uNozulu⚡

🇿🇦⚡Multi Genre Music Producer.
@TheFreeQuency

[uNozulu⚡ @TMBeats_RSA]

@DjMaphorisa Since we're waiting on the song i decided to do this😁

[TYYRƎNT @Tyyrent]

Meanwhile in honeydew - A-Reece
[Part 2🇿🇦]

[MORAL Authority @lavidaNOTA]

Any company hiring in South Africa…

[PTKAY @soulodolo3]

my underground trap before leyonto yenu

[iAm-paquetta @guesswhoiiamm]

you’ve entered the chapter where it all goes right.

[Hlovo @hlovo_]

Maturing is realizing that you have to manage your finances like this man 😭

[Dahoodhope @nkotha_]

Can't believe we really made it so far, 2022 me and my brother Jepedoh used to trap kule ndawo just to be able to stay in jozi and chase the dream. It was the most depressing days of my life. I remember Jepedoh arguing with me ukuthi sibuyele emuva ekhaya but we held it down.

[𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐒.🧸🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @chelsznn]

Dear algorithm, show this to everyone who will achieve this no matter what.

[Swiss @BlxckSwiss_]

Sjava introducing Lowfeye, LaCabra and Blue Pappi to us:

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

You'll Never Walk Alone ❤️

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

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.

[Hlovo @hlovo_]

I’m glad he gets it 😂

[™️#OneAfrica 🇸🇳🇨🇻🇨🇮🇨🇩🇬🇭🇧🇷🇫🇷 @ousman_10]

This tweet is still killing me ffs

[Majita Monday @monday_majita]

Majita ! Do it alone, do it scared, do it tired, do it broke, just do it !

happy majita monday 🫶🏾

[Cxspxxr✘🧸 @_6signxxx]

those who shy away from addressing the elephant in the room are doomed to carry the weight of it.

[Mindset Machine  @mindsetmachine]

Sometimes the problem is not you, but where you are.

[L E S E D I @_Hybreed_]

Being broke as a man will teach you to never go broke again.

[Ma-Sengane💅🏿 @_ayanda_sengane]

Y'all can glorify not having kids all you want but this is the end goal man😍😍🔥

[chaotic memes @memechaotic]

Real.

[Alpha Ramushwana @JusstAlpha]

This is still the best South African skit ever made🤣