Elisha

You start to see life in a different perspective when you realize its not about getting and having, but being and becoming. It gets lonely sometimes, but I know it will all be worth it in the end

Suni Lee was in shock watching how high iShowSpeed got in a vertical jump competition “wait… I’m actually kind of jealous…” 😭

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.

6lack speaks on the meaning of his new album, ‘Love is the New Gangsta’: “I see what’s cool now, I see what ‘gangsta’ really is it’s like taking care of your family, and being an honest person, and looking out for folks…” Love this mindset 🙏🏼 @BootlegKev

A founder told me about a VC meeting she had last week. Guy had just moved from SF. Sharp, big firm, nice office in Westlands. Let her finish the pitch, then asked the question they always ask. "Will Africans actually have the money to pay for this?" She walked him to the window. 6pm traffic. 2 km of cars bumper to bumper. Every one paid for in cash because nobody here finances a Prado over 7 years. Cranes. Four visible from that one window, putting up apartments that sell out before they pour the top floor. Kids walking home from school. None of them graduating with $100,000 in debt. "The money is here," she said. "You're just looking for it in a shape you recognize."

I am grateful to the NBPA for advocating on my behalf and to the NBA for their fair decision. It was so important to me to be present for the birth of my daughter in December and I appreciate Mark, Jeanie, Rob, JJ, and the entire Lakers organization for fully supporting me and allowing me to travel to be there. This season has been so special to me because of what my teammates and I have been able to accomplish, and I am honored to have the opportunity to be considered for the league’s end-of-season awards.

The UCL is hard to win. It’s always been. That loss yesterday it 11 years since Barcelona last made the finals. Before 2006, they went 14 years. They won it for the first time in 1992, thirty-seven years after the first European Cup game was played. Their best period remains 2006 to 2015 when they won it four times. That competition is so wicked that they may not win it again for another decade. It’s possible. Real Madrid went 32 years without a UCL trophy. Between 1966 and 1998. In that period, they won the league 16 times. Between 2003 and 2011, they made the semifinal only once. For context, Pep Guardiola didn’t make a single UCL final at Bayern Munich. It took him five years or so to make his first at Man City. He spent a truckload of money to achieve that feat. Consecutive quarterfinal exits in the hands of teams you’ll expect them to steamroller. Jose Mourinho won and became everything he could at Chelsea but he never made a UCL final with them. You know who did? Avram Grant. Roberto Di Matteo. Two coaches who can’t be heard near Mourinho’s level. If Arsenal make it to the semifinal, they’ll be the only English team in the semifinal for the second year running. Same Arsenal didn’t even qualify for the UCL for seven years. They’ve seen a final once. They’ve only gone as far as the semifinal three times. In Wenger’s 22 years at Arsenal, they made the semifinal only twice. The first didn’t come until nearly a decade after he joined. The Premier League had six teams in the UCL this season. Only one of them is likely to make the semis. Only two made the quarters. And that’s a league that spent £3.4bn in last summer’s transfer window alone. Diego Simeone has made the final twice and he hasn’t won it. He’s spent 15 years at Atletico Madrid. In that period, ATM have only gone as far as the semifinals four times. Simeone may yet leave ATM without winning it. It’s why Zidane’s achievements sits gently and pretty. He lived a charmed life. That achievement is rare. A league title rewards consistency, the UCL rewards a combination of too many factors, some of which are outside your control. My name is Rilwan, I love and write about football systems, memories and the depths behind the game. Follow me and repost if you want more of this.

Such a cool ad! Brilliant concept and execution.

The same person running PR for both Showman and Too Early For Birds and having both shows sell out. Also the head writer for TEFB.Ako na how many open tabs omg. @AbigailArunga receive your flowers girl!

Congratulations to our very own @evelynwatta on your election as the 1st Vice President of the @AIPSmedia 👏💃. This is an incredible achievement for sports journalism in Kenya and across the continent. Pole Pole.

Madina Okot is going to Atlanta! From Mumias Kenya 🇰🇪 to the WNBA 🇺🇸

GOD IS THE GREATEST

This is easily one of Ye’s greatest videos ever. Take a moment to watch it it might change the way you see a lot of things.

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First trailer for ‘CAPE FEAR’, exec produced by Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg. The series follows 2 attorneys who are in danger after a serial killer they put in prison escapes & seeks vengeance. Releasing June 5 on Apple TV.

She did the moonwalk without moving😍💓💓

In 2018, Kobe Bryant gave a 1-hour masterclass on "Mamba Mentality" at USC. The mindset behind 5 championships, 18 All-Star selections, and his 81-point game. His ideas: • Outwork your potential • Protect your dreams • Leave no stone unturned 15 lessons from Kobe Bryant:

Remember when Chris Brown's dancers surprised this kid fan at the backstage to do some Breezy dance moves? 😂❤ so lovely to watch

Kobe Bryant: "Failure doesn't exist, it's a figment of your imagination" An interviewer asks: "Are you someone who loves to win or hates to lose?" Kobe responds: "I'm neither. I play to figure things out. I play to learn something. Because if you play with a fear of failure or you play with the will to win that supersedes fear, I think it's a weakness either way. If you play with fear of failing, you'll capitulate to that fear. If you play with the sense of 'I want to win, I want to win,' then you have the fear of what happens if you don't. But if you find common ground in the center, you're unfazed by either. That enables you to stay in the moment and not feel anything other than what's in front of you." The interviewer asks: "How did you become someone who doesn't seem afraid of failing?" Kobe responds: "What does failure mean? It doesn't exist. It's a figment of your imagination." He explains with an analogy: "Let's use happy endings. Everybody wants a happy ending, right? Snow White finds her prince and lives happily ever after. Well, I call BS on that because two months later, they had an argument and he's sleeping on the couch. The point is: the story continues. So if you fail on Monday, the only way it's a failure is if you decide to not progress from that. If I fail today, I'm going to learn something from that failure and try again on Tuesday. That's why failure doesn't exist." The interviewer asks: "If you finished your career without a championship, would you have looked at that as a failure?" Kobe: "No. I would look at it as being extremely disappointed, because I had a dream and goals I wanted to accomplish. If I didn't accomplish those goals, I'd have to ask myself why. Poor leadership? Failure to communicate with my teammates? Lack of preparation? Those would be reasons why I didn't win. So I'd have to analyze that. And as I evolved post-basketball into business, those same weaknesses would reveal themselves there too. If I don't learn from that, I'm going to struggle again." He concludes: "I can take those situations and learn from them and have them make me a better person later in life. But if I don't take that stuff and apply it someplace else, that's failing. The worst possible thing you can ever do is to stop. It's to not learn."

THIS IS COOL: Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers covers Frank Ocean’s ‘Thinkin Bout You’ on bass & trumpet with a live orchestra Was not expecting that but it sounds 🔥

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