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a dream and a fantasy ✨ #bamastatealum

[chan💋 @brenaej_]

it ain’t NONE GREATER for no reason🐘🔺

[L E S E D I @_Hybreed_]

So tomorrow is Monday again? WE CAN’T KEEP LIVING LIKE THIS!

[Old Helen Is Gone! @ItsMicahB]

Can we talk about the way Jill Scott flipped, “The Way” on her Tiny Desk. This arrangement made an already perfect song even more perfect. And those BGVs go crazy. Give this queen her 10s.

[g. @GeauxGabrielle]

My mother was 18 when Black women were able to vote openly. She was 23 when Roe v. Wade passed. She was 24 when women were allowed bank accounts in their own names.

I was 29 when I lost my right to an abortion. I am 33 and on the verge of losing my right to vote.

A pox on every Trump supporter. Hell ain’t hot enough for you.

[Eziokwu @Iameziokwu]

Streaming has made music feel cheap because it’s everywhere. Unlimited access changes how people treat things. When you can get anything at any time with no effort, you won’t attach much value to it. It's just reality.

So if J. Cole is going city to city selling CDs for $1 in person, that’s a calculated move. There’s a direct exchange happening. You’re not just pressing play and scrolling away. You’re standing there. You’re buying it from him. You’re leaving with something physical.

He’s not fighting streaming. He understands the system. He’s just not depending on only one channel to reach people. Relying on a single pipeline is careless.

And the move itself becomes attention. People post it. Platforms circulate it. The offline action still runs through the online machine.

Nothing emotional about it. It’s strategy.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.”

— John Waters

[chan💋 @brenaej_]

@yoncescowgirl AGREED!

[🅝︀︀e̶o͎ρꫀт︎ @Jazsaraelove]

Y’all are hyper focused on who you need to cut off every year. Do y’all ever reflect on who you need to get closer to? Invest more time into? Do y’all ever stop & question who deserves more of you?

[Kads @kadeen__]

Cause some millennials and GenZs are in a selfish era. They want a village but they aren’t villagers. Everything is about protecting peace and setting boundaries and a lot of times, these concepts aren’t being applied correctly to the scenarios

[𝐒𝐀𝐅.🝮 @italybutoncrack]

Wrote all my uni essays without chatgpt, and that was two yrs ago in the early 2020’s. It’s not hard. But you guys are too busy submitting to a technology that is designed to take away your ability to use your brains, and can only feel better about it by mocking the ppl who didn’t.

[Vonn @itsthewealth4me]

I recently started hosting house parties and I’m here to say people really have to practice more gratefulness for those of us who are trying to keep socializing and hosting alive

Also please be respectful in someone’s house, there’s a reason people are hesitant to host

[𝖗𝖔𝖉𝖎𝖆𝖓 𝖉𝖚𝖗𝖔𝖘 @jackalsgaze]

I know people are only familiar with one or two songs but when I tell you this album has ZERO SKIPS. Her harmonies are wild. Lowkey a 2000s R&B bible.

[Shadeed Q. Eleazer ⌚ | Licensing & IP Consultant @mrshadeed]

@Omowale99949437 This was the death of local radio where each region had its own flavor and regional sound.
Local radio shows playing songs you never heard before used to be one of the best parts about travelling out of state.

[Joshua Minsoo Kim @misterminsoo]

Marvin Gaye’s I Want You is so crazy… total drifter of an album, everything so hazy, the vox mixed low and rarely the focal point. Always shocking to hear it b/c what it does is so rare. Feels like the memory of a party, every fizzy emotion swirling endlessly. Real ambient music

[KB @kbyrd2_]

Albums stick when you actually give them a chance. Yall listen to an album one time, skipping though it, & decide it’s trash. Music has to be sat with.

Also. Some of yall won’t grow with artists. Your brain goes to “is this better than ___?” before you even digest the music.

[the Virgo that Leon can't even explain @hbfromkc_]

yes. she knew the 6-3 vote would fuck us, so she sent it back down to the lower courts to decide.

AND she's the one who revealed that the contingency SNAP funds are gone. $5 billion has vanished due to the Executive Branch.

they stole from the poor and she told us.

[Rob @still713]

9 Nominations for Kendrick
6 Nominations for Leon Thomas
6 Nominations for Tyler, The Creator
5 Nominations for Clipse
5 Nominations for SZA
5 Nominations for Doechii
3 Nominations for Durand Bernarr
3 Nominations for GloRilla
3 Nominations for Shaboozey
2 Nominations for KAYTRANADA
2 Nominations for Kehlani
2 Nominations for Summer Walker
2 Nominations for Chris Brown
2 Nominations for Bryson Tiller
2 Nominations for Ledisi
2 Nominations for Terrace Martin
2 Nominations for Kenyon Dixon
2 Nominations for JID

[‏ً @BALUCIAGA]

saw a quote that said, “anger is the part of you that loves you the most. it shows up when you're being mistreated, ignored or disrespected. it's a signal - calling you to step away from what's harming you.
whether it's a room, a job, a relationship or an old version of yourself, anger let's you know when it's time to walk away. if you learn to listen to it, to trust it and make it your ally, it won’t need to shout so loudly."

[mani @ImaniShante]

On a serious note I’m very granny coded in the sense that I take many things as a sign. Subtle or blatant I am #remembering