WAITTTTTT because this is actually deeper than Hov being mad at Drake 😭😭😭
LIL WAYNE IS THE PROBLEM.
That nigga introduced NICKI MINAJ and DRAKE back to back and BOTH went on to become filthy rich off the very thing JAŸ-Z spent years convincing rap wasn’t enough:
THE FUCKING MUSIC. 😭
Do y’all understand how nasty that is???
For YEARS the JAŸ-Z/Roc Nation gospel was basically rap is the entrance. REAL success is ownership, investments, liquor, companies, equity, “I’m not a businessman I’m a business, man” blah blah blah 😭
Then Lil Wayne comes stumbling out the tour bus with a styrofoam cup and two psychopaths named Nicki Minaj & Drake and accidentally FUCKS THE WHOLE THESIS UP 😭😭😭😭
Because Nicki Minaj became a multimillionaire SUPERSTAR with RAP at the center of her empire.
And Drake??? That nigga took it somewhere disrespectful.
Drake basically said why tf do I need to prove I’m bigger than rap by leaving rap??? I’ll just make being DRAKE worth the business. 😭
Streams. Albums. Singles. Features. Touring. Catalog. Deals built around the value of HIS MUSIC and HIS audience.
That’s why y’all yelling “BUT JAŸ-Z IS A BILLIONAIRE!” never hits the way you think it does.
BITCH THAT’S THE POINT 😭😭😭
We said RAP and you started naming liquor.
We said MUSIC and you pulled out an investment portfolio.
We said RECORDS and suddenly y’all are giving us a Forbes presentation 😭😭😭😭
Meanwhile Drake can sit his ass right there in the original category and make you uncomfortable.
And THAT is what Lil Wayne unleashed that I don’t think people fully understand.
YMCMB produced TWO artists whose careers challenged the idea that the rapper’s ultimate victory was escaping the limitations of being “just an artist.”
Nicki Minaj made FEMALE RAP itself commercially enormous.
Drake made being a RECORDING ARTIST so lucrative, scalable and globally dominant that the old “rapper → businessman = final boss” hierarchy started looking real funny.
Lil Wayne ain’t teach them how to escape rap.
Lil Wayne introduced two motherfuckers(Nicki Minaj & Drake) who made rap worth staying home for. 😭😭😭
THAT is why the Drake/JAŸ-Z tension hits different when you look at the economics underneath it.
Because JAŸ-Z mythology says:
“Look what rap allowed me to become.”
Drake’s career answers:
“Look what I became without needing to stop making RAP the receipt.”
OH THAT’S NASTYYYYYY 😭😭😭😭😭
And the funniest part???
Lil Wayne never had to give a TED Talk about it.
That nigga just said “I got Nicki Minaj. I got Drake”.
And twenty years later Roc Nation gotta explain why the spreadsheet needs liquor brands on it.
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 😭😭😭
YMCMB.
Put the fries in the bag, Shawn Carter. 🍟
Kahle Premier, usho ukuthi izikhalo zalabo who put you esikhundleni matter less than those who stand boldly to threaten their lives ngoba bengama-asylum seekers? Does the safety and security of South Africans mean so little to you?
While Ramaphosa was telling the world that he was ashamed of March and March, William Ruto was listening attentively to what Jacinta was saying👇.
This week, he acted.
I know some people won't like this but, Africa is not one country.
Kenya belongs to Kenyans.
South Africa belongs to South Africans.
Ghana belongs to Ghanaians.
If you are in another African country illegally, leave. Get back legally.
Sovereignty is not xenophobia.
Justice for Sara Moyo, a SAn child who couldn't register at school, couldn't open a card at a clinic, couldn't apply for part time jobs, couldn't apply for learners license -because Nigerian scammer Chidimma, stole her ID number & robbed her of many years of her innocent life💔
What was said on the other tweet is horrible. And many have condemned it. But... this you? Some people are prepared to go to hell when retaliating to some bullshit. If you can dish it, you should be able to stomach it.
I need Black South Africans to realise that Whites will always protect each other.
They use terms like "fraud", "corruption", and "state capture" for Black people - and they use terms like "scandal", "irregularity", "lobbying" and "incident" for their fellow Whites.
DISGUSTING!
This is who I sympathise with. This is why South Africans are on the streets today marching because people like Chidimma get away with fraud while ordinary South Africans pay the price.