Ricki 💫

🎧 Singer / Songwriter / Founder of The Sharp Pitch, an organization aimed at empowering marginalized musicians and creatives #️⃣

[Ricki 💫 @rickitunes]

can’t believe I’m playing my first festival set today with @LifelineVirtual 🥹 catch the performance at https://t.co/bF5TNjBCjn 🤭🐇✨

[R3LL @itsR3LL]

the best marketing strategy for an independent artist is making something so undeniable that people do the marketing for you.

[𝔟𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔱 @fangsxbangs]

THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN TRYING TO DRILL INTO EVERYONE’S SKULL BUT NO ONE WANTS TO LISTEN!!!! which neighborhoods do you think are getting impacted first? why do you think no one really cares right now? use your brain!

[nina lee @NinaSerafina]

It’s rough out here but I’m still believing the love, career, art I dream about are all attainable to me and coming 🔜

[𝑨𝒔𝒊𝒂 𝑵𝒊𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒆 @DearAsiaNicole]

Art has inherent value, independent of how many eyes see it. The creative industry pushes the idea that visibility equals importance. But good work REMAINS good work, whether it reaches 10 people or 10,000. That's why art often increases in value long after the artist is gone.

[caro 📼 met louis @louisissunn]

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!!!

[𝚂 ⋆.𐙚 ̊ 🖤ྀིྀི ❀˖° @ERAOFMONE]

doechii won a grammy.
olivia dean won a grammy.
kendrick nearly swept.
leon won a grammy.
SZA won a grammy.
tyla won a grammy.
sinners won a grammy.

HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH !
#GRAMMYs

[Mankaprr Conteh @Mankaprr]

Kehlani won her first Grammy after threats against her LIFE and career for speaking out against genocide in Gaza. In November, she told me:

[︎ ︎ ︎JBP @jpegbyprince]

There’s a stage you’ll reach in this creative journey where you see that being yourself and expressing yourself is all that matters.

[🔮✨ @TheOracleReadsU]

You're allowed to do creative stuff even if you don't think you're good at them. Do it because it moves something stuck inside you. Because creativity isn’t about being impressive, it’s about being expressive. Create badly. Create awkwardly. That’s not failure, that’s freedom.

[lor @lor2mgg]

idgaf who u produced for or what credibility u have

r u a real person with a real passion for a community in music or do u do this shit for greed

[ada. @adaezeokaro]

Please keep going. This is what devotion looks like. Nothing is wasted. Your body already agreed to this life. You are working. You are not late. This is the cost and this is the gift. This is enough. Your becoming is already happening. Keep going.

[harps¹⁶ ౨ৎ saw bnd @clqrkentz]

this is a google document with information for immigrants & for allies against ice!!!! it’s filled with nationwide resources, it has legal counsel & organizations organized by state. spanish & english resources!! please share!!!!!
https://t.co/OOfdBklj0V

[Tired Peasant @HorrorGorl]

Don’t look away

[blue @bluewmist]

literally obsessed with people who teach themselves things or invest in random classes. LEARNING IS HOT!!!! take a french cooking class. beginners sewing. adult gymnastics. doing things out of the SPICE of curiosity is HOT!!!!!

[VUH🎬 @Vuhlandes]

When you turn a blind eye to injustices happening to oppressed groups anywhere in the world you inevitably invite those same injustices to your backyard. When you say “that has nothing to do with me” don’t think that one day it won’t. Fascism doesn’t care what you look like.

[jo johnson @josbjohnson]

you want something?

act like someone who already has it.

move with the certainty of inevitable success.

operate from the assumption that failure isn’t an option because you’ve already decided you’re not stopping until it’s yours.

go. get. it.

[maya @mayareminders]

you get to be the creative director of your life

[Shae Universe @ShaesUniverse]

i’d go a step further & say they’ve literally left it to the artists lol

[66 @666tomystomach]

sometimes i think about how i really am an artist at my core, and i hope i am able to unlock all levels of my creativity