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You from a small town if immediately after saying where you’re from you tell people how far it is from a city they’ll recognize.

Isaiah Rashad says ‘IT’S BEEN AWFUL’ is a more direct and transparent project in part because of advice that Kendrick Lamar gave him: “I just stopped trying to make things complicated [on this album]. That’s the one critique Dot had for me for a while was ‘Nobody gonna understand what the fck you’re saying. It’s too puzzle-y.’ I took that as an insult for a long time…But with this project, I be lookin for change in everything…I’m just tryna stop writing in hieroglyphics.” Via Billboard

bell hooks said that White people will meet a Black person who completely challenges every racial stereotype that they have, but rather than giving up the stereotypes, they create a special category for that person and say, things like “Well, you’re not like other Black people”, instead of saying, “My ideas of Black people were too narrow”. This is called “subtyping” and it leads to the survival of negative stereotypes because the new category individual who’s supposedly “not like the others” is mentally isolated from the group. What this shows is that bigotry is all about protecting an existing hierarchy and it doesn’t matter much whether a person is exposed to other people or not. Which is why meeting intelligent, kind, accomplished, or complex Black people does not dismantle prejudice if someone is emotionally invested in keeping the stereotype intact. Exposure to facts and figures doesn’t change the situation either. Someone can know the statistics on crime, education, poverty, or discrimination and still keep racial stereotypes because the stereotype preserves a sense of superiority and avoids confronting historical responsibility. This is part of why bell hooks further argued that racism is emotional and ideological more than just purely ignorant, which is then why facts by themselves usually do not overcome a worldview that a person is motivated to preserve.

Fucking free people in jail for weed my god

Among other things, Michael Jackson invented the concept of “eras” without calling them eras. He trully invented the game

Is rack city walkable

“The government doesn't owe you anything!” Buddy, I pay taxes. The government damn well owes me a LOT.

cuh can see that he’s just misleading his fan base

@JoshuaM37848390 I truthfully fight the urge to watch it every other day!

This is definitely one of the most rewatch able 3 hour movies I’ve ever seen

I find the concept of "girl records" to be so condescending. This idea that women can't wrap their brains around rappity rap songs so male artists have to throw mindless dribble with "good" beats out to pacify them. I promise you the girls want substance too 🤦🏾‍♂️

The sales argument in an era where nobody buys music

...so y'all not tired of these artists dumping they whole hard drives on you b/c they don't know how to edit themselves? These not albums. These are streaming algorithm manipulators 🙄🤦🏾‍♂️

Do y’all realize that we’re the last generation in human history who will remember life before social media? That's something wild & scary to think about..

I’ve been reading James Baldwin and pretty much every page I’m like “okay so this is probably the smartest guy who ever lived, right?”

the batman 2 news reminded me of this incredible letterboxd review

James Cameron’s advice to filmmakers making their first feature film 🎞️ (via Filmmkrs | IG)

I’ve never quite understood how I’ll get “left behind” if I don’t use AI. I’m perfectly capable of writing, researching, and thinking all on my own. What does it do that will leave me behind?

My woke take is that more films need actors who are uglier, older, and fatter and I’m not joking

Keith Lee tells Keke Palmer how important respect in his marriage is, explaining that he’ll only have more kids if his wife wants to because she’s the one who carries them 👀 “I’m done when she’s done… If she want 30 of them, we gonna have 30 of them… I’m not the one carrying them, that’s not my body going through the before, after effects.”