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Title: “Death Row”
This was performed for the family of Nate Woods, a black man who was unjustly murdered by the State of Alabama for a crime he did not commit.
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They don’t make episodes like this no more.
Smart Guy🎬
My husband invited his mistress to our tenth wedding anniversary dinner, seated her three chairs away from me, and watched me thank her for coming. But the affair wasn’t what destroyed me. It was discovering that almost everyone at that table had helped him hide it.
There were twelve guests, including my parents, my younger sister, my husband’s brother, and friends we’d known for years. He’d reserved a private dining room at a restaurant where dinner cost more than our monthly mortgage. Everyone was laughing, ordering expensive wine, and telling stories about our marriage. The woman sat beside my sister, wearing a delicate gold bracelet identical to one I’d found in my husband’s car six months earlier. He’d claimed it was a gift for his brother’s girlfriend. I might have dismissed the coincidence if I hadn’t watched my sister lean over and whisper, “You okay? I know tonight’s awkward.” The woman nodded and glanced at my husband. Something cold settled in my stomach. When my husband stepped outside to take a call, I followed him into the hallway. “How long?” I asked. His expression changed immediately. “Please don’t do this here.” That was all the confirmation I needed. “How long?” I repeated. “Almost two years,” he admitted. I stared at him. “And they know?” He didn’t answer. When I walked back into the room, nobody asked why I’d been crying. My mother simply reached across the table, squeezed my hand, and whispered, “Sweetheart, just get through dinner.” I realized then that she wasn’t comforting me. She was asking me to cooperate.
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The last phone call Lil Jon ever had with his son was him calling back to say sorry. He had no idea it would be the last time he'd hear Nathan's voice.
Nathan was 27. NYU grad, music producer, DJ'd under the name Young Slade. For about four years he'd been dealing with physical pain and a lot going on emotionally, and he was in therapy working on it. His dad kept riding him to take better care of himself, and Nathan finally asked him to give him some credit for how hard he was trying.
Then early one Saturday morning, Nathan sent him a text.
"My love for you is stronger than my fear."
Jon took the whole back-and-forth to his own therapist, who told him something pretty simple. His son just wanted to be heard and seen.
So he picked up the phone, told Nathan he was sorry, and told him he could see how hard he'd been trying.
The next morning Nathan ran out of his house in Milton, Georgia around 6am and left his phone behind. He had a therapy appointment on the books that same day. Three days later a dive team found him in a pond at a park near his house. The medical examiner ruled it an accidental drowning.
Jon had pretty much finished writing his memoir when this happened. He'd already named it I Only Shout So You Can Hear Me. This is a guy who's been yelling WHAT and YEAH on records for 30 years, and he built the title of his whole life story around wanting people to hear him.
Read that title again now that you know about the phone call.
He went back into the book, wrote a new chapter about Nathan, and dedicated the whole thing to him. It came out last Tuesday. His co-writer Paul Cantor says he never had one conversation with Jon where Nathan didn't come up.
After Nathan died, Jon says he basically lived on the couch for months. So in this clip you're watching a guy talk about dragging himself back up because his daughter and his partner deserve the best of him. He says he had to relearn how to smile and laugh. And he thanks Allah for giving him 27 years with his son.
Nathan was a teenager hanging around the studio when Turn Down for What got made, and his dad called him his good-luck charm. Ten years later Nathan was engineering his father's meditation album. In an interview last year, Nathan said his dad always showed up for him.
The man famous for shouting so you'd hear him spent his last call with his son making sure Nathan knew he'd been heard.
Keke Palmer got EMOTIONAL and teared up as Lil Jon opened up about GRIEVING the tragic loss of his 27-year-old son Nathan, revealing how he had to learn to SMILE AGAIN, find joy in life and pull himself out of a DARK PLACE for his family 💔
“I realized I had to pick myself up, because my daughter and my partner deserve the best of me. I had to learn to smile again and laugh again… I have gratitude for Allah for giving me my son for 27 years. I appreciate every memory… If I can get through it, you can get through it. You have to keep living, keep spreading love, and keep spreading joy”
Radio Raheem retweeted
I fuck wit this especially in today’s world this take legit courage
POWERFUL: #Browns rookie WR KC Concepcion has battled a stutter his entire life but he still makes it a point to speak with the media after every game.
KC continues to show incredible courage and is an inspiration to everyone who struggles with a stutter.
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Peter Parkers coworkers when he first started submitting photos at the Daily Bugle 📷
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Everything that has happened to the Titans since trading AJ Brown:
*Titans have the worst record in the NFL at 19-54 since
*Eventually led to firing of Mike Vrabel
* Record since firing Mike Vrabel is 6-33 (have won 2 home games + 1 division game total in 3 seasons)
*AJ Brown won a Super Bowl and Mike Vrabel made a Super Bowl
*AJ Brown had more Super Bowl appearances with the Eagles than Treylon Burks had receiving touchdowns with the Titans
*Have scored 17.2 Points per game since the trade, the worst in the NFL.
*Let Derrick Henry walk without trying to re-sign him
*Derrick Henry has 732 more rushing yards and 22 more rushing touchdowns than the entire Titans RB room combined since leaving
*Traded Malik Willis to the Packers for a 7th rounder only for him to beat us 27 days later as the starting QB by 16 points
*Traded the leader of our defense, Kevin Byard (to the Eagles, of course) for two 2024 draft picks + player…none of those players are still on the Titans two seasons later.
*Lost Mike Keith - the voice of the Titans for 27 years and one of the best in the entire industry - to the University of Tennessee
*Lost Lance Smith - their longtime on field game-day host and hype man
*Have never replaced Lance Smith and the game day production is one of the worst in professional sports
*Lowest attendance numbers since Nissan Stadium opened in 1999.
*Dropped the Greek mythology bit from the Titans branding so no one knows what the Titans even mean anymore
Every decision made is the wrong one and if you do that long enough and you get Hell on Earth.
Radio Raheem retweeted
How about that for your first NFL touchdown!!
Reggie Bush takes a punt back all the way in the 4th quarter to give the Saints the lead!
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This is so fucked up and it’s exactly why we keep talking about racial disparities in the justice system. Black people especially Black boys and men, are too often treated like they’re guilty first and expected to prove their innocence later, while white defendants are more often afforded the benefit of the doubt.
This young man spent SEVEN MONTHS on an ankle monitor for a carjacking he says he couldn’t have committed because he was at school. Now you’ll clear his record but ONLY if he gives up his right to sue? So he has to choose between having his name cleared and holding the system accountable for what it put him through? That’s not justice. You can’t keep telling Black people the system treats everyone equally when cases like this keep happening.
A Black teen spent seven months wearing an ankle monitor for a carjacking he says he couldn’t have committed because he was at school, but things finally changed after a reporter started asking questions.
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body language is such a lost medium. movies are way to dependent on dialogue to move the story along anymore.
if this was made today, each actor would’ve had a zing one-liner to spoonfeed the audience what was happening in this moment.
Radio Raheem retweeted
becoming an adult is realizing that the laws they taught you about in school mean nothing. this is clearly a monopoly
David Ellison has shown an official graphic of everything Skydance will own after acquiring Warner Bros and Paramount.
Assets:
• TNT
• CBS
• CNN
• MTV
• TCM
• Showtime
• Adult Swim
• DC Studios
• Paramount+
• Nickelodeon
• HBO/HBO Max
• Comedy Central
• Cartoon Network
Film Rights:
• Star Trek
• Gremlins
• Beetlejuice
• DC Comics
• Tom & Jerry
• Harry Potter
• Citizen Kane
• Transformers
• A Quiet Place
• Looney Tunes
• The Conjuring
• Mortal Kombat
• Game of Thrones
• Dora The Explorer
• Mission Impossible
• The Lord of the Rings
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Avatar: The Last Airbender
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Dune 3 (distribution rights)
• Minecraft (distribution rights)
• MonsterVerse (distribution rights)
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What started as two young actors waiting for class became a friendship built on respect, trust and years of shared memories. Through every chapter, we’ve stood by each other and celebrated the good times. That bond has remained something I’ll always be grateful for, my friend.
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