A 13-year-old Canadian kid uploaded R&B covers to YouTube in 2008 from his bedroom. A talent manager named Scooter Braun stumbled on the videos and signed him.
For the next 15 years, Braun controlled everything. Tours, branding, business deals, public image. The kid became the biggest pop star on the planet, sold 150 million records, racked up 32 billion Spotify streams, and had three Diamond-certified singles before turning 25.
Then in 2022, he got hit with Ramsay Hunt syndrome. Partial facial paralysis. Cancelled the world tour. Disappeared from public life entirely.
Here's where it gets interesting.
In January 2023, he sold his entire 290-song catalog to Hipgnosis for $200 million. Every song he'd ever released. "Baby." "Sorry." "Love Yourself." All of it. Gone. At 28 years old, he cashed out his past.
Then he dropped Scooter Braun. After 15 years. No manager. No agent. For the first time in his career, nobody was making decisions for him.
Fast forward to this weekend. Coachella calls. He picks up the phone himself. Rolling Stone confirmed he negotiated his own headlining deal directly with Goldenvoice. No agent commission. No manager cut. $10 million for two weekends, and he kept all of it.
Then he walked onto the biggest stage in music, sat down behind a MacBook, and pulled up YouTube.
He played "Baby" from 2010. He played his bedroom covers from 2008. He harmonized with his 13-year-old self in front of 100,000 people. Katy Perry joked about whether he had YouTube Premium.
Half the internet called it lazy. The other half called it genius.
They're both wrong. It was a receipt.
He sold his catalog for $200 million. He fired the man who discovered him. He negotiated his own deal. And then he went back to the exact platform where it all started and said: I built this from a laptop. I'm headlining Coachella from a laptop. And for the first time in my life, every dollar is mine.
The kid from YouTube just closed the loop.
THE COLLISION WAS SO STRONG IT FLEW A 120KG MAN UP 3-5 METERS‼️‼️
My stance is clear.
You drunk drive?
= Death Penalty. Your life and rights? Invalid
= Harta kene serah ke family mangsa sebanyak yg bole support hidup anak mangsa sehingga umur lepas tanggungan.
Ironinya gila
Di sebalik mereka cuba buat propaganda yang orang Islam melaksanakan serangan bunuh 15 orang di Acara Yahudi Chabad Hanukkah di Bondi Beach Sydney Australia
Sebenarnya Orang Islam bernama Ahmed Al Ahmed iaitu tauke kedai buah berusia 43 tahun bertindak membantu menghentikan pembunuhan berkenaan. Dia dengan berani datang ke arah penembak berkenaan dan bergelut dengan penembak itu. Tindakan dia memastikan lebih ramai orang Yahudi dapat diselamatkan dan melarikan diri. Dia kini dirawat di hospital
Terima Kasih Ahmed kerana membantu memastikan nama Islam tak tercemar dalam situasi ini
Still can't wrap my head around the fact that internationally renowned activist Greta Thunberg said she was tortured and sexually humiliated by Israeli soldiers when she was abducted for trying to bring aid to starving civilians and the world just shrugged and moved on.
A lady got sexually assaulted while she was praying, TENGAH SUJUD. DALAM MASJID. IN FULL TELEKUNG. Don’t you fucking dare say it matters what you wear.
TERKINI
ALHAMDULILLAH
DOKTOR MALAYSIA DAH MASUK KE GAZA
Pasukan Perubatan Malaysia dari MERCY Malaysia sudah memasuki Gaza dan membantu Kementerian Kesihatan Gaza merawat rakyat Gaza yang tercedera kerana serangan Israel. Kemasukan pasukan ini dibantu kerjasama Pertubuhan Kesihatan Sedunia WHO
Kepada yang nak menyumbang untuk Operasi MERCY Malaysia di Gaza
Boleh ke perincian berikut
MERCY Malaysia
8606129117(CIMB Islamic Bank Berhad)
Reference: Gaza
Sister, why is "Khadijah was a businesswoman” the only thing you remember about her?
You forget that she was:
• A righteous woman with modesty
• A woman with noble manners.
• She was a wonderful mother.
• A loving wife.
• She obeyed her husband.
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VIDEO SOS TERAKHIR OLEH 4 PESERTA MALAYSIA IAITU DR NOORHASYIMAH ISMAIL, DR HAFIZ SULAIMAN, PROF DR MOHD AFANDI SALEH DAN PROF EMERITUS MOHD ALAUDDIN
JIKA VIDEO INI DIKELUARKAN MAKNANYA MEREKA DAH DITAHAN IDF