During Yella Beezy’s trial, a professor with books on rap brought up Rick Ross while explaining why rap lyrics shouldn’t be taken seriously. 👀
Hip-hop scholar Erik Nielson noted that Rick Ross built a career around lyrics portraying himself as a major drug kingpin, but in reality.. he isn’t
CJ McCollum says a $2,000,000 NBA salary gets chopped down to under $1,000,000 after taxes and fees, so early on he lived off a $12,000 energy drink deal instead
“Let’s say I was making $2 million, after taxes, let’s call it $950K, $970K, Agency fees 4%, marketing 15%. Those checks were chopped down”
“I was living off an energy drink deal, I had a $12,000 deal just to get some posts off, and I lived off of that”