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[Null @Vhoyde]

Jay Z fans existed before social media. Social media is irrelevant to his career.

[BabyThug @700plusfive]

Complaining about jay-z doing an interview with GQ and not drink champs or joe Budden (girl 🙄) and completely missing the fact that he gave that interview to a YOUNG BLACK SENIOR editor at GQ and A BLACK PHOTOGRAPHER.

Yall miss the point every single fucking time.

[J @NJsFinest4Ever]

50 Cent has spend so many years dissing Hov that he has some of yall thinking that they’re equals…or even CLOSE to equal, which is just…fascinating.

[DuffJuice @DuffJuice30]

In my brain, that’s always been where 50’s disdain for Jay came from. He wanted to be Jay so badly but never really got there, despite being extremely successful himself.

He’s just never hit that Jay status with his music, his investments, his artists, his label etc etc.

50 is rich. Jay is wealthy. And i think that has bothered him for years.

[𝑺-𝒊𝒛𝒛𝑯, Ö-𝒊𝒛𝒛𝑾 @ShawnCarterShow]

The Story of OJ was the most important rap song of the last 10 years.

[Akiresatmidnight The OG @AkiresHenri]

Please listen to Jay z music. I promise you you will know His Granny is Ms Hattie White, His Mama is Gloria, His brother is Eric and his sisters are Mickey and Annie. You can also tell when he fell in love with Bey

[Pablo @MoruoKing]

"Watanzania wameniamini kwa miaka 24 niliyohudumu kama rais, lakini nina hakika nimefanya makosa mengi, kwa kujua au kwa kushauriwa vibaya, na kwa hilo, naomba msamaha." - Julius Kambarage Nyerere

[HOVETTE JAŸZ30💕| Carter Cartel 💎 @Hovette4L]

Dear @apple

Please create or allow me to create a R.O.C diamond hand gesture emoji similar to these “👍🏾👌🏾🫶🏾🤝🏾” with the skin tones changes and everything. I already have it done I just need you to make it official.

Sincerely,
A Jay Z fan

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

Many are inboxing me asking to send money to me. I AM NOT TAKING MONEY. Please send it directly to the school’s bank account:

Chizeza Secondary School
Account Number: 4566-00626518-405
ZB Bank, Mount Darwin, Zimbabwe

PLEASE RETWEET for others to see. That is how we can help others by having empathy, just a free RETWEET to help these poor kids!

[Daniel Mlabwa @mlabwa]

Serengeti a few days back and now Masai Mara, tourists getting out of their cars and blocking the wildebeest migration. We are reconditioning the animals then several years down the line tutaanza kusema shida ni climate change 🤦🏾‍♂️

[Tausi Likokola @tausilikokola]

Ahem, why should Tanzanians-whether inside the country or abroad-bother with elections when the system itself remains fundamentally unfair? Without reforms, accountability, and a true commitment to transparency, elections risk becoming nothing more than an exercise in futility rather than a genuine democratic process.

For those of us in the diaspora, the frustration runs deep. We have repeatedly raised our concerns with the Tanzanian government as well as with the governments of our adopted countries. Personally, I have taken these issues directly to my local Senate representatives. Also, for over two decades, I have also appealed to Tanzanian embassies about denying dual citizenship to diaspora-but that remains another unaddressed matter. Even for those who still hold Tanzanian citizenship abroad, participation feels impossible-no one I know here is willing to physically fly back home to vote…especially not this time around. It is unrealistic, costly, and exclusionary. And beyond the financial burden, it is about the principle: why should anyone invest resources in a system that continuously silences the very voices it claims to represent?

Meanwhile, within Tanzania, the realities are stark:
*Main opposition leader remain imprisoned.
*Citizens, activists, and journalists face arrests, intimidation, and torture for daring to speak truth to power.
*Freedom of worship is selectively restricted.
*The press is tightly controlled and censored.
*Parliamentary seats are treated as family inheritances by the political elite.

This is not democracy-it is controlled power disguised as democratic process. Elections without reforms are little more than a rubber stamp, designed to legitimize predetermined outcomes.

Some of us in the diaspora have engaged diplomatically, urging the Tanzanian government to hear its people, address concerns, and implement reforms. Yet those calls continue to be ignored. So how can anyone justify encouraging citizens to participate in a process that is visibly biased, undemocratic, and hostile to fundamental rights? The painful truth is this: until there is genuine reform, accountability, and respect for human rights, participating in such elections only serves to validate the very system that oppresses its people. Leaders are entrusted to serve the people for the common good-not to repeatedly ignore them.

[The Citizen Tanzania @TheCitizenTz]

DIASPORA IN FOCUS: The unadulterated fact is, if you are a Tanzanian living outside its borders, chances are, you will not vote, unless you take a flight back home armed with your voter’s card.

That is if you didn’t change your citizenship. Such a scenario is costly and not many are willing to fly back home to cast a vote.

The constitution of Tanzania doesn’t explicitly ban Tanzanians living abroad from voting, it just doesn’t address it.

https://t.co/w6EguMhVZD

[The Citizen Tanzania @TheCitizenTz]

HARUTA: JAPANESE MUSICIAN SPREADING PEACE MESSAGE AND CONNECTING CULTURES

You can hear Haruta singing a catchy hook in the song Daladala that just won three East African awards, the song featuring Lyimo a young and upcoming Tanzanian artist has truly resonated with the young generation.

https://t.co/aT1gtm4UOA

[storytellingafrican 🌍 @anganile]

@AngellahKairuki Congrats 👏🏿 Mheshimiwa.

[Angellah Kairuki @AngellahKairuki]

Nawashukuru Wajumbe wa Mkutano Mkuu wa CCM Jimbo la Kibamba kwa kunipigia kura za ushindi. Nawashukuru wagombea wenzangu kwa kushiriki na kumaliza zoezi la uchaguzi kwa amani. Sote tumeshinda. Chama kimeshinda.

[Pablo @MoruoKing]

Usiponisikiliza utanielewa vipiii?
Kuvaa napendeza huamini nina dhiki, tukicheka wanajua tupo fiti, huko nilipotoka balaa tu mkosi nalia na wanga kumbe ndugu ndio wanafikii/ kama hadithi za sungura na fisi!/ hata hii safari imekuwa ndefu sifiki/

[Nia Long @NiaLong]

Sweet summer 2025 is coming to an end. Muah!!!

[The Citizen Tanzania @TheCitizenTz]

In the heat of June 1994, as crowds gathered in Kigoma Urban for one of Tanzania’s first multiparty parliamentary by-elections, a quiet political revolution was unfolding.

At the heart of it stood Dr Amani Walid Kabourou, a defiant academic-turned-politician who would go on to challenge the country’s most powerful institutions in court, win, and ultimately reshape the rules of Tanzanian politics.

https://t.co/EtW2FF0zqg

[WUNNA @1GunnaGunna]

https://t.co/P35lX1oWH5