Phëlix

A bunch of rants about Pop culture. Dearly beloved, follow your light or you’ll loose it. 🌻

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Y’all don’t understand the way I love this woman!!! I hope she’s healing, at peace, & knowing she’s loved! @Normani

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@chanelsgroove13 @kvlliart Cause fans are fakeee AF

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@LinkofSunshine @TayXLamar Culturally Bushwick is Puerto Rican nothing in that pic is a reflection of that

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@LinkofSunshine How you just gonna change where it’s located 😭😭😭

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@XtinaLoverr This should’ve been a B2B single Nelly’s team didn’t know what to do with it

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@TimmyFacciola_ The fact that this is the comment you decided to quote is very telling. 2 truths can exist at the same time - Mayor Adams sucked and Mayor Mamdani’s administration has exhibited numerous accounts of anti-blackness.

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@marcdeshaun_ Ciara’s music has aged so much better cause she wasn’t chasing trends for chart success

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@KensBestLyfe My Love >>> should’ve been a single instead of That’s Right fr

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

“I once lived in a Black mecca. But by the summer of 2022, my toddler son and I were often the only Black folks on the playground in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a fact that felt both alienating and surreal,” the novelist Naomi Jackson writes.

Jackson was born in Crown Heights to parents from the Caribbean — part of a tidal wave of late-20th-century West Indian and African emigration that changed the face of Black New York. “My formative years were in Flatbush, which is called ‘Little Caribbean’ even though it becomes less and less Caribbean,” she writes.

Over two decades, from 2000 to 2020, New York City lost nearly 200,000 Black folks, or about 9 percent of its Black residents. These losses have been particularly notable in historically Black strongholds like Bedford-Stuyvesant and Harlem. Data shows that in 2000, Black residents made up approximately 75 percent of Bed-Stuy’s population, and that number dropped to about 40 percent between 2019 and 2023, with the white population increasing more than tenfold.

In 2006, Jackson convinced her dad that buying property in Prospect–Lefferts Gardens was a smart idea. “At the time, I was 25 years old and scraping together a down payment on a modest studio apartment through a combination of savings and first-time-homebuyer grants. The neighborhood was already transforming; there was a new coffee shop and more white residents. Back then, the abbreviation PLG felt like a harbinger of gentrification that would protect my property value. Now, it feels more like a death knell for the childhood I remember.”

Read Jackson on how gentrification has reshaped her sense of belonging in the city: https://t.co/uqagnRiqVY

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@SomaKazima2 Could you imagine if they performed “Infatuation” together 😩🤣

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@notfacesbynoah Imagine if they did Infatuation together 😩

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@JuanMVP I was thinking the same thing

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@MarlonMckenzie Danity Kane lyrics as captions >>>

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@XtinaLoverr It’s criminal that this wasn’t a single

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@CMShahanaHanif @ConEdison My building in Bed Stuy has been without heat for a week now

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@ruslantnyc @NYCMayor @ConEdison We still don’t have heat in my building it’s been a week

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@BayRidgeBully @OsseChi @ConEdison He’s advocating for those affected, including myself. Please STFU, he’s right to call out ConEd as they should’ve been prepared for this type of situation. The severity of the storm was well known before it touched our streets.

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@CMChiOsse @OsseChi @ConEdison @nycemergencymgt @NYCMayorsOffice It’s so hard to walk outside, have y’all talked about maybe utilizing the warming buses as shuttles to circle the affected areas dropping people at the warming station?!?

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@OsseChi @NYCMayorsOffice They changed the time pushing it back yet again to 10 AM. This is a nightmare

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@OsseChi I’m grateful for the work you’re putting in to help us affected by the outage, my phone service has been out since Thursday. I can’t imagine how many other’s aren’t seeing these updates or unable to report issues/request help. Can you please bring awareness to this also?

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@OsseChi @NYCMayor Been without heat, hot water, power, cooking capabilities since Wednesday. My apartment got as low as 40 degrees. Also something that just started effecting me since Thursday, is the storm knocked out my phone service as well! Thank you so much for bringing awareness ✨💛✨