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[Mikel @ebeenze]

@asahmed59 I know right she did a lot for the industry. Still watch it to this day. 🕊️

[Mikel @ebeenze]

🕊️ 🪽

[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.

[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.

[Mikel @ebeenze]

Beauty in black is soooo bad... Why am I watching this

[Mikel @ebeenze]

RIP D'Angelo🙏🏿 legend still play his music to this day

[Mikel @ebeenze]

@dvsn When you coming back to the UK?

[Mikel @ebeenze]

RIP 🙏🏿

[ESSENCE @Essence]

We’re heartbroken to report the passing of Malcolm-Jamal Warner at the age of 54 from an apparent drowning.

A generation grew up with Warner as Theodore “Theo” Huxtable. His portrayal helped redefine Black boyhood on screen, offering humor, vulnerability, and depth across eight seasons.

May he rest in peace.

[Mikel @ebeenze]

@StaceWhat Don't think hell ever find it.... Reading them when they randomly pop up on my tl like 😳😲👀🤦🏿‍♂️

[Mikel @ebeenze]

Take a shot every time Norman says my wife is dead in #BeautyInBlackNetflix

[Mikel @ebeenze]

finally watching the last season of cobra kai

[Mikel @ebeenze]

@holbrook99 @BIFA_film @NEIFF_Official Congratulations! 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

[Paul Holbrook @holbrook99]

BOYS LIKE YOU will be screened as part of the LIVES OF OTHERS program at this year's @bifa_film qualifying @neiff_official on November 24th!

Tickets will be on sale very soon via the North East International Film Festival website: https://t.co/fscSktWEj3 🤩

[Paul Holbrook @holbrook99]

More great news for BOYS LIKE YOU - another @BIFA_film qualifier!
We’re an official selection at the @NEIFF_Official 🤩
Congrats to the whole team!

[Mikel @ebeenze]

@StaceWhat 👌

[Halle Berry @halleberry]

game recognizes game 😉😂 Jordan says he’s “for sure” seeing #NeverLetGo now!

[dvsn ÷ @dvsn]

New Music is OTW… but that wasn’t us lol

[MASS APPEAL @MassAppeal]

Happy Birthday to Mass Appeal's very own, and the greatest to ever do it, @Nas  👑

Thanks for always keeping us inspired and proving that legends never stop evolving. Cheers to more life and more projects on the way! #Nas

[Tobi Marshall @CoededMarshall]

Happy 51st Birthday to The Greatest rapper to ever grab the Mic, The Legendary Nasir Jones 🐐

[Mikel @ebeenze]

@StaceWhat 😂😂😂

[Paul Holbrook @holbrook99]

HOLLOW has a new home over on @omeletocom Drama!

WATCH HERE: https://t.co/BnMNwXELJU

"A story of rage, revenge and redemption" - @AntBit

"Truly a stunning slice of emotional cinema" - @TheDreamCage

"Holbrook masterfully paints a bleak picture" - @FilmThreat

"Believable, engaging and poignant" - @ElizMizon

"Holbrook has delivered yet again" - @cameolaunch