Jamie Simmons

Hi, those new to following me! My name is Jamie Simmons. I am a community reporter based in Detroit looking to help redefine our city through its own lenses ✊🏿

The President has lost his mind.

One month after starting the war in Iran, this is the statement of the President of the United States on Easter Sunday. These are the ravings of a dangerous and mentally unbalanced individual. Congress has got to act NOW. End this war.

Cole interviews expose how low y'all's ability is to comprehend & engage in nuanced convos. For context, he’s saying that culture, as in hip hop culture & our subset cultures based on where we’re from, has now been co-opted because of how accessible the internet has made it.

@here2vybe Another ChatGPT response. It’s actually getting scary.

@jamiedsi Deflection means nothing in the face of truth. You spew anti-Black nonsense that is easily refutable. But I'm always open to dialogue, debate and discussion. Have a blessed day

These bots are getting out of control. I’m convinced 95% of these people are computer activists and probably not even Black in real life.

@here2vybe @JacobB198 Sir, don’t EVER play with me.

@jamiedsi @JacobB198 I can't prove it. But I just know this account dates

The CULTURE held Ryan Coogler down for his magnum opus project Sinners. All throughout award season Ryan THANKED the culture for having his back and showing up to the box office when it mattered. That’s how you treat the CULTURE. Not what J. Cole is displaying

@JacobB198 Actually may people have been talking about the negatives of “gangster” culture in hip hop and how lethal the profession of rap is. The “cultural” pushed it as a necessary evil for authenticity in story telling in rap and the reality of the “streets”.

No one was speaking on capitalism when drill music was literally killing our culture. When being promiscuous was being pushed on our culture. Violence, money, cars, & clothes being pushed during the party and mumble rap era. But oh my goodness 2 half breeds get their feelings hurt by the internet and it’s time to reexamine the culture. Selective outrage is something Miss lady 🥴

@JacobB198 First off calm down. Second Black people are everywhere AND we also do not control the media/music distribution/tv/social media. Because we are not owners or controllers it allows people to come into our spaces and create or push “culture” when it’s rooted in capitalism not US

@jamiedsi My bad. I didn’t understand that black people are only in the house. There’s no black people on the internet or all over the world 🌎🙄. My bad. Be for real and stop doing mental gymnastics because you don’t want someone to he held accountable for their own words

@111_143_101 @TLoveSpeaksss You described a series of characteristics about beings that cannot be capitalized on. The culture as it is represented online and is media is not always correlated to Black people. It’s correlated to consumers and critics of music.

But is tho you can tell a bird by its feathers 🪶 right? You can tell a flower by its petals. You can tell the culture by how we create in the world. Dress, cook, what we invent ect. What makes us as a people is what we create from the soul. Even as individuals what you bring into this world is what defines your experience.

J cole not wrong about classics but calling "the culture" internet economy...its very dismissive to the audience.....and kind of arrogant/racial to. Some artists (not cole) generally like to downplay the internet to make themselves feel better about they music being trash!

@111_143_101 @TLoveSpeaksss So you are now talking about Black Culture not hip hop. Hip hop is a tool in which we express ourselves. It’s not what makes us (Black people) us. Cole is not talking about Black people. He’s talking about hip hop as a global cultural has been co-opted by the masses

@jamiedsi @TLoveSpeaksss What came before us is our heritage and it’s in our blood it is our culture and something that can’t be taken away in our dna.

@peaceofNayna Define culture for me. (I’m trying to see what people think it means for my own understanding)

that yt blood always comes through eventually. i’m over him, YUCK 🤢

@111_143_101 @TLoveSpeaksss Happening now.

@111_143_101 @TLoveSpeaksss The most important thing about Black culture is Black people. I think what we are experiencing is a decentralization of people. The idea that culture is based on things is one of the issues. If it’s about things than consumerism and capitalism can influence it and that’s what is

@111_143_101 @TLoveSpeaksss It’s is a part of the culture not THE culture. To think it is the culture is degrading the hundreds of years of literature, sound, and art that came before it.

@jamiedsi @TLoveSpeaksss Black music as a whole is black culture because every culture has its music. Chinese music Indian music black music it’s not hard to understand we just have to stop putting it in a box we have a few genres of music in black culture we’ve invented a lot.

@ShiffonAlexis GNX is not a universal classic. I don’t even think in 10 years it will be seen a a niche classic. Not because it’s not good but because in comparison to his catalog it was underwhelming.

IDK might be just my opinion but Kendrick did it with 'GNX'. Hell, put Clipse 'Let God Sort Em Out' up there as well but what do I know 🤷🏾‍♀️

@111_143_101 @TLoveSpeaksss Although hip hop is a part of Black Culture it is not Black culture and we as a people need to start understanding that.

@111_143_101 @TLoveSpeaksss I think what should be focused on what do we mean when we say culture. It’s Black Culture, Hip Hop Culture, Popular Culture and American Culture. Most of the time I hear the reference of culture in media it’s about “hip hop culture”.

@TLoveSpeaksss I do to! But I think that’s also the larger point to the ongoing battle we are having with “ownership” and the need for gatekeeping in general.

@jamiedsi Thanks for clarifying I agree and disagree. I think multiple things can be true.