#Julie Adenuga

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Julie Adenuga for Principle Magazine, ph. Jack Alexander [2023]

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"I think there's a big massive gap to what a successful career can look like if you work in entertainment. Whether you are anything from an influencer to an actor, to an artist, whatever it is, l'd like to set a bar for what that looks like..”

Julie Adenuga for Principle Magazine

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I’ve watched leigh’s new video of doing an interview with Julie Adenuga. It’s such a natural and just honest conversation that I’ve never really seen. They talk about so many raw topics in a way that you may not have watched it done before.

Leigh explains her top 5 Rihanna songs and shows that we may like the same music artist but our view on who they are and what they mean to us is different. Which I get, you know, we may all like Little Mix, but our fav songs will be different, we started liking them at different stages in our lives, or we have a meaning for listening to them.

One point they are talking about Pythagoras' and how you never use it after secondary school, which is true. And then they go on and talk about being a mum, especially with twins and why she has decided to keep her kids private as they may grow up not wanting to be on socials (if they do then that's fine as well). Then a bit on family life and what Leigh's going to teach her kids as they grow up.

When Leigh mentions everything she went through in school and being picked on by the boys, it brought a tear to my eye. I hate to see her going or have experienced something so bad just because of who she is.

Throughout this interview, they mention bits on the differences on being solo now compared to being in a band. Some bits Leigh are nervous for which I get and some bits she's very excited. She tells Julie if they win, I win, we all have to win' (talking about Perrie and Jade). They're still best of sisters as their group chat is their safe space, each of them understand the journey of being in the industry more than anyone else.

One more thing she talks about 'Don't Say Love'. The music video and it's concept of running away from 'said' person. The idea of Leigh making a 100% visual album, where every song has a music video and it all goes into a film I think.

Now, I loved this interview so much, as you can probably tell. I love it how Julie has supported and made it a fun conversation with Leigh instead of one of those formal sit opposite of each other type conversations, it's more relaxed and open.

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Julie Adenuga

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Leigh-Anne: in Conversation with Julie Adenuga

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Leigh-Anne with Julie Adenuga.

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Do u kno any women uk rappers/freestylers? i always forget artist names when im not rly into a genre or havent been for long! Ty. Uk women djs also welcome

not nearly as many as i would like to, but i know a few. if you are aware of others please let me know :]

MCs + vocalists:

Amplify Dot

Lady Leshurr

Lisa Mercedez

Little Simz

Ms Banks

Ms Dynamite

Nolay

Queenie

Tia Carys

Trillary Banks

DJs + producers:

187

DJ Kemistry (RIP)

DJ Rap

DJ Storm

Flava D

Ikonika

Julie Adenuga

Maya Jane Coles

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Radio interview where Louis says he cried

Hi, sorry I'm new - is there actual proof that IICF and home were written when L & H were apart? What happened? (Also... Are there headcanons around this? Cause it's BEAUTIFUL) thanks!

yes, there’s proof and just be warned, because once you see all the timing you literally won’t recover. sorry this took so long, but i wanted to collect as much proof as possible to reeaaally fuck you up. :) 

so the OTRA tour break was from april 5th to june 4th, and the boys all talked about doing a lot of songwriting while they weren’t on tour. remember how they mentioned multiple times during MITAM press that they split up and went with different outside writers and came back with a bunch of material? that was during this time. 

the general fandom theory is that louis wrote home on april 14th, 2015, because that’s the song he wrote with liam and jamie, and he posted this on insta: 

they’d been apart for less than two weeks at that point. the next day, harry pops up wearing the famous blue bandana in west hollywood: 

and we assume it’s just a shout out to fandom, thinking that harry’s reassuring us that everything’s cool with them while louis is papped out at clubs every single night for weeks on end. not realizing that louis had just spent the day before writing what would become one of the most iconic relationship songs the band has done so far, and even made liam get all emosh: 

While Liam Payne said “Home” is the most meaningful song on the album for him but demurred about exactly why that is, he revealed Tomlinson tapped into his emotional side while writing and recording. “Having seen different things he’s gone through and different stuff this year – and obviously I’ve written a lot of songs with him – he can really get into that sensitive mindset to write songs, which is pretty cool.”

then louis was supposed to fly to LA to write with julian (and so he would have still been within the two week rule, as harry was already there and would be for a while), but julian changed his plans and flew to london. so the two week rule was broken, we were all sad but we understood, can’t be seen together, etc etc. 

we don’t know the exact day when iicf was written, as far as i know, but it was within those couple of weeks louis was supposed to be in LA and wasn’t. all we do know is that later, liam says he cried while recording it, anne says it’s her favorite, and louis says he cried too (DEATH!!!), and that harry has never, ever given an actual explanation of the meaning. here’s what he said in the track-by-track explanation: 

I’ve been working with Johan for a little bit; we did a couple of songs together. We did a song for Ariana Grande, and we did – he’s like a really good piano player. He’s just really good at it, so it’s quite natural to just sit with him at a piano and start playing. It was another one that kind of just, kind of fell down, out of, you know, it felt quite natural to like, sing it, and obviously if you get, like, a cool melody with instruments, you kind of decide whether it’s better to follow it or not. Sometimes it’s really cool, and sometimes it’s better to leave that as an instrumental melody, so.

which is basically “erm, um, PIANO. PIANO IS COOL LET’S. LET’S TALK ABOUT PIANO.” or also this. 

and then, at the MITAM listening party, the video for IICF turned out to be a literal homage to baby larry, showing unseen clips and sending us all spiralling.

later, as promo season rolled around, harry and louis very much claimed those songs as their own. the day the perfect EP was put on spotify (out of nowhere), louis tweeted this: 

and then (AND THIS IS POTENTIALLY THE WORST PART), when louis went in early november to vancouver and atlanta and the stalkers and update accounts started hinting heavily at a winter girlfriend who we’d later learn was danielle, harry tweets this: 

so basically, we don’t even need any headcanons. it’s bad enough all on its own. 

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Top 10 richest black people in the world

In a world where success is often measured by wealth, the richest Black people stand out as remarkable figures.

These individuals are pioneers in diverse fields, from business to entertainment, and their achievements not only shatter barriers but also pave the way for others to follow.

Take a look at the top 10 richest Black people in the world:

David Steward $11.4 billion USA

David Lloyd Steward, born in 1951, is an American billionaire entrepreneur. He is the founder and chairman of World Wide Technology (WWT), which is among the largest African-American-owned companies in the United States. In 2024, Steward was ranked 344th on Forbes’ list of billionaires globally, with an estimated net worth of $11.4 billion.

Aliko Dangote ($11.3 billion)

Aliko Dangote, born on April 10, 1957, is one of the richest Black people in the world. A prominent Nigerian businessman and industrialist, he is notably the first person to build a private oil refinery in Nigeria. As of October 2024, Forbes ranks him as the 211th richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of $11.2 billion. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, his wealth is estimated at $27.7 billion.

Robert F. Smith ($10.8 billion)

Robert Frederick Smith, born on December 1, 1962, is an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Vista Equity Partners, a private equity firm. Smith earned a chemical engineering degree from Cornell University and later an MBA from Columbia Business School. Before founding his company, he worked as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs. In 2019, during a commencement speech at Morehouse College, Smith made headlines when he pledged to cover the entire $34 million in student loan debt for the graduating class of 2019.

Mike Adenuga ($6.6 billion)

Mike Adenuga, Nigeria’s second wealthiest person, amassed his fortune through telecommunications and oil ventures. His mobile network company, Globacom, is the second-largest in Nigeria, boasting over 60 million subscribers. In addition to telecommunications, Adenuga’s oil company, Conoil Producing, operates six oil blocks in the Niger Delta.

Globacom also established Glo-1, a 6,100-mile submarine internet cable linking the U.K. with Ghana and Portugal. Adenuga holds a 74% stake in publicly traded Conoil and owns just under 6% of Nigerian bank Sterling Financial Holding.

Abdulsamad Rabiu ($ 4.7 billion)

One of the richest Black people in the world, Abdul Samad Isyaku Rabiu is a prominent Nigerian businessman and philanthropist. As of 2024, he ranks as Nigeria’s third richest man. His father, Khalifah Isyaku Rabiu, was one of Nigeria’s leading industrialists in the 1970s and 1980s. Abdul Samad is the founder and chairman of BUA Group, a Nigerian conglomerate focused on manufacturing, infrastructure, and agriculture, generating over $2.5 billion in revenue. He also serves as the chairman of Nigeria’s Bank of Industry (BOI).

In July 2020, Forbes valued his net worth at $3.2 billion, placing him 716th among the world’s billionaires. By January 2022, he was recognised as Nigeria’s second richest person. In April 2022, he ranked as the fifth-richest person in Africa with a fortune of $6.7 billion, and by January 2023, he climbed to fourth on the continent’s wealthiest list.

Michael Jordan ($3.5 billion)

Widely considered the greatest basketball player of all time, Michael Jordan won six championships with the Chicago Bulls. Throughout his career, his total salary amounted to $90 million, but his earnings from partnerships with brands like Nike, Hanes, and Gatorade have reached an astounding $2.4 billion (before taxes). In 2020, Jordan became a special advisor and investor for the sports-betting company DraftKings and also co-owned a NASCAR team. In 2023, he sold his majority stake in the Charlotte Hornets in a deal that valued the NBA team at $3 billion.

Oprah Winfrey ($3 billion)

Oprah Winfrey turned her 25-year-long talk show into a powerful media and business empire. The profits from her show, combined with earnings from films like ‘The Color Purple’, ‘Beloved’, and ‘Selma’—which were co-produced by her company, Harpo Productions—have brought her wealth to an estimated $2.5 billion.

In 2011, she launched the OWN cable channel and later sold most of her shares in it to Warner Bros. Discovery in 2020, receiving company stock in return.

In 2015, Winfrey purchased a 10% stake in WeightWatchers, and in 2024, she generously donated her shares to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Winfrey also owns an extensive real estate portfolio, including homes in California and more than a dozen properties, along with 2,100 acres of land in Hawaii.

Patrice Motsepe ($3 billion)

Patrice Motsepe, founder and chairman of African Rainbow Minerals, became a billionaire in 2008, making history as the first Black African to appear on the Forbes billionaire list. In 2016, he established African Rainbow Capital, a private equity firm focused on investments across Africa. Motsepe also holds a stake in Sanlam, a publicly traded financial services company, and is the owner and president of the Mamelodi Sundowns Football Club.

In March 2021, he was elected president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), the governing body for soccer on the continent. His business journey began in 1994 when he became the first Black partner at Johannesburg law firm Bowman Gilfillan, later launching a mining services company. In 1997, Motsepe acquired underperforming gold mine shafts, which he successfully turned around

Jay-Z ($2.5 billion)

Since becoming hip-hop’s first billionaire in 2019, Jay-Z has significantly increased his wealth, largely due to his successful liquor ventures. In 2021, luxury conglomerate LVMH acquired a 50% stake in his champagne brand, Armand de Brignac, also known as Ace of Spades. In February 2023, he sold a majority of his ownership in his cognac brand, D’Usse, to Bacardi.

Beyond liquor, Jay-Z’s wealth includes assets like an art collection featuring works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, his extensive music catalog, and stakes in companies such as Block and Uber. In 2021, he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and in 2022, he won an Emmy for producing the Super Bowl Halftime Show.

Strive Masiyiwa ($1.8 billion)

Strive Masiyiwa faced huge government resistance when he launched the mobile phone network Econet Wireless Zimbabwe in his home country in 1998. He holds a 38% stake in the publicly traded Econet Wireless Zimbabwe, which is part of his larger Econet Group, as well as about 33% of EcoCash, a mobile money transfer company.

Masiyiwa also has an investment in Liquid Intelligent Technologies, a private firm that offers fiber optic and cloud services to telecom companies throughout Africa. His portfolio includes investments in fintech and power distribution companies across the continent, along with stock options in Netflix, where he has been a board member since December 2020. He and his wife, Tsitsi, founded the Higherlife Foundation, which assists orphaned and underprivileged children in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Burundi, and Lesotho.

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JME "Grime MC" (2019) : L'album qui a fait bugger Spotify (et c'est voulu)

JME "Grime MC" (2019) : L'album qui a fait bugger Spotify (et c'est voulu) Jme, de son vrai nom Jamie Adenuga, est une figure emblématique de la scène grime britannique. Frère cadet de Skepta, il a cofondé le collectif Boy Better Know, véritable pilier du genre. "Grime MC", sorti en 2019, marque un retour aux sources pour Jme, qui a choisi de distribuer l'album uniquement en format physique, un pied de nez à l'ère du streaming. "Grime MC" est un condensé de 18 pistes, pour une durée totale d'environ 50 minutes. L'album est un pur produit grime, avec des BPM élevés, des basses lourdes et des synthés sinistres. L'ambiance est résolument underground, fidèle aux racines du genre. La production de "Grime MC" est un retour aux fondamentaux du grime. Jme utilise des logiciels comme Logic et Fruity Loops, mais aussi des outils plus inattendus comme une PlayStation ou un Nokia. Les beats sont bruts, les synthés menaçants, et les basses omniprésentes, créant une atmosphère à la fois nostalgique et innovante. Les paroles de Jme abordent des thèmes variés, allant de la critique de l'industrie musicale à des réflexions personnelles sur la vie et la société. Il utilise souvent l'humour et les références à la culture geek pour faire passer ses messages, rendant ses textes à la fois profonds et accessibles. Jme brille par sa diction claire et son flow précis. Il sait captiver l'auditeur avec des punchlines mémorables et des moments de bravoure vocale. Les collaborations avec des artistes comme Skepta et Giggs ajoutent une dimension supplémentaire à l'album, chaque invité apportant sa propre énergie. Jme a produit certains des beats de l'album en direct sur Twitch ! Une manière pour lui de rester connecté avec ses fans tout en montrant les coulisses de sa création musicale.     "Grime MC" est un must pour tout fan de grime qui se respecte. Si vous aimez les beats lourds, les paroles incisives et l'authenticité brute, cet album est fait pour vous. Il s'adresse aussi bien aux puristes du genre qu'aux nouveaux venus curieux de découvrir ce qui fait vibrer l'underground londonien.  via Blogger https://ift.tt/ZixmRWO July 04, 2024 at 09:00AM

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Watch "Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti: With Julie Adenuga, Tolly T & Marv Abbey | Drunk History: Black Stories" on YouTube