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‘Eat the Rich’ Is Coming, but Celebrities Don’t Seem to Know
Too many famous folks aren’t acknowledging the struggle the rest of us are going through
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Everyone seems to want a Versuz battle between Dr. Dre and Puff, Verzuz founders Swizz Beatz and Timbaland included. Yet, in a recent conversation about the dream matchup, the two suggested that such a showdown might be too big for Instagram Live — and suggested that a pay-per-view event would be a more fitting medium for the hip-hop icons.
Personally, I haven’t purchased a pay-per-view event since my pro wrestling days (and my crushing on Shawn Michaels days), but I’ve been to plenty of fight parties and their hosts are only too happy to tell you how much the PPV ran them. It’s no wonder some party invites say “if you bring cheap booze, don’t bother coming.”
As we would later learn, Swizz and Tim intended for any proceeds from a pay-per-view event to go to charity — but in the moment, my feeds caught fire with a single underlying sentiment, and that sentiment was “we ain’t got it.”
There’s a valuable lesson in there for other wealthy celebrities, many of whom haven’t shown the same…
