@Nondu__ thank you!! she's been honestly a godsend to the artists. and it's been so lovely to see her mainstream revival after listening to those interludes over and over last year.
the work wants you to know why you are doing it. for you. primarily. to transform yourself. heal yourself. express yourself. material conditions etc. aside, if you make [art] that is spiritual, it demands your own spirituality of you first. the ego death.
Hot take: Being ahead of the curve actually sucks. Better to catch the momentum. Those that catch momentum are always the billboard for that which they catch. Not the actual pioneers. Pioneers are seldom recognised in real time.
In a recent conversation with The Observer, Chaka Khan responded to being described as a “straight icon for queer visibility.”
“A straight icon? What’s the straight part? What do you mean, straight in what way?” she asked.
When the interviewer clarified the term as “heterosexual,” Khan replied: “Am I? How do you know what the f**k I am? I don’t ever share that part of my life. That’s nobody’s business but mine.”
She later stated that she is “for everybody,” adding: “I don’t care what you sleep with at night. If your heart is in the right place, that’s all I care about.”
Taylor Swift on how she responds to people who ridicule her through music:
“Sometimes when people are mocking me, it’s really fun to mock them back. Sometimes I like to use words that they have to look up in order to talk sh*t about.”
i sincerely can't believe a museum is trying to hold on to my family tree and portraits of me in 2026 like it's literally colonial times wdf is wrong with you hoes.
lauryn hill unplugged is a good example of just putting it all down + letting the work work. like in her interludes she's saying you don't need a 20 piece band. you don't need to sell ur soul. you get out. her voice is breaking + she sound amazing! then i realise i can sing too.