My Son - “Daddy, did you have a Dad?”
Me - “No Son, he wasn’t around, I didn’t know him”
Him - “I’ve got a dad 😀”
Me - “yeah you have son, yeah you have!”
*carries on playing Xbox*
In raising my son I’ve realised there is an unquantifiable amount of things I missed out on by not having my dad around, but rather than lament it, I’m just really happy little man isn’t living through that too.
When I’m doing stuff with him I have these weird out of body moments where I’m his age, but doing that same stuff alone. Then I just smile at him and he doesn’t even know why lol.
I used to talk to this 15 y/o kid on MSN & we compared notes on cameras in my early Despacam days.
That kid went on to become a giant by the name of Jamal Edwards. He left the door open & 1000s of us ran through it.
Thank you so much Jamal 🕊❤️.
An unquantifiable impact
They bought eOne and eOne owns Death Row so 🤷🏾♂️, but the fact that hasbro, the company that makes My Little Pony, now owns Death Row Records is just 🤯
Help! This is a picture of my brothers Adrian & Wayne. I’m looking for my brother Wayne Henry (right), from Birmingham, UK, who I havent seen since he disappeared in 2004.
I’d like to find my brother, or at least find out what happened to him.
Please retweet
Internet, the word got to Wayne & I’ve just spoken to my brother for the first time in 17 years. He’s now living in Taiwan, safe & healthy.
Thank you, deeply thank you, with my whole being, thank you to everyone that reached out to me to help. 😭🙌🏾
Giggs, Lady Leshurr & fucking Ross from Friends on a show hosted by Big Narstie & Mo The Comedian, what a mad ting, THIS is the 2018 culture we deserve.
It felt mad getting an office a couple weeks before the killer virus hit & everyone decided to work from home Lol.
Felt like a waste, but its been a blessing to have a space to keep my head clear & the vision going.
Excited to start putting this place to real work.
#BE83
This is my first studio in 2001.
I saved up my money and rented a room above a DJ equipment shop.
The place was falling apart, late night I’d see mice jumping up the stairs. We made it work though.
I used to make beats then & engineer sessions for local artists.
Big up the Fathers that were raised without fathers, but are still top notch daddy’s for their kids.
Ultra respect to you for breaking the cycle, learning how to be a role model & a MAN.
Told my daughter I’d pay her £5 for every 100 pages she reads of my business books. She needs to do a presentation of her understanding at every checkpoint. The money she’s earned whilst learning is to be invested in her first business.
#TheFuture
Went from being a high school dropout to today being unconditionally accepted to study a masters in business based on experience.
It’s been a wild ride, proud of myself.
@4WingsPlease
@LickshotLippy
Respectfully brother this is something you will need to do your research on. There is a long history (especially within American media) of black women being likened to men. Type “masculinity black women” into Google and start from there.
Getting messages on
Messenger
Instagram
WhatsApp
Twitter DM
iMessage
Email.
Has had me suffering from communication overload & notification fatigue.
My aim is to centralise communication around few inputs.
Last year I put £500 into an
@ETXCapital
account & FX traded it up to £5000 in 3 months.
Previously to that, I’ve started clothing brands with £500-800 & made 10s of thousands.
I dunno what you people smoke on this here internet, but it ain’t hustle I know that for sure.
R.Kelly married a 15 year old Aaliyah at the height of his fame.
Jimmy Saville basically molested girls on television infront of us.
Drake saying he’s way too famous for that behaviour is not the defence he thinks it is….. AT ALL.
@PopCrave
They were acting like submerging to the ocean floor was an elementary school project. A game controller and rickety Excel spreadsheets 🤦🏾♂️ … with no seats 😫
For further context, I had 3 brothers, two of them passed, my brother Adrian in the photo tragically passed in 2001, so it’s just me & Wayne left. Not having a relationship & us reconnecting now has so many layers to it, I can’t explain the joy.
Before the pandemic I was trying to get a creative education platform off the ground called Build.
Everything was coming out of my own pocket.
I contacted Jamal to be our first guest speaker.
“Just cover my petrol please brother, I’ll tell my agent to waive the fee”.
Took home ‘Best Entrepreneur’ at the Birmingham Music Awards. Means a lot to be recognised at home for the work, but more importantly the work continues.
Thank you
@bhammusicawards
Some of the hardest battles you’ll ever have to fight are the ones in your own head and I’ve been fighting what felt like a losing battle for the past couple months.
Signed and sealed.🍾 Thankyou too my team for help making this happen, I really came from the mud!!! Joined the
@virginrecords
team 🚀 and the hard work begins now!
To the A&R that’s taking advantage of naive artists from our region finessing money, if you don’t stop I’m going to name you. Leave the youts dem alone.
I dropped out of school at 15 (don’t advise this) to pursue music. They said I would fail, & now I’m waiting for a report to see what our official chart position is today.
My dream & determination was bigger than anyone’s doubt.
Dont let anyone tell you that you can’t.