DJ Khaled may be a multi-millionaire with a reported $75 million net worth but that isn’t stopping him from playing the lottery.
The DJ/record producer took to Instagram on Thursday (July 28) to share a video of himself holding a ton of tickets for the upcoming Mega Millions lottery, which has an estimated grand prize of $1.02 billion. No winning tickets were sold for Tuesday’s (July 26) drawing with a $830 million jackpot, so the prize money is rolling over to Friday (July 29).
“I hope you played ’cause I played,” DJ Khaled said. “It’s a billion dollars, I’ma at least try. Mega Millions, you see what’s going on. I ain’t playing with this. I hope you played ’cause I did. They ain’t believe in us, God did.”
He wrote in the caption, “I got mine did you get yours are you focused I AM! #GODDID !”
Quality Control Music co-founder Pierre “P” Thomas also entered the lottery and took to Twitter to respond to those who had a problem with him buying a bunch of tickets.
“How the hell y’all mad at someone for trying to hit the mega million for a billion?” he wrote. “If y’all don’t get the fuck on with that shit. Ain’t nobody trying to be working every day like this.”
DJ Khaled may be in a healthy financial position now, but that wasn’t always the case. During a 2016 interview with Complex, he talked about witnessing his family’s struggles and the days he used to sleep in his car.
“God has blessed me to see the luxury side of things,” he said at the time. “I’ve seen my family work so hard and come up, and I’ve seen it all get taken away. I had to man up, and part of that was sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month, and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25–$35 hotels. I just never panicked. I stayed focused and I never surrendered. Now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire family, as well as myself, my woman, and my team that I consider family.”
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He continued, “We all fall. The only difference is that I get up. The message I’m trying to say is that I’m tough because of life experience. I can’t make this up. This is something I’m talking about from my life. You know what? I’m sure we could all relate because we’ve all got life. Some people ain’t got it. When you wake up and you complain and you’re stressed out—you’ve ever seen them graveyards? We not there. We blessed, man. We got life.”
Your fat ass don’t need to win shit. The only thing you’d do if you did win is buy more Hawaiian Shirts and more food. How bout you do something good and donate that money to charities that fight homelessness or cancer.
Shut the fuck up how you know he’s not going to do just that. If be the weak ass internet trolls for me . You so worried about his weight and appearance that you don’t even know what’s going on behind the scenes. How the fuck you know what that man is going to do with it. Fuck you thought. Shit be beyond me . Fucking lame. Buy a damn ticket yourself
So emotional. Must be that time of the month for you I guess. I actually donate to the Volunteers Of America program and the Disabled American Veterans regularly to help combat homeless. I’ve never seen him donate to charities unless it was for publicity or tax right off purposes. ( Hurricane Harvey, Nipsey Hussle’s Family, COVID-19 Relief) but the majority of the money went in his pocket though and the small percentage went to the charity. Look it up before you blast me due to being so angry. He’s even started a charity for his own son’s birthday party. (A Multimillionaire doesn’t need to do this ever) Oh and your comment about what’s going on behind the scenes is inaccurate because he posts absolutely everything on social media from his weight loss journey to his music career, car collection, to his family. If celebrities don’t want to be judged and made fun of them why put yourself out there on blast and have your information readily available for people to access in the first place. Also don’t brag about everything you like your the most awesome person who is walking god’s green earth. So you can miss me with your whiny train of thought. Life is tough.
Guess you just wasn’t to troll anyone that had a comment to how he should use his money at the end of the day he can use it for anything he wants he’s earned it. Stop trolling all his posts because you think his money should go elsewhere it’s not your decision. Worry bout your own life and not others because honestly you sound hella jealous.
If he wins we will never hear the end of it.
What greed looks like lmao
No this is what Gluttony looks like
Naw, that’s Lizzo for sure.
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I’d already bought my ticket since yesterday… Surely I’ll do a lot of good with the winnings like help combat homelessness and hunger, especially over in California and other low class regions not only here in America but in other countries as well… I can’t possibly forget about Haiti, 2 times for DJ. Khalid tho I ain’t mad at you bro gwan bless up yourself in order to become a blessing unto others seen aso deh ting go boom!
Why when you already a millionaire would you want to buy tickets instead of letting someone that works hard for a living that struggles every day to feed their families to buy gas for work maybe all y’all millionaires or to help out some of the hard-working people especially if you voted for Biden see what he done to America