Lorrainé

🇬🇭 Dedication. Determination. Discipline

[Lorrainé @raiinylady]

My motto: Your only competition is actually yourself

[♡ 𝐿𝒾𝓈 ♡ @opalhoneybee]

And that’s why you should always listen to your wife

[Triiad ୭୭ @triiadxx]

Do not attempt casual conversation with me if you owe me an apology.

[mac @MacDoesIt]

This is huge news btw

[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.

[bunny sanders @whatbunnysaid]

I think about this lady’s best friend all the time. She was NOT playing about her friend. Knew her schedule, the meds she takes and at what time, and that shit was off IMMEDIATELY! May we all have a friend like her a be a friend like her

[KAT @reallKAT]

NAHUM 1 :9
There will come a time when that problem won’t bother you again, not because you forgot, but because God ended it once and for all.

[Marie🧚 @glitchu__]

God, please remove the spirit of laziness when it comes to praying, hustling & studying.

[Ms Iloka Pedro💙 @Miss_Iloka]

This is performative, even if she doesn’t want to have rice.

A Nigerian wedding would normally have varieties of protein (fish, turkey, beef, chicken) and vegetable stew she can choose from.

[rea @ReaBeee]

I really wish I was a woman of few words. Unfortunately, you will hear from me. 👍🏽

[mca𝜗𝜚 @chatimezk]

I’ve never seen a wedding dress as beautiful as the third one.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

A 13-year-old Canadian kid uploaded R&B covers to YouTube in 2008 from his bedroom. A talent manager named Scooter Braun stumbled on the videos and signed him.

For the next 15 years, Braun controlled everything. Tours, branding, business deals, public image. The kid became the biggest pop star on the planet, sold 150 million records, racked up 32 billion Spotify streams, and had three Diamond-certified singles before turning 25.

Then in 2022, he got hit with Ramsay Hunt syndrome. Partial facial paralysis. Cancelled the world tour. Disappeared from public life entirely.

Here's where it gets interesting.

In January 2023, he sold his entire 290-song catalog to Hipgnosis for $200 million. Every song he'd ever released. "Baby." "Sorry." "Love Yourself." All of it. Gone. At 28 years old, he cashed out his past.

Then he dropped Scooter Braun. After 15 years. No manager. No agent. For the first time in his career, nobody was making decisions for him.

Fast forward to this weekend. Coachella calls. He picks up the phone himself. Rolling Stone confirmed he negotiated his own headlining deal directly with Goldenvoice. No agent commission. No manager cut. $10 million for two weekends, and he kept all of it.

Then he walked onto the biggest stage in music, sat down behind a MacBook, and pulled up YouTube.

He played "Baby" from 2010. He played his bedroom covers from 2008. He harmonized with his 13-year-old self in front of 100,000 people. Katy Perry joked about whether he had YouTube Premium.

Half the internet called it lazy. The other half called it genius.

They're both wrong. It was a receipt.

He sold his catalog for $200 million. He fired the man who discovered him. He negotiated his own deal. And then he went back to the exact platform where it all started and said: I built this from a laptop. I'm headlining Coachella from a laptop. And for the first time in my life, every dollar is mine.

The kid from YouTube just closed the loop.

[D. @Lush_Beauty1]

You ever notice you don’t run into people GOD removed from your life?!!?

[KAT @reallKAT]

The greatest comeback in history.

[Bodega Baddie @SunnyBanks_]

Jordyn and her bridal party seem to be having a timeee!

[Rue’s Last Fix @CurttiMagurtti]

i would love to see a reunion with all of them back together one last time ❤️ all 12

[D. @Lush_Beauty1]

He didn’t say maybe, He said SURELY goodness and mercy will follow you all the days of your life. (Psalm 23).

[𝖑𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖊𝖉 @6looted]

Your trauma or what you’ve been through is really not an excuse to be manipulative, nonchalant, narcissistic or have selfish behaviour towards good people.

[Oh Lord @theManOf_God]

Real.

[Jenni @hashjenni]

When the rules of any card game are explained to me