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[Tianna, the Writer @tiannathewriter]

I said it on tiktok 2 weeks ago but it's funny how Londoners always talk about Black people outside of London being coons when London has it's own, distinct form of coonism. Specifically, Black Londoners who think their white friends are black. They are white, beloved.

[just a babe💋 @oeb_22]

RIP.

[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.

[just a babe💋 @oeb_22]

@DoyleJoy10

[just a babe💋 @oeb_22]

A lot of black British men have extremely low racial & cultural self esteem. Our culture is continuously put up for sell to non black brits by black British men. Always transferring the little wealth we have to other communities. Then crying when you clock that you were robbed.when will you get some self respect and stop helping everyone else whilst they give back NOTHING.

[just a babe💋 @oeb_22]

I’d edit this to, you have to raise black children in a metropolitan city. London, Birmingham, Manchester and I’d even add Glasgow, Bristol, maybe Leeds/Bradford to the list. Outside of that, it’s a no go.

[Esé @EseAllegra]

You have to raise black kids in London man

[just a babe💋 @oeb_22]

There isn’t anything white supremacist about what I have said. At the end of the day, there is a historical and cultural difference. Black people are not a monolith. Whether you want to accept it or not. And we haven’t all suffered the same. That doesn’t even make any sense. No one is better than anyone else but there are differences.

[just a babe💋 @oeb_22]

There isn’t anything white supremacist about what I have said. At the end of the day, there is a historical and cultural difference. Black people are not a monolith. Whether you want to accept it or not. And we haven’t all suffered the same. That doesn’t even make any sense. No one is better than anyone else but there are differences.

[just a babe💋 @oeb_22]

Former is the key word. They are no longer British colonies and that’s why the experience isn’t the same. My family moved here in the 1950s/60s as British citizens. It’s not the same as coming here as citizen of another independent country. Former colony or not. Things have changed. What’s not clicking? I’m not saying , don’t come. Come if you want but don’t act as if it’s the same thing. It’s not.

[just a babe💋 @oeb_22]

Everybody else can be proud of their history and culture but British Caribbean people. We must hang our heads in shame and let everyone use us because that’s our place.

[just a babe💋 @oeb_22]

@IhejirikaS48939 @Chukie_X @d_e470 Suck your mum, bitch.

[just a babe💋 @oeb_22]

@Chukie_X @d_e470 The only person who is the bottom of the barrel is your mother.

[just a babe💋 @oeb_22]

@paradise_kobe

[just a babe💋 @oeb_22]

If youre gonna call me a nigger, at least spell it right. Hit me wit the ER. Suck your mum, bitch.

[Catcha Freeman @paradise_kobe]

Battle of house niggas

[just a babe💋 @oeb_22]

@paradise_kobe Yes you and mother too. Bunch of niggers

[just a babe💋 @oeb_22]

@d_e470 We are not the same Dave. Be mad if you want. It’s not my fault, your mummy was so desperate for whiteness that she named you Dave. Argue with your mother, not me.

[just a babe💋 @oeb_22]

@Burner1446 Why are you in black peoples business and hiding behind a burner? Coward.

[just a babe💋 @oeb_22]

Respectfully, a few decades isn’t the only difference and to say such a thing is very dishonest and a form of erasure.

[duchess carolyn🪬 @duchace]

I see this rhetoric a lot and mostly from people with West Indies flags. It feels very anti African. The difference between you and the people who’s migration you’re against is a few decades. It’s also very false. Entry level jobs don’t pay the minimum salary for sponsorships.

[just a babe💋 @oeb_22]

Also being a descendant of an enslaved person in the Caribbean and being colonised in Africa isn’t the same experience. Hence, we are not the same. Simple historical facts for your head tops

[just a babe💋 @oeb_22]

You dummies all think black people are a monolith and have the same history and experiences. We don’t. I will not erase British Caribbean history just because it make you uncomfortable. You can all suck out your mothers through straw.

[just a babe💋 @oeb_22]

@EkunweL And your mum really delivered a bitch via her stretched out front.