I'm the Riddim Writer 💫

Sometimes writing. Sometimes riding. Always on the riddim as a decolonial badgyal. There's bliss in the tension just before the bass drops...🔊

[I'm the Riddim Writer 💫 @IsisSemajHall]

I am poem.
I am song.
I am a loaded sentence and a lyrical paragraph.
I am well-placed punctuation, necessary pauses, and the open space to breathe.

I am thought manifested and provoked.
I am real and fiction.
I am voice in rhythm.

Ask me if I write and the answer is yes.

[I'm the Riddim Writer 💫 @IsisSemajHall]

@djmillerJA Thanks for an excellent show tonight. The panelists were truly helpful. 👏 👏 👏

[I'm the Riddim Writer 💫 @IsisSemajHall]

So much happening here in Jamaica 😕 following Hurricane Melissa. Offering my field notes via a blogpost. https://t.co/XkG1qE6Ldd

[I'm the Riddim Writer 💫 @IsisSemajHall]

I wish somebody coulda told me that book writing is such a reflexive and inside-outing process. (These dub echoes are REAL!) As an outlet to tease out the more elusive bits, I’m back to blogging. Have a read ➡️ it’s not the soil – "write pon di riddim" https://t.co/jw4Tco5VEG

[I'm the Riddim Writer 💫 @IsisSemajHall]

Pythagoras would have to turn ‘round, ben’ up, and curve to get anywhere in Kingston in any reasonable amount of time. This traffic is not normal.

[I'm the Riddim Writer 💫 @IsisSemajHall]

@jahknobrent Weekly, methinks. No binging this. Sweet sweet patience.

[I'm the Riddim Writer 💫 @IsisSemajHall]

The haunting by the dead & the living, the exploitation of downtown girls by uptown men & downpressed mothers, the rebel joy of gully queens & the horror of anti-trans violence, the open secrets & bold denials, the pleasure & the sexism. Nuff tings! Ep 1 was 👌🏾. #GetMillieBlack

[I'm the Riddim Writer 💫 @IsisSemajHall]

My ancestors sent me.

Big up @kendricklamar 🖤

[I'm the Riddim Writer 💫 @IsisSemajHall]

@oblessa Janet with the Meghan Markle delusion had me rolling !! Also, I want more Hit Girl! Episode 2, hurry up!

[Liz Harvey @_lizharvey]

Maybe im stupid (im not) but there is literally not a single thing id need chatgpt for??????????? like does it do the dishes?

[Claire Dunphy @cee_suella]

So we just never found Jasmine Dean huh?

[I'm the Riddim Writer 💫 @IsisSemajHall]

@kwissoker I was quite interested to learn about your days in radio!

[I'm the Riddim Writer 💫 @IsisSemajHall]

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[Nationwide90FM @NationwideRadio]

The Independent Commission of Investigation, INDECOM, is expressing fears that the country is on track to see the most people killed by the security forces in more than a decade.

https://t.co/A5Xn6sfCrP

[I'm the Riddim Writer 💫 @IsisSemajHall]

@yashikagraham Hi! Is the launch at UWI? Also, WhatsApp me 😊

[I'm the Riddim Writer 💫 @IsisSemajHall]

Looking forward to reading the debut collection from @yashikagraham — a truly talented poet!

[Yashika Graham @yashikagraham]

Blouse & Skirt!! Thank you @bluebanyanbooks & my many teachers and supporters on this journey! Nothing like holding my debut poetry collection for the first time, knowing what it has taken from & given to me, knowing what a gift, what a love letter this is to me right now.

[I'm the Riddim Writer 💫 @IsisSemajHall]

Questioning is not proof of distrust; it’s proof of critical thinking.

[I'm the Riddim Writer 💫 @IsisSemajHall]

Not sure what all is in retrograde, but all kinds of wires have been crossed lately. I think things are finally starting to untangle…

[I'm the Riddim Writer 💫 @IsisSemajHall]

@eddiestats @SchomburgCenter @thesupercat101 what's this you say?

[XXL Magazine @XXL]

Woman makes a parody of Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" about being a mother. 🙌😅
https://t.co/qISY6kHZFE

[Black Perspectives @BlkPerspectives]

🚨Submissions are now open for #AAIHS2025!

👉🏽AAIHS encourages conference participants to reflect on how histories of African and African-descended peoples from slavery to the present shape our present and futures.

https://t.co/ny7jwdFowA

[Cheo Hodari Coker @cheo_coker]

When some of the execs asked me why I made Luke Cage a bookworm, this was why. The majority of brothers I've known who have spent time inside, and aren't recidivist, come out bookworms. That's why Pop was a fan of Donald Goines, where Luke liked edgy Detective fiction (Mosley, Pelecanos, Price) re: Episode 102.