Prowess 🌙 find me elsewhere 💫

She's here and causing quite a stir! prowessthetestament.bandcamp.com/album/legend-o… #LegendoftheMoon 💫🌙✨🛸

all green characters are black. I don’t make the rules🤓

Phife Dog - Jive Records Party Freestyle

10 years ago today we lost Phife #ATCQ 🗣️I never let a statue, tell me how nice I am… Remembering Phife (November 20, 1970 – March 22, 2016) 🕊️

@itsDanBull Well well

Twitter algorithm seems to have removed nerdcore ppl from my feed so I'm saying the word nerdcore repeatedly to bring it back also please reply to this if you are nerdcore affiliated

Proud of this moment 😅

You are our 'Best Actor in a Supporting Role,' Delroy.

“What’s for you is for you and you can’t take anyone’s blessings. So just walk your path. Dream big and be kind.” - #Oscar award winner, Michael B. Jordan

Michael B. Jordan’s first Oscar is more than a personal victory, it is a powerful tribute to the giants who made his moment possible. By honoring Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Jamie Foxx, Forest Whitaker, and Will Smith, he reminded the world that none of us rise alone; we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us! 🎥: Oscars

Michael B. Jordan celebrated his Best Actor win for Sinners at the 98th Academy Awards with a stop at In-N-Out Burger, showing love to fans and staff while holding his Oscar award 🍔🏆

@OsheaJacksonJr Felt!

This racist fucking app. I’ll never delete it strictly for the fuckin motivation is brings me. Some of yall need yall asses handed to you.

Denzel Washington should own more than one #Oscar for Best Actor, nevertheless, the night in which Denzel actually received the recognition he deserved will always be special. Denzel won the same night the Academy honored Sidney Poitier. This is what the Oscars are all about.

And now I gotta share the ‘Marvin Gaye singing on a couch’ video. Them’s the rules. 😮‍💨

Prodigy (of Mobb Deep) – “Keep It Thoro” The word “genius” is thrown around a lot these days. As far as hyperbole goes, the word “genius” is most often used by fans to describe artists that are slightly above average. Worse than the misuse of the word “genius” is the *misapplication* of the word “genius”. You see, genius is often infers “complexity”. But the spectrum of genius also includes “simplicity”. And it is here, in this range of genius, that we find Prodigy (of Mobb Deep), one of the greatest rappers in the history of hip hop/rap music. There’s dimensions to Prodigy’s genius. First, there’s his use of the *talk-rhyme* style. Of all of the rhyme styles, talk-rhyme — the rhyme style in which the rapper sounds more like he’s talking than rapping — is the most difficult rhyme style to pull off. Some rhyme styles give you cover. They mask your defaults and inabilities. They wear down the listener’s ear, giving off a mix of blandness cosplaying as rhyme skill. With the speed-rhyme style, where rhymes are delivered deliberately in a speedy (fast) manner, you can hide. With the miracle lyrical rhyme style, where large groups of words are jumbled together, giving the false impression of rhyme skills, you can hide. With the talk-rhyme style, you can’t hide. Talk-rhyme relies on less words. It’s powered more by the voice, and the realness of the life lived behind the voice. Talk-rhyme is also a technical marvel. Of all hip hop/rap’s rhyme styles, it’s the one that exhibits the highest level of breath control. And this is baked into the style. With the talk-rhyme style, you don’t hear the *gulps* of breathing between lines; you don’t hear a rapper catching his breath between transitions. This is one reason why the talk-rhyme style is the epitome of breath control. Prodigy, one of only a handful of talk-rhymers, was a master of the talk-rhyme style. Not just because he made one of the most difficult rhyme styles look easy, but because he was deceptively simple with his rhymes. Much of Prodigy’s genius lied in his poetry and timing: “Ayo, … I break bread… ribs… hundred dollar bills… … Peel on Ducatis… and other four wheels/ write a book full of medicine and generate mils” There’s a deadpan, life-or-death quality to Prodigy’s rhymes. This too was part of his genius… Now, as for the “Keep It Thoro” beat. “Keep It Thoro” is an absolutely menacing audio composite. Aside from Prodigy’s heavy New York slang-laced phrasings and deadpan life-confident delivery, it’s the beatwork of Alchemist that also makes this song so defiantly hard. The core groove is built around a dusty, lounge-act piano sample that jabs the exact same tone — in 1/8ths — for a count of seven times before there’s a change in the phrase: A loose note kicks off moments before the sample loops back to itself. For the bass parts, Alchemist doesn’t go with a conventional bass line. Instead, he uses just three bass sound-stabs to anchor the groove. Two of the three bass-stabs are simply low- and high-pitched versions of the same exact sound stab; the third bass-stab, which Alchemist uses to slide into one of the others, has a slick, boom texture to it. Some beatmakers might not (at first) understand Alchemist’s arrangement of higher tones with lower ones, but the reality is this technique of clashing textures and levels is one of the most fundamental mainstays of the beatmaking tradition. So on “Keep It Thoro,” Alchemist is acutely aware of the fact that it’s the repetitive nature of the sampled piano phrase that actually makes the bass parts sound even more pronounced; which, in turn, gives the overall track a “booming” sonic impression. A genius beat for a genius rhyme…

@Keetheweeb @TyWeZee @OM3GAREDD Y'all were incredible. Glad I caught the sets on stream.

Hey guys!!! Performing live at Nerdcore days in about 30 min! Hop in the stream! @TyWeZee and @OM3GAREDD are on! I’m next! m.twitch.tv/nerdcore_dayz

@MegaRan This is so much and I cannot. The media training is sooo ridiculous. I know he wasn't coached like this.

Wait — “I got blacker??” the album is called “Monica?” What are we doing right now

WE ARE SAD TO REPORT THAT OUR DEAR FRIEND AND HOST, LORD SEAER HAS PASSED AWAY AT AGE 53. SEAR WAS MORE THAN A VOICE ON THE RADIO - HE WAS A FORCE, A FRIEND, AND FAMILY TO SO MANY OF US! IN HIS HONOR, PLEASE TUNE IN TOMORROW FROM 12–4PMET/9AM-1PMPT ON SHADE 45, WHERE FRIENDS WILL COME TOGETHER DURING HIS SLOT TO SHARE MEMORIES. REST EASY, LORD SEAR. YOUR FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND ALL OF US ON SHADE 45 WILL NEVER FORGET YOU. 🕊️

It was International Women's Day yesterday! In a scene that can be so male dominated, I really want to say thank you to the incredible female artists that have made huge contributions to the various Nerdcore communities throughout the years.

SUPER Thrilled and grateful to be performing at SXSW! Join me for an epic Nerdcore showcase on Tuesday, March 17, at the Seven Spirits Nightclub ➡️➡️➡️ @MegaRan @mynameisprowess @itsmarkcooper & more! Doors open at 7:30 PM—can’t wait to see you all there! 🚀✨ #SXSW #Nerdcore

@Keetheweeb @MegaRan @itsmarkcooper I can't wait to see you rock this stage! 🥰

Josephine Baker at her Prime. Her voice is deeper and richer. It gives an idea how fabulous Josephine was in her later years. A tour de force !