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I just wanna make Mama proud .

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Let us enjoy the group chat one last day before it turns into Love Island central .

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@nwanneka_omeche Everything is rumor the man hasn’t even signed his contract yet .

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@YoungPrince_ lol na u good game start at at 12 be there like 10 I’m considering going

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We saw things Dey will never see .

[kunnart @kunna_j]

Forgive me for not looking 21.

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Having money is so fun

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Somebody remind me Manuel Neur that this is a champions league quarterfinal game .

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Foxy brown on affirmative actions. And 2 chainz in mercy

[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.

[Equality @igoby_Equality]

Very foolish

[Oyindamola🙄 @dammiedammie35]

“I don’t grill for p00r people,I only grill for the rich. People feel offended when I say this but it’s the truth. I once sold a grilled fish for 15.8 million Naira for someone”

- bright grills

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@YoungPrince_ Yea I can see him doing Apollo though . Nice pair him Jada with some legends like Mary j

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I get the clowning ya doing but damn niggas can’t have fun ?

[HoodFamousTV @HoodFamousTV_]

Gunna got the men actin like this at his shows

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Felt

[COMANDANTE🦍 @hankasello]

My problem is that I want a God-fearing Kira Noir

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Junior was the first streamer

[Shegun 🌪️🌟 @ShegunTweets]

he didn't know he was roasting himself

[Blake S. Taylor Investigations 🚫 @YoungGun8140]

I’d give this man a job immediately because this demonstrates leadership and initiative.

I love how everyone just listens and obeys him.

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Karl Anthony Towns smh 🤦

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I don’t think people understood what jay z meant when he was talking about Battles in rap. Lol

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In the next 10-15 years Dangote would not be the richest Black man in the World anymore. It would be an African in tech .