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Neon Money Club pulled up fresh from attending the 65th Annual Grammy Awards to put us on game by merging investment education with music. — In 2020, Roddy Ricch had the most played song on Apple Music with 455 million streams. Apple Music only pays $0.01 per stream, which means Ricch made an estimated $4.5 million from Apple Music that year. But what if the streaming service paid him in Apple stocks instead of cash? Let’s find out. “You don’t have to be an investment professional to spot value.” Apple’s stock price was $79 per share in 2020. Therefore, Roddy Ricch would’ve gotten 57,500 shares. That same stock is worth $152, as of this writing, which means his $4.5 million would’ve nearly doubled to $8.6 million. If Roddy had made a similar move with Spotify, he would’ve lost money instead. But unlike Spotify, streaming isn’t Apple’s only business (iPhone, AppleTV+, Macbook, etc.), and this is where common sense analysis (a.k.a. Good Taste) is useful. You don’t have to be an...
Despite his recent hiatus from the public eye, Will Smith is still doing work in the background that continues to cement him as one of the best actors ever to do it. According to Variety, the 53-year-old actor is preparing to cash in on his latest project, “Emancipation.” The AppleTV+ movie is an escaped-slave thriller that Smith agreed to after years of avoiding making films centered around the subject. “This was one that was about love and the power of Black love,” Smith explained in a previous interview. “And that was something I could rock with. We were going to make a story about how Black love makes us invincible.”
For over a decade, seasoned journalist Roland Martin has voraciously served daily news to the Black community on #RolandMartinUnfiltered, and he’s ready to take things to new heights with his next venture. Since its inception, the daily news show has “generated nearly 509 million views and more than 1.5 billion minutes watched,” a press release states. Now, Martin realizes that there is a need to provide the Black community with content driven by their concerns. With that said, the award-winning journalist has recently announced the debut of the Black Star Network on the third anniversary of #RolandMartinUnfiltered. “We’ve proven over the last three years that Black women, men and children desire culturally relevant content from a Black-owned media company. We have traveled all over the country covering a variety of big news stories, and Black Star Network will allow us to further expand our footprint,” Martin said in a press release. The network features an array of Black news and...