Lizzybeth

[Cat🐾 @be_my_lunch]

let's go on a date 🌹

[FLO @flolikethis]

Cover girls 💙

[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.

[Blackish Press @blackishpress]

Michael B Jordan. 📸

[Doechii Updates @doechiiupdates]

Doechii in new photos at Batekoo in São Paulo, Brazil. 📸✨️

[The Hollywood Reporter @THR]

"You want to celebrate our art, but you won't protect it." - Jayme Lawson calls out the #BAFTAs slip up at the #NAACPImageAwards

[Lizzybeth @lizzybethxo]

Imagine the day you get to meet Rihanna, you have a blocked nose 😩

[bigbang @1adimotesi]

@rickygervais Dark humor walks a fine line, between shock and cruelty, between awareness and insensitivity.
What once passed as “edgy” now feels hollow, because people no longer find despair funny when it’s everywhere.
Comedy that punches down isn’t rebellion; it’s fatigue disguised as wit.

[Lizzybeth @lizzybethxo]

Everything is more romantic in the rain

[Lizzybeth @lizzybethxo]

And it's sickening (derogatory) cos firstly, not me caring about the opinion of a man ewwww

And secondly i'm a bad bitch, I'm a cunt. And I'll kick that ho - punt!

[Lizzybeth @lizzybethxo]

Like most people, i have a fluctuating perception of my body image but TWICE in the last 48 hours I've had a male make a weird remark about my body ANDDDD

[Lizzybeth @lizzybethxo]

And i feel like im spiralling and the work I've put into liking and accepting myself undone just like that

[Lizzybeth @lizzybethxo]

@girlnumbersix you better get in line sister

[mar ꕤ @realfvcknlegacy]

gaza has reached level 5 starvation which means its irreversible even if food becomes available again. their bodies are gonna be permanently damaged. let that sink in.

[Lizzybeth @lizzybethxo]

Were you lot. Raised in a barn. Fucking hell, everyone get in the bin. in fact, everyone's on time out until further notice

[Lizzybeth @lizzybethxo]

As someone who has misanthropic tendencies on a good day... travelling on the tube during London peak time REALLY REALLY makes me lose hope in humanity MY GOD

[Lizzybeth @lizzybethxo]

Why is it whenever you discover an amazing singer, with such great artistry and an impressive catalogue that they're always SWEDISH? @Sweden - you breeding them like this? What's in your water?
PLEASE, I want and need answers

[Lizzybeth @lizzybethxo]

Tweeting this while fighting for my life on my beloved stepper machine and listening to ozeba by Rema - which is offering quite the juxtaposition lol

[Lizzybeth @lizzybethxo]

I enjoy tweeting into the void as it's cathartic but also have the innate human desire to be seen and "discovered" by like-minded individuals