Audiokraits

Shaping frequencies & redefining soundscapes 🎧✨ | The official voice of @Audiokraits | Chasing beats, breaking rules, and living out loud.

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#100KORDERSONBLACKFRIDAY

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@web3jama @baby_riri_x @chowdeck How do you do this ? Where is the option?

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@_dhemii @chowdeck Yessir

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#100KORDERSONBLACKFRIDAY

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@_dhemii @chowdeck Close to 30k already

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One hour download for GTA VI might be wildly optimistic...

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Tweeting on my evening walk bliss

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Venza’s such a washed up car now

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@Bensonfe073 @chowdeck Wow that’s nice

[Nnamdi Okirike @kingnnamdi_]

“Nigerians don’t play our music”

Until you discover that more Nigerians listen to Ghanaian artists than Ghanaians do.

Thank God for Spotify and Chartmetric fr.

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@kingnnamdi_ @thaguru__ That’s crazy bro he deleted

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What’s killing me is he trying to hide that he smokes

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Broo I literally just caught our driver smoking never knew smoked, i was about to greet him and I had already seen him smoking, he noticed and put it off with his hand and hid the cig

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@kingnnamdi_ @thaguru__ Are you one of his victims?

[Shy Brother @HeartBreakMelz]

I remember when American gangster dropped & I asked my grandfather if he knew who Frank Lucas was he " that nigga still owe me 100k " 😂

[fine cat lady @catloverfl1]

you sang nonsense, hope you know?

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@Bensonfe073 @chowdeck First time I’m seeing tantalizers online. So They still exist

[mommiana @mommiana5]

Get the fck outta my face

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@miss_dsf Ask @franz411

[Kio @xbtkio]

In 1996, Dr. Dre handed over his half of a label worth $1,000,000,000 and walked away with nothing - no stake, no masters, not one dollar of royalties. Everyone called it the worst deal in music. It turned out to be the smartest - and the reason has almost nothing to do with the label

He and Suge Knight started Death Row in 1991. Dre made the sound. “The Chronic” turned it into a giant, Snoop’s debut made it a dynasty - a billion-dollar catalog, built by one man. By 1996 Dre wanted out so badly he left all of it behind: his half of the company, the rights to every record he’d made there. In return he was promised royalties on that music. He later testified in court that he didn’t see a single royalty payment for thirteen years

Suge kept 100%. Months after Dre left, he sat in front of a camera and gloated that the label might be worth a billion dollars and now he owned all of it. “You didn’t have to give him nothing but his walking papers,” he said - then claimed Dre hadn’t even made “California Love.”

Here’s what Suge didn’t understand, and it’s the whole thing. Dre didn’t leave the money behind. He left the building the money came out of - and kept the one asset no contract could sign away: the ability to make the sound again. He started Aftermath with nothing. He signed Eminem. Then 50 Cent. Then Kendrick Lamar. In 2014, Apple paid $3 billion for his headphone company. The man who walked away with nothing built the biggest fortune the genre has ever seen

And the billion-dollar label he left on the table? Death Row went bankrupt in 2006. Suge Knight is now serving 28 years in prison. He kept 100% of it - and 100% of it turned out to be nothing

In the video below, it’s September 1996: Suge, months after Dre walked, telling the world he owns all of a company he’s sure is worth a billion

So here’s the question that splits a room: was walking away with nothing the smartest move in the history of music - or did Suge rob him blind, and only prison and bankruptcy made it look like genius?