Rolling Loud is an international hip hop music festival that has been held in North America, Asia, South America, Europe, and Australia.
Established in 2015, it is "one of the biggest festivals in the world" according to Complex, while Billboard called it "the be-all of hip-hop festivals" [2, 3].
In 2019, an estimated 210,000 people attended the event in Miami [4].
HISTORY
The festival was founded in 2015 by Matt Zingler and Tariq Cherif, who met in elementary school in Hollywood, Florida [2, 5].
Once in high school, the pair began organizing and promoting parties which "leaned heavily on a mix of Southern and Midwestern rap" [2]. They moved on to professional live music events in 2010, beginning with an after-party headlined by Rick Ross [2].
By the summer of 2013, they were hosting monthly events in Miami featuring up-and-coming artists like Travis Scott and Kendrick Lamar [6].
The pair also promoted artists from Florida's burgeoning SoundCloud rap scene under the brand name Dope Entertainment before noticing the need for a genre-specific music festival [7, 8].
The first Rolling Loud took place in Miami in February 2015 and featured artists such as... More
The club filled up with lots of hooting and hollering patrons eager to see Johnny make a mockery of himself as he dies on stage. But there are many other standup comedians doing the heavy lifting. Vanessa actually dressed up for the evening, wearing a very low-cut blouse that makes her visibly uncomfortable, getting hit on by Blind Charlie's date. She's touching and rubbing away while High T Vanessa visibly squirms and tries to get her to stop. Jake looks like a pregnant B with a small dog strapped to his belly as he yells. The poor thing must be deaf by now as his nervous human companion tries to fade into the woodwork. Klein is sitting up front, but Ally is missing in action, having joined DJ Omar Kahn for a private confab in oblivion. The crowd roars as Johnny is forced to take the stage, six inches off the ground, with a stream of drinkers repeatedly heading for the washroom to see or smell what kind of mess Jake has made. He doesn't bomb! The crowd loves him. He's a simpleton but very affable, and he seems to have prepared some material that he didn't practice on the radio show. He even has a guitar hidden away, which he pulls out in Minute 4 to peals of "Tamales Tamales!" But he has a new song, maybe prepared for the occasion. His girlfriend in skulking in the back surprised to see the crowd participation and encouragement. He was set to fail as he does on most episodes of "Johnny Doesn't Know," but his ego has survived the ordeal. Klein cuts out and by the time Jake stumbles onto the stage as the headliners, the crickets are chirping and the crowd is getting antsy. He doesn't seem well prepared, considering himself an old hat at this, he's sure he can just wing it by memory and a cheat sheet. The crowd tries to help, but Vanessa puts down her phone and it just gets worse and worse. Meanwhile, the WQ meeting has moved to the NoHo Buddhist Temple on Oxnard, the Sarathchandra Buddhist Center. The most amazing this to come from the evening are the knowledge that The Good Nite is full of free standup, music, and open mics most nights and WQ has set its next meeting for the Kwan Yin Meditation Temple in Monrovia, hugging the foothills next to Old Town.
World Champ MJF roast Klein. Ally. Show. | Friday the 13th
(KROQ) Streamed live morning of March 13th. It's the Klein.Ally.Show. (KAS) on KROQ.com. There's snow in New York and a heatwave in Los Angeles as we all head out for the big comedy show with Host Dirty Jake Dill.
On today's show: Jewish wrestler Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF) joins KAS in studio, "Johnny Doesn't Know," "5-10-20," and more.
It's another Friday the 13th and another day of not-so-gentle ribbing, this time from All Elite wrestling star MJF (Maxwell Jacob Friedman). He stopped by the studio while gearing up to defend his AEW World Championship title. He mercilessly roasts Klein's new nose, Ally's lack of hygiene, Dirty Jake's virginity, Columbian Vanessa's odd voice, and Low T Johnny the Postman's everything.
The show also brings back 5-10-20, challenging listeners to place three KROQ alt rock songs in order: One from 5 years ago, 10 years ago, and 20 years ago.
The show also hears Low T Johnny's final ideas before his big 5-minute [self-immolation] set for tonight at the Good Nite in NoHo at 7:00 pm. Be there!
Today being Good Luck Friday the 13th, Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal is meeting to see stand-up comic Low T Johnny from KROQ's KAS Jake Dill (Instagram) is putting on a comedy show at The Good Nite Bar tonight at 7:00 pm.
Join the entire morning zoo crew: Ally Johnson, Kevin Klein, High T Vanessa the Columbian, Dirty Jake Dill, Low T Johnny, and maybe even the elusive and never-before-seen DJ Omar Kahn.
(YouTube Movies & TV) "When We Went MAD!" (full film)
Go mad. Enlist. Kill for patriotism and bank profits.
MAD is an American humor magazine that was launched in 1952 and is currently published by DC Comics, a unit of the DC Entertainment subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery.
MAD was founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines [2], launched as a comic book series before it became a magazine. It was widely imitated and influential, affecting satirical American media, as well as the cultural landscape of the late 20th century, with editor Al Feldstein increasing readership to more than two million during its 1973–1974 circulation peak [3].
It is the last surviving title in the EC Comics line, which sold Mad to Premier Industries in 1961 but closed in 1956.
Mad publishes satire on all aspects of American life and popular culture, politics, entertainment, and public figures. Its format includes TV and movie parodies and satire articles about everyday occurrences that are changed to seem humorous.
Mad's mascot, Alfred E. Neuman, is usually on the cover. More: Mad (magazine)
(ABC7) Powerball nears record with $1.3 billion jackpot for tonight's drawing. Sept.. 3, 2025: The Powerball jackpot for Wednesday night's drawing has soared to an estimated $1.3-$1.4 billion, the fifth-biggest in the lottery's history, after no one claimed the top prize earlier this week, winning a measly million (before taxes). abc7.com/post/powerball...
It looks like this will end up being the 4th biggest
(SunnyV2) Playing the lottery is already incredibly stup*d. However, of all the stup*d lottery winners, there are going to be a few who are extra d*mb, including people who won the jackpot then lost everything.
From accidentally throwing a 3-million-pound (dollar) lottery ticket in the bin (trash), to spending a $16.2 million dollar prize in under 90 days, these are the absolute dumbest and stup*dest lottery winners of all time.
(NBC Connecticut) One in 292,000,000 is the chance of winning
What's karma got to do with it?
Dhr. Seven and Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly 2025
For one who knows and sees
The biggest mistake I hear when listening to people talk about karma -- other than mistaking the results (fruit) for the actions, the reaping (harvest) for the sowing -- is the implicit assumption that it's what one did in this life.
When we look at someone and judge her or him, that is a judgment. It is not a reality. The unseen reality is that that person is so much more than can be seen. People are the results of their previous actions, what they did long ago and what they are doing now at this moment, both. It may be possible to do something now and seem to get the opposite result.
However, when we examine ourselves under successful meditation (profound calm and the pursuit of insight or samatha-vipassana), we can see that most of the welcome and unwelcome results manifesting now were planted long ago.
How to win? Liquify LUCK (Dr. Gallenberger)
All we do, say, think follows us with fruit.
It is relatively rare for a recent action to bear sudden results. There is usually a period of maturation, bearing fruit, ripening. So it is wise to persist in the good (skillful, wholesome, harmless) as it will surely bear fruit at some point.
Likewise, it is foolish to persist in the bad (unskillful, unwholesome, harmful) because it does not seem to have yet borne any unwelcome results. What is "good," what is "bad"? That is very easy to answer, though it may be unbelievable, in karmic terms. The real "karma," according to the Buddha is the cetana (motivation, intention, impulse) behind an act, not the act itself. With this in mind, there are six major causes or roots of ALL actions (karma):
nondelusion (insight, wisdom, knowledge, understanding, right view).
Karma: It's everywhere you're going to be.
For any act (deed, impulsive acting out, conduct), we can reflect and seek out our own underlying motive. In this way we can know the intention (motive) behind our karma (act). It will be rooted in one of these six. The first three invariably lead to eventual harm, both immediate in terms of disturbing our mind/heart and conscience if we still have one to save us and eventual in terms of bearing fruit long after the seed was sown (planted). This is a universal law (niyama) and not the Buddha's doing. He made it known to help all living beings be happy here and now and be liberated at some time in the future.
But isn't it wrong to WANT to be a millionaire or billionaire or trillionaire? - No. Wanting is normal. Any wanting may lead to that much disappointment, and certainly if greed (tanha become lobha, thirst become avaraice) gets a hold of us, that is very likely to lead to some very unskillful karma (deeds).
Living in an Abrahamic society that calls itself Judeo-Christian, we are taught to believe that, "Money is the root of all evil." While this is not incorrect as such, it is incomplete. It's not what the Bible says. Look it up. The popular KJV says that it is the LOVE of money that is the root of all evil, and that seems closer to what we find. "Desire" is not bad, as many Westerners misunderstand Buddhism to be saying. Craving is, which is to say, greed motivates many unskillful deeds, and these will have very painful results for a long time. We can see in ourselves, with no external authority telling us what's what, that the moment craving arises, unsatisfactoriness co-arises. With these springs hopes, plans, schemes, expectations...we're just setting ourselves up for a bigger and bigger fall. But say I want something -- more food, more comfort, more Avenged Sevenfold songs, more sex, more more more whatever -- and I'm willing to strive for it and worry about it and waste my time for it. Okay. So long as it's done in a lawful (codified consensus reality of the rules of our society) and harmless (ahimsa) way, that's fine. That's good. Go for it. But be aware, at least, that it will not satisfy greed. It will not (cannot) fulfill us. And in the meantime, we have not been cultivating the skillful that would lead to welcome results now and in the future. Compassion and wisdom pay great dividends, as does mindfulness.
Thanks for watching. Like and sub if enjoyed, SunnyV2 XO ❤
The idea for this video was inspired by "TheRichest," who posted a video on a similar topic in March 2015 entitled "10 Stupid Lottery Winners." Watch that version on YouTube.com.
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We pretend we (USA) don't have royalty, but we have "stars" and a king in the White Castle
Now that our stars are settling down and aging, what will they look like in a few years?
Swift's not the only Nazi Barbie. Amatue, too
The news (spectacle) gets to be so much nowadays that there's no way to consume it except maybe in TikTok morsels. But that sort of chunkification is not good for the attention spans, focus, or dopamine addiction and serotonin levels in the mind. More sugar! It's almost as if some giant PR firm working on Fleet Street is bombarding us to keep us constantly distracted and spinning. That way no one notices real news items like Zionist Israel's atrocities, Trump's long history of inc3st and child s3x crim3s, the economy, the enrichment of the military-industrial complex under a leader who was supposed to be the peace candidate pulling us out of foreign involvements.
It's almost as if Zionists run the Deep State and therefore the country, with blackmailed Trump their witless victim. He has no power to stand up to anyone but fellow moles in the blue wing of his party, the Money Party, the duopoly that rules the swamp.
Some kids got shot in Catholic Church by possible LGBTQIA+ individual, 23, in Minneapolis, MN
Two parents accidentally kill their baby then lie about it, claiming it was kidnapped before cops figure out there was no kidnapping
Trump is covertly trying to take Greenland...
What's the most important story grabbing our attention gay demon worshipping pop rapper Lil Montero Hill Nas X getting a visit from the contract signer to make good on his deal with the devil? Maybe he should have referred to Lil Uzi Vert for advice on the wording because he's barely had a few hit songs to already be out of his gourd on drugs walking nearly naked down the streets behind Tinsel Town?
Diddy is in even BIGGER trouble? We thought Trump was ready to pardon him and his other close, personal, child molesting associates like Ghislaine Maxwell. Hulk Hogan didn't die of a heart attack from working out too much and shooting up steroids? It was a surgical disaster during an operation that killed him, medical malpractice, fourth degree negligent murder???
Did Lil Nas X make a Deal with the Devil? (Faust) Is it possible Mr. Hill (Lil Nas X) struck a bargain with a demon from some dimension and, being tricked, is now getting his card pulled early? Say he gets sent to prison through the racist testimony of some LAPD type cops in our illegal system, and the judge sentences him severely for multiple felonies? Downcast, depressed, cheated from worldwide fame, he may unalive himself in his cell as the Devil laughs like that Ozzy song that made Black Sabbath a hit: "What is this that stands before me? Figure in black which points at me?" (lyrics)
"Old Town Road" (rejected country hit)
Lil Nas X “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” explained: The music video serves as a commentary on religious views on the LGBTQ community, with a gay relationship portrayed through the famous biblical Garden of Eden story. He flips the script with a descent into hell that’s viewed not as torturous but erotic. (lyrics and tracklist | Genius)
Will he make a comeback after catching charges while intoxicated and being arrested, spending a "terrifying" four days in jail and getting traumatized? It seems like only a few years ago he was living at his sister's house, being thrown out, throwing a Hail Mary pass with a song-idea combining country and rap in his breakout hit "Old Town Road." Then came the over Satanism, Illuminati behavior, overt homosexuality, and Garden of Eden themes. Did Diddy or Beyonce's hubby Mr. Carter produce this?
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