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[Jua @Jua_Quietlens]

How to make a bonnet using a scarf no sew in.

[ᴘʜʏꜱɪQᴜᴇ HQ @Physique_HQ]

Arnold on why muscles grow: hold the contraction until the muscle has to respond. “When it responds, it grows. Now if you just do the motion, nothing happens.” Stop going through the motions ���

[AshleyStevens @The_Acumen]

I can’t help but be cynical. I’ve seen this “blue wave” before. As recently as 21018 & 2020. How many “blue waves”do they need and what are they gonna do differently this time? Representation doesn’t move me anymore, actions do. I need to see action before I celebrate anything.

[𝕄𝕒_ℤ𝕠𝕟𝕕𝕠 @Nomagugu_xo]

Millennials can go from gangster rap to a Disney soundtracks without ever questioning their mental health.

[Klilvi @klilvi]

Prince signed the biggest record deal in history, $100 million from Warner Bros. Within three years he was walking into award shows with "SLAVE" written on his face.

The deal beat Michael Jackson's and Madonna's. He still didn't own the recordings of a single song he'd made.

In the video below, Prince does the math on a talk show. Sell a million records on your own, keep about $10 million. By the end, Mariah Carey's $20 million deal sounds like a bad one.

Warner signed him at 18. By 1992 he was one of the biggest stars on the planet.

The new contract covered six albums. $10 million per album, a vice president title at Warner, a joint label for his Paisley Park. His managers announced it as a $100 million deal. Michael Jackson's Sony deal a year earlier was about $50 million.

Here's the catch. The $10 million only came if the album before it sold enough. And Warner owned his master recordings. Forever.

Prince wanted to release music as fast as he made it. Warner worried the market couldn't take that much Prince.

In 1993 he dropped his name and became a symbol. Then he wrote one word on his cheek.

At the 1995 BRIT Awards he won Best International Male and said fewer than 20 words. "In concert, perfectly free. On record: slave."

Warner cut the distribution deal for his Paisley Park label. It went out of business.

He got out in 1996 and released a three-disc album on another label. He called it Emancipation.

That year he told Rolling Stone: "If you don't own your masters, your master owns you."

Warner finally gave him his masters in 2014. 22 years after the $100 million headline.

$100 million: the headline.
$10 million: per album, if the last one sold.
0: master recordings he owned.

Was Prince a slave to Warner Bros., or a superstar who signed for $100 million and hated the fine print?

[HAWK @HawkEmDownChris]

The PlayStation 2 is the greatest video game console of all time.

[Elsie 💿 @ElsienotElisee]

You can acknowledge an artist’s impact without personally connecting with their music. Your taste is subjective, but the impact an artist has had on music and culture can exist independently of how you feel about their work. Two truths can coexist.

[Blah Blah @Toobe15]

@quddabudda @ChrisCadence Your friend is purposely ignorant. Jay has plenty of party records. If Jay's music is not his taste...... cool (music is subjective), but to downplay his discography is very dishonest.

[Blah Blah @Toobe15]

@quddabudda @ChrisCadence To save you the unnecessary stress, don't debate music with individuals who were born after 1999.

[Big Bev ♎️ @BevTheYapper]

This $25 discussion is so dumb. Yall are grown ass adults. Either cook something or give money to someone else do it. Only folks that eat for free are kids. Yall are ridiculous being 25+ complaining about helping

[Justin Liverman @the_cia_hacker]

this is how you manifest btw

[clara @clarafables]

Unfortunately, as you get older, you gradually become less interested in new music and keep going back to the old favorite songs you once loved.

[Da$h @1HunnitDash]

Welcome to Twitter where Michael Jordan isn't the goat, Martin TV show was not funny, Jay-Z is and has always been an irrelevant rapper and Eddie Murphy was never funny.

[KenKen @KensBestLyfe]

This Was So Unhinged 😭🤣

[Raye Boyce @ItsMyRayeRaye]

This scalp oil comb makes it so easy to apply oil to her scalp and give her a lil head massage to stimulate those follicles. 🙌🏽

[Kentah Gwanjez @GWANJEZ]

“Down Down Baby” (the hand-clapping segment), first appeared on Sesame Street in the 1980s, it features older girls teaching a younger girl a rhythmic hand-clapping game.

[KENYON DIXON @kennygotsoul]

We don’t even give music a chance. Albums be dropping at 9pm and by 9:05 we got whole think pieces onlinr. You ain’t even make it through the album!!!! Got damn!!! Lmao Being an Artist is TOUGH in this climate

[stembarbie @prettynoirx]

Last year, I sued this girl for defamation. I won, of course. She didn’t pay, so I filed a motion to garnish her bank account. Got my money this morning. Takes time, but I’m going get mine!!

[dr.milli💲 @milli_cent_]

yup. this is exactly what being an introvert feels like