🏁Furious Styles 🏁

Let he without bench warrants cast the first stone A.H🦍

[Arslan @0xarslan]

Jeezy says he walked out of jail and lost his Adidas deal, his Belvedere deal, and his Atlantic Records job in the same week

"Farrakhan was the first call I got when I got out... He said, 'Brother Jeezy, I told you.'"

"I looked at everything I lost cuz I had partner brand partnerships Adidas, Belvedere, this that and the third. All these deals and even a job at Atlantic Records, it was all gone."

"I walked out of that jail house and I told myself, I will never again align my brand, my likeness or my purpose with somebody else's vision without having ownership in it."

"Don't take nobody's money out here trying to figure it out, because that makes you liable. And then it also makes them feel like they can control how you moving."

[#BMH365 🎶🎤 @BlackMusicHstry]

In the fall of 1993, filmmaker @Robert_Townsend launched his short-lived but brilliant variety series, “Townsend Television,” on Fox Network. Fresh off directing his legendary vocal-group film “The Five Heartbeats,” Townsend used his weekly platform to celebrate Classic Soul—and this epic "Vocal Showdown" sketch is an absolute holy grail of the series.

In a brilliant piece of meta-television, Robert Townsend pits the legendary O'Jays mic-to-mic in a three-round live vocal battle against a powerhouse trio of solo heavyweights: Howard Hewett (the iconic voice of Shalamar), Billy Valentine (from The Valentine Brothers), and Howard Johnson (from Niteflyte), all playfully nicknamed "Three the Hard Way").

Townsend intentionally brought Valentine and Johnson onto the show because they were among the actual, incredible session voices behind the movie soundtrack characters in “The Five Heartbeats!”

Trading flawless, unedited live covers of Marvin Gaye, @SmokeyRobinson, and @TheTemptations, both sides deliver a clinic in true stage presence.

This segment beautifully preserves a look at the classic O'Jays lineup: co-founders Eddie Levert and Walter Williams alongside the great Sammy Strain (formerly of Little Anthony and the Imperials). Because this was pre-taped around a transitional era for the group, it stands as a rare, archival look at one of the final television segments captured of this iconic trio together.

Before auto-tune and backing tracks took over, we had legends like Eddie Levert (@Eddie_Levert) completely commanding the stage.

[BRICK BY BRICK @aincomeinvestor]

Such a great great book man.

[🏁Furious Styles 🏁 @BugginOut_DTRT]

I know a Vegas swing when I see one

[🏁Furious Styles 🏁 @BugginOut_DTRT]

@ShitpostRock2 Why is the Chinese guy there in the first place and how did the Congo find itself in this position? That’s the real movie, not this propaganda promoting African inferiority

[dj short @_DJShort]

D'Angelo - Live At BET Headquarters [1999]

A private show D'Angelo did for employees at BET HQ in Washington DC during November of 1999. Notable for the only known live performance of 'Spanish Joint' during the Voodoo era.

details in the comments

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

Ken Griffey Jr., Frank Thomas, Ruben Sierra and Albert Belle

[🏁Furious Styles 🏁 @BugginOut_DTRT]

“Youngin’s ice grilling me, oh you not feeling me? Fine, it cost you nothing, pay me no mind.”
It was never about crime, it’s the sauce they hate so bad lol.

[Boss @_ValTown_]

Harlem, 1988.

Police surveillance footage, camera pointed at the hustler’s face but he pays them no mind.

[Sam Sherman @Sherman_FFB]

Kirk Cousins agent

[🏁Furious Styles 🏁 @BugginOut_DTRT]

@FurkanGozukara Far short of a masterclass, his statement “The US has been a moral leader for most of its history” acknowledges he knows as little about this country as she does. Both blowing hot air in separate directions lol

[College Baseball News @CollegeBSBNews]

BETHUNE COOKMAN UPSETS #24 LSU ON THE ROAD IN BATON ROUGE 🚨

[Omar Sakr @omarsakrpoet]

We’re seeing this in real time

[Chicago History ™️ @Chicago_History]

In 1941 Chicago, Five young boys posed on Easter morning in their Sunday best on the South Side, reflecting community resilience and cultural traditions amid Great Depression hardships and segregation.

#ChicagoHistory ☑️

[YNW Mel Blanc @EricTrillman_]

The nigga that didn’t wanna let Carlton in the frat nowhere to be seen

[🇿🇦TheGreatDlamini🇿🇦 @Phislash]

The whites were keeping dead bodies of Africans in Museums for decades bra, what level degeneracy and depravity is that??????

[The Princess that was Promised @RachaelEWrites]

Folks asking why don't we have this in the USA. RACISM YOU IDIOTS. IT'S FUCKING RACISM. can't have Black and Brown kids eating free/healthy, cuz our government want them so desperate & hungry that they turn to drugs and crimes, so they can then be put into the prison systems.

[WithoutHistory @WithoutHistory]

Walter Rodney, the author of the must-read book “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa”, was assassinated in 1980, at the age of 38 for his authorship in exposing the predatory corporatocracy model of Western development.

His account completely upends the mental model we have been sold, which places countries with the least resources and countries with the least morals at the top of the world economic food chain under the guise of a nonexistent mental superiority.

Rodney highlights the "scissors" effect of colonial trade, where the price of African raw materials was kept low while the price of European manufactured goods rose.

• Example (Groundnuts): He notes that in the 1930s, a farmer in French West Africa had to produce three times more groundnuts to buy the same amount of imported cloth as he did fifteen years earlier.
• The Logic: This ensured that African labor remained cheap while European industrial profits soared, creating a cycle of permanent debt and poverty.

And this intentional suppression and undervaluation African labour and resources was done through many inhumane practices detailed in yet another must read book “Confession of an economic hitman”.

The African enablers of these models are still here today. They encourage the neocolonialist to pillage Africa by enacting the agenda of the west but with a Black skin. And these subservient African leaders are often eloquent but utterly nonsensical, and they are almost all leaders of western approved “democracies” that have overstayed their maximum terms.

Peace to Walter Rodney, may his words carry us through the new African liberation.

[Sun Ra @KailSovl]

My name is Justin Hardiman I’m a photographer and filmmaker from Jackson Mississippi dedicated to documenting and highlighting MY black experience in the south.

https://t.co/OH1u84LL8n

[Jordan Patu @Jordan_Patu]

Bunch of larpers. The context surrounding this tournament forced the American players to try unpack what their cultural identity looks like beyond their black, indigenous & immigrant communities. And they came up with nothing.