I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.
Fam spent like two years running around with girly hair accessories in his dome but wanna question Jay-z Afro-Centric hairstyle.
You. Can’t. Make. This. Shit. Up.
Also, idk if y’all pepped game, but there’s a nasty anti-Black pattern with homeboy. And I’m not the guy to call everything racist when it’s not—I’m also the guy to notice the anti-Black shit from people who claim to not be it (anti-Black)
“Rapping like you tryna get the slaves freed”
“They make Harriet Tubman music”
“Drake got him doing slam poetry” (HE didn’t say this one himself, a fan of his did, which speaks on how some of them feel about us)
And there’s a few more bars or comments in which Aubrey directly talks down on things that are deemed to be Afrikan American rooted. The “slaves freed” bar was the worst shit ever to me. Mad disrespectful. Idk if y’all peep it, but it’s nasty.
This is why Kendrick’s last verse on “Not Like Us” is so spot on. This is why i always say that Drake is just Logic with J.Prince phone number. He’s afforded that luxury to casual teeter the line in between being Black and being a privileged half white Canadian JuuWiiishh man. It’s all nasty to me.
This nigga said “but wassup with Jay-z hair tho?” THIS nigga said that 👇🏾
@DeanteVH I'm a month late due to my backlog of music and stuff, but DAWG...
Me and my boy listening to your album live and we appreciate you and your poetic nature of explaining grief, pain, uncertainty, happiness, and the search thereof while experiencing life.
Thank You.
🚨 JAY-Z THE MAN WHO JUST SAID A MONTH AGO HE DOESN’T THINK RAP BATTLES SHOULD BE APART OF HIP HOP CULTURE JUST TOOK BATTLE TYPE SHOTS IN NEW FREESTYLE WHILE DRESSED LIKE A MEMBER OF BONE THUGS IN HARMONY.
Jay-Z just used a lengthy freestyle to address multiple people and controversies that have surrounded his name over the past year.
Some of the apparent targets included:
👀 Dame Dash — Hov Said “ Niggas Teeth Is Tumbling out their mouth but somehow I done it.”
👀 Oschino — Hov appeared to take a direct shot at his stutter, rapping:
“That nut-ass n*** still stuttering.”*
👀 Jaguar Wright — Jay seemingly responded to her ongoing allegations and comments about him, saying:
“That lady back on the stuff, she sound like she in love with him.” And even blamed QuestLove for introducing them
👀 Drake — Hov also appeared to respond to Drake’s recent “the jig is up” line from his No. 1 hit “Janice STFU,” rapping:
“My next update, the jig is up. N***, I’m up 10. Wrong chart, champ. You got to look up again. N***s look up to Hov. I never looked up to them.”
👀 Nicki Minaj — Fans believe several bars may have been aimed in Nicki’s direction, though no direct name was mentioned.
👀 Industry Figures & Media Personalities — Jay-Z also referenced publishing deals, contracts, government rumors, wealth, power, and what he views as coordinated attacks against his reputation.
One of the most talked-about sections came when he rapped:
🗣️ “A rapper can’t be my opps. I got MAGA Republicans. Them shots came from the very top of the government.”
The freestyle was packed with subliminals, direct responses, and reminders of his status in the industry, making it one of the most aggressive public statements we’ve heard from Hov in years.
What do y’all think?
Did Jay-Z clear the air, send warnings, or just add more fuel to the fire? 🤔
Both Asmongold and Hasan finished their streams around the same time, but they ended with two very different messages.
I thought it was worth sharing so you can see the contrast.
Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.
So... This has been the best Music Monday in some weeks!!!
Bump my boy KJ's album. Its actually incredible with the amount of time spent on it.
https://t.co/wSzychYvsE
Trailer for 'Keyboard Warrior Stickman', a beat em up game where you type to control your character that's set in the nostalgic 2000s era of technology and internet culture
Sony spent up to $400 million making a single video game. It sold 25,000 copies in 14 days before Sony pulled it from sale. Cost per copy sold: about $16,000. The studio shut down two months later. The executive who warned them had already been fired for saying no.
The game was Concord. The executive was Shuhei Yoshida, who ran Sony's in-house game studios for 11 years and helped ship some of the biggest PlayStation hits ever: God of War, The Last of Us, Uncharted, Ghost of Tsushima. These are games you buy once and finish. Sony made billions on that model. Spider-Man alone generated $315 million in digital sales. The Last of Us 2 pulled nearly $250 million. God of War Ragnarok sold 15 million copies, with $279 million from digital downloads alone.
Then in 2019, a new CEO took over PlayStation. Jim Ryan wanted Sony's studios to stop making those kinds of games and chase a different model: live service. Live service is Fortnite's model: games designed to keep you playing and paying forever, earning money through endless small purchases instead of one-time sales. Ryan told his team to ship 12 of these by 2025.
Yoshida refused. Ryan removed him from running the studios and gave him a choice: take a smaller role working with indie developers or leave the company. Yoshida took the role and stayed at Sony for another six years. At an industry event in Australia last weekend, he finally said plainly that Ryan fired him from running the studios for refusing to do the 'ridiculous things' Ryan had demanded.
Of those 12 live service games, 8 were cancelled before they ever came out. Naughty Dog killed a Last of Us multiplayer game in late 2023. Bend Studio's sci-fi game died in January 2025. Twisted Metal and a London fantasy game were both scrapped in early 2024, and the London studio was closed. Insomniac's Spider-Man multiplayer was abandoned. A God of War live service game was cancelled, then the studio making it (Bluepoint) was shut down this past February. A Destiny spin-off was scrapped. Deviation Games, a studio Sony had partnered with, was shut down before shipping anything.
Only one of the 12 actually worked. Helldivers 2 was a big hit. But the studio that made it, Arrowhead, isn't owned by Sony, and they've already said they won't partner with Sony on their next game.
The total damage under Ryan: $3.7 billion spent buying Bungie (the studio behind Destiny), up to $400 million written off on Concord, and roughly 1,500 jobs lost across studios that got shut down. The PS5 generation is now short on the kind of games that built PlayStation in the first place.
Yoshida was pushed out in 2019 for saying no to one strategy. Five years and a few billion dollars later, Sony's current CEO says the new plan is to 'fail early and fail cheaply.'
so ur telling me trump, the sitting president of the usa, threatened the pope, the pope said, "check urself before you wreck yourself", and in retaliation trump ai imaged itself as Jesus...? And THEN Iran said, "Mr. pope and co. that's fucked up. not even we would do that bc Jesus is holy. sorry u have 2 deal with this".
this is the timeline i live in. THIS IS THE TIMELINE I LIVE IN?!
I AM GIVING AWAY 20 KEYS for Morbid Metal, the hack-and-slash roguelite that's been developed for the last 10 years
Sick combos, swap between characters, and some heavy metal bosses
Just Like, RT, and Reply if you want it. GOOD LUCK