Liam Mick

Actor, Writer, Poet. Growing into a full-time director, showrunner and comic writer.

[N’wa Mucanyi 🫶🏾 @KhananiShingan1]

apartheid-era spatial planning deliberately placed black people far from economic centres and opportunities. Decades later, we’re still living with the consequences of that planning. They were very intentional

[Killa 🌺 @KillaKreww]

Katt Williams revealed the INSANE amount of work he put into becoming a successful comedian, making a list of 300 comedians he believed were FUNNIER than him and studying their sets to count every laugh they got, refusing to cross a name off until he could get MORE laughs than them in the same 15 minutes 🔥👀

He says he practiced comedy 8 HOURS EVERY DAY because he was determined to outwork every single person on that list

“As soon as I found out it takes me 300 no’s to get 30 yeses, I no longer was bothered by the no’s. My job is now to get more no’s than you.”

[Liam Mick @LiamMick5]

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A shoot done earlier this year with the Too Cozy clothing brand.

Stay tuned for the rest of the campaign for the close of 2026. I am creative directing and directing the overall campaign.

We appreciate any and all followers🙇‍♂️

[Liam Mick @LiamMick5]

@carolinerenard_ @sadendya Congratulations!! 🥂✨️🙇‍♂️

[Ledger @ledgerlyx]

Taraji P. Henson asked for $500,000 to play Brad Pitt's mother. She got $150,000 and says about $30,000 of it was left. The movie made $335 million.

In the video below, Gayle King asks if she's quitting acting. Taraji covers her face and cries before she can say a word. Then she does the math out loud.

In 2008 she was third on the call sheet for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, behind Pitt and Cate Blanchett. Her 2016 memoir says she'd been promised "somewhere in the mid six figures." At a 2023 SAG-AFTRA event she said she asked for $500,000 and was first offered $100,000.

It came up to $150,000 with a condition. She had to cover three months of New Orleans hotel bills herself. "Insult, meet injury," she wrote.

On The Real she did the sum. Half the $150,000 went to taxes. Her team took 30% of the full fee, $45,000. That left $30,000, and her son's school tuition that year was $30,000. "Literally, for five months, that's what I made."

The memoir puts her pay at less than 2% of what the studio paid the top name on that call sheet, Pitt.

She got an Oscar nomination for the role. Fifteen years later she said she almost walked away from The Color Purple over pay. That same month she told Gayle King: "Every time I do something and I break another glass ceiling, when it's time to renegotiate, I'm at the bottom again."

The case for the studio: Pitt sold the tickets, and she doesn't dispute his money. "They deserve to earn what they get," she said of Pitt and Blanchett.

Her side: "I too worked my ass off, and at the time I couldn't say no. I didn't have any power."

$335 million at the box office. An Oscar nomination. One year of school fees.

Every day, one star's real paycheck.

Was that Hollywood paying for box office power, or paying a Black woman less because it could?

[× @theNyx__]

I love that he finally won after years as an actor, but what gets me every time is how the announcer sounds like she’s crying while saying his name. It makes the win even more special.

[Liam Mick @LiamMick5]

Thank you to @KaseemCreStudio for the opportunity! Got to feature in three of his skits🙇‍♂️💪

Link: https://t.co/GzdNJerCns

[Delusional Optimist @PermaDelusional]

stay delusional, your win is coming

[SlymDayspring ⨷ @SlymDayspring07]

She was so real for this
#xmen #cyclops #marvel

[New Mentalities @NewMentalities]

You have to keep telling yourself you're going to win until you believe it so deeply that winning becomes the only option left. You can't build belief any other way. Repetition in word and in action. Moving against the evidence until you've created new evidence. Saying it before it's true until your own results make it true. You are exactly as unstoppable as you decide to be. There is no limit on how far you can go until you set one. Failure itself isn't even final until you accept it as final. Ceilings don't really exist. You built them, and what you built, you can tear down. You decide how far this goes. That's the blessing and the curse of being the one in control. There's no one else to credit and no one else to blame. So depend on yourself the most. Everything required to build the life you want is already inside you.

[Blackish Press @blackishpress]

“Why Is It Okay for White People and Not Black People to Grow Old in Music?” —Skepta challenges racial double standards in aging for Black rappers

In a new interview with British GQ promoting his first full-length album in seven years, ‘The Fork and Knife’, Skepta, now 44, addressed the long-running debate about rappers continuing past 40—sparked years earlier by André 3000’s comments that he found rapping at that age “weird” and inauthentic

Skepta rejected the idea of an age limit on the art form. He admitted briefly questioning whether he should still rap but ultimately decided he is “still making the best music.” As long as he is saying things appropriate for this stage of his life, he sees “no age on rap.”

He then zeroed in on what he views as a deeper problem projected onto artists like André 3000: the notion that rap is somehow juvenile. “Someone’s put in his head that it’s juvenile to rap,” Skepta said. “Why can Iggy Pop grow old and still be on stage with his top off doing rock music, but we can’t? All of them, all the rock bands. [But] Black rappers get to 35, 38 and start panicking. So why is it okay for white people and not Black people to grow old in music?”

Calling it a self-imposed limitation, he urged Black artists to stop buying into the narrative. “This is something Black artists need to stop doing to themselves. The stuff we’ve got is a blessing, and the kids need more people who are speaking up for the culture, to stay in the culture and carry the work on.”

[Arthur @low_perplexity]

21 Savage asked T.I. for $1 million to sign with him. T.I. said no. That no is why 21 now keeps 70% of his music money and owns every song he has ever made.

He still calls T.I. "cheap as hell" for it.

In the video below, 21 tells the story, T.I. explains why he turned the money down, and 21 breaks down the deal he signed instead.

T.I.'s logic: "If I give you a million dollars, I'm gonna take 10 times as much." Take the advance, give up the ownership.

So 21 stayed independent. He watched rappers around him sign for $200,000 because they had no leverage.

He waited until he had a hit album of his own. Then he signed with Epic on a 70/30 split in his favor and kept his masters.

"I make more money off my album sales than I do off touring," he says. For most rappers it's the other way around.

Asked if he'd ever sell his masters and cash out: "I really wouldn't. That's some s*** you pass down for generations."

So if you were a new artist with one hot video and bills due, would you take the $1 million or bet on yourself?

[Liam Mick @LiamMick5]

Starring as Keith in Oasis, a GTA V feature film made by LittleStickerFlameProductions, available on their YouTube channel.

Check it out!
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[Liam Mick @LiamMick5]

@AgathaChocolats "You sure it's the camera guy?"

[Liam Mick @LiamMick5]

In 2027 I will be able to afford a quality kit with a tripod🫂

[Liam Mick @LiamMick5]

A short video for Covenent

[Liam Mick @LiamMick5]

I recently acted in an international 48 hour film titled: Covenant. What a great experience with the cast and crew.

[Jojo 🖤 @josiah_awkward]

Reminder that MLK’s movement was not as long ago as people will make you believe. His granddaughter just turned 18 this year.

[Liam Mick @LiamMick5]

@AgathaChocolats "You see that? That was me."

[Variety @Variety]

"Logan" star Dafne Keen says Hugh Jackman "made sure that no one was abusing my hours" on set when she was 11 years old.

“[Hugh Jackman] gave me a lot of really positive reinforcement and a lot of really good advice. And he was always so lovely. He’s the best number one you could ever wish for. And he’s the best on-screen dad. He genuinely felt like a sort of parental figure…. He made sure that no one was abusing my hours, that I was having fun on set, that I wasn’t aware of any tensions that would’ve been happening behind the scenes. He was so incredibly protective and amazing.” (via Inside of You)

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