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Brandy describes the moment she realized her working relationship with Darkchild had come to an end in new memoir ‘Phases’: “We were going at it like usual, the way siblings do when they know exactly which buttons to push. Only this time, he looked me dead in the eye and said, ‘Go do what you're gonna do while I go sell 5 MILLION records with Beyoncé.’ The words landed like a gut punch. I stormed out of the studio; humiliation burned through me like a wildfire. Left behind in the ashes was a sad realization that it was time for me to move on.”

Hmmmm yall give that Texas gwrol A LOT, I just feel like Brandy, out of ALL people, doesn’t need to take pointers from her much less go BACK…to the drawing board 🤷🏽‍♀️

oh fuck darkchild fr.

Jay-Z recently told GQ something that hit me like a ton of bricks. He alluded to a weird right-wing agenda to push negativity in the Black community against our good icons & the more I look around, the more I'm forced to agree. We are living through a coordinated, quiet assault on Black excellence & a bizarre celebration of Black dysfunction. The proof is everywhere, but nobody wants to name it. Kanye man said slavery was a choice, praised Hitler, sided with Nazis, cheapened Harriet Tubman, has sexual assault allegations against him, sided with Diddy etc. And what do we get? Crickets. No TikTok trends, scarce leftist thinkpieces. Just stadium shows selling out. Now flip the script. Jay-Z who built an empire, uplifted his community, bailed out BLM protesters, is suing corrupt police departments, is lobbying for prison reform, has paid people’s debts etc gets vilified daily. When Diddy's case broke, the internet created hashtags blaming Bey & Jay. Called them Diddy's best friends based on industry event photos? Half of Hollywood has those same photos. You won't find Diddy at the Carters' wedding or vow renewal, in Tidal or Roc Nation's inner circle. Hov has rapped about his real best friends, Ty Ty, Emory, his day ones, for decades. He never once mentioned Diddy. But here's the part that should scare you. Once it became clear Jay & Bey weren't front & center in the Diddy case, public interest collapsed. Same with the Epstein files. Those headlines & social media tried so hard to drag Jay & Bey into it but the claims of their names being mentioned turned out to be nothing more than someone chatting about buying tickets to watch Bey in concert. Not an island. Not a PJ. Let that sink in. They had to buy tickets. That means they didn't have Jay or Bey's number or backstage access & weren’t in their inner circle. But the media ran with it anyway because they have conditioned the public to never apply logic when it's the Carters. It's dangerous how conditioned we've become to want the destruction of Black success stories. This is a lynching without a rope. A modern-day warning of know your limits & don't be too successful. And if you are, don't you dare help your people because the moment you do, they'll come for you twice as hard. & the worst part? Fools amongst our own community are playing right along. It's the same logic that lets the racist Morgan Wallen invite Sexyy Redd to his shows. His fans have no natural overlap with her music but she performs to an all white crowd, the most stereotypical caricatured version of a loud, ratchet Black woman, & sinister people push her forward to push an image. They demonize our builders & excuse our destroyers. And too many of us fall for it, not realizing there's an agenda. Watch when Diddy eventually comes out, they'll rehabilitate his image. They'll uplift him & a certain segment of dumbass Black people will somehow blame Jay-Z for his imprisonment. It's already being primed. It's why "Black capitalism" only gets condemned when it's Jay & Bey. Leftists won't write essays about Asian, Arab, or Latino capitalism. Just Black. Just the ones who actually made it out & tried to bring the community with them. There are not enough thinkpieces asking why Kanye's stadium shows are selling out despite his Nazi salute or his support for Diddy or his sexual allegations or his ableism. But there will be five new essays next week about why Beyoncé, a talented hardworking, clean, loving mother and artiste, is secretly a problem. Hov is right & if you can't see the agenda, you're not paying attention. You're just dancing to the music they programmed for you.

Lauryn Hill joins Kanye West at his SoFi Stadium show tonight for a performance of ‘All Falls Down.’