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[Special EDh @2saviorself]

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[Special EDh @2saviorself]

@SVG__Collection 30 really??!?I feel old but still listening to this album.

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

“Stakes Is High” by De La Soul was released 30 years ago today.

[Special EDh @2saviorself]

@lecaptainnemo It was written!!!

[Special EDh @2saviorself]

@fw_lennox1 Savages!!!

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

A Tribe Called Quest live with “Oh My God”

[444(The Blueprint) @francisguy444]

@Kick_Champ Please get out of these comments acting appalled. The people who you vote for are eating babies and raping them and you mfs did not and do not care.

I ain’t tryna hear this fake ass outrage for a whore

[Grown Up Rap @GrownUpRap]

Rap History: The Doppelgangaz (@TheDoppelgangaz) - ‘AAAAGGGHH’, released May 11, 2018.

[Bite-Sized Nostalgia @landofthe80s]

Who else remembers this? Such a vivid memory.

[🇵🇸Mr. lil harlow & the big steppers⛷️ @Nore_MCC]

Album of the day 💽

💿 Daily Operations

👤 Gang Starr

🎵 Take It Personal

[Grown Up Rap @GrownUpRap]

Rap History: Count Bass D (@CountBassD) - ‘Dwight Spitz’, released April 30, 2002.

[Sahel Revolutionary Soldier @cecild84]

Steve Biko never fired a gun. Never led an army—never held political office.

But apartheid South Africa feared him more than armed rebels.

Why?

Because Biko understood something revolutionary: the most dangerous weapon the oppressor has isn't bullets or laws. It's the mind of the oppressed.

He called it psychological colonization. The moment you accept inferiority, you've already lost. The moment you believe the system is too big to challenge, you've already surrendered. The moment you internalize shame about your identity, you've become your own jailer.

Biko founded the Black Consciousness Movement to break that mental prison. He didn't just want Black South Africans to resist apartheid. He wanted them to unlearn the lies they'd been taught about themselves.

"Black is beautiful" wasn't a slogan. It was deprogramming.

The apartheid regime couldn't allow it. In 1977, Biko was detained. Tortured. Beaten so badly his brain hemorrhaged. Police claimed he went on a hunger strike. Autopsy results told a different story: blunt force trauma to the head.

He died naked and shackled on a prison floor at 30 years old.

But his words survived. And they still cut deep today.

Because mental colonization didn't end with apartheid, it shows up every time people accept inequality as normal. Every time they police their own freedom. Every time they believe the oppressor's narrative about who they are.

Steve Biko's revolution wasn't about borders. It was about consciousness.

And that's exactly why they killed him.

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Reference: I Write What I Like by Steve Biko (1978); Truth and Reconciliation Commission findings on Biko's death (1997).

[Cee Gee Incorporated @ceegee520]

11 Years of The Devil's Reject!!! This was the first solo project I've copped and supported from @WHOISCONWAY back in 2015!!!

[Sage Francis @SageFrancis]

One of the conditions of playing Denmark and staying in a fancy hotel is that you have to post a water commercial for them. What you lose in exchange rate, you make up for in water bottle expenses.
Tonight I play Vega in Copenhagen with @atmosphere. Stay hydrated, my friends.

[♪♪🎧ྀི ⋆.ೃ࿔🌸*:･♪♪ MetalFlowerz ♪♪⋆.ೃ࿔🌸*:･🎧ྀི♪♪ @WALASIA]

THE LEGEND DANA DANE

we're not worthy!

[Tobi Marshall @CoededMarshall]

The Legendary Guru

[Mark Farina @djmarkfarina]

Sir Mix-a-Lot and crew at Dick's, Seattle, 1989. Photo by Charles Peterson.

[Grown Up Rap @GrownUpRap]

Rap History: Beastie Boys (@beastieboys) - ‘Check Your Head’, released April 21, 1992.

[DJ Premier @REALDJPREMIER]

10 Years of one of the biggest losses of our time on earth...
PRINCE ROGERS NELSON💜🕊️