NEW YORK CITY, YOU LISTEN TO ME.
IF YOUR NEAR A CONVENIENCE STORE RIGHT NOW, ANY KIND OF 24 HOUR STORE, GO INTO THE STORE RIGHT NOW, AND PUT YOUR HAND IN THE CASH REGISTER FOR NO REASON. THEIR MONEY IS YOUR MONEY, AS OF RIGHT NOW.
This is what the DMV underground sounded like over 10 years ago 💽
Artists like Mike of Doom, Rezt & Iceberg Jettson were pushing the 30Whop movement and creating a sound that felt completely unique to the area
I was lucky enough to witness some of it firsthand 🧵
Steve Lacy and Syd's upcoming albums will drop on the same day.
"Syd album and my album dropping July 17. We eating so fuggin good." —Steve Lacy via IG story
My guess: at 83, they gave his family a gang of money (they throw tens of millions left&right) he wanted the income stream4them& feels like "AI" will fall on its face anyway, so he doesnt give a fuck
If that's not the case, extrafuck him. Separately, go see I Love Boosters today
A judge ordered the removal of Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center, ruling that it cannot be renamed without an act of Congress https://t.co/oaGhRCPAwo
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias.
He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.
https://t.co/ywkwOgjVab
Looks like I Love Boosters will be holding onto 1300 screens this weekend, so we can do some damage!
These are the best performing screens for us, so let's make it happen.
If u HAVENT seen I Love Boosters, we need u now! If u HAVE seen I Love Boosters- we need u again!
“I’ll be 10 min late sorry!!!”
-ashamed
-fragile
-unreliable
“A thousand apologies. The relentless slog of time has overtaken my faculties.”
-powerful
-commanding
-honest
Jazz legend Sonny Rollins, the "Saxophone Colossus" known for his improvisation, artistic exploration and tone, died Monday at the age of 95.
@JeffreyBrown looks back at his life and legacy.
New research: we have studied the wealth of the 200 Californian billionaires and what they effectively pay in tax.
From Mark Zuckerberg (Meta) to Sergei Brin and Larry Page (Alphabet), the results are edifying. 🧵
https://t.co/lW5UaGhYHY
I also MAKE movies like my life depends on it.
On an indie promo budget on Memorial Day Weekend in competition w 10 other films,
& w 50%-250% less screens & WAY less showtimes than everyone that made more-
we made almost $5M.
We're not done
I Love Boosters- in theaters now!
In case you missed it, here's something we worked on with Panavision
to show you how we got the BIG, BOLD COLOR of I Love Boosters
And why you MUST see it in theaters
In a big win for Democrats, a federal court blocked an Alabama map that would have eliminated a Black-majority congressional seat https://t.co/fOyQMCPGMA
Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly.
https://t.co/xUhZvtpwah
NPR Tiny Desk is paying homage to BET for Black Music Month in June:
Upcoming Tiny Desks:
- GENA with Liv.e and Kareem Riggins
- Shaboozey
- Joe
- Arya Starr
- The Paradox
- Eve
- Fred Hammond
- Bow Wow
- Floetry
Boots Riley believes his new movie, ‘I Love Boosters,’ in theaters today, is his best work yet.
Each of his previous projects, ‘Sorry to Bother You’ and ‘I'm a Virgo,’ chronicles a character’s awakening to their exploitation by powerful global forces — and the freedom they find through collective struggle. ‘I Love Boosters,’ about a crew of Bay Area retail thieves subsisting on the margins of the fashion industry, capitalism, and at times reality itself, fits squarely within that tradition.
But it’s also because Riley spent more than three decades sharpening his artistic and political point of view before going pro as a filmmaker. In the early 1980s, he was a teenage communist organizing farmworkers in California’s Central Valley and he rose to prominence in the 1990s as part of the left-wing rap group the Coup. In spite of these heady inputs, Riley’s work rarely feels didactic, in part because it is as rich with eye-popping visuals and off-kilter jokes as it is with politics. “No matter how didactic they say my stuff is, let them accuse it of not being fun,” Riley says.
Read Zak Cheney-Rice’s full interview with Riley: https://t.co/W7IJHko8fS