Tell Blu she’s beautiful

trolling people online = dehumanizing yourself first, more than anything. then you’re able to dehumanize the other person. the anonymity, no profile photo, gibberish username not linked to your identity = first you see yourself as not complex + not a real human with relationships

Missy Elliott…and that’s on PERIODT

I’m so glad I wrote this on Sept 30 🥰

Turned on the bridge of ‘Bills, Bills, Bills’ just to hear LaTavia’s low notes. She added so much grit to the sweetness of Beyoncé’s leads. I felt it liberated her to get into her low note bag

The best treat to ever Trick O’ Treat

Biggie was complex. He was 24 years old when he died in a world that judged him for his appearance in spite of his achievements. With a towering intellect & cool vocal style, he shaped the legacy of America in ways its beauty ideals fail to hold. This tweet is evidence

Jessie Reyez sings about an uncomfortable truth in dating: men who avoid themselves choose who they’re ready to lose. She treats settling like a container, stretching it with sinewy melodies she lands outside of. She reckons with the quiet melancholy of being unchosen, clear-eyed

Clock it 💅🏿

‘It Ain’t Hard to Tell’ is spellbinding. Nas glides over the Michael Jackson Human Nature sample like an acid-jazz Santa streaking across the night sky. He captures the electric pulse of Queens while transforming himself into a street prophet—he’s his most accessible and esoteric

“Discernment can make you a villain in rooms where denial is the culture”

Keri Hilson’s ‘Get Your Money Up’ is my LinkedIn anthem. She has three ladies on that track making a buck

I love this read

The miscategorization of Twigs was a way of placing her where critics (mainly yt men) thought she belonged. This is why ‘Striptease’ is one of the most important songs of 2025. Twigs strips down, creating her own Eusexua independent of labels.

FKA Twigs’ strips what’s classical on ‘Striptease.’ If a mixed-race women could use opera to interrogate her relationship to sex while making it popular, she could invite other women outside of Whiteness to do the same.

A part of FKA’s early frustration with the alt-R&B label is how it reduced her classical approach to electronic music to just R&B. Instead of understanding opera as her preferred avenue for interrogating sexual power, she was framed as R&B to contain her insights

The holiday gift that keeps on giving 💝 MNEK covers Britney “Black(ing) Out” 😌

Agreed. Also, it’s important to name who gets paid off of artist’s labour. Whether it’s Clive Davis, Diddy, Saadiq, or otherwise

Fight with your mom about it: Tyla is the best pop star alive rn. She makes pop that’s truly global with moves and looks that transcend cultural lines

@PopBase Pitchfork ranking her this high? Damn, that means the industry is finally recognizing the kind of boundary-breaking sound African artists are bringing to the table. Amaarae’s voice, her aesthetic, her production choices, and everything feels intentionally ahead of its time. Now i