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We can't even ride Uber Black anymore? Y'all are impossible.
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If I had to bet on a celebrity or public figure who I know could move product, it'd be Cardi B or Angel Reese.
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Like Ant, LaMelo is a Leo. We’re so hard to hate fr.
They weren’t lying when they said LaMelo remembers everyone’s name 🤞🏾🐺
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I’ve met 2 Chainz on multiple occasions, and he’s been pleasant. With that being said, I feel like it’s widely known that most rappers are not good people. What y’all be expecting?
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Here y'all go being weird. Atlanta is the Black mecca because of the concentration of Black culture and capital in a single metro area. Mentioning DETROIT and Atlanta in the same sentence is insul...comical.
Chainz calling Atlanta the black Mecca when Detroit had a bigger black population is silly to me
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Y'all have to understand that Atlanta’s SCAMMY and SCUMMY service industry has normalized putting an automatic 20% gratuity on ALL TABS. This has completely stripped the dining experience in Atlanta of any level of customer service.
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I did the same at my big age. I’ve been living on my own since I was 18 in mostly HCOL cities. After my building in ATLANTA tried to raise my rent from $3,000 to $3,700, I bowed tf out. They really have no intent to stop hyperinflation, but I can certainly choose to not participate in the SHAM.
Yes I’m almost 30 and live with my parents but I’m bill free. I only pay for my cellphone and Lyft to work. I’ll move out when rent is what it was like 7 years ago. I refuse to pay anything over $1200 and even that’s a stretch.
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This some ish I woulda wrote circa sixth grade 😭🫣
come get these kids!!! 😭
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I stay away from WNBA discourse bc tbh a lot of the takes are irrational. People want this business to be run on feelings and emotions, and it’s just not realistic 🤷🏽‍♀️
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Y'all really don't get this business, and it pains me.
The NBA just had daytime games. Aren’t parades during the day too? For 1 game I don’t think it’s a big deal. And I promise you it will be more than the 3,500 fans Gateway can hold so yeah, it was the move. None of the options were great. So, they picked one & now we move on.
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Why influencer marketing is dead in 14 minutes.
i built @WisprFlow’s paid ads program here’s how i’d rebuild it in 30 days
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I like this kid.
Victor Wembanyama was asked if he would ever sign a deal with a sports betting company: “Absolutely not. Honestly, I think it’s very sad to see some players promote it.”
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I saw Dru Hill last month, and they DID NOT perform “Never Make a Promise”, “These Are The Times”, or “5 Steps”. And Sisqo performed “Thong Song” solo, and not “Incomplete”. I was FURIOUS. They coming back to ATL this week, so imma give this another go.
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I really had the opportunity to pitch Drake, but my coworkers said I couldn’t 🙄 This man literally came over to our group of three. He waited to be introduced to each of us. Got our names and shook our hands. And I couldn’t pitch myself 😩 Y’all know I was BIG mad.
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I want to work with Drake real bad. Like I will not rest until this happens.
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My favorite R&B song of all-time. See you this weekend, booskiiiiiii.
26 years ago today, Sisqó's 'Incomplete' was the No.1 R&B single in America.
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I will never forget how you all let that hater from Compton mischaracterize Drake.
He's never spoken about this side of his life. Most people know @DRUSKI as one of the funniest people on the internet. His videos have been watched over a billion times, and more than 40 million people follow him. But it all started in Georgia, making funny skits on his phone. Those videos eventually went viral and eventually caught Drake’s attention. Since then, Druski has gone from making people laugh online to building his own production company, hosting major awards and working alongside people like Kevin Hart. But we wanted to know where the funny came from. Because when you go back far enough, you find a story I don’t think most people would expect. From a young age, Druski learnt to read the mood of a room incredibly quickly. When things became difficult at home, comedy became a way of changing the energy around him. As we spoke, I realised he was doing the same thing with me. He would notice tiny changes in my expression, stop mid-answer and ask what I was thinking. After nearly 700 conversations on this podcast, very few people have done that. It made me understand his comedy differently. We spoke about: - The message from Drake that transformed his career. - What was really happening inside his childhood home? - Why his brother’s life went in a very different direction. - Having a gun pointed at his head and deciding to change. - Netflix and Amazon rejecting him but then came crawling back. - How comedy saved him from prison. There’s a moment in the conversation where we tell Druski that our dark sides are often connected to our light sides. We think his story is an extraordinary example of that. The awareness that helped him navigate difficult moments as a child became part of the thing that millions of people now find funny. Behind the person you see online is someone far more thoughtful, ambitious and complicated than we expected. This conversation changed the way we see Druski. Out now on all platforms 👊🏾❤️
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Ransom, and I literally said: “He’s going to be a star” ⭐️✨
I think the first drake song I ever heard was closer to my dreams, what was yalls
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Sports industry is equally as nasty.
Tisha Campbell opens up about a conversation she once had about the percentage of good people in the industry and says everybody isn’t nice and everybody doesn’t want the best for you, as she reveals that she and her writing partner once conducted an experiment to see how many people in the industry were actually genuine and nice. Tisha Campbell further explains how she and her writing partner both went to a big industry event with around 300 or more industry people and counted how many were genuine and nice, revealing that after the experiment was over, she only counted two people at the entire event who were actually genuine and nice, and those people were actor Flex Alexander and his wife, singer Shanice, and says the experiment taught her to stop being naïve and to stop looking at the world through rose-colored glasses. (🎥The Innermission With Danielle Brooks/Youtube)
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I used to live in one of the more expensive high-rise apartments in Buckhead. My neighbor told me units on her floor would have eviction notices on their doors showing $20K+ in unpaid rent, and the tenants would just be going about their merry lives right up until eviction day.
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