DIAMOND DIP
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DIAMOND DIP
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Johannesburg, South Africa Katılım Nisan 2016
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@PaperboyPrince @TheNBABase @WindhorstESPN @hoopstonite What about Anthony Edwards? Dont you wanna dress like him?
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@TheNBABase @WindhorstESPN @hoopstonite Yall ran to the European players over homegrown American players. Jokic is amazing but nobody on the block wants to dress like Nikola Jokic or Franz Wagner
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Nike is reportedly struggling to sell basketball shoes because NBA players "aren’t as popular as they used to be," per @WindhorstESPN
Financial experts claim the lack of player popularity is now directly hitting Nike’s revenue and stock price.
(Via @hoopstonite )

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Michael Jackson had to cut a deal with a drug lord to film this video. The Brazilian government tried to block the shoot. A judge banned the filming. The police refused to enter the area.
Rio was bidding to host the 2004 Olympics and didn't want the world seeing footage of its poorest neighborhoods. So Spike Lee walked into the favela (Rio's version of a hillside slum) and found the local crime boss. His name was Marcinho VP. He ran one of the city's biggest gangs, Comando Vermelho. He also happened to be a huge Jackson fan, and he provided the whole production with security for free.
A higher court eventually overturned the ban. The police still wouldn't go in. So 1,500 police officers and 50 residents acting as security guards sealed off the favela. Jackson arrived by helicopter. He walked the streets handing out candy to the kids. The people who lived there had woken up early that morning to sweep the streets and take out the trash before he got there.
Mid-shoot, two women burst through security. One knocked Jackson flat. Spike Lee helped him up and he kept dancing. That exact take is in the final video.
For the Salvador half of the shoot, he worked with 200 drummers from a local group called Olodum. The media coverage put them on the map in 140 countries. They'd been a regional act before the shoot. They became a global one after.
Over 200 million people watched the premiere around the world. The song itself peaked at #30 in America. In Germany it went to #1 and stayed on the chart for 30 weeks, the longest run of any Jackson song there. The video crossed 1 billion views on YouTube in 2023. Only one other Jackson video has done that: Billie Jean. He's the first solo male singer from the 1900s with two videos over a billion.
The day after Jackson died in 2009, Rio's mayor announced they'd put a statue of him in the same favela where the video was shot. Locals said the turnaround of their neighborhood started with his visit.
2000s@PopCulture2000s
30 years ago, michael jackson released ‘they don’t care about us’
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@Julius_S_Malema You said you are not afraid of anything, gaan troenk toe lebantiti ke wena.
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The main message we are being told here by the racist Afriforum is that if we dare stand up for black people, dare stand up for the marginalised and dare stand up for our generational mission we will be targeted.
When I fought for Julius to succeed me as ANCYL President we knew that the road ahead was treacherous and that the grandchildren of apartheid would never rest in their targeting of the Freedom in our lifetime Generation. This sentence is too harsh and my thoughts are with my brother Julius. Silamulele Peter Mokaba Silamulele.
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Uyamdakelwa! Wena iphi eyakho imali? He gave you what he could.
Mo🧚🏼@Pearlyi_n_
He sent me R520, I blocked him I didn’t know how to feel about it 🥲I asked for R2000 I had an emergency and I told him in the morning worst part he had the whole day.
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First it was a toy, then fireworks and now just one bullet😂
SABC News@SABCNews
WATCH | EFF leader Julius Malema says: “No sober judge will ever agree that a person shoots one bullet and is then sentenced to five years.”
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