Sama’an Ashrawi
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Real-life William Miller. Trill Gladiator. Gathering around the campfire @nostalgiatapes . my work here 👇🏻
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I don’t usually do threads but today I wanna tell y’all why these 20 seconds of footage of a kid in a blue and red jacket stage diving at a Bad Brains concert at CBGB’s in NYC in 1982 are important. Then I wanna tell y’all this kid’s story.
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My Grandpa Dave told me he was sure he was gay when he was moving into his dorm room freshman year of college and there was a boy “with the prettiest eyes;” after Grandpa passed, I learned from my mother who that boy was.
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Over lunch (and an Arnold Palmer) John opened up about their relationship. “We were honest with each other,” John told us. “Not in terms of not lying, but honest about who we were and who we were becoming. [Your grandfather] was a great gift to me.”
The End! (for now 🔮)
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Then John sent me some photos of my grandfather that we’d never seen before. There was my grandpa, Dave Fisher, in his shiny boxing shorts, looking young and curious and serious all at once. How incredible 😭😭😭
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In New York just recently, my family (minus one sister) went to meet up with John, now 95, in person. My mother hadn’t seen him since she was a child.
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His name was John Kander. After college, John, along with his partner Fred Ebb, would go on to compose two of the greatest Broadway musicals of all-time.
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My mom told me it was a song John had written for Grandpa 🥹
I put the record on and listened… some very moody piano solos, it sounded theatrical. I needed to know more.
I went online, was John even still alive?
To my amazement, the answer was yes! 94 years old.
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He told me the record we have isn’t just a song, it’s a whole entire one-act musical called ‘Our Boy’ that he wrote at the age of 22; and not only that, he wanted my grandfather to be the lead 🥹🥹 It was a play about a boxer grappling with the existential feelings of defeat.
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One was called ‘Chicago,’ and the other was ‘Cabaret.’
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They also wrote the theme song for a 1977 Scorsese film called ‘New York, New York;’ originally sung by Liza Minnelli, Frank Sinatra would immortalize it a few years later.
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It was a bookcase I walked by a dozen times a day, maybe more. Why had I never noticed this 7” vinyl poking out of one of the shelves? I pulled it out. It was a custom pressing and written in pencil was: “Our Boy,” the year, “1951,” and the composer’s name: “John Kander.”
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I already knew I wouldn’t be able to find an email for John so I got in touch with a relative of his and a few days later I had an email from the man himself.
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I always thought that was so cool, that grandpa and this guy Kander were in love, but during the pandemic I noticed something on a bookcase.
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BREAKING: ALL 34 counts against Trump are FELONIES.
Felonies, not misdemeanors. There had been thought that the 34 number came from some misdemeanor counts, but no.
Odds that the indictment covers multiple hush money payments (like Karen McDougal) have now gone up even more.
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Sadly, Geeby passed last year after a battle with Lou Gehrig’s disease
😞🕊💜
My cover story for
@palestinianmag
attempts to honor his legend and legacy with stories from members of Bad Brains, Beastie Boys, and Stilulated Dummies 🙏🏻
Available here:
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the IOF has targeted so many of our soccer players over the years that they had to form an amputee team and eventually a whole league. they just assassinated the man who formed the first team.
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my sweet sweet Arabic professor Dr. Alaydi. she taught me how to read and write and transformed my class into a community. i loved making her laugh.
now she is trying to help her family escape the genocide in gaza. please donate if you’re able 🤲🏻
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This footage is important because it might be the earliest documentation of a Palestinian kid engaging with American culture (or more correctly, counterculture.) That kid’s name is Najeeb “Geeby” Dajani and he’s my new hero. He was already a legend before ‘82, tho.
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Fast forward to 1983, Geeby’s graffiti friends had a hardcore punk band called Frontline and needed a new lead singer, so Geeby came to the rescue. Here’s Geeby singing “Never Get Too Comfortable” with Frontline.
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In 1979, the year after The Clash first sang “standing in Palestine lighting the fuse,” Geeby’s graffiti tag, ME62, was immortalized in the cult classic film ‘The Warriors.’ Not bad for an 18 year old, right?
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Mos Def's response when asked if Drake's music is hip-hop:
"Drake is pop to me. In the sense like, if I was in Target in Houston, and I heard a Drake song... It feels like a lot of his music is compatible with shopping."
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Frontline were one of the most exciting bands of the New York punk explosion and kids like young Adam Horovitz (pictured) idolized both the band and Geeby. Horovitz’s band, The Young & The Useless, and another called Beastie Boys were once excited to share a bill with Frontline.
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By this time Geeby had joined a rap production team called Stimulated Dummies (a name coined by Busta Rhymes) and made records for Golden Era groups like Brand Nubian, 3rd Bass, and MF DOOM’s first group KMD. One of their biggest records was Brand Nubian’s “Step to the Rear.”
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Horovitz soon joined the Beastie Boys who became a rap group and released the best selling debut rap album of all time.
When the young Beastie Boys would go to Frontline shows, they would stage dive and slam dance to a song that Geeby wrote called “Feel Like A King”
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
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many moons ago i did a story on an artist named B L A C K I E and had it confirmed to me on condition of anonymity that B L A C K I E’s music was being played in the studio during the Yeezus sessions.
Kanye also lifted some of the aesthetic as well.
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@TwitterSafety
you showed up to the fire after the house burned down with a bucket of water and the bucket has a hole in it
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an all-time classic song, video, and verse. RIP Black Rob 😞🙏🏻🕊💜
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okay i made a cumbia edit of skeeyee.
sexyy red x selena 😭🙌🏻
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a Betty Wright sample gave us a Houston classic 😩🙏🏻
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just got off the phone with Face, he’s tired but in good spirits and hoping this Ramadan will bring him some healthy kidneys 🤲🏻
Keep sending love and positive energy to Scarface. He continues to go to dialysis after kidney failure related to Coronavirus.
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George Floyd murals from around Palestine 🥺
Rest In Peace Big Floyd 🕊💜
الله يرحمه 🕊🕊🕊
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@Billions
the impression that i got was that with Geeby it didn’t matter how good or bad you were, he was more concerned with making sure everyone had a chance to participate and feel valued and in a city as unforgiving as NYC, that sentiment really touched me 😭
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seeing Beyoncé and DJ Screw in the same music video is incredible, and, if my research is correct, this was the first music video that the Destiny’s Child quartet lineup ever filmed. a few months later they would film the videos for “No No No” parts 1+2 🔮
“Can’t Stop” by
@SUCLILO
featuring
@destinyschild
(1997)
In this case it’s absolutely essential to hear DJ Screw’s version, the version that usurped the regular speed original.
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for the love of god please just give us healthcare
The NYPD is welcoming a new member to its ranks: a robot dog. The robotic mobile K-9 device is part of a number of technological rollouts the city said is "crucial" in keeping the city safe.
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me and the same three people who like all my tweets
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some of the last advice my grandfather gave to me before he passed was: don't plan out your whole life, just focus on taking the next logical step.
that advice helped me stay curious in the pursuit of my passions and quite recently the universe again told me grandpa was right.
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so drake….. read my story…. and had critiques 😭😭😭🦉🦉🦉🦉
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RIP Big Floyd 😞💔
Wow. George Floyd, the black man killed by Minneapolis Police, appeared on DJ Screw tapes back in the day as Big Floyd. RIP 🙏🏽
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my houston friends: the ISGH is offering shelter in two mosques and also accepting donations that will go to evacuees.
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so now hearing Yeezus’ major influence on Utopia, i’d love it if B L A C K I E could get some credit.
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it absolutely does make a difference to us when we see people who aren’t Palestinian sharing info about what’s happening. it makes us feel like we aren’t just crying out into the void.
if you ever have questions about what’s going on, my DMs are open 🤲🏻
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earlier this week i unfortunately saw the image of a palestinian who had been run over by an israeli tank. while it is absolutely horrific, i want you all to know that it is not new.
during the invasion of 1967 Baba saw this exact same thing happen — only to an entire family.
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@triplesundaeuk
the most fulfilling story i’ve ever done for that reason alone.
read the full version here:
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what y’all NEED to be leaking is this damn VACCINE smh
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50 years ago, my father and siblings started Palestine’s first rock n roll band: Al-Bara’em (The Blooms).
Today, we share the first of their unreleased songs on
@NoiseyMusic
.
Thank you
@LeilaEttachfini
for handling the story with such delicate care 🙏🏻
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Happy birthday, Geeby 🕊💜
As great as this thread is, the full story is somehow even better, so we’ve now made it available to read and share online for free!
I couldn’t have written it without the trust and encouragement of
@CaughtOffBase
😩🙏🏻
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my grammy outfit this year is for bisan, for motaz, for plestia, for wael, for lama, for all the brave journalists risking their lives to bring us the truth. for the journalists who have been assassinated, for their family members who have met the same fate.
ceasefire now.
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my current favorite album of the year is
@LittleSimz
‘Sometimes I Might Be Introvert.’ when we did our first interview in 2014 at SXSW, she kicked a freestyle that had people’s jaws on the floor.
i have never ever doubted Simz nor her potential for even one second 🙌🏻🔮
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@questlove
please let me know how i can send you a copy of the magazine so you can read the full story 🙏🏻
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@PopCulture2000s
@yourCheriseAmor
unfortunately for them they made stealing look very cool in this ad 😭😭😭
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Today is the anniversary of the greatest Instagram post of all-time. A few months after Drake posted it, I had the chance to ask him about it and I now have a wild theory that's probably true. I was saving the story for my memoir, but it needed to come out today tbh.
"I did half a Xan, thirteen hours 'til I land, had me out like a light" 🎶💊
What inspired Drake's "half a Xan" line on "Sicko Mode?"
Here's a theory ➡️
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this year’s grammy fit is all handmade. pants and jacket hand-sewn in Palestine using fabrics from the old city of Nablus, featuring my late grandmother’s tatreez embroidery designs.
beautiful powder blue custom hat by Kennimer Co, based in Austin, Texas.
📸
@ShayanAsgharnia
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for my dear friend Sinat:
wish i could see you smile big just one more time, iwish i could dance with you again, i would happily accept another cold shower and a summer night on your couch at that no AC apartment in Brooklyn just so i could wake up to the music of your voice.
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boosie: “i’m a marketing genius, we could make some money together”
mike f*cking tyson: “you know what would be awesome marketing for you? if you were kind and considered people’s feelings”
idbfofnskskanhdhg
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imagine if musicians did the same thing as the wga. took music off streaming, formed a union, and kept
music off until the streaming companies agreed to cough up the dough.
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@MeehanLinda
my heart just absolutely burst with happiness in that moment, and it does so again every time i replay it in my head 😭 thank you for the kind words 💜
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one reason why the solidarity among us is so strong is because so many of us know what it feels like when the ugly face of white supremacy is grinning at you.
i had a nearly identical experience in the halls of my middle school after 9/11
A white Ole Miss frat boy dances like a monkey and makes monkey noises near a Black woman who was protesting for Palestine.
Is this heart warming? (Video:
@StaceyJSpiehler
)
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it took me 24 years, but i finally found my way home. each step i take here feels lighter than the last.
over my shoulder is the apartment belonging to my teta (grandmother), god rest her soul, in the armenian quarter of jerusalem.
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and if you want to read the story i wrote on B L A C K I E, you can find it here:
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i don’t usually share stuff like this because it really scares and depresses me but palestinians aren’t even asking for money, they just want the world to see what’s happening
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me n
@SheaSerrano
have back to back birthdays so it’s really important for you to see these photos of us from the summer we met (10 years ago wtf)
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rest in peace to Tommy Lasorda, who once made his personal spaghetti recipe for
@LupeFiasco
(and me) 🙏🏻🕊
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Evolution of the Houston national anthem:
Notorious B.I.G. - “Warning”
(prod. Easy Mo Bee, 1994)
♻️
Kriss Kross - “Da Streets Ain’t Right”
(prod. Jermaine Dupri, 1996)
♻️
DJ Screw & Screwed Up Click - “June 27th Freestyle”
(1996)
♻️
Drake - “November 18th”
(2009)
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@paynushurts
@_lizharvey
and then “it’s five o’clock somewhere” comes on at half past 12 😭😭😭
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✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻 public transportation should be free
People protest NYPD policing the MTA by mass hopping the turnstiles
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i’m not saying people are straight up stealing from B L A C K I E because i don’t think there are any pop / pop-adjacent artists who have the guts to do what he does, i would just love it if he got some recognition for his influence.
so thanks to everyone who has shared 🙏🏻
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watching the Woodstock 99 doc and wondering why this moment wasn’t included
[tw: mentions of r*pe + sexual assault]
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my first royalty check as a songwriter / producer :’)
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