melissa

Guyanese girl wid a Bajan accent // 28.

[melissa @xx_dougla]

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[melissa @xx_dougla]

I could get used to this

[melissa @xx_dougla]

My husband and I are NOT that serious 😍

[Güäpęręłłã @Briani_arlyn]

I just wanna thank God for freeing me from whatever shackles I was in 😮‍💨

2024 90 lbs 2026 135 lbs

[- @bonecarrier]

Lord, this lady has made this video no less than 40 times. We get it, breeder.

[melissa @xx_dougla]

I’m forever loyal to that email I made in 1st form that has nothing to do with my actual name 😂

[Madesse @LadyCharrr1]

Going through life with a signature I made when I was 16.

[Shaquille @Shaq868_]

…not me, a West Indian, learning new things from a stream…in the West Indies 😭

[Knot Guilty🥷🏽 @shin_shin92]

Every lifetime bring me back West Indian born and grow in the Caribbean 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[Luke the Good @lukeyism]

Spectacular levels of white privilege to see Black people celebrating another Black person so u pull the race card because you want sympathy and attention when what you really want is a bath

[(Bald head) Rasta Impasta @_dangit__]

Bajans love st. Lucia so bad💀 I've never heard a bajan talk negatively abt tht island

[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.

[melissa @xx_dougla]

@naturallycat_ @winniemli Nah that would be too easy. Hope he suffers a long painful life.

[melissa @xx_dougla]

I don’t know who needs to see this but cheat on your man today

[melissa @xx_dougla]

I also pull away myself when I know I can’t show up for people. We all got battles we fighting and I cannot pour from an empty cup.

[a$ya.🫧 @tharicch]

Unfortunately, yes i sure DO give up on people.. you can't continuously disappoint me, distract me, not pour into me & expect me to continue showing up for you. No can do.

[Princess K✨ @kennna_k]

Canada is currently experiencing all 4 seasons in the span of 2 weeks

[Player 1 🎮 @themooreyuhknow]

WHAT A RUN BY BARBADOS . standing ovation . #Carifta

[melissa @xx_dougla]

I have the utmost respect for single moms. I literally couldn’t do any of this without my son’s dad.

[ICHIBAN BABY @DemiCaruso]

Summertime in Toronto

[The Jobfather ® 🇯🇲🇨🇦🇬🇧 @TheJobfather__]

A 2% raise on a $70,000 salary is about $45 bi-weekly. Your bank account didn't even notice it.

[melissa @xx_dougla]

1,2 and 4

[🦋💙𝓗𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻💙🦋 @bamagirl_4_eva]

Which 3 are you picking?

[melissa @xx_dougla]

COME ROY !!

[Amaratomi❤️‍🔥👸🏾 @amaratomi]

If you could remove one character from #BeautyInBlack, who would it be?