage name, J. Cole. With respect to your time, I will keep my back story brief. I’m from Fayetteville, North Carolina and moved to New York City at 18 years old to attend college while also pursuing grand musical ambitions.
Fast forward many years later now and I’m happy to say I have been blessed with an incredibly fruitful career, and as I write you this letter I’m currently on tour in Europe as part of a much larger world tour for my latest album.
I consider myself the “middle child” of hip hop; meaning I’m young enough to look up to so many legendary artists who have come before me and paved the way (Tupac Shakur, Nas, Jay-Z, Outkast, Kanye West and many others), but I also reached an age and status where I would regularly receive high levels of respect and admiration from the younger generation of artists that were beginning to have success after me.
Durk Banks is an artist who is in the hip hop generation that came directly after mine. My little brothers. I was aware of his art and his success, and we had connected at some point over the years, but it wasn’t until we got to work together that I got to know him on a more substantial level.
The first thing I noticed was his demeanor. Always extremely respectful, and he often would check in randomly on my well being. One day, he sent a song that he was developing and asked me if I would be willing to be a part of it. The song was called “All My Life.”
It was an extremely positive song, with a very uplifting chorus sung by a group of children. A song about overcoming life’s toughest circumstances and refusing to let them stop you. Although I could tell this was a great song, I was hesitant to be a part of it.”
“I hope this letter has helped give you some more insight into Durk as a person, with a story that I’m sure has been untold before this. I’m also aware you will be making a decision shortly on his potential release on bond, and I hope that these words will help you arrive confidently at that decision. Thank you for your time. God bless, Jermaine Cole.
