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<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">As the Mega Millions jackpot increases to $1.28 billion, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/29/us/megamillions-jackpot.html">the second-biggest win in history</a>, celebs are buying lottery tickets but not without backlash.</span></p>
<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Quality Control&#8217;s<a href="https://dev.theshaderoom.com/?s=pierre+thomas&;post_type=post"> CEO</a>, <strong>Pierre &#8220;Pee&#8221; Thomas,</strong> posted a photo of his multiple lottery tickets, and people were not feeling it.</span></p>
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<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">With a </span><a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.tuko.co.ke/310844-coach-k-pierre-pee-thomas-qc-net-worth.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span data-preserver-spaces="true">rumored</span></a><span data-preserver-spaces="true"> net worth of $50 million, people couldn&#8217;t understand why the producer would be purchasing tickets to cash in on the lottery. After folks voiced their opinions, After posting a photo of lottery tickets asking &#8220;why not?&#8221; Pee responded and asked:</span></p>
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<blockquote><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">How the hell y&#8217;all mad at someone for trying to hit the mega million for a billion? </span></p></blockquote>
<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">He continued:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">If y&#8217;all don&#8217;t get the f**k on with that s**t. Ain&#8217;t nobody trying to be working every day like this.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">A few people circled back and doubled down on their stance. One person tweeted:</span></p>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Fans Drag DJ Khaled For Buying Mega Millions Ticket</strong></h2>
<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><strong>DJ Khaled</strong> also bought tickets to win the $1.28 billion bag, and people also had a few things to say to him.</span></p>
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<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Posting a video to Instagram, he stated:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">I hope you played &#8217;cause I played. It&#8217;s a billion dollars, I&#8217;m gonna at least try. You see what&#8217;s going on. I ain&#8217;t playing with this.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">A few people on Instagram wrote:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Him and P need to let us broke people have this moment.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Another person wrote underneath his post:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">They already got money but I&#8217;m a just mind my business.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">One person understood the perspectives from both sides:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Part of me feel like you can&#8217;t have too much money then the other part of me thinking about the people who really need the money.</span></p></blockquote>
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