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DTX - Artist. Int’l DJ. Platinum Producer. Construction Project Manager. Non-profit Founder/Owner @4ftf_ I take a lot of naps.

[only one willaye 🧙🏾‍♂️ @1WillAye]

2025: Undeniable

[only one willaye 🧙🏾‍♂️ @1WillAye]

‘Oh My’ out now 🕺🏾🪩🕺🏾

Happy Juneteenth my niggas!

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[only one willaye 🧙🏾‍♂️ @1WillAye]

Only way to become a man is through one.

Gotta have a mentor

[only one willaye 🧙🏾‍♂️ @1WillAye]

Choose God daily

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What do I be on here talking about lol

[only one willaye 🧙🏾‍♂️ @1WillAye]

@_DanielPorter Preciate you bro! Much love always 🤞🏾🤞🏾

[Olympic Bean @olympicbean]

We don’t call a musician great for playing Mozart’s music

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

A 13-year-old Canadian kid uploaded R&B covers to YouTube in 2008 from his bedroom. A talent manager named Scooter Braun stumbled on the videos and signed him.

For the next 15 years, Braun controlled everything. Tours, branding, business deals, public image. The kid became the biggest pop star on the planet, sold 150 million records, racked up 32 billion Spotify streams, and had three Diamond-certified singles before turning 25.

Then in 2022, he got hit with Ramsay Hunt syndrome. Partial facial paralysis. Cancelled the world tour. Disappeared from public life entirely.

Here's where it gets interesting.

In January 2023, he sold his entire 290-song catalog to Hipgnosis for $200 million. Every song he'd ever released. "Baby." "Sorry." "Love Yourself." All of it. Gone. At 28 years old, he cashed out his past.

Then he dropped Scooter Braun. After 15 years. No manager. No agent. For the first time in his career, nobody was making decisions for him.

Fast forward to this weekend. Coachella calls. He picks up the phone himself. Rolling Stone confirmed he negotiated his own headlining deal directly with Goldenvoice. No agent commission. No manager cut. $10 million for two weekends, and he kept all of it.

Then he walked onto the biggest stage in music, sat down behind a MacBook, and pulled up YouTube.

He played "Baby" from 2010. He played his bedroom covers from 2008. He harmonized with his 13-year-old self in front of 100,000 people. Katy Perry joked about whether he had YouTube Premium.

Half the internet called it lazy. The other half called it genius.

They're both wrong. It was a receipt.

He sold his catalog for $200 million. He fired the man who discovered him. He negotiated his own deal. And then he went back to the exact platform where it all started and said: I built this from a laptop. I'm headlining Coachella from a laptop. And for the first time in my life, every dollar is mine.

The kid from YouTube just closed the loop.

[Aristo @aristomarinetti]

"Never trust a thought that occurs to you indoors."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

[J.Bush CSCS, USAW, PES, USTFCCCA @JBush____]

A HBCU just beat the defending National Champions on the road. This needs to be a major sports story tomorrow.

[𝐠𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐫 @____selah]

“you correct a fool and gain an enemy. you correct the wise and gain a friend.”

[Five @Jay_F5]

that’s why I actually love conflict. in the resolution of it or lack thereof, I’m gonna know exactly what your values are and if you care more about control or connection.

[Your Best Version @YourPrimePath]

“Being hated by idiots is the price you pay for not being one of them"

[DaY1M 🤴🏽 🔙 3nd 👶🏽 @dayungest1m]

I go where the love is or I sit by myself it's never been no in between

[𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘇𝘆’🦉 @OvOBrezzzy]

They had Shakespeare, I have Kanye west

[: @_dxllz7]

leaving things unsaid because saying them won't change a thing

[𝐠𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐫 @____selah]

“You cannot reconcile with someone who is not honest about how they mishandled you“.

[GOOD JOB LARRY 🍊 @LarryJuneTFM]

Some shit just be learning experiences, take the good from it and keep striving P.

[GOOD JOB LARRY 🍊 @LarryJuneTFM]

Being mentally prepared is the real flex 🍊💪🏽

[only one willaye 🧙🏾‍♂️ @1WillAye]

Time to kick that tit and grow up Sun

[only one willaye 🧙🏾‍♂️ @1WillAye]

Develop your own language.

English is a cursed tongue.