Femi and the Foundation
@femiandfoundation.bsky.social
Washington D.C. Based Hip-Hop, Funk, Soul, and Rock & Roll
just a day left for nominations! would appreciate your support for the DC / DMV area Grammys
we are up in:
Best Rock Artist - Group
• Femi and the Foundation
Best Rock Album
• Wrong Side of the Sun
Best Funk song:
• Letting Go
Best hip-hop song AND best blues song (two categories!)
• Walk on By feat. Clifford Cartel
wammiesdc.awardsplatform.com?brid=MXemqud...
Best Rock Artist - Group
• Femi and the Foundation
Best Rock Album
• Wrong Side of the Sun
Best Funk song:
• Letting Go
Best hip-hop song AND best blues song (two categories!)
• Walk on By feat. Clifford Cartel
wammiesdc.awardsplatform.com?brid=MXemqud...
wammiesdc.awardsplatform.com
January 15, 2026 at 12:30 PM
just a day left for nominations! would appreciate your support for the DC / DMV area Grammys
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Rest in Power
Words are forever
Words are forever
this one hurts. honestly one of the most slept on rappers and producers from the 90s - the years he was locked up messed with the timing of his rise career wise. still a big part of some of the most iconic music of his eras. RIP
January 14, 2026 at 5:32 AM
Rest in Power
Words are forever
Words are forever
huge W
Bandcamp has banned AI music.
The company has released a statement which includes the following: "Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp."
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The company has released a statement which includes the following: "Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp."
stereogum.com/2485199/band...
Bandcamp Bans AI Music
AI music has become a big problem on streaming services. Remember the AI-generated psych-rock band the Velvet Sundown and the AI-generated metalcore band Broken Avenue racking up streams on Spotify? R...
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January 14, 2026 at 2:25 PM
huge W
this one hurts. honestly one of the most slept on rappers and producers from the 90s - the years he was locked up messed with the timing of his rise career wise. still a big part of some of the most iconic music of his eras. RIP
January 14, 2026 at 1:24 AM
this one hurts. honestly one of the most slept on rappers and producers from the 90s - the years he was locked up messed with the timing of his rise career wise. still a big part of some of the most iconic music of his eras. RIP
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If you need inspiration to keep going right now, may I recommend the story of Robert Smalls, who stole a confederate steamboat and piloted his family and almost 20 others to freedom and went on to become one of the first Black people elected to Congress ✊🏽
www.usatoday.com/story/life/b...
www.usatoday.com/story/life/b...
'Be Free or Die,' tale of escaped slave who became a Union hero
Cate Lineberry's new book tells the little-known story of Robert Smalls, a ship pilot.
www.usatoday.com
January 10, 2026 at 9:48 PM
If you need inspiration to keep going right now, may I recommend the story of Robert Smalls, who stole a confederate steamboat and piloted his family and almost 20 others to freedom and went on to become one of the first Black people elected to Congress ✊🏽
www.usatoday.com/story/life/b...
www.usatoday.com/story/life/b...
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you don't want to let Bernie down do you? link below
January 7, 2026 at 2:25 AM
you don't want to let Bernie down do you? link below
you don't want to let Bernie down do you? link below
January 7, 2026 at 2:25 AM
you don't want to let Bernie down do you? link below
"Real rhymes for real times, sweetest gift like Sade / And my name mean it's a classic like Watanabe" - Substantial
starting the year off right with one of the best arrangements of anything I've heard in the last decade - featuring one of PG County's finest
youtu.be/8GwE0wwMmKE?...
starting the year off right with one of the best arrangements of anything I've heard in the last decade - featuring one of PG County's finest
youtu.be/8GwE0wwMmKE?...
A Special Performance of Cowboy Bebop's "The Real Folk Blues" feat. Yoko Kanno, Steve Blum, and More
YouTube video by Crunchyroll Dubs
youtu.be
January 1, 2026 at 4:30 PM
"Real rhymes for real times, sweetest gift like Sade / And my name mean it's a classic like Watanabe" - Substantial
starting the year off right with one of the best arrangements of anything I've heard in the last decade - featuring one of PG County's finest
youtu.be/8GwE0wwMmKE?...
starting the year off right with one of the best arrangements of anything I've heard in the last decade - featuring one of PG County's finest
youtu.be/8GwE0wwMmKE?...
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DC Statehood needs to be a Day 1 priority, the one place the Guard aren't being withdrawn is where there is no federalism to protect citizens from presidential overreach. This can never happen again.
December 31, 2025 at 10:45 PM
DC Statehood needs to be a Day 1 priority, the one place the Guard aren't being withdrawn is where there is no federalism to protect citizens from presidential overreach. This can never happen again.
keep making music! very few of us will get to make as many memorable song contributions to culture as the Stevies and Princes and Celia Cruzes of the world. but you never know which song will resonate with somebody...
You’re going to be okay. Someone will hate your book. You’re going to be okay. Someone will not get what you’re trying to do with your art and judge you. You’re going to be okay. You’re going to keep creating, in 2026, because you need it and because the world needs you to. Okay?
December 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
keep making music! very few of us will get to make as many memorable song contributions to culture as the Stevies and Princes and Celia Cruzes of the world. but you never know which song will resonate with somebody...
why we can't have nice things
“Prominent artists have started to complain. Kaytranada, a Grammy-winning DJ, has called out stationary crowds. Tyler, the Creator, the rapper who has released four straight No. 1 albums, lamented in July that the threat of constant surveillance was killing dance for his generation.”
Suddenly Everyone Is Scared to Dance at Concerts and Clubs
More partygoers are worrying about looking goofy on camera, prompting some artists to wonder if social media is killing dance.
www.wsj.com
December 31, 2025 at 8:47 PM
why we can't have nice things
gotta make sure the youths know about Dr. Brown's material
“I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use.”
December 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
gotta make sure the youths know about Dr. Brown's material
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Stop saying the politicos are "DC" & get to know the actual population of DC. We are here & we are not politicos. We're tons of Black people & migrants with some white liberals. You think DC is everything concerning the government, we know it's everything that doesn't.
December 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Stop saying the politicos are "DC" & get to know the actual population of DC. We are here & we are not politicos. We're tons of Black people & migrants with some white liberals. You think DC is everything concerning the government, we know it's everything that doesn't.
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Vote for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social !!
we are up for Wammies in:
Best Rock Artist - Group
• Femi and the Foundation
Best Rock Album
• Wrong Side of the Sun
Best Funk song:
• Letting Go
Best hip-hop song AND best blues song (two categories!)
• Walk on By feat. Clifford Cartel
wammiesdc.awardsplatform.com?brid=m6sW_oV...
Best Rock Artist - Group
• Femi and the Foundation
Best Rock Album
• Wrong Side of the Sun
Best Funk song:
• Letting Go
Best hip-hop song AND best blues song (two categories!)
• Walk on By feat. Clifford Cartel
wammiesdc.awardsplatform.com?brid=m6sW_oV...
wammiesdc.awardsplatform.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Vote for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social !!
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we are up for Wammies in:
Best Rock Artist - Group
• Femi and the Foundation
Best Rock Album
• Wrong Side of the Sun
Best Funk song:
• Letting Go
Best hip-hop song AND best blues song (two categories!)
• Walk on By feat. Clifford Cartel
wammiesdc.awardsplatform.com?brid=m6sW_oV...
Best Rock Artist - Group
• Femi and the Foundation
Best Rock Album
• Wrong Side of the Sun
Best Funk song:
• Letting Go
Best hip-hop song AND best blues song (two categories!)
• Walk on By feat. Clifford Cartel
wammiesdc.awardsplatform.com?brid=m6sW_oV...
wammiesdc.awardsplatform.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
we are up for Wammies in:
Best Rock Artist - Group
• Femi and the Foundation
Best Rock Album
• Wrong Side of the Sun
Best Funk song:
• Letting Go
Best hip-hop song AND best blues song (two categories!)
• Walk on By feat. Clifford Cartel
wammiesdc.awardsplatform.com?brid=m6sW_oV...
Best Rock Artist - Group
• Femi and the Foundation
Best Rock Album
• Wrong Side of the Sun
Best Funk song:
• Letting Go
Best hip-hop song AND best blues song (two categories!)
• Walk on By feat. Clifford Cartel
wammiesdc.awardsplatform.com?brid=m6sW_oV...
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a happy Mariah Carey season from all of us at the Foundation to all of you!
December 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
a happy Mariah Carey season from all of us at the Foundation to all of you!
shout out to the aunts and uncles this season
I like being an uncle for the holidays because: Mom and dad are responsible, and will discipline you. Grandpa and Grandma are indulgent, and will coddle you. But the uncle... the uncle is unpredictable. The niece and nephew cannot know what the uncle will do, because the soul of the uncle is CHAOS
December 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
shout out to the aunts and uncles this season
a happy Mariah Carey season from all of us at the Foundation to all of you!
December 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
a happy Mariah Carey season from all of us at the Foundation to all of you!
December 20, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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fun fact: a local eccentric (complimentary) where I grew up tried to make the “Palmer Dark Beer and Acoustic Motorbike Appreciation Society” a thing. Also founded and ran the Palmer Kaleidoscope and Gavel Mfg. Company. www.kaleidoscope.store/about
December 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
fun fact: a local eccentric (complimentary) where I grew up tried to make the “Palmer Dark Beer and Acoustic Motorbike Appreciation Society” a thing. Also founded and ran the Palmer Kaleidoscope and Gavel Mfg. Company. www.kaleidoscope.store/about
the phrase "acoustic bike" implies the existence of acoustic bike amplifiers and given everything else we know about the company we have to assume that Yamaha makes one
"Acoustic bike" is when you put a playing card in the frame so the spokes sound like a motorbike.
December 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
the phrase "acoustic bike" implies the existence of acoustic bike amplifiers and given everything else we know about the company we have to assume that Yamaha makes one
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Are you at risk of eviction in D.C.?
Here’s what you need to do.
@abigailhiggins.bsky.social reports:
Here’s what you need to do.
@abigailhiggins.bsky.social reports:
What to know if you get an eviction notice in D.C.
You have time, options, and legal recourse. And you’re more likely to get a better outcome if you’re well informed.
51st.news
December 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Are you at risk of eviction in D.C.?
Here’s what you need to do.
@abigailhiggins.bsky.social reports:
Here’s what you need to do.
@abigailhiggins.bsky.social reports:
thank you #DC, thank you Cassaday Concoction, thank you @songbyrddc.bsky.social! may all our future shows also turn into dance parties
December 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
thank you #DC, thank you Cassaday Concoction, thank you @songbyrddc.bsky.social! may all our future shows also turn into dance parties
important PSA for those who are coming out to @songbyrddc.bsky.social tonight
December 12, 2025 at 11:49 PM
important PSA for those who are coming out to @songbyrddc.bsky.social tonight