Michael Jackson’s former bodyguard Bill Whitfield reveals he was offered life-changing money to make false claims against Michael Jackson. 🎥: The Art Of Dialogue/YouTube

Should I put my Cash App name in this prayer box 🤣

Shit should not be this funny 🤣🤣🤣

One sign of a dying empire is the government being fully controlled by the billionaire class

Everybody knows the answer is yes

Selling your championship ring is next level bum behavior cause how tf 🤣

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To be ….or not to be 🤨

Two days of early voting are done in Louisiana. Only 10,000 of the state’s 925,000 Black voters have shown up so far. That means more than 915,000 Black voters still can go do your part and vote. Republicans are leading Democrats in early voting 22,000 to 14,000. If you live in East Baton Rouge Parish, vote YES for the Council on Aging and YES for our libraries. In the Senate runoff, go vote for Jamie Davis. Don’t tell me you’re paying attention if you aren’t participating. Text 10 people and go vote. Share if you care. 🦾

The Black community will celebrate the athlete, the entertainer, and the hustler before it celebrates the thinker. That hierarchy was not self generated. It was installed by a system that needed Black intellectual power to remain socially undesirable within the community

Do you know how much Trump and his pedo friends made off gas alone since this war started! BILLIONS! And that’s not counting the defense contractors that profited off this war War = $$$

US dollar has lost roughly 30% of its purchasing power over the past 6 years, meaning that goods and services that cost $100 6 years ago now cost about $130 on average.

BREAKING: Anthropic says its newest AI model is too powerful to release to the public

New York gone turn into Gotham City tonight 🤣🤣

Wemby is the future but the Knicks got now

Why is Fox shooting the ball matter of fact why tf is he in the game

RIP to one of the greats! Taken WAY too soon. 💔💔💔😭😭😭

you got opps & you out doing food reviews

Known as the ‘Spider-Man of Yemen,’ adventurer dies after falling into volcanic crater.

Inflation would have taken a $35 concert ticket to about $50 today. The jump to $350 came from a change in how the music business makes its money. Fifteen years ago, the concert was an ad. Artists made their money selling albums, and the tour was there to sell more CDs. Then streaming showed up and wrecked that. Spotify pays about $0.003 to $0.005 per play, so an artist with 10 million plays in a year makes around $30,000. Money from recorded music fell so far it hit bottom in 2014 at $13.1 billion, down from $22 billion in the CD days. The album stopped paying the bills. So the tour became the paycheck instead of the ad. For many working musicians it now brings in up to 80% of their income. Even Taylor Swift, the biggest streaming artist alive, made 91% of her 2018 money on tour and under 6% from streaming. When the live show is the only thing left to sell, it gets priced that way. Then there is who controls the tickets. Live Nation and Ticketmaster merged in 2010 and never let go. Ticketmaster now handles about 80% of tickets when they first go on sale at major venues, and Live Nation owns or runs close to 78% of the big outdoor amphitheaters. In April 2026, a jury in New York found the company ran an illegal monopoly that overcharged fans. Live Nation made a record $23 billion in 2024. Fees pile on top. A 2018 government report found fees add about 27% to a ticket's price, and a look at 40 recent concerts put it closer to 28%. That turns two $100 tickets into a $256 bill. To be fair, the venue keeps most of that fee, not Ticketmaster, whose own share is only a few percent. The biggest jump came from something newer. After the pandemic, promoters saw that fans would pay almost anything, so they turned on dynamic pricing, the same way airline seats cost more as a flight fills up. Bruce Springsteen's $400 seats shot up to $4,000 and $5,000 the moment they went on sale. Live Nation's own finance chief said it plainly: stadium tickets are now priced to scare off scalpers. That means setting the official price at whatever a scalper would charge, so the extra money goes to the artist and Ticketmaster instead of a reseller. The $35 ticket made sense when a concert sold a $15 album. The $350 ticket makes sense when the concert is the product, the streaming money barely counts, and one company controls almost the whole path to the stage.