Esun Ra

Keeper of the light /F.B.A.

[Ricardo 🚀🔰 @riico_porto]

Hollywood tem tudo para temer Inteligência artificial

[Prince @prince]

On this day in 1992, Prince and the New Power Generation released Love Symbol. The album title, techincally unpronounceable, was referred to as Love Symbol due to the language included on the CD's spine that read "Love Symbol Album". Upon the release of Love Symbol, Prince debuted iconic tracks such as Sexy M.F. and My Name Is Prince.

With many other funky and vibrant tracks to name, let us know your favorite!

[Ms. Lauryn Hill @MsLaurynHill]

#FUGEES30 What most people don’t know is that I met Wyclef Jean and Pras Michel when I was about 12 or 13 years old.

It was International Man of Mystery Pras, a schoolmate of my brother, who first invited me to do background vocals for him at a studio session in East Orange, NJ. He was well known in our circles for being bold and unique in those days. Myself and Marcy DeNezza came through, ideated, harmonized, and laid some parts down, then this genius, odd-ball named ‘Nel’ (aka Wyclef Jean) came in, jumped on the mic and blew everyone away. He was part cowboy, part rapper, part dancehall DJ, part comedian.

Soon after a group was formed, The Tranlzlator Crew (back when using the letter ‘s’ was passé), with more members than what the Fugees would eventually become.

In hindsight, we were just a group of creative kids getting into different things, both finding and creating our way. Beneath all of this though was an urgent, determined and excited drive to create space for a sound and a freedom that allowed us to embody who WE were and lay the groundwork for others like us. We’re celebrating 30 years of The Fugees’ The Score, the album that became a phenomenon of music, message, mission and creative vision.

Three decades later, I’m still moved by the stories and memories people share about how The Score impacted them.

Now I’d love to hear YOURS.

Share a memory, photograph, video or story about what The Score means to you by posting it to your Instagram grid with #FUGEES30 before November 1st for a chance to win a pair of tickets to one of our upcoming shows in Berkeley, Las Vegas, Los Angeles or Seattle as we celebrate this anniversary together.

And for those who want to be part of the celebration, tickets are available through the link in my bio.

Love and Respect,
MLH ❤️

TICKETS: https://t.co/Q6Fc7gso95

[music archive 💿 @rayofmusicx]

prince - purple rain
1984

[Jermaine Watkins @JermaineWatkins]

Jade.

Don’t Walk Away

[ONPOINT @Notp0intless]

The moment piers finds out iserel's secret.

[O.T.G @ParisEighty]

Remember this...

[FGHQ | Mall @mallrunner1]

This verse alone introduced the world to Busta Rhymes

[KENNY KO @KENNYKANCELLED]

The Anne Frank Diary is fictional.

[KENNY KO @KENNYKANCELLED]

The truth behind feminism created by the jews.

[Knowledge Of Old📌 @KnowledgeOfOld]

This woman explains why men cheat 📌

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

So who taught a young Jack Daniel how to distill what would become the world’s best-selling whiskey?

Nathan "Nearest" Green, an enslaved Black master distiller, taught distilling techniques to Jack Daniel, founder of the Jack Daniel Tennessee whiskey.

Uncle Nearest, as he was fondly called by family and friends grew up in Lynchburg, Tennessee, and began working on the farm of a country preacher and distiller in Lincoln County around the mid-1800s. It was there that he learned the skill of distilling and specialized in a process of distillation known as sugar maple charcoal filtering which was also called the Lincoln County Process.

Nearest was such a skilled distiller in the process he specialized in but he kept working with the preacher in the Lincoln County and fortunately it was there that Jack Daniels met him.

In the mid-1850s, Jack Daniels who was just a young white boy from a large family and who also lost his mother to a sudden illness at the age of four months began working as a chore boy for the preacher whom Uncle Nearest worked for.

It is said that Jack Daniels was a curious young boy who kept asking about the smoke coming up through the hollow on the 338-acre property and why men kept hurrying back and forth from that area which he was never allowed to go with mules and wagons.

He never stopped asking, until the preacher whim he worked for decided to give in to his curiosity took him to the area on the property where the smoke came from.

As later described in the boy’s biography, it is said that the preacher introduced the young boy to a “coal-black negro” which was uncle Nearest.

He introduced Uncle Nearest by saying “This is Uncle Nearest. He’s the best whiskey maker I know of”. The preacher went further to ask Nearest to teach the young (Jack Daniels) everything he knew about distilling and also the process of sugar maple charcoal filtering. A request Nearest obliged and taught the young boy the special filtration process of the Tennessee whiskey.

[SoulFood66 @BlackAndNative1]

Jodeci - My Heart Belongs To U (1993)

[Juan Bergman @juanbergman]

Ok! This is Crazy 😱🤯😨

[karma @karma44921039]

They have no authority over you , the sooner you realise this the better

[Jacquelyn @Jac_lovesmusic1]

I love Hall and Oats! ❤️

[SKI @skiistiredasf]

They electrocuted a 14-year-old Black boy in the electric chair in the United States. George Stinney was railroaded in a sham trial, convicted in minutes by an all-white jury, and executed for a crime he didn’t commit. He remains the youngest person put to death in the U.S. They killed an innocent child and never looked back.

[Glam-Slam-Escape @GlamSlamEscape]

On October 11th 2003 Prince filmed the performance section of the Musicology video at the Tower Theatre in downtown Los Angeles #Prince #Prince4Ever #PrinceLegacy #PrinceTimeless #PrinceMusicology
@prince @PaisleyPark

[CD’Z 💿 @seizelife]

Erykah Badu - I Want You (Live on Chappelle’s Show) [2004]

#ErykahBadu #IWantYou #ChappellesShow #Soul