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Flo Rida signed with a tiny energy drink company whose stock sold for about 50 cents. Nine years later a jury said it owed him $82.6 million.
In 2014, Celsius was losing money and couldn't afford his usual endorsement fee. So instead of a big check, it offered stock: 250,000 shares up front, plus bonus shares if sales hit set targets.
Flo Rida put the drink in his music videos, wore it on a racing suit, and handed out cans from his Hummer outside Miami Heat games.
By April 2021 Celsius stock was at $57.30. Flo Rida demanded the bonus shares. Celsius said the targets were never met and that its explosive growth came after his deal had ended.
So he sued. In the video below, he explains on the stand why he insisted on stock. He'd already missed one fortune: "I missed out on the deal that I wanted that was with Uber. Early on they had offered me rides... And I'm a guy who has a lot of flashy cars, so I didn't really pay attention to it."
This time he wanted it all: "I'm going to need some equity, I'm going to need some royalties, I'm going to need some stock and I'm going to need some upfront money."
On January 18, 2023, a Broward County jury awarded him $82,640,450. An appeals court later upheld that Celsius broke the deal, but ordered the damages recalculated using the stock price at the time of the breach.
So did Flo Rida earn every share by building a brand from nothing, or did a rapper cash in on growth he had nothing to do with?
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TikTok took this video down twice so I’m posting it here 😅 spent way too much time on it for it not to be somewhere 😭
Let’s get into what really went down during the civil war.
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"We Cooked With A Former McDonald's Chef. What He Showed Us Was Shocking."
McDonald's prices have doubled in the last ten years. The profits have gone mostly to shareholders, who got nearly $40 billion in dividends over the past decade while customers suffer and workers are underpaid. Here's how fast food is the latest victim of enshittification.
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NEW: McDonald's prices have doubled in the last ten years.
The profits have gone mostly to shareholders, who got nearly $40 billion in dividends over the past decade while customers suffer and workers are underpaid.
Here's how fast food is the latest victim of enshittification.
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Hiring Tony Robbins today costs 1 million dollars for just one day.
This is a 21-minute tape recorded in his own home more than 30 years ago.
There, he explains exactly how to get anyone to say yes.
The same material for which they now charge a fortune... completely free.
It's a rare, unfiltered recording from the time when he still didn't charge millionaires just for being in the same room.
When someone says no, they give two excuses:
“I don’t have time” or “I don’t have money”
Neither is true.
The real reason is that they still don’t believe it’s worth it.
It’s not a money problem. It’s a state problem.
Tony teaches something he calls “attack and confess”
Instead of arguing the objection, you confess your own:
“I had the chance to go six months ago and I didn’t until two months ago.
I can’t even imagine the time I wasted”
The room goes silent. No one argues.
Then he gets the person on the “yes train”
Each little yes adds to the next.
Until saying no at the end feels harder than saying yes.
When it’s time to sign, the person has already said yes five times without realizing it.
Just 21 minutes.
There you learn the two only moves that people pay 1 million a day for:
how to read anyone’s state… and how to shift it.
Most people spend years guessing in sales.
He wrote it on a flipchart in his living room in less than half an hour.
A seat in that room cost $125 dollars.
Today it costs $1 million dollars a day to sit in front of him.
The tape is free right now.
And the answer is in this video.
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Everybody has a theory about why André 3000 stopped making rap records.
Nobody has a theory about this one, because as far as I can tell nobody reported it.
Recordation V9991D471, recorded 15 July 2021. First party, verbatim: Andre Lauren Benjamin, professionally known as Andre 3000, individually and dba Gnat Booty Music, and Wedontplayevenwhenwebeplayin LLC. Second party: Primary Wave Music IP Fund 3.
Roughly 570 compositions.
It is publishing rather than masters, and the document is 33 pages for 570 titles, which means it is a short form sitting on top of a long form nobody recorded. The share he actually assigned is not stated anywhere I can see.
Now search the other man. Antwan Patton returns 511 hits and 150 recordations, and he is a party to none of them. Every hit is his name appearing as a writer inside somebody else's paperwork. Recording
a transfer is optional and plenty of deals never get filed, so the only sentence I can support is that no recorded transfer names him.
One of them shows up in the register as a seller. The other shows up only as a name inside other people's documents.
Which raises the obvious question: André sold publishing, so why not the records.
Because the records were never his to sell.
SR0000340520, registered 6 October 2003. Claimant: "© ℗ Arista Records, Inc. (employer for hire)." Two solo albums, two number one singles, one registration. There is no separate registration for The Love Below anywhere. I looked.
A sound recording registration follows the claimant's unit of commerce. Arista sold one product, so Arista registered one work.
What makes it worth showing you is that the register was perfectly willing to give this catalog two numbers when it wanted to. Stankonia has two registrations. Aquemini has two. Go look at what separates each pair, and it is a profanity.
Watch the claimant line move across the catalog. ATLiens 1997, LaFace. Aquemini 1999, Arista, with LaFace named as employer for hire inside the authorship line. Stankonia 2001, back to La Face. The
double album 2003, Arista Records Incorporated. The singles in 2004, BMG Music. Idlewild 2006, LaFace Records LLC.
Six filings, five versions of the same corporate family, and one thing that never changes. Employer for hire is on every single one.
Across every sound recording OutKast ever released, Antwan Patton and André Benjamin appear as claimant exactly zero times.
One filing is not like the others. Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik came out in April 1994. It was not registered as a sound recording until 2 February 2018. Twenty four years. And the claimant on that 2018 filing is Arista Records Incorporated, which is strange, because Arista had assigned the whole thing to Sony 9 years earlier. The address on the form is 25 Madison Avenue, 22nd floor, New York, which is Sony's building.
Here is how it got to Sony. Recordations V3582D733 and 734, filed 3 September 2009. First party Arista Records LLC, second party Sony Music Entertainment, executed as of 27 December 2008. 734
pages, 1,702 titles. Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is one row in that schedule. The next day, a second document, LaFace Records LLC to Sony, 67 titles, carrying ATLiens. Both executed as of the same December day, because that is a corporate closing date rather than anything to do with music.
Last thing, and it is live right now. Section 203 lets an author terminate a grant 35 years on and take the work back. It is how Victor Willis got the Village People songs.
Termination notices filed under OutKast, André Benjamin, Antwan Patton: zero.
Before you decide that means nothing, I checked whether the system would show me one if it existed. Victor Willis returns 10. LaFace Records returns 3.
One of those 3 is Usher. He served his notice on 23 June 2025, on Sony, as successor to LaFace.
Same label. Same era. Same successor company. He filed. They have not.
Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik turns 35 in 2029.
Every document above is free and public.
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👀 WTF?? Hayden Panettiere JUST DIED at 36… 3 months after her bombshell exposure of the Elite Hollywood/ Music system.
Above all she was a mom. She leaves behind her daughter Kaya.
Barely three months after she finally spoke up. In her new book and on that Jay Shetty podcast she told the world what happened when she was 18 and Heroes was exploding.
A “trusted” female friend dragged her downstairs on a boat out at sea and literally put her in bed next to a naked, very famous older British rocker.
She had to fight him off and hide for the rest of the night.
That was 18 years ago. She still never named him. Or the woman who set it up.
And now she’s dead. Cause still unknown. She had just flown from LA down to the South with her boyfriend when it happened.
Hollywood is pure evil.
Who was the rocker?
Who was the friend that kept doing these setups?
@StephenBaldwin7 you were right… IT’S ALL OF THEM.
Hayden Panettiere, best known for her roles in "Heroes" and "Nashville," has died at 36 💔 buff.ly/FsOPZze
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A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.
He knows his time is running out.
So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.
He died 5 months later.
This is that lecture.
The most important hour you'll watch this week.
Bookmark it for later!