Do Your Findings

MSc Data Science • Tech Babe • Feminist • 90s/00s RnB Enthusiast

[𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐢✰ @_timiszn]

How do I explain to people that I can just slip into my nonverbal mood and it has nothing to do with anyone.

[Ronke Lawal @ronkelawal]

What she created with the MOBOs united the Black British community in ways that many would not deem imaginable and yet she did it. She was not a talker she was a doer. She fulfilled her assignment here on earth.

May she rest in peace and rise in eternal glory.

[MOBO Awards @MOBOAwards]

It is with immeasurable sorrow that the MOBO Organisation announces the passing of its Founder and CEO, Kanya King CBE.

Kanya passed away peacefully on 3 June 2026 after a courageous and characteristically determined battle with colon cancer. She was surrounded by her family, close friends and love.

Thirty years ago, Kanya King remortgaged her home, alone, without institutional backing or industry support, to build a stage that would transform British music forever.

She was a single mother from a Kilburn council estate who was told that Black music was too niche, that there was no market and that the industry was not interested. Instead of arguing, she built. Six weeks later, the first MOBO Awards was broadcast to the nation, and nothing was ever the same again.

What Kanya created was never simply an awards ceremony. It was an act of cultural justice. MOBO did not just celebrate Black music; it legitimised it, amplified it and transformed the cultural landscape of the UK.

From Stormzy, Little Simz and RAYE to Craig David, Ms. Dynamite, Amy Winehouse, Central Cee and countless others, generations of artists have benefited from Kanya King's vision.

She built a platform that reached hundreds of millions of people around the world. She was awarded a CBE and received an Ivors Academy Honour in 2025. She never stopped. She never asked for permission. She never accepted that the word “no” was final.

When she stood on the MOBO stage in Newcastle in February 2025, just months after her diagnosis, she told the audience: “I never allowed someone to define my limits. Not in life. Not in business. And I’m certainly not going to have that happen now.”

That was Kanya King. Right to the very end.

The 2026 MOBO Awards, held during the Organisation’s landmark 30th anniversary year, will be dedicated entirely to her memory.

The world was a profoundly better place with Kanya King in it. The MOBO family is heartbroken, but endlessly grateful, proud and inspired by everything she gave to music, culture and future generations.

Rest in power, Kanya.

You built this.

All of it.

[Do Your Findings @JustCallMeAms]

Some of you are taking this pocket watching convo too far. A question was asked, an answer has been given. Move on kilode

[Ichigo Niggasake @SomaKazima2]

Whitney Houston when Brandy was already in a higher register without telling her

[Mesh🇧🇧 @rahsh33m]

Me at the beach at my grown age 😂

[Jola @Jollz]

Lmao which stupid game?

[Do Your Findings @JustCallMeAms]

Is this about Tory or Drake? And even still… 🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴

[Do Your Findings @JustCallMeAms]

My sisters mic was ONNNNN 💁🏾‍♀️❤️

[Do Your Findings @JustCallMeAms]

Because I feel like the low cut is loading…

[Taurus Groove @jiggyjayy2]

If Jay-z bring back the low cut back for Yankee stadium, Beyoncé nor Julius gonna be able keep me off that stage

[Alicia🫧 @alicialartey]

I’m so sick of how people drive on the A406, A12 & A13, you’re literally endangering the lives of everyone around you because you think it’s fun to drive way beyond the speed limit. Truly disgusting behaviour

[london ౨ৎ @londonlovesmeg]

HE COMBED HIS DAMN LOCS OUT??? 💔💔💔

[Do Your Findings @JustCallMeAms]

Hello? He combed out his locs????

[CODIne @SheaButtaBaddie]

Like do yall understand that my girl is on stage with JayZ?! The legends call her name!!!

[Do Your Findings @JustCallMeAms]

😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Goz @SanjitheSage]

The day my dad stopped to pick his secretary and he told me to go to the back, I never snitch like that for my entire life before, I told my mum the color of her lipgloss.

[Mbekezeli @MbekezeliMB]

I’m glad social media companies are incentivising us to leave their apps.
It’s as if they know I have tonnes of reading and writing to do.

[Do Your Findings @JustCallMeAms]

@ebsthegreatest When I started thinking I needed to keep a list of incidents because I couldn’t recall on the spot, I knew it had gone too far. Smh

[Do Your Findings @JustCallMeAms]

@EzigboAda I know

[Do Your Findings @JustCallMeAms]

I’m watching this episode and I’m thinking maybe my man truly isn’t Nigerian 🤔

[ISaidWhatISaidPod @ISWISPodcast]

Romance is so back ❤️ #SoluchiandEliForever

[Do Your Findings @JustCallMeAms]

@Unkle_K Thank you! Everything is so convenient