"Duty is the death of love” - John Snow
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Dr. Dre and Ice Cube discuss the importance of having Black directors to authentically portray Black culture in film, referencing Denzel Washington's perspective on culture versus mere color:
Ice Cube: Denzel made a good point when they asked him why couldn't a white person direct a movie he was directing. It's not color, it's culture. He said Scorsese—he can make an Italian movie because he knows the culture inside and out. He may not know what it smells like for a hot comb to go through a girl's hair on a Sunday morning.
Dr. Dre: There's no way anybody outside the Black culture can understand what the hood smells like on a Friday night.
(🎥Listen And Laugh / YouTube)
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Randy screaming at Carver in the hospital after Miss Anna's house gets firebombed by Marlo’s crew is easily in the top 2 heaviest moments in the show 💔
You’ve got a smart kid who just got caught in the middle of the Baltimore PD mess because Herc botched the interrogation and let it leak to Little Kevin that Randy was talking to the Western District.
The boy is terrified, with his hands burnt, realizing his whole life is ruined🥲
“You gonna look out for me? You gonna look out for me? You gonna look out for me, Sgt. Carver? You mean it? You promise? You got my back, huh?!”
And the worst part is, Carver really wanted to protect him, but the bureaucracy, the red tape, and the broken system meant he couldn't do a damn thing to stop Randy from getting sent right back into the brutal group home system where he ends up hardened and angry.
Watching the despair on Carver's face while he realizes he broke his word to this kid makes it ten times worse. It’s just pure tragedy without any happy ending, still breaks me even now🥲
#TheWire #Randy #Carver #Marlo #Herc
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Injury settlement incoming.
This was an airplane that never got off the tarmac.
#49ers WR Christian Kirk hurt his meniscus and may need surgery, which would rule him out for the season.
Words stopped mattering and being powerful to him. He is only concerned with melodies. That’s why as dope as the beats are or how innovative the sound is it doesn’t hit the same
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Paul Pierce says he was happiest before he had money and would be scared to have $1 billion
“I just want to make people understand, the money don’t bring the happiness. Just because the money there and you could do things, it don’t bring the happiness”
“The happiest days I ever lived is my younger days before I had some. Cause when I look at it now, all money do is bring scandal, fake friends, lawsuits. It’s so much issues. I feel like something every single day”
“People don’t understand about health, it's important. You got a billion dollars and your health fucked up, what do it even matter?”
“It’s just going to be more problems. It’s just targets. Too much notoriety. I’m good. I’m happy. A billion dollars, I’d be scared of a billion”
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shit sounds AI. singing ‘Long Time’s chorus is a telltale sign of a system responding to a prompt to create a song/lyrics matching the beat they fed to the program.
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MOOD
Encore un peu de Detox avec ce morceau co produit par Dre et Pete
Rock
Equinox feat Kurupt
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NFL better figure this out asap…
Sam Darnold says a Seahawks rookie made $800,000 in NIL before entering the NFL and getting just a $20,000 signing bonus, and says some rookies are now arriving in the NFL having already made more money in college than they’re getting to start their professional careers
“We had our first little rookie show right before we ended minicamp. We all went to dinner and had a rookie show, and you get guys saying their name, school, signing bonus.”
“We had guys saying their name, school, signing bonus, and what they made in NIL.”
“One of the kids will be like, ‘My name’s D, went here, got a $20,000 signing bonus.’ And we’re like, ‘NIL? NIL?’ And he’s like, ‘$800,000 NIL.’”
“And you’re like, ‘Ain’t that nice? I’m taking a pay cut to play in the league.’ That is insane. Your dream is going to cost you. Literally cost you.”
“I was like, ‘Dude, I would do the same thing.’ Some of these kids, I would try to play seven or eight years in college. It is wild.”
Mike Epps will not stop talking lmao
Dr. Dre went dead silent trying to avoid his jail time stories until Ice Cube exposed him on camera, only for Mike Epps to hit them with the most unhinged life advice ever 💀🤣😭
"How many times did you go to jail Dre?"
"Gang of time... right now I'm counting."🤣
"If you want to live a long time, keep making mistakes. Because once you get your shit together, God gonna call you home. So stay fucked up, my friends”
"Is that what you call that bullshit advice? That's the worst advice you ever got”
"It's the truth! That's what Jesus died for, so we could fuck up”
