According to @Genius this is the audio used for @JuiceWorlddd’s new album “Fighting Demons”. It’s titled “Eminem Speaks”
A interview where @Eminem gives you a closer insight into his own addiction.
#RIPJUICEWRLD🕊
Victor Wembanyama signed a $252 million extension in July and got his own Nike signature shoe weeks later. Then he sat down at a Spurs press conference and backed the teenagers shutting down high schools all over France.
Athletes with that much money on the line do not do this.
Quick picture of what's happening over there. Students have blockaded hundreds of French high schools for three weeks over crumbling buildings and teacher shortages. More than 6,100 arrests, most of them minors. 250,000 people marched on Tuesday.
The safe answer takes four seconds and every media-trained athlete knows it by heart. Wemby skipped it.
He told the room he went to high school in Nanterre, a working-class suburb outside Paris that was "already a stronghold of blockades back then." Said he was lucky to get out. Then the line no agent on earth would script. "I hear them and I support them."
What gets me is how he built the answer. He never named a politician or a party. He anchored the whole thing in his own biography, and that makes it untouchable. You can argue with a 22-year-old's opinion. You can't argue with where he went to school.
Michael Jordan set the rule for this stuff in 1990 with "Republicans buy sneakers too," and it held for 36 years because the question never landed on a superstar's own block.
This one did.
the man who loves walking will always go further than the man who only loves the destination. you’ll never be free until you realize this. it was never about the destination. it was about the person you become while chasing it. the ones who fall in love with the process are the only ones who survive the pain, the boredom, the uncertainty.
we spend most of our lives trapped inside other people’s expectations. making decisions based on approval, but the more we live for their validation, the further we drift from ourselves. i think somewhere along the way, we stopped listening to our own inner voice and started trusting fear, opinions, and comfort more than our own instincts. but the truth is, life was never meant to be walked that way. we are meant to enjoy the process.
the universe gave you a compass, not in your pocket but in your chest. and it’s there for a reason. sometimes the hardest but most important thing you can do is trust that feeling, keep walking, and learn to love the process instead of obsessing over the destination.
“it is good to have an end to journey toward but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
Stephen Curry reflects on season 17 in his latest newsletter:
“The game is faster, the young talent is hungrier, and the margin for error is thinner than ever.”
Curry on dealing with injuries:
“The rehab, the isolation - it's hard. Honestly, sometimes the work to get back on the court feels 10x harder than playing the games themselves. You’re putting in hours of monotonous, difficult work every day and you’re often doing it alone. There are no crowds, no teammates, no post-game celebrations. It’s just you, your body, and your focus.”
“At the end of the day, the goal is simple: Come back stronger than before. That’s what keeps you going. For those facing injury right now, stay patient, stay disciplined, and trust that your body will bounce back. It’s tough, but it’s all part of the journey.”