IVAN MATIAS

The constant pumping of music into every public space, every idle second of sport, every supermarket and café, speaks to an underlying sickness, a kind of cultural mental illness. As a society we are allergic to silence, terrified of spending even one second with our own thoughts

The music your parents played growing up stays with you for the rest of your life.

@sarkodie The most successful creatives can do both at the same time 💯

As a creative, make sure you are creating what’s within you, not what you think people will like

Having your own everything eliminates all that ass kissing & settling

Knowin u don't bother nobody makes u more aggressive wen ppl come messing wit u

You can be lied on, talked about, plotted on, and still win in life.

@galaxygirltru Kim was at the top of the female pecking order in her day, BUT Nicki singlehandedly revived female rap as the lone representative in that lane; holding it down against every other A-list male rapper in the industry for YEARS. 💯

Yall give Lil Kim too much fkn credit😭 this lady hasn't had a decent album/hit since 2005. That's 5 years before Nicki's mainstream career, Nicki Minaj is the reason for ALL this, every label wants a Nicki Minaj, not a Lil Kim.

@hamxajnr Society deems exclusion as discrimination now...when it's actually a blessing that reveals the identity of those that doesn't value you. Never fight for a seat at a table where you're not valued. ✅️

When people exclude you, remain excluded.

70% of success is staying away from the wrong people

The greatest gift God gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of Vision. - Myles Munroe

Good morning! #tuesday #tuesdaythoughts #fyp

@monica_access Sang Andrea Martin! RIP to this super talented angel. 🙏🏼 😇

Shanice is a problem🙌🏿

@headnavy Success in Entertainment takes a team. They ALL played a part in her rise. Label could have shelved her as they often do, but they didn't. Their ability to find a path forward & work through all the different opinions was the secret sauce. 💯

When Rihanna first signed with Def Jam, they wanted her to have a specific image and follow their direction, but she didn’t comply, which is why we know the Rihanna we know today.

@TheFilesWithDUB Marc is caught between being Joe's entourage member & a token/pawn in the political/ intellectual world he came from. He has greater value/self worth, but struggles to find the platform that values it. The rage & resentment is evident 💯

🚨WOW‼️😱 Marc Lamont Hill doesn’t CLAP at ALL when Da Baby Leaves the Pod‼️ Damn, Why was the Energy sooo OFF w/ Marc & Da Baby? 🗂️

@FeelTheBass86 Jay-Z & Diddy got rich off being middle men between corporate America & POC. They manufactured their own hype to convince elites that they could make POC do whatever they wanted for a fee & rented out their influence over Black & Brown folk. POC starting to wake up. 🙌🏽🙏🏼

OFFICIAL REPORT - The Carter/Knowles family are going broke ✅ Tina Knowles out here selling contaminated Gumbo from booth… Why is Mama Tina hustling food stands when her daughter and son-in-law are supposed to be billionaires ✅ Julez Smith has to doing club promo gigs. Family got all the connections and he's out here pushing club nights ✅ Matthew Knowles popping up on random podcasts every week with no-name outlets ✅ Jay-Z announcing concerts left and right, already slashing tickets 25% off barely a week after dropping the dates. Admitted to a $190M hit from those sexual assault allegations dragging his name. Plus his name keeps popping up in the latest Epstein file drops, Rep. Nancy Mace calling for him to testify before the House Oversight Committee. Brands pulling back, follower losses, business drying up he's scrambling ✅ Beyoncé and Jay-Z just took out a SECOND $57.8M mortgage on that $88M Bel-Air mansion, total debt pushing over $110M. Rumors they're selling off the UK property they were building too, and merch going at discount prices. Billionaires don't need second mortgages unless cash is tight or they're hiding something big Now ask yourself what actual billionaire family has ever been caught doing side hustles like contaminated gumbo stands, club hosting, random podcasts… This isn’t normal rich people behavior. This is broke behavior dressed in designer. Wake up, y'all missing the bigger picture

@Iantuition @Persway82 Maybe...but Chaka was DEFINITELY on 4 out of 4 & has no room to sling a drug addict dig

@Ghettopen @Persway82 Mary was on two out of the four lol she literally accepted her first Grammy drunk and high.

Chaka Khan admits that she told Mary J. Blige,to her face, that she “fucked up” her song 🎵 “Sweet Thing” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Now I have to go listen to see who sang it better!😩🥳🤣🤣🤦🏾‍♀️ #rabbitholes

@KPRC2Bryce @KPRC2 Same folk saying "you can't eat outta just anybody's kitchen" paid $25-27 for a cup of food poisoning from a celebs mom. Yall were warned that Celebrity worship was a sickness. 😷 🤧🤮🤢🥵

JUST IN: Health inspectors found thawed seafood & food being stored in non-food grade orange buckets, according to records obtained by @kprc2, when a woman reported getting sick after eating Mama Tina's Gumbo. The customer said she had chills and was throwing up blood before health inspectors found multiple violations, which led to the temporary closure of the Houston Rodeo gumbo shop.

@Justin_Teguia @pr3ttyboynekko The Billboard award for "New R&B artist" was discontinued after they won in 1993. Billboard literally canceled the category like it never existed & had no relevance/value. Probably why Coko said that since Billboard treated the category like it was nothing.

@pr3ttyboynekko I checked and they won a Billboard Award in 1993

SWV had never received an award until 2017.

@hassankhaliid @TukiFromKL 🎯🎯🎯 This is the logical assessment. He created a platform for high demand paid content. There's a community of "have-nots" online; obsessed with vilifying anyone who achieves success without their collective sanction. It's a deranged entitlement

Before turning this into a morality play, let’s get one thing straight, platforms like OnlyFans didn’t create demand, they monetized it. The system exists because millions willingly participate on both sides. Calling one person ‘the villain’ oversimplifies a much bigger ecosystem. Yes, taking a cut as a middleman is the business model of literally every platform, App Store, YouTube, Uber. OnlyFans just applied it to a space most people are uncomfortable admitting is massively profitable. That’s not unique, it’s just more visible. And the bigger reality check? Money, scale, dominance, none of it guarantees control over life itself. That’s the only part of this story that actually matters. Everyone’s busy debating how he made billions, but the real question is still the same, if the finish line looks like this for everyone, what exactly are people measuring success by?

🚨 Do you understand what just happened.. the owner of OnlyFans just died at 43.. Leonid Radvinsky.. the man made $3 billion off a platform where other people sell themselves.. he took 20% of every transaction.. every video.. every message.. every tip.. while creators fought algorithms and chargebacks and deplatforming threats just to make rent.. he sat at the top collecting a cut of their bodies.. and everyone called him a "tech founder".. the man wasn't a tech founder.. he was the most successful middleman in history.. and the wildest part.. OnlyFans was profitable from day one.. no VC money.. no IPO.. because when your business model is taking a fifth of what someone earns from their own skin.. you don't need investors.. you need creators desperate enough to not ask questions.. he had $3 billion and still couldn't beat cancer at 43.. what exactly are we all racing toward.