Comments

You must log in or register to comment.

MultiStratz t1_j51ucqq wrote

That's gotta be more money than his music ever made him- cheers!

34

jofizzm t1_j51udjd wrote

I was January 16th 2023 days old when I realized that dude's name spelled "Florida".

45

Furimbus t1_j51yw1b wrote

82 million degrees, that’s why they call him Mister Fahrenheit

40

Lastunexpectedhero t1_j51znri wrote

The "sipping on a Celsius, while talking to reporters" is just amazing

114

RPDRNick t1_j5217lo wrote

Shawty got dough, dough, dough, dough, dough, dough.

61

Bazin_B9 t1_j5227cc wrote

Rich rapper with his own company gets bilked on a promotion deal: >$80 million dollars award.

US Army vet gets threatened and tased by bloodthirsty cops: <$4,000 dollars award.

Christ I hate this fucking country.

289

MultiStratz t1_j525f0h wrote

Replying to HurricaneDDT (#1,410,110)

But 82 million? Artists don't usually get that rich off their music alone. All the highest net worth rappers own crazy diverse portfolios. 50 cent and Jay-Z aren't banking off their music anymore, but they're still banking.

Edit: I looked it up- Flo Ridas net worth was 30 million before this suit.

19

--zaxell-- t1_j525lts wrote

That's $147,600,032 in Fahrenheit.

1,012

Fulker01 t1_j52a57r wrote

"I just want what I worked for."

Nobody "works" for $82 million dollars.

−22

IndieHamster t1_j52hw50 wrote

Replying to Bazin_B9 (#1,409,973)

While I agree in theory, this isn't the best case to use as an example. Most of the awarded money comes from 750,000 shares that the company was supposed to issue to Flo Rida. He was supposed to be issued 250,000 in 2014 when it was trading around $0.40-$0.50 a share, and then was supposed to be issued 500,000 more in 2016 when it was trading at around $2-$2.60 a share. Today it ended at $97.81/share, and hit an all time high of $115/share in January.

To me, this just looks a guy finally getting compensated for what was outlined in his contract

281

mr_potatoface t1_j52i3wn wrote

Replying to kudichangedlives (#1,410,116)

Gotta have money to make money.

Army vet should have pulled himself up by his boot straps and made himself worth 100 million first before getting tased and then he probably would have got 400 million awarded.

Pretty sure Bezos would get more than 4k if he were in the same scenario.

−12

Jeffuary t1_j52n2jd wrote

I worked with him about 6 or 7 years ago and he was a super nice dude.

87

western_red t1_j52or1y wrote

I have no understanding of this title. Must mean I'm getting old.

77

mynameisalso t1_j52u2dt wrote

I can't believe I never noticed Florida flo rida

3

Majesty1985 t1_j52ymcl wrote

Didn’t Pepsi just buy them out? Like less than six months ago?

0

PMzyox t1_j536zsd wrote

Florida doesn’t need that money

−10

AintEverLucky t1_j53a33a wrote

Anybody know if the lawsuit revealed why Celsius tried to stiff him? Did they simply think he wouldn't lawyer up and get what he had coming to him?

43

teastain t1_j53l2wz wrote

Florida should ban The Entire ISO Metric system, especially teaching it in schools.

(just kidding, jeeeeeez)

−5

kzlife76 t1_j53n9gi wrote

Take that International system of units.

1

AintEverLucky t1_j53osmu wrote

Replying to Kumbackkid (#1,413,242)

did they even provide him with the original 250,000 shares? because the numbers I've seen ITT -- an $82MM award, divided by a share price of about $98 each -- tells me that they stiffed him about all of it. not just the 500,000 bonus shares

21

anallover1220 t1_j53v0at wrote

Replying to rnd765 (#1,413,499)

Yeah unless they haven’t stepped into a club, bar, wedding, house party, or turned on a radio since 2008 I don’t believe they haven’t heard the song “Low” by Flo Rida ft. T-Pain. That is one of the most played songs for at least a 10 year period that I could think of.

8

BubbaTee t1_j53vm5z wrote

Replying to HurricaneDDT (#1,410,110)

>No way he's made or been on atleast 20 songs that have made the top 100 charts

You're over-estimating how much recording artists get paid.

I saw a story of Lisa Lopes talking about how, at the peak of TLC's popularity, they were taking home ~$50k/year each. That was despite having just released one of the best-selling albums ever at the time, CrazySexyCool, which went 12x platinum. It later came out the group only got 56¢ per album sold - at a time when CDs cost $18 each.

"Industry rule number 4080: record company people are shady." -A Tribe Called Quest

7

BubbaTee t1_j53xh8x wrote

Replying to Fulker01 (#1,410,438)

So you're basically arguing workers should never be given stock options or other ownership shares as compensation, because there's a chance those shares could one day increase in value. How very robber baron of you.

4

misogichan t1_j53xi23 wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#1,409,489)

I would blame the executives more than the lawyers. It wasn't the lawyers that broke the contract and tried to rip off their spokesman. That said, it wouldn't surprise me at all if their leadership sacked their legal team and said "the problem is fixed."

44

shavemejesus t1_j540z9q wrote

Sounds like this Celsius guy is an absolute zero.

5

Katiari t1_j546l14 wrote

When a state sues a measurement of temperature...

4

boofbeer t1_j54vd6q wrote

Replying to --zaxell-- (#1,410,184)

I had no idea that Flo Rida was a rapper and Celsius was a company suing him for breach of contract or something. I thought this was a joke about another DeSantis stunt, mandating that in-state temperatures could ONLY be cited in Fahrenheit.

Only reason I clicked, really.

9

boofbeer t1_j54vtu5 wrote

Replying to western_red (#1,411,188)

I AM old, and I thought this was a story about new DeSantis mandates. I've never heard of Flo Rida the rapper or Celsius the drink company. I thought the Florida GOP was cracking down on the "woke" behavior of using undesirable words like "centimeters" and "celsius" LOL.

6

boofbeer t1_j54wkk0 wrote

Replying to anallover1220 (#1,413,814)

I've been to a couple of weddings, mostly listen to public radio. I've seen Deadpool, so I have probably heard "Low", but it didn't make an impression --- I just found it on YouTube, and it doesn't ring any bells. Sorry. I know lots of movies (and I do watch lots of movies) include music, but unless the songs are already familiar or you take notes during the credits, associating even a memorable song with the artist(s) that produced it is not a given.

1

Art-Zuron t1_j557yu1 wrote

Replying to Katiari (#1,414,415)

Why do you think that?

Accounting for inflation from 1913, which is actually after Lord Kelvin died, but it's not a terrible approximation, we get about a 2998% inflation.

But that's just with USD.

It'd actually be more realistic to use the British pound. So, accounting for inflation from 1909, it'd be about 10,109,866,311.27 GBP. That'd actually end up at around 12,479,618,974.63 USD, about 6 times my original value.

1

JohnOfA t1_j55bteb wrote

I should share this with my elderly aunt on Facebook. Just to see her comments.

0

notasrelevant t1_j55dcb0 wrote

Replying to Bazin_B9 (#1,409,973)

In this case, there was an agreement in place for compensation, but a party was not properly compensated. The suit ended with that party receiving compensation similar to what was supposed to be received, accounting for the growth on value as well.

It's a bit more of a straightforward case as conditions for receiving said compensation were outlined in contract, with specific numbers and the value at the time and present day values are known.

The case of the army vet is not a fair compensation, but it's hard to compare to a case when a contract between 2 parties was established and agreed upon and included specific details outlining compensation.

5

mlc885 t1_j55e4g1 wrote

Replying to Fulker01 (#1,415,416)

Why would we let some shady company ignore his contract just because the amount of money is silly? I don't think we can really claim that he took advantage of them, if the agreement added up to many millions and they never paid it then they still owe it to him. Just like a company could owe me 1k or 10k or a million.

1

boofbeer t1_j55iifx wrote

Replying to ghostalker4742 (#1,416,818)

It wouldn't surprise me at this point if they declared that the only textbook that could be used in Florida schools was the Holy Bible, and My Pillow airbags were required in all new vehicles sold in the state.

2

spacepeenuts t1_j55p3zn wrote

I hope he uses some of that to get some singing lessons because I’ve seen him live and he could use a few.

0

fvb955cd t1_j55pl30 wrote

Replying to misogichan (#1,413,957)

That's it. These two are both in the class that the legal system is most designed for. Two parties with sophisticated lawyers but without so much power and money that they can literally shape the law or bleed the other dry

In those situations, if you fuck up, the best lawyer isn't saving your ass.

3

Katiari t1_j55tb8p wrote

Replying to Art-Zuron (#1,416,384)

Because the court case is from 2014.

That would be like accounting for the Earth's position in 1666 to calculate where orbital bodies are now. The measurements and laws may have been discovered in past times, but the calculations don't get pinned to those dates.

1

thejoeface t1_j55w4yz wrote

Replying to anallover1220 (#1,413,814)

I worked in a stripclub for a decade. I know the words to any of the popular songs during that time, but that doesn’t mean I know the artist or even the song’s name.

You can define it as “out of the loop,” as the music I liked wasn’t really what’s played on the radio. There’s a lot of stuff out there and it’s hard to keep track of it all, and in the end not really worth it unless it matters to you personally.

3

vox1028 t1_j55zx7e wrote

this title is insane. i thought the state of florida had won against the celsius system of temperature measurement

1

shewy92 t1_j56d7kz wrote

I didn't even know Celsius was around back in 2014

1

irkli t1_j57lzdg wrote

Dammit I thought you the article was DeSantis opposing centigrade/celcius as foreign influence, in favor of farenheit.

You realize that's possible.

2

anallover1220 t1_j586o0r wrote

Replying to thejoeface (#1,417,883)

That wasn’t the point. People acting like they have no clue who he is but a quick google search would clue people in. “Oh, it’s this guy.” I’m not saying you have to know anyone’s name. Just a trend I see on Reddit of people acting as if they are “out of the loop.” I see it as a tired and lazy comment that’s repeated in every thread.

2

GunKata187 t1_j5b09vk wrote

Does Celsius even have any real money though? Or will he take payment in magic beans?

1