The NFL is obsessed with innovation. Since the 2000’s, there’s been the Wildcat, the Pistol, the spread, the “Air Raid”, the spread option, the Spread HD and the A-11, amongst others. There’s been Cam Cameron’s, Hal Mumme’s, Rich Rod’s,…
Breaking Bad. Orange Is the New Black. Beyoncé.
We covered last week how Beyoncé’s surprise release of her self titled album undermined existing marketing paradigms. But Beyoncé may have also created a blueprint for the future of profitable album releases.…
“just setting up my twttr” - Jack Dorsey, March 21, 2006
I’m convinced that historians will look back 50 years from now at Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s first tweet, the first tweet ever tweeted, with the same reverence as Neil…
“I’m not a businessman/I’m a business, man” - Jay-Z
Jay-Z and Kanye: Roc-A-Fella Reunited in Opposite Directions
Jay-Z’s “businessman/business, man” lyric off Kanye West’s “Diamonds From Sierra Leone” remix was, in the words of Nas, a “hot line”. Jay-Z was coming…
The Detroit Lions have played a football game on Thanksgiving day every year since 1934, becoming as much a part of the social fabric of holidays as turkey, mashed potatoes, and bad sweaters. The Lions’ 1997 Thanksgiving game against…
The Message
“I remember when New York ran this shit, when Dipset was turnt the fuck up...what happened? I remember when New York rap was the shit. And us from the South...we just did our own thing. But now we…
For obvious reasons, many doubted whether Nipsey Hussle would be able to sell 10 copies of his $100 mixtape, let alone 1,000. Well, it seems he made a quick 100K, so….
On The Evening Jones, I gave him all the…