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Oh yeah, this is one of my favorite articles about Kendrick and the beef thus far. Thanks @sidmadden.bsky.social .
Almost a year after the battle, Kendrick Lamar has won the war - NPR www.npr.org/2025/02/12/g...
Almost a year after the battle, Kendrick Lamar has won the war
The Compton rapper fashioned the Super Bowl halftime show as his victory lap, taking the culture to new heights and his pettiness to new lows.
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February 13, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Oh yeah, this is one of my favorite articles about Kendrick and the beef thus far. Thanks @sidmadden.bsky.social .
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Reporting on sexual violence for years has at least acclimated me to the reality that laws don’t get enforced unless the crimes threaten the status quo protecting the powerful
February 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Reporting on sexual violence for years has at least acclimated me to the reality that laws don’t get enforced unless the crimes threaten the status quo protecting the powerful
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The real MeToo “cancel culture” was what happened to the women and other victims who came forward. They were retraumatized, harassed, humiliated, sued, fired, and blacklisted. Then they were the subject of a revisionist history that MeToo went “too far” and deserved a reactionary backlash
February 12, 2025 at 2:50 AM
The real MeToo “cancel culture” was what happened to the women and other victims who came forward. They were retraumatized, harassed, humiliated, sued, fired, and blacklisted. Then they were the subject of a revisionist history that MeToo went “too far” and deserved a reactionary backlash
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Kendrick Lamar brought West Coast hip hop, Uncle Sam and Serena Williams to the Super Bowl
With the biggest captive audience of his career, Lamar's performance conjures a medley of hits that spans his 15-year discography, and featured R&B star SZA as a special guest.
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February 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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I wrote this
ICYMI: With the biggest captive audience of his career, Lamar's performance conjures a medley of hits that spans his 15-year discography, and featured R&B star SZA as a special guest.
Kendrick Lamar brought West Coast hip hop, Uncle Sam and Serena Williams to the Super Bowl
With the biggest captive audience of his career, Lamar's performance conjures a medley of hits that spans his 15-year discography, and featured R&B star SZA as a special guest.
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February 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I wrote this
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that’s right.
February 10, 2025 at 2:15 AM
that’s right.
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I haven't been posting because I'm literally lost for words.
February 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I haven't been posting because I'm literally lost for words.
Decades from now, this will be immortalized by lazy historians as Beyoncé's peak. But it will be ahistorical, askew.
Bey's *been* lightyears ahead in ways the #Grammys couldn't comprehend. Her artistic vision persisted through institutional blindness. My full review 🐎 : www.npr.org/2025/02/03/n...
Bey's *been* lightyears ahead in ways the #Grammys couldn't comprehend. Her artistic vision persisted through institutional blindness. My full review 🐎 : www.npr.org/2025/02/03/n...
Beyoncé finally won album of the year. Don't mistake this moment for her peak
Her Grammy win for Cowboy Carter will rightly be seen as historic. But for the artist, it's part of a grander thesis long in the making.
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February 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Decades from now, this will be immortalized by lazy historians as Beyoncé's peak. But it will be ahistorical, askew.
Bey's *been* lightyears ahead in ways the #Grammys couldn't comprehend. Her artistic vision persisted through institutional blindness. My full review 🐎 : www.npr.org/2025/02/03/n...
Bey's *been* lightyears ahead in ways the #Grammys couldn't comprehend. Her artistic vision persisted through institutional blindness. My full review 🐎 : www.npr.org/2025/02/03/n...
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Please buy books and read them. It will matter moving forward.
January 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Please buy books and read them. It will matter moving forward.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Jan. 6 sedition defendants, Oath Keepers' Rhodes and Proud Boys' Tarrio, are released from prison after Trump clemency.
January 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jan. 6 sedition defendants, Oath Keepers' Rhodes and Proud Boys' Tarrio, are released from prison after Trump clemency.
Me and @biglatto777.bsky.social talked about Big Mama Tingz for EBONY Dec 2024 issue. Cover story out now! thank you to this whole team 💪🏽🍑
December 18, 2024 at 6:09 PM
Me and @biglatto777.bsky.social talked about Big Mama Tingz for EBONY Dec 2024 issue. Cover story out now! thank you to this whole team 💪🏽🍑
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IT'S BEST LIST SEASON B*&CHES! NPR Music's albums list has the best blurbs, the most variety, the most expansive energy. CHECK IT OUT www.npr.org/2024/12/02/g...
The 50 Best Albums Of 2024
You can't always know that it's a great year for new music while it's happening, but there was a sense from the very start of 2024 that we were in for a ride.
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December 2, 2024 at 6:27 PM
IT'S BEST LIST SEASON B*&CHES! NPR Music's albums list has the best blurbs, the most variety, the most expansive energy. CHECK IT OUT www.npr.org/2024/12/02/g...
@npr.org dropped its 2024 Best Albums of the Year list today. Wrote about of few of the best of the best. You already know how I’m coming. www.npr.org/2024/12/02/g...
December 2, 2024 at 6:28 PM
@npr.org dropped its 2024 Best Albums of the Year list today. Wrote about of few of the best of the best. You already know how I’m coming. www.npr.org/2024/12/02/g...
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as much of a bummer as it is to see de la distance themselves from this book, i'm more disappointed by the fans who are twisting themselves into knots to act like the book is some gross cash grab rather than a love letter from a fan who happens to be one of the best hip-hop and jazz writers we have
November 22, 2024 at 5:02 PM
as much of a bummer as it is to see de la distance themselves from this book, i'm more disappointed by the fans who are twisting themselves into knots to act like the book is some gross cash grab rather than a love letter from a fan who happens to be one of the best hip-hop and jazz writers we have
I definitely don’t think this is his release for the Super Bowl. There’s more otw. He’s about to own 2025
November 22, 2024 at 6:25 PM
I definitely don’t think this is his release for the Super Bowl. There’s more otw. He’s about to own 2025
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‘you talking money? need a hearing aid. you talking bout me? i don’t see the shade.’
November 22, 2024 at 1:44 PM
‘you talking money? need a hearing aid. you talking bout me? i don’t see the shade.’
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Luther, man at the garden, reincarnated.
If I have to get nerdy for a second. When Christian missionaries came to West Africa, they incorrectly translated Esu to Satan. And when we think about the garden, Adam, and Eve in Christianity. Lucifer is also there.
If I have to get nerdy for a second. When Christian missionaries came to West Africa, they incorrectly translated Esu to Satan. And when we think about the garden, Adam, and Eve in Christianity. Lucifer is also there.
November 22, 2024 at 5:51 PM
Luther, man at the garden, reincarnated.
If I have to get nerdy for a second. When Christian missionaries came to West Africa, they incorrectly translated Esu to Satan. And when we think about the garden, Adam, and Eve in Christianity. Lucifer is also there.
If I have to get nerdy for a second. When Christian missionaries came to West Africa, they incorrectly translated Esu to Satan. And when we think about the garden, Adam, and Eve in Christianity. Lucifer is also there.
EBONY POWER 100 🤎 this night was everything, thank you Ebony Magazine for making me an honoree
November 19, 2024 at 4:54 PM
EBONY POWER 100 🤎 this night was everything, thank you Ebony Magazine for making me an honoree
Y’all please! we cannot start off like this 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I TOLD Y'ALL "skeeting" was a bad idea!
NOOOOOOO 😭
November 15, 2024 at 7:28 PM
Y’all please! we cannot start off like this 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Last week was a month long. This one’s a couple ounces lighter. Just giving “the same bundles she’s been having for past weeks.”
November 15, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Last week was a month long. This one’s a couple ounces lighter. Just giving “the same bundles she’s been having for past weeks.”
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Governments and powerful figures threatening journalists and media outlets with costly legal battles and bankruptcy is a common tactic against press freedom in repressive countries.
The press freedom fire is at our door step now.
www.cjr.org/the_trump_re...
The press freedom fire is at our door step now.
www.cjr.org/the_trump_re...
Trump Threatens New York Times, Penguin Random House over Critical Coverage
Legal letter follows complaints aimed at CBS News, the Washington Post, and the Daily Beast.
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November 15, 2024 at 1:30 AM
Governments and powerful figures threatening journalists and media outlets with costly legal battles and bankruptcy is a common tactic against press freedom in repressive countries.
The press freedom fire is at our door step now.
www.cjr.org/the_trump_re...
The press freedom fire is at our door step now.
www.cjr.org/the_trump_re...