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[roo nostalgia @roonostalgia]

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📸 x @MarcusHutch_

[🐻‍❄️⁷ 🇸🇳🇧🇷🇨🇮🇨🇩🇬🇭🇩🇿🇨🇻🇫🇷 @userbfIy]

ghana is killing themselves for africa omg come on!!

[FLANNEL @sameflannel]

in 2012 he rapped about doing this kind of shit and it sounded kinda crazy at the time. now look

[Z @BrianZisook]

Recording, releasing, and marketing an album costs a lot of money. Most developing artists don't have it, nor do they have Drake's team, network, or infrastructure either. It's not a fair comparison. You can't treat output as a function of work ethic.

[roo nostalgia @roonostalgia]

it’s ok to come down sometimes

[blue @bluewmist]

YOU MUST LEARN TO ENJOY LIFE WITHOUT NEEDING AN AUDIENCE TO SEE THAT YOU ARE ENJOYING LIFE

[Justin Bieber @justinbieber]

💞

[🦋 @phirleaayaadil]

Justin Bieber has the best male vocals in the industry right now...like it's not even close

[roo nostalgia @roonostalgia]

Beiber might be the coolest mf ever

[chris evans @notcapnamerica]

See how easy that was?

[🦇 @cartisburner__]

Joey Bada$$ at 17 the night before dropping ‘1999’

“I got school in the morning tho” 😭

[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.

[kelsey weekman @kelsaywhat]

in straight male culture, showing someone a youtube video means you love them. i thought justin bieber was perfect

[respari @0riy0n]

Wallahi he’s white boy of the century nobody can’t talk to him

[roo nostalgia @roonostalgia]

Brother I would cry

[Ahmed/The Ears/IG: BigBizTheGod 🇸🇴 @big_business_]

👤YE👤
👤LAURYN HILL👤

💿ALL FALLS DOWN💿

⬜️TOGETHER ON STAGE IN FRONT OF 80,000 PEOPLE⬜️

🚨LIVE AT SOFI STADIUM🚨

https://t.co/lwsErIae2i

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

i beg you all. while it's important to talk about Palestine and Iran, please don't ignore what's happening in congo. congo barely has any media coverage, we need to talk about it more.

[HatsOff @HatsOffff]

This is what childhood looks like in Gaza.

[roo nostalgia @roonostalgia]

God just wanna see how bad you want it

[roo nostalgia @roonostalgia]

Thank you this is so dope💘

[Ruben || Check the Rhyme @checktherhyme1_]

🚨Nightcap playlist update

Lord Jah-Monte Ogbon
Errol Holden
MESSIAH
Von Pea x The Other Guys
Shungu x Maxo
Conductor x Rei the Imperial
Propaganda, ProducerTrentTaylor, Danny A Thomas
J.Sands
Moschino Jones x prod.myles
iann tyler, Eli the Guy, 6th Lane
Kev Choice
Nimsins
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