Walmart told the SEC its free college benefit was available to 1.6 million workers. I was one of them. When I asked to enroll, Walmart’s own email told me the degree program wasn’t available yet. I kept the email. Read it here: joecat.substack.com/p/walmar…

We have awards for the biggest song, the biggest artist, the biggest label, and the biggest executive. Where is the recognition for building an artist who never has to depend on a gatekeeper again?

When an artist wins, you take credit for putting them on. When they struggle, it’s suddenly their responsibility. If all you gave them was a moment, what did you really help them build?

I still think about the coldest night of my life and how I prayed for the sun to come up. When it finally did, I ran outside and didn’t even care that it was still freezing. Makes you wonder how many things we overlook every day that someone else is desperately wishing for.

You spent your whole life making sure future generations would never forget you, but you made their lives so much harder they might never care enough to learn your name. You thought you were building a legacy. You were building the reason nobody cares about it.

I hope my future wife admires me the same way Akademiks talks about Drake

I’ve learned you can lose an opportunity without ever making the decision to give it up. Intention has an expiration date.

I could literally sell an AI service that runs a network of accounts, generates different comments, has them like and reply to each other, and makes it look like everybody agrees an artist is the next big thing. Basically, automate peer pressure and invoice the artist. 😂

People will think you’re crazy before they ever consider that you might actually know something they don’t.

People used to say don’t take advice from someone who hasn’t done it. Now we’re entering an era where people can use AI to sound like they’ve done just about anything. Knowing how to talk about it and actually doing it are two different things.

Execution mode. Three things went from idea to reality this week.

AI companies are about to go bankrupt, their infrastructure will be bought up for pennies on the dollar, and a handful of corporations will end up controlling the future of AI. Then regulators will pretend they didn’t see the consolidation coming.

If you can buy music streams, manipulate charts, and manufacture popularity online, what makes people think you couldn’t bot an election? 🤔 Apparently, we understand astroturfing until the stakes get political.

Wouldn’t it be ironic if the White House endorsed one of the most botted artists in music history? Imagine caring that much about clout and not realizing the numbers might not even be real. 💀

Anybody here build their own circuit boards? I’ve been trying to find people who do this but haven’t had much luck.

Imagine being so insecure about your own taste that you have to defend another grown adult’s talent to people who don’t even like them. 😭 I’ve never once felt the need to do PR for my favorite artist. If you don’t get it, you don’t get it. I’m not the label’s unpaid intern.

If I ever used bots to break records and hit milestones just to make them line up with my birthday, I hope y’all would see right through the fraud.

Jay-Z is LeBron James in hip-hop.

Apple CarPlay starts playing music automatically, but the music industry needs a forensic investigation to prove streams are real. 😂 Your own car is running up plays before you even pick a song. But sure, tell me more about stream manipulation. 💀

The only woman I’ve ever met who could seemingly read my mind was a stripper at the club where I DJ’d. Imagine watching her dance for random dudes while she’s the one person who has you figured out 😭 She just followed me on IG. Do I delete this or let her find out 💀