Des 🧚🏽‍♀️

mommy

[Des 🧚🏽‍♀️ @des__rae4]

just getting started 🤝

[Perrll77🎀🍒🏝❤️🙏 @Perrll77]

This 👏👏👏

[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.

[UFL Communications Department @UFL_PR]

Free Agent Signing:
Louisville
CB, Isaiah Bolden
RB, James Robinson

Orlando
CB, Nate Brooks

Moved to Reserve/Injured:
Orlando
CB, Lamar Jackson

St. Louis
RB, Rahjai Harris

[Marc Lamont Hill @marclamonthill]

Good Morning to everyone except Geno Auriemma

[Front Office Sports @FOS]

Highest-paid women's basketball coach ever.
Six-straight Final Fours.
Back again.

Dawn Staley will coach for a fourth national championship.

[ericaf455💙 @ericaf455]

The ladies got it right!

🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️ on it. Geno’s behavior was problematic and it was all handled so poorly.

Sorry about the background noise but what these ladies said needed to be said.

[iamhunkydory @itschergurl]

Pressing Notify Anyway when my friends are on DND

[NATE @six1nateyB]

…ready ⌛️
@JamesLarsenPFN #ufl

[NATE @six1nateyB]

“Don’t Take Anything Personally “
- Don Miguel Ruiz

Position change, uncontrollable injury, 13th time being cut.

I will prevail, always. #ufl #uflbattlehawks

[Yahoo Sports @YahooSports]

HBCUs REPRESENT ✊

Howard and Prairie View A&M have already made history winning their first NCAA Tournament games EVER for their programs 😤

[LIGHT ON COLLEGE SPORTS @LightOnSports]

Prairie View A&M has won both the SWAC football and men's basketball championships in the same academic year for the first time since joining Division 1. 🔥

@pvamufb_ @PVAMU_MBB

[Dorian Waller @dorianwaller02]

Prairie View A&M University men’s basketball coach, Byron Smith’s full comments regarding Tai’Reon Joseph’s health, the sports medicine department and not needing public support.

He emphasized that the fanbase needs to support the university and the team first and foremost.

[Des 🧚🏽‍♀️ @des__rae4]

!! 4th & 5th grade girl parents !!

Location: Fort Worth (Crowley)

Coach: Destiny Jenkins Former Division 1 starting Point Guard at University of Incarnate word & Prairie View A&M looking

More info on instagram @d4gelite

Click the link to sign up:

https://t.co/1HJbxX9Yj7

[sasuke hate account. @krispykuf]

This first daughter shit be too much sometimes.

[Grip Skylark 💕✨ @talleyberrybaby]

“So you did a month of self reflection and you’re a different person now” #loveislandreunion

[Dan Hoard @Dan_Hoard]

It’s the “Are You Ready” edition of the podcast as I review the preseason finale against the Colts with radio replays, locker room comments, and postgame analysis from Dave Lapham.
Then, it’s "Fun Facts” with cornerback Nate Brooks (@six1nateyB)
#WhoDey https://t.co/bJ2CIraVBQ

[Dan Hoard @Dan_Hoard]

It’s the “Are You Ready” edition of the podcast as I review the preseason finale against the Colts with radio replays, locker room comments, and postgame analysis from Dave Lapham.
Then, it’s "Fun Facts” with cornerback Nate Brooks (@six1nateyB)
#WhoDey  https://t.co/bJ2CIranMi

[spicebae @spicebae_]

whatever my man looks like at the time