He should have stayed with Serena Williams. Or at least impregnated her.The child support checks would still be rolling in!

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Amen

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only black people need to understand finances? stfu smh

This is so true, this could have happened to anyone in any field of work, this wasn't about Hollywood doing him wrong, it was more about him not understanding finance!

@silvercat6425, Yes, you are absolutely correct! How many times have we heard this same sad story from many celebrities, musicians, athletes, etc. They need good lawyers, accountants, trusted financial advisors, and solid mentors. It seems they don't understand as independent contractors, they must protect their assets and set up multiple streams of income and budget, to keep money flowing during the lean times. Their jobs are based on contracts, gigs, projects, movies, etc., with no long-term guarantees! Not judging, just an observation. I love their perseverance to keep their family together!

Truly. You don't get to spend frivolous, lack any form of planning, then act like it's on God to bail you out. If someone knocking on your door giving you 5 minutes to vacate, you were fully warned repeatedly well before hand. Financial training it not, he was old enough to understand and know the very rudimentary basics.

If he had a baby with Serena Williams, the child support checks would still be rolling in.

Given praise and credit to a manmade image/icon. Give ThAnkhs, to the Ancestors, for their guidance.

Give RECOGNITION and PRAISE to SHANICE !!! She sang "Saving Forever For You" and this shows that she's HONEST as well as MEANT EVERY WORD !!! Everyone on earth is searching for someone who would do what she did. " Can You Stand The Rain" by New Edition is the Idea...

Save your money and be smart with it…

@@kwasiaking1989finally a smart person

Look at all the people under you who hate God smh.

I always thought the same about the about the guys in the NFL/NBA.

I hear u, sometimes at times we just don’t have all the answers but u if u keep living hopefully u keep learning and it look Flex and Shanice learned very well as we all should 👌

Dave Chapelle did just this.

The better option is to build it, given that they have cash.

Lack of financial literacy and foresight

They're a gorgeous couple and that's true love.

Right! I’ve loved them since the 2000s! So old school, hard to find that kind of love.

@@FCLaney You'll find perfect love with the right person at the best time 👍🏾💯

Ameen , yay the lord make it happen for you and all of us black men out here because it’s a mess out here now 🤣

They're nothing is not the same as your nothing

So you want the Lord to send you a work mule and a woman to use and she must accept you at nothing when the Bible says you are an infidel The audacity of you bringing the good Lord in your mess

This is what you got out of that? @@meganakinsanya4702

Not in this lifetime. These females out here looking for a bag 😂. A big purse with some money in it 😂

A lot of people who’ve put this manmade myth first, are suffering with impoverishment. Stop spreading this Eurocentric nonsense. How about learning to seek guidance and communing with the Ancestors, and accepting their guidance.

Mmmkay 🙄

….Last of black queens settling for struggle bandits that cant support themselves let alone their family‼️there, I fixed it for u! He mismanaged his funds and all u took from it was SHE is the last of a dying breed? Bunch of BETAs😒

Stop

Ignorant

Eh…. he ain’t lying… she’s rare

Omg it’s that dumb narrative again. Turn to your god to get rid of that nasty hate you have on you

Him playing Michael Jackson killed his career lol

Nah. He was replaced by the younger more popular Nick Canon. In the entertainment industry, as your buzz fades, you are replaced with a fresher version of your 'persona'

@@Konstant He's right.. Almost everyone in the Industry are Christians and believe in god and still do the most dirt.. So. god has nothing to do with..

@@Roadrunner0077hated dat lmao

Because she was going off to college in LA that’s why they changed I wish they would’ve continued with her going to university of Maryland that way Spirit and Dwayne would still be a character

@@JabrenHarris98 right! That would’ve been much better

Sicilly said when The CW bought out UPN they wanted to go into a different direction to cater to the “Other Audience”

I agree. It was so much h funnier early on.

@@DreThaOnedaTV85 ohhh! That makes sense hence adding the white and Asian character as well as Ray J a celebrity.

I just said the exact same thing.

I hope everyone is watching it and can learn from it.

@@nadiamombrun2340 - you better believe it.

When u factor in taxes agency fees management fees and pr fees that 25k 8s cut by 65 percent smh Cathay’s brutal

And he was making that back in the early 2000s to 😮‍💨

And Michael Jackson movie 😂

​@@Roadrunner0077 😂😂

Great advice!

Black comedies educate this white woman

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It starts at home

@preciousjacob6108 100% agree. Unfortunately in our culture it's not something taught initially, when our parents never made real money. Usually we have to learn through error or pay someone to show us.

I cant believe how financially obtuse you people are. He made $25,000 BEFORE TAXES & other expenses. He didn't take home $25,000. Go sit down

​@@sobrietywig2970 LOL exactly

Loved this comment...❤ I always thought as I was growing up trying to build a career "if only I was making more money things would be different.".. But it wasn't as simple as that. The higher up the socio economic ladder I climbed the more pressures around to spend money, buy nicer things, help out family, etc Basically do the things I wasn't able to do when I didn't have the money to.... It's really easy to judge ex pro athletes or entertainers from a distance for going broke since they made a ton of money(multi millions) but the reality is really different... Unless you're extremely disciplined and resolute in your spending ways, you'll end up behind the curve..

Exactly

It is literally the American way, they teach all of us to live that way

Right. Why would you spend 25k and not save atleast some of it?

@@sixteen.candles.4644 he was not smart at all. Trying to keep up with the joneses

I guarantee neither of you 2 critical trolls have over $5000 in liquid assets. Go sit down 😂😂😂

​@@sobrietywig2970kma

Yea they’re too prideful to get a regular job. It’s about pride and not living below his means. 25k a week he should’ve been great after the cancellation.

True ive also noticed most creatives refuse to do anything outside of whatever their passionate about. To the point of people being in their late 30s still chasing the dream, nothing to their name, still using all they have to drop sound cloud mixtapes ...determined to "make it" ITS WIILD so imagine those who got a taste of "making it". Practicallity and realism are soooooo important

Scared or pride? Ego. Someone said they were at an airport with him and he was losing his ish about having to fly coach.

@@LisePlansandJournals im not sure about him but that's probably it too, either that or they're embarrassed.

You have NO idea what you're talking about. Foh with that plantation logic 😂😂😂

That right there. He should've been acting for and in Tyler Perry's movies and shows. Would've fit right in.

Must not have been in his contract, he was easily written out of the show and he was an EP. But his title was only for credit, he had no executive power apparently and those residual checks are laughable! You can literally get anywhere from a $20 to $200 to $2000 a month but that depends on how many channels are running the show and how often their showing it, plus streaming numbers aren’t counted as direct views or whole numbers. They see little if any of that side. Only people who have equity in their show still see money from it, they get payed everytime a channel rents the playing rights for the show and for the monthly numbers they accumulate. Actors aren’t so lucky. Imagine one network at a time running the show or even two! They’ll be lucky to make $200.

@@FCLaney Thank you so much for that breakdown. I had no idea, although I'd heard bits and pieces during the writer's strike.

Very few syndicated shows. Mostly everything is streaming now and actors and writers are getting paid pennies for those streams, literally getting checks with just cents. This was one of the major issues that actors and writers were striking about.

@@Indigogirl523 it comes on DABL everyday, they should be getting something out of that. Hollywood's a clusterfuck, I do get that.