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living on this spinning rock doing sumn 🇳🇬

[Ben Wegmann @benwegmann]

Water views from every room 🌊

[sagittarius ✭ @cybrdurag]

after 25 u rlly gotta wrap some shit up

[Ｗ 𝗜 𝗦 𝗘 𝗖 𝗢 𝗡 𝗡 𝗘 𝗖 𝗧 𝗢 𝗥 ™ 💬 @wiseconnector]

Believe it

[Princess A @cessadelove1]

May the "O" in October stand for Overflowing blessings, Opportunities and Open doors.

[E @ksnye_]

Becoming a better person is really an every day thing

[Luis @jordanyroc]

NOT taking ANYTHING away from what they did best artistically, creatively, or business-wise.

But the fact that Jay-Z built an empire with people like Dame Dash, Kanye West, Beanie Sigel, etc. by his side, is nothing short of a miracle.

We look at their personalities and decision making now and what Jay was able to accomplish with them is fucking remarkable.

He doesn’t get enough credit for how he was able to manage those personalities.

And thankfully he had the right foresight of knowing exactly when to get far the fuck away from them niggas.

[THE RECEIPTS @Niell_Standard]

"When we did this album 11 years ago EDM was the craze, black music was not moving the mainstream needle & the industry was firing BLK execs, Beyoncé didnt waver on the culture & kept doing R&B RECORDS while creating cult clsssics"

-TRICKY STEWART

[Ty Ngachira @anto_ty]

When Tyla said she is not Black but Coloured, she was not speaking into the American conversation about race at all. She was speaking in the language of her own country, shaped by its own history. Yet her words detonated in America as though they had been aimed there. This is what happens when a nation has spent a century convincing the world that its definitions are the only ones that matter.

America’s greatest export has never been war. It has never been democracy. It has never been freedom. America’s greatest export is the dream of itself.

It is not that the films are inherently better. It is not that the music contains some mystical note absent elsewhere. What America has, and what it has always had, is money, reach, and a machinery built to make its image the centre of the world.

This was not accidental. It was policy. It was the soft arm of empire. To project yourself outward until your face is the first one people recognise in the mirror.

And so the American way of life became the default. Other cultures were filed into two neat drawers: savage if they challenged the story, exotic if they could be sold back to you.

If you are Black, your first cinematic self was likely African American, the rapper, the sitcom character, the hero of a Spike Lee joint. If you are white in Europe or Australia, it was the white faces of American sitcoms and stadium tours. Whoever you were, your first image of yourself came with an American accent.

Over time, Americans began to believe the story they had written. When you grow up in the country that built itself into the cultural Mecca, it is easy to think you are the best simply because you are on top. You forget, or never know, that the game was fixed long before you played it.

But the monopoly is breaking. Nigeria’s Nollywood now speaks across oceans. South Korean dramas leap borders. India’s Bollywood never needed permission to fill theatres. Spanish thrillers keep strangers awake at night. Slumdog Millionaire, Squid Game, Money Heist, Shōgun — all aimed partly at the American market because that is where the money is, but no longer about America.

And here is the thing. Black Americans, who fought to be seen in their own country, became the global face of Blackness. That is a remarkable achievement. It was also made possible by the same system that excluded everyone else. Now Africans, Caribbeans, and Afro-Latins tell their own stories without making room for American centrality, and the absence is noticed.

We grew up watching you. You did not grow up watching us. And now the internet has levelled the ground just enough for others to speak without hesitation. Tyla’s words land differently because the world no longer accepts America as the only arbiter of meaning.

America’s greatest export was never its art. It was the power to decide which art, and which identities, the world would see. That power is no longer yours alone. There is both justice and loss in that.

[Mama T🌻 @herchosenpath]

Love Island has got to be a social experiment. I didn't even know that that's how that show works. You people are not well.

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

PSP was so ahead of its time, it still impresses me to this day

[TaraBull @TaraBull]

They're getting creative

[Love.Char @superrchar]

so I built a speakeasy in my home and this faux plant wall is the hidden door 🍸🌿

[She @___fari]

after 4.5 years I’ve officially joined the 7% of Black Women that has a Ph.D. in a STEM related field!!!!

Dr. Aziza (the chemist 👩🏾‍🔬)

[E @ksnye_]

@FTCsergioo It’s wild how Kendrick tried calling Drake a deadbeat but then turned and collabed with Carti 4x 😭

[E @ksnye_]

It’s wild how the idea of wanting to talk someone everyday is foreign to people

[Big O 🦍 @__BigO__]

I ain’t been in the dating game for a little bit, now that I’m back in, I didn’t know that not talking daily is a norm. How do y’all be getting to know folk? 😭

[YourFavWestVirginian @YourFavWV]

So true lol😂😂🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

[E @ksnye_]

This is why a lot of what yall say on this app doesn’t matter. SZA is exactly who she thinks she is.

[Talk of the Charts @talkofthecharts]

SZA’s ‘SOS’ is currently projected to return to #1 on the Billboard 200 for a 13th non-consecutive week, aiming for 50.2K units this week (via @HITSDD).

[kal @ITboykal]

me in my bed rn https://t.co/tYeesVGYTo

[E @ksnye_]

@hesitween I’d say Somali but yes lol

[GNX TOUR LOVER @keepDfamilyaway]

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