Stephon

I fear nothin' on this odyssey of dark roads.

[BIG MALCOLM X PLAY COUSIN @Omowale99949437]

Eric "Eazy-E" Wright was murdered after he caught his small hat manager, Jerry Heller, stealing from him and fired him. Jerry Heller's and Ruthless Records former head of security was Mike Klein, a former IDF/Mossad and JDL terrorist leader. Months later, Heller threatened Eazy with a lawsuit for firing him, and Eazy ignored him. Eazy(along with 2Pac), would then get targeted for extortion by the JDL. The same group that Mike Klein was a part of. Despite having a clean bill of health less than a year before in July of 1994. The asthmatic since birth, Eazy-E was taken to a small hat hospital after complaining about having problems breathing. He would later be diagnosed with full blown AIDS. Eazy had 8 baby mothers and 11 kids. His wife was 2 months pregnant at the time of his diagnosis. Not a single ex girlfriend or his wife and child who was born 6 months after Eazy's death, has ever tested positive for HIV.

[benny. @1BENNY7G]

Lil Wayne in Los Angeles. March 2003.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

George Lucas traded $350,000 in directing salary for something Fox executives thought was worthless: the right to sell Star Wars toys.

It was 1976. Over 40 studios had already passed on his script, including Disney. Fox only greenlit the project because they wanted Lucas for other films. Nobody at the studio expected to make money on a space opera with no stars, so when Lucas offered to cut his directing fee from $500,000 to $150,000 in exchange for merchandising and sequel rights, Fox said yes on the spot. Movie merchandise was a dead business. Fox had lost money on Doctor Dolittle lunchboxes a decade earlier. They thought they were getting the better deal.

Lucas couldn’t even find a toy company that wanted in. Kenner, a division of cereal company General Foods, finally bought the licensing for a flat $100,000. Then Star Wars opened. Between 1977 and 1978, Kenner sold $100 million worth of toys off that $100,000 investment. They couldn’t make enough for Christmas ’77, so they sold empty boxes with IOUs inside, promising to mail the action figures later. Parents paid real money for cardboard and a promise.

Nobody around the production saw any of this coming. Alec Guinness, who played Obi-Wan, privately called the script “fairy-tale rubbish.” But he was shrewd enough to negotiate 2.25% of royalties instead of a flat fee. About 20 minutes of total screen time earned his estate somewhere between $50 million and $100 million. Lucas himself was so convinced the film would flop that he offered Spielberg a bet while visiting the Close Encounters set: swap 2.5% of each other’s profits. Spielberg took it. That handshake has paid him around $40 million.

And then the money started compounding. Lucas poured his Star Wars profits into ILM, the effects house he’d built for the film. When its computer graphics division got too expensive to maintain, he sold it to Steve Jobs in 1986 for $10 million. Jobs renamed it Pixar. Disney bought Pixar twenty years later for $7.4 billion. Then in 2012, Disney came back for the rest, buying Lucasfilm itself for $4.05 billion.

Total franchise revenue today sits around $46.7 billion, over $20 billion from merchandise alone. The filmmaker 40 studios passed on is now worth $5.3 billion according to Forbes. Fifty years ago today, cameras rolled on a desert in Tunisia.

The $350,000 pay cut that made it all possible might be the best trade in business history.

[FergSZN @FergSZN]

You see Dak start to hit one of these and you’re about to get the meanest fuck you ball of all time

[Johnny Drama Chase @JohnnyDramaChas]

Drama: Why are you taking shots at 10am on a weekday?
Turtle: It’s a holiday.
Drama: Oh yeah, what holiday is it?
Turtle: Martin Luther King Jr. Day, retard.
Drama: That’s right. No wonder there was no traffic

[Johnny Drama Chase @JohnnyDramaChas]

Yo Seth, tell her I said what up

[Jourdan Lewis @JourdanJD]

At least the eagles lost.

[lynz @lynziekate]

Not even looking in each others direction decades later but we had a player telling our arch nemesis to go “win for the division”

[SleeperCowboys @SleeperCowboys]

That 11-interception season was special.

Farewell No. 7 ⭐️

[Stephon @Stephon118]

@CodyBrownBets 205

[Liam Blutman @Blutman27]

We have a Player vs. Social Media Team beef in the National Football League

[Jon Machota @jonmachota]

Cowboys QB Dak Prescott when asked about trying to win every game but also rooting against the Philadelphia Eagles: “I just got to go win every game. That’s all I can control. I’m gonna root against them regardless, whether we were in this position or not.”

[✭ JC ✭ @LocBoyJC]

I've never seen a Dak interception explained like this lol

[Legally Loc’d @Twatch_Me_Workk]

This is what people are calling garbage time. Down 11 with 10 mins left. Smh

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

JERRY JONES TAKING A BITE OF A TURKEY LEG DAK PRESCOTT WAS HOLDING ON THANKSGIVING.

Jerry 💀💀💀

[Dallas Cowboys @dallascowboys]

For 94 💙

[Arrogant Dak Prescott @ArrogantDak]

I’ve won 19 straight NFC East home games.