It’s so damn expensive. Sometimes overcrowded. It has left me with some very good memories, it’s sometimes left me with some not so great ones. I’ve laughed here, I’ve cried here. Sometimes sober, sometimes not so much. It’s never perfect. But EDC will always be incredible ❤️
The Oklahoma City Thunder completely owned the state of California this season.
Final record against California teams:
🔻8-0 vs Lakers
🔻4-0 vs Warriors
🔻3-0 vs Clippers
🔻3-0 vs Kings
18-0 TOTAL.
What makes it even crazier is how dominant they looked doing it.
Elite defense.
Depth everywhere.
Constant pressure offensively.
The Thunder didn’t just beat California teams. They erased them. After another sweep over the Lakers, Oklahoma City keeps looking more and more like the team to beat in the NBA.
I’ve seen this video from Rolling Loud last weekend floating around, and it feels like a good time to share a conversation I had last year.
I was talking with a notable festival promoter last fall who directly told me they had largely stopped booking rap and hip-hop acts for one major reason: insurance.
According to them, many insurance companies were dramatically increasing premiums whenever those artists were on the lineup because they viewed the associated crowd risk as “significantly higher” than other genres of music.
Those aren’t my words…that was directly from someone dealing with (and paying for) the logistics + insurance coverage of events.
So if you start seeing certain artists slowly disappear from mixed-genre festivals or specific markets, situations like the above are absolutely part of the equation whether people realize it or not.