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@MustafaThePoet
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2 years
My song NAME OF GOD is out everywhere, all this loss all this loss, let us carry it well- in His name, in whatever way we must, video directed by me with spiritual assistance
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5 years
Got my response 5 years later, don’t unsend mandem, there’s hope 🤣
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9 years
You used a mugshot of my bro that's almost 10yrs old. The least you can do is respect us after we pass.
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9 years
UPDATED: Toronto man shot to death after attending memorial for murdered friend: police.
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5 years
🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝 @NationalBailOut
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8 years
My lil bro was murdered and you use a mugshot taken when he was 16. Stop dehumanizing us, where're your hearts?
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8 years
Connecting Canadian legends @JustinTrudeau @theweeknd #PMXO
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6 years
KHALEESI, THE MOTHER OF DRAGONS WEARING A PIECE FROM MY VALENTINO COLLABORATION AT THE FINAL GAME OF THRONES PREMIERE 😭 #GoTPremiereNYC
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9 years
I'm really at a loss for words, this world is broken.
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5 years
Stop arguing with people who don’t read.
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6 years
I hope your mothers prayers find you when you need them most.
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4 years
Allahuakbar! My first international cover and it’s with GQ Middle East, a moment for my own black Muslim history. I brought my Sudanese thobes on set, spoke about the cultural implications of mourning publicly on my upcoming debut project, it was a dream❤️
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5 years
Toronto Sun & 6ixbuzz, the scum of this city.
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5 years
Bismillah, my very first song, “Stay Alive”, is out now. It takes a village, it takes a few lifetimes, Rest In Peace to the friends I’ve lost, long life to the ones still living, nothing in vain, Regent Park forever
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5 years
nothing more liberating than falling out of love with someone who wasn’t meant for you, to finally look at them & feel nothing.
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8 years
Honoured to have been a part of the creation of "Attention" on @theweeknd's new album. The song opens with my vocals & I sing throughout
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7 years
Prophet Muhammed said, “Be discreet in order to achieve what you want, for everyone who is blessed is envied.”.
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5 years
Minneapolis really burned down their police presinct & forced their city council to commit to disbanding their police department, just incredible.
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5 years
Ay I co-wrote the new Mendes & Bieber, one time for the good yutes everywhere, big Ontario link up #Monster
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5 years
just keep that same energy my nigga, unlike the public I actually know how you look.
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YOU ARE TALKING SHIT BECAUSE I DON’T THINK YOUR HOMIE IS A GOOD ARTIST. Sorry @6ixbuzztv Cannot Support Every Artist To The Fullest As Our Brand Would Be Saturated- Management.
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5 years
I’m not applauding anyone for doing the bare minimum, for being decent human beings.
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5 years
white people are being so overbearingly kind these days, took a walk yesterday and this white couple was kicking a soccer ball back and forth and they kicked it to me and said, “join!” so I kicked it back and the woman said, “great kick!” mad times.
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5 years
“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.” - Jamie Anderson.
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6 years
You tried to use your heart to get them back but they were never with you for your love.
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6 years
Friday prayers, we’re still here
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5 years
Lol these frail celebrities just repost a Shaun king story, write “enough is enough” and then sleep at 7pm because they’re exhausted by their efforts.
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5 years
Heavy receipts!! my brother ❤️❤️❤️
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“He thinks that his wealth will make him immortal” (Quran 104:3).
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5 years
Having Allah is the biggest flex fr.
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4 years
“Do not walk arrogantly on earth, surely you can neither tear the earth apart, nor can you match the mountains in height” Quran (17:37).
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5 years
they broke Dafontes nose, ribs, wrist & made him lose his left eye, and only one is charged with a lesser assault? This is pathetic #herefordafonte.
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#BREAKING: Off-duty Toronto cop found guilty of lesser charge of assault in Dafonte Miller case
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5 years
Muslims, just making du’aa isn’t enough, use the voice & the limbs & the money that Allah has given you, supplication is a holistic practice.
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6 years
I left my phone at home for a few weeks & journeyed to Mecca to perform Hajj with my mother. It was the most perfect experience of my life & if I was only put on earth to fulfill that pillar, then I’m content. Alhamdullilah.
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5 years
“What About Heaven?” soon 🖤
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5 years
We brought Hooyos eyes to life in the hood .the eyes that followed us outside .whose shedding was our shield .eyes that never shut until we returned home .we grew under her watch & now we remain there
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6 years
my boy just told me niggas are ready to do 25 to life for their homies but can’t do an 8hr shift for their kids 😭😭😭😭😭.
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“And never think of those who have been killed in the cause of Allah as dead. Rather, they are alive with their Lord, receiving provision” Quran (3:169) 💔.
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6 years
You can’t flex on me because I want the best for you.
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5 years
The streets said they need receipts 💅🏾MashaAllah
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4 years
Thank you @colorsxstudios for letting me share some south side folk music on the show 🤍😢
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5 years
Ramadan Mubarak family, may Allah replace our confusion with peace this month, may the memory of congregation wake us before the break of dawn each day, may this isolation bring us closer to Allah, and may our stillness serve as an example for the rest of the world ❤️.
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2 years
My (now) open letter to an old acquaintance; Prime Minister Justin Trudeau- on Palestine, genocide, & our indigenous population
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8 years
I wanna tell you how onion rings taught me a lesson on love today.
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5 years
If she runs her fingers through my past, she may lose the softness in her hands.
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5 years
it’s this endless cycle of a young person being murdered, people repeating buzzwords & faux sympathy and then the return to supporting everything but our communities,, until there’s another death that’s hashtag worthy.
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7 years
He turned 15 two days ago, they force manhood on black boys, they want to rid us of our youth & innocence.
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7 years
Man pronounced dead at scene of Regent Park shooting
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4 years
It took years to find the courage to choose this path, took years to say this; my debut project, When Smoke Rises, is out everywhere. @jamesblake @sampha @FrankDukes
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5 years
perhaps this is the struggle that will grant you paradise.
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9 years
Trump wants us Muslims to report so if any of u guys get invited to the ISIS whatsapp group let me know.
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7 years
Smokey is gone, may our prayers follow him to heaven.
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6 years
May Allah protect all the Muslims in vulnerable places this Ramadan and forever.
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5 years
How do we feel bout 6ixbuzz’s notes app apology? 🧐🤨😰, W or L? 🔥 or 🤮? Winner gets exclusive FaceTime with Debby🤯
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6 years
I’m in Palestine & I’ll think about my time here for the rest of my life, may our faith & hope be restored this Ramadan ❤️
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4 years
In 2 days I’m really making my late night debut on @jimmyfallon with What About Heaven, the most important song on my record, I won’t understate this moment man, to honour our dead in this way, I’m from trenches, we don’t see moments like this often, see you then ❤️
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And my boy just told me “a group of niggas hanging together & making no money isn’t a gang, it’s a nonprofit organization” 🤯😂😂😂😂.
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6 years
May Allah have mercy on those who were murdered in that New Zealand mosque today & may He grant a speedy recovery to those who were injured 💔.
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6 years
Sleepless nights & a lot of blood, so honoured to present “Remember Me, Toronto”. A short film I created on gun-violence, the projects & remembrance featuring powerful rappers from my city, out now.
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5 years
for many of us this city is a graveyard, may Allah give our mothers strength.
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5 years
“Do not walk arrogantly on the earth. You can neither tear apart the earth, nor can you match the mountains in height.” {Quran 17:37}.
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7 years
Fam this prayer before sleeping is so beautiful, “Allahuma bismika amoot wa’ahya” ; “Oh Allah, with your name, I die and I live.”.
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6 years
whenever I lost touch with Allah I lose my balance, may we all stay close to Him.
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8 years
I pray you never fall in love with someone who will never love you, it's torture.
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6 years
Nipsey was a true hood hero, he was hope for every young nigga in the hood who wanted more, this is tragic man, may God give his family strength 💔.
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7 years
Call your mom, call your mom, call your mom, the day you lose that privilege an infinity of sadness will come, I promise.
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8 years
Told my Uber driver I'm sad and he said, "don't look at the donut and be mad there's a hole in the donut, look around the hole" lol legend.
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5 years
Our cities have been on fire for a while now, and if you’re only seeing the smoke now you never cared.
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5 years
mannn the Quran is so fire, it gives me so much hope, from the recitation to the intricacies of its chapters, I’m just humbled to know it in this life, and may I know it better before I go.
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6 years
May we all make it to Ramadan, and may we leave the month with more clarity & faith than we’ve ever had, InshaAllah InshaAllah.
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5 years
6ixBuzz pits communities against each other, then Toronto Sun criminalizes us when we’re eventually killed, it’s a whole operation, fed business.
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@MustafaThePoet What has 6ixbuzz done wrong?.
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Selena Gomez & Shawn Mendes giving their instagram accounts to black activists is great but it’s killing me to think about these 12yr old white girls waking up & hoping to see them say “good morning lovelies” but it’s a nigga talkin about the 13th amendment 😩😂.
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6 years
I’m Grammy nominated again this year, alhamdulilah 💙.
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6 years
Wallahi my nigga just used the earthquake to shoot his shot, I’m deceased man
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6 years
Collaborated with @MaisonValentino on their new Women’s collection, my poetry & words are embroidered on the clothes, shoes & bags. what an honour, black history all year!!
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7 years
Without Islam I would've fell apart a long long time ago.
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6 years
pls develop your emotional intelligence so you don’t become delusional & project your failures on random people in your life.
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6 years
a reminder; good writing doesn’t come from expanding your vocabulary, it comes from expanding your empathy, once you can feel it deeply, the feeling will carry you to the words you have to write.
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5 years
being on the right side of history is a lifetime effort, these last 2 weeks won’t mark your place, who you are throughout the years will determine where you ultimately fall.
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5 years
“Come Back to me, at least in my dreams” new song w/ @jamesblake, directed by Nabil, TOMORROW ❤️
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London! Sudan is calling. Gaza is calling. Every artist here is a hero of empathy, thank you for answering our call. Tickets are on sale at at 5pm today. There is a war, strike a chord, cry an answer.
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5 years
The silence of some “friends” is always noted, I only hear their voices when there’s a choir to join.
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6 years
Thank you Valentino, Paris is always a dream with you, our men’s collaboration is out in November 💛
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6 years
having parents that reminded me to pray everyday is one of the greatest gifts Allah granted me, I hope to be that parent for a child one day, InshaAllah.
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6 years
“Tears are prayers too, they travel to God when you can’t find the words.”.
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7 years
I hope the peace you weren’t given today comes to you in your sleep, & you wake up feeling light.
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11 months
MY DEBUT ALBUM- DUNYA, will be out on the 27th September. There are no words for how this album has held me, there are less words for how the world let me go as I wrote it. Dunya in all its illusion. Album cover by Renell Medrano. Pre-order here :
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7 years
Wow a 14 year old black muslim girl just took the Women's March stage in LA to speak about Palestine & call out the US for funding the Israeli military, black Muslim women will lead the way. #WMLA2018.
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5 years
one of my fondest memories is watching my mother & her friends sit in dining rooms, redistributing money amongst themselves, it would rotate by necessity each time, the warmth of it; Ayuuto, may Allah preserve them.
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2 years
The first song of my first album, “Name of God,” out October 17th, pre-save here
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3 years
I opened Virgil’s final Louis Vuitton show. My gratitude knows no end, Virgil’s essence makes death feel so small, as it should- because it’s everyday, and it’s what happens after it and the worlds we build around it that matter most. To know him is to feel seen by him.
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8 years
If the love doesn't transcend time & obstacles, it's maybe because it wasn't love, it was lust or emptiness or weakness.
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5 years
never mock your faith, stay far from disbelief.
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7 years
And Allah said, “I am with those whose hearts are torn”.
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6 years
don’t expose someone’s sins for the sole purpose of entertaining someone in a conversation, real clown behavior.
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8 years
This was the Ali we all knew; warm, charismatic, full of life. May Allah grant you paradise 💔
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5 years
Lol y’all niggas hittin me like I’m drakes accountant it’s not that deep he also seperately donated to naacp & blm but go yell at ur fav celebs for just whipping out their notes app and calling it a day.
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Canada’s justice system is broken, 2 people I know personally were murdered by Toronto police and those officers still have badges on their chests, do not mock a war you never had to fight.
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7 years
I fall in love with people before actually knowing them, I love painting fantasies over people's flaws but Ima start being realistic because this blind love will destroy me lol.
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6 years
drink more water, pray more often 🔄🔄🔄🔄🔄.
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6 years
The Prophet (pbuh) said, “None of you should wish for death because of a calamity befalling him; but if he has to wish for death, he should say: “O Allah! Keep me alive as long as life is better for me, and let me die if death is better for me.’.
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and when this chapter ends, I hope it never returns again.
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7 years
Moroccan thobe but it’s a #BlackoutEid, from my family to yours
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