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Long before many of today's biggest stars made it, Davido was helping them when they had almost nothing.

South African rapper Nasty C revealed that Davido jumped on the remix of Juice Back without charging a single naira. When Nasty C admitted he couldn't afford a music video, Davido simply said, "Don't worry"—then paid for the entire shoot himself.

But that's not the only story.

Zlatan Ibile has shared how Davido's team sent him ₦20 million overnight after learning he couldn't afford a proper music video.

Focalistic also revealed that Davido paid for their video shoots and even let him keep all the money from their collaborations, helping him build his career with hits like "Ke Star" and "Champion Sound."

Even Wizkid benefited from Davido's generosity.
Banky W once confirm that Davido helped fund Wizkid's iconic Pakurumo music video during a difficult time early in his career.

These are different artists Davido had invested in.

Maybe that's why Davido confidently says, "I know who I be."

What's one thing about Davido that deserves more credit?

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Sometimes, there is something so special to you that you will never sell, no matter how much money someone offers. Because selling it would destroy something irreplaceable—your vision, your integrity, your legacy, or what you’ve poured your life into.

Back in the 1970s, Sylvester Stallone was a struggling actor with almost no money. He wrote a movie script called "Rocky" in just three days. It was a story he cared about deeply.

Movie studios loved his script! They offered him a lot of money to buy it—even millions of dollars in today's money. But they had one rule: they wanted a famous actor to play the main character, not Stallone.

Stallone said no. He was broke and needed the money, but he didn't care. He said he would rather bury the script in his backyard than let someone else play the part of Rocky. He knew the story was meant for him.

Finally, a smaller studio agreed to let him star in the movie for a small budget. "Rocky" became a huge hit, won the biggest awards, and made Stallone a superstar. Because he didn't give up... it came true exactly how he wanted.

Just like the 86-year-old farmer who said “I don’t want to see the farm destroyed” He has farmed on that land for his entire life.

When developers came knocking with a $15 million offer to turn his land into a massive data center, he turned them down and sold the land's development rights to a farmland preservation program.

He knew that saying no today meant nothing if someone could come back tomorrow with a bigger number. So he sold the rights for around $2 million, a legal move that permanently removes the ability to develop that land for anything other than farming in future.

Just like that farmer, Stallone knew that some things are worth more than money. Both men proved that if something truly means the world to you, it is not for sale.

There is always something in your life that you simply cannot sell.

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Elon had a Trillionaire mindsets since day one

While studying at the University of Pennsylvania in the 1990s, Elon Musk and his roommate, Adeo Ressi, converted their 14-bedroom rented house into a weekend nightclub to pay for rent. They charged $5 for entry, attracting up to 500 people.

The house was used to make money. Elon was managing the logistics and finances while others partied.

The business served as a way to afford his rent and living expenses while in college.

According to his roommate, Musk was "straight-laced" and rarely attended the parties, sometimes found playing video games during the events.

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Just believe — your beliefs can be a currency.

But before that currency can buy you the life you desire, it will force you to pay for it...

In the early 1990s, a broke comedian(Jim Carrey) sat on a dirty cliff-top, staring at Los Angeles. His home was a rusted Volkswagen van parked inside a car park. One night, he pulled a wrinkled piece of paper from his pocket, opened a pen, and wrote himself a check for exactly $10,000,000 for "acting services rendered." He gave himself a strict five-year deadline.

To any rational passerby, that piece of paper was a symptom of a psychological breakdown.

At the time, the check was worthless.
But he carried that check everywhere because the future it represented was real to him.

Years passed.
Auditions.
Directors publicly rejected him. Doubt.
More rejection. He refused to throw away that check.

Then, the world finally smiled upon him.

In 1994, just months before his self-imposed five-year clock ran out, he signed a contract for a movie called “Dumb and Dumber”. The exact payout was $10,000,000. Jim Carrey had turned his delusion into reality.

It’s an incredible Hollywood fairy tale. But it can happen to anyone who believes.

While working at a car wash, Rick Ross promised himself that he'd be so rich to a point that he could buy every car he washed — years later, he got rich and bought them all.

Rick Ross now has more than 200 cars. Different models of luxury cars. These cars are not for sale. They belong to one person and that’s the biggest boss , Rozay.

The money and the cars are just the delivery of what they already paid for with their beliefs.

Like Burna Boy famously said: JUST BELIEVE!

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For the first time in human history, a single individual is about to cross the dollar-trillionaire threshold.

On June 12, Elon Musk's aerospace empire, SpaceX, is officially going public on the stock market. According to CNN, the massive influx from this blockbuster listing—combined with his dominant Tesla holdings—is projected to instantly launch his personal net worth past $1,000,000,000,000.

Elon can give away $100 to everybody in the world without going broke 👀‼️

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Taylor Swift’s net worth now exceeds $2 BILLION, according to Forbes.

Industry Big players bought Taylor Swift's entire Catalog from under her. Thinking they had her trapped, and expected her and keep generating their checks.

Unfortunately, She started completely re-recording her catalog from scratch, Using her fanbase to make the original masters worthless. The revenge campaign broke the global entertainment infrastructure, crashing ticket giants and forcing US Congress to launch federal monopoly investigations.

Forbes just confirmed her net worth surpassed $2 billion—the first musician to hit the milestone purely from music.

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The Commander wants Africa to be corruption free ‼️👀

General Muhoozi Kainerugaba—the president’s son and likely heir to the regime—just seized total control of the capital’s entire road budget. The military is bypassing all legal oversight, and Muhoozi isn't offering standard penalties for bad infrastructure.

He just issued a direct ultimatum to every contractor in the country. If a newly paved street develops a single crack:
"That contractor will pay with his heād."
Officially turning potholes into capital crimes.

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A grueling hike up Mount Tai in China usually breaks people. But lately, young climbers are leaning on rented human beings.

China’s youth are quietly fueling a 50-billion-yuan ($7.4B) "loneliness economy." They aren't buying luxury goods; they are buying the illusion of connection. For a few hundred yuan, a hired stranger will carry your bags, take your photos, and pretend to care about your exhaustion.

It gets even stranger...
When you step into any hotpot restaurant in Shanghai, the person sharing a steaming broth with a lonely professional might be a freelancer clocked in by the hour. The society have been crippled by cutthroat work culture and the isolating legacy of the one-child policy, that traditional dating is dead. Rejection hurts too much, so millions are paying for guaranteed, risk-free intimacy or relationship.

Those who can't afford a human are turning to AI avatars.

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Embarrassed > homeless

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When Theresa Kachindamoto took the tribal throne in central Malawi, inheriting a dark, unspoken tradition — that caused hundreds of young girls missing from classrooms, hidden away in the homes of older men.

The village elders told her to look the other way because It was tradition and financial survival.

Instead, she declared war.

She stripped her own sub-chiefs of their authority on the spot if they allowed a single child marriage. In retaliation the chief initiated instant violent. Furious parents cornered her, She constantly received death threats at her doorstep.

But Theresa had secretly built an underground network of village mothers.

They became her eyes and ears, raiding homes and hunting down illegal unions. While critics waited for her to back down under the threat of execution, she was quietly plotting something much bigger...

By the time the dust settled, she hadn't only rescued a staggering 3,500 girls—she had forced the entire national government to rewrite the law of the land, raising the legal marriage age from 15 to 18 nationwide.

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🚨JUST IN: Thousands of citizens are openly begging Donald Trump to launch a foreign intervention, screaming that the local regime has weaponized hunger. They are rejecting the government's rice, calling it compliance traps. They want the regime to go and they believe Donald Trump is the only savior left who can save them.

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Before he became Hollywood's most imposing leading man, Sir Idris Elba was a desperate 18-year-old kid in East London trying to escape the streets. He didn’t have rent money then...

Then, a controversial royal charity took a gamble on him, handing him a modest £1,500 grant just to keep his acting dream alive.

Fast forward to today at Windsor Castle.
King Charles III summoned him to celebrate his box office success, and brought him to his knees for something entirely different — his quiet obsession with saving the next generation from the darkness he barely escaped had earned him a new title.

Idris Elba was officially knighted by King Charles III on 2 June 2026 during an investiture ceremony. Following the ceremony, he is now entitled to use the title "Sir Idris Elba." ⚔️👑

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Online Celebrity beggar, known as Lekki street boy plans to win a Guinness World Record for the longest begging ever.

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Gay rights Activists could land themselves in a prison cell if they try to speak against the new Law.

Ghana’s parliament just approved a legislation. It doesn’t just criminalize being LGBTQ+ with a three-year prison sentence. It introduces: a mandatory "duty to report."

Your neighbors, your coworkers, even your family are now legally obligated to watch your every move and denounce you to the police.

The law also targets "allies." If you are a straight citizen who speaks out against the hunt, you face the exact same prison bars.

The bill now sits on the desk of President John Dramani Mahama. Unlike past leaders who hesitated under international pressure, Mahama has made his stance clear, explicitly stating he only believes in two genders.

Senegal is also pushing for 10-year sentences, and Uganda has already triggered the ultimate penalty: death.

Thoughts...

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According to report from Local SA news media: Limpopo Chronicles, They dragged a 19-year-old boy out of a house in Mossel Bay, convinced they were purging their community of an illegal foreigner.

He begged for his life in his native tongue. But to the mob outside, his words didn't sound local enough.

Nhlamulo Sambo wasn’t an immigrant. He was a South African citizen, born and raised in Giyani, Limpopo. His only "crime" was speaking Xitsonga in a neighborhood dominated by a different tribe. .

They took his life in the streets, entirely blind to the reality that they were executing their own countryman.

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Every powerful people in human history has been defeated by death. But a team of scientists is quietly trying to break that...

Last Harvest-time, during a private moment with Xi Jinping the President of China, a comment leaked... A casual remark that: "Humans could achieve immortality by replacing their organs.”

Everyone dismissed it as empty talk, However they were wrong.
A massive, $26 billion state-sanctioned operation has been set in motion with one specific, terrifying mandate: stop the biological clock of Putin, a 73-year-old man.

The project is being overseen by an endocrinologist who happens to be the daughter of Putin.

According to reports, The laboratory floors are currently filled with genetically modified mini-pigs, bred for the sole purpose of growing human-compatible organs inside their bodies. Next door, 3D printers are layering living biological tissue, training machines to build a heart from scratch. And down the hall, experimental gene therapies are being injected into test subjects to rewrite the code of cellular decay.

The official internal target for full, functional human organ replacement is 2030.

Source: Wall Street Journal

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The next time you get roasted online, remember: it might not hate, it's just mob psychology. According to Trevor Noah, internet backlash is often less about you and more about a digital bandwagon. People don't always mean what they type; sometimes they're just echoing the noise because everyone else is screaming.

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Happy Children's day.