retired Hip Hop Artist formerly signed to Epic (Sony) Records who now oversees the ARTOFFICAL BRAND ™️
San Antonio, Texas
Joined October 2008
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The music biz taught us to fake it till we make it.
Some of us got so good at faking it, we forgot what was real.
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Being a fan of the culture doesn’t automatically make you good for the culture.
And documenting the destruction doesn’t absolve you because you called it journalism.
I wrote about the line between participation and exploitation.
New Substack.
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The goal isn’t to win one season. It’s to build a team people never stop rooting for.
What if artists built their careers the same way?
The Art of Building a Franchise
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Jamie Foxx talked to Keke Palmer about how Oprah Winfrey saved his Oscar run and how she made him meet Quincy Jones and Sidney Poitier, he also had Keke CRYING IN TEARS when he started to make the funniest IMITATIONS😂😭
“Jamie you are ridiculously good, Jamie how can you do this”😂
The Game has mastered being everything. Maybe the final step is learning what to leave out.
Game Recognize Game: The Art of Cohesion.
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We spent 20 years making everything instantly available to everybody.
Maybe we solved that problem too fucking well.
G-Unit. Yeezy. Nipsey. Tickle Me Elmo. 1/1 trading cards.
They all point to the same thing:
Scarcity still matters.
The Art of Selling Out.
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Kris Kross didn’t introduce me to hip-hop. I already loved it.
They did something bigger: they made me believe I could be part of it.
Took me 30+ years to realize how much I owe @jermainedupri
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Some shit you can’t explain… but I’ll explain it anyway (part 1)
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Finally launched a Substack for my new project “Retro Boomin”
Does J Cole ever miss with his guest features? My “TOP 5” cole guest appearances tiktok.com/t/ZThU2UeyR/
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Republicans are sharing videos from 2020 to make peaceful protests look like rioting
The bar for James Woods is already in hell but he owns a home in Los Angeles, he can’t even care enough abt his city not to share gross disinformation?!
Expect these lies. They are baiting
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Just to be clear: peaceful protest is as American as it gets.
But when insurrectionists were beating cops in his name, Trump never deployed the National Guard. That tells you everything.
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97-99% of the protesters in Los Angeles, California are peaceful. These aren't riots.
Trump wants you to think otherwise. Because he wants to divert attention from his spat with Elon.
Yes, there is some violence, but it's a very minimal. These are protests of outrage over what Trump is doing to communities and families.
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What you retweeted below is a peaceful protest. This, in contrast, is what an insurrection against the sovereignty of the United States looks like:
