taylor crumpton
@taylorcrumpton
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Writer. Columnist: @time. You can read my work in @essence, @thebarbedwiretx, and @opinion. You hear me on @bbcworldservice, @npr + more.
Joined June 2010
here’s one thing about Black Texans. we’re gonna bring our horses.
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she has risen.
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I’M JUST A GIRL FROM DALLAS TEXAS WHO GOT A BOOK DEAL TO WRITE ABOUT HIP-HOP IN DIRTY DIRTY DALLAS.
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Black women should not have to post images of their injuries in order for you to believe them.
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two things. japan needs to give megan dual citizenship. second, this mary j. blige wig eats.
Megan Thee Stallion & MONA, the creator of the ‘Mamushi’ dance, via Tik Tok.
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y’all weren’t outside for the controlla and snapchat flower crown era.
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how y’all dancing with someone who bout to beat yo ass?.
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I told y’all about the collective rise of women in hip-hop. Cardi is organizing and mobilizing a wave of women rappers and I’m here for it.
Cardi confirms that she will have a “Ladies Night” inspired song on her next album with different female rappers featured. Lil Kim gave her her blessing last year. ❤️
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“you shouldn’t be talkin all that shit, I guess”.
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honestly, this was the best civic engagement of the night. “He don't want the baby, then bitch, don't keep it, ho”. support abortion rights! donate to your local abortion fund!.
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let us all rise for dragonball durag. we do in this remembrance of you, akira toriyama .
The black community thanks you Akira Toriyama.
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When Nick Jonas made lightskin music>>>>.
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THE BAY HAS AN INTERNATIONAL RECOGNIZED HOMELESS EPIDEMIC REPORTED BY THE UN AS A HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION.
Silicon Valley billionaires have a problem: They get richer no matter how much money they give away
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I BEAT OUT 17 GRANDCHILDREN, 16 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, and 4 GREAT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN TO BE MY GRANNY’S PHONE BACKGROUND.
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my hoodoo senses are tingling.
SirDavis is named in honor of Davis Hogue, Beyoncé’s paternal great-grandfather, who was a farmer and a moonshiner in the American South during Prohibition. He stashed whisky bottles in the empty knots of cedar trees for friends and kin to find and enjoy.
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love and basketball vibes.
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“There are black people I definitely do not want to unify with.” (Dr. Angela Davis, 2020).
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misogynoir will kill us. i’m so happy meg didn’t allow it to take her.
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I’m asking the lady who got married on a plantation first. #SuperBowl.
I could never be in this box because after two drinks I’d start asking who wants to pay off my student loans #SuperBowl
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“Her aim in coming forward. was to explain how even a critically acclaimed artist with money, a home and a strong network of supporters could be caught in such a cycle. I’d like to be able to raise awareness on the tactics that abusers use to control you.”
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Have we figured out why Zack Fox makes women feral?.
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an inspiration to awkward Black girls everywhere.
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on may 8th, I quit my full-time job to write a book. six months later, I did it.
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“My hypothesis that part two of renaissance will be Beyoncé’s long awaited country album. she is coming back for everything “they” (the modern day country industry) stole from Black people (@taylorcrumpton, March 2023.)”. A RENAISSANCE IS ALSO A RECLAMATION.
most importantly, I will be using this session to defend my hypothesis that part two of renaissance will be Beyoncé’s long awaited country album. she is coming back for everything “they” (the modern day country industry) stole from Black people.
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if God could just make a couple of more versions of him.
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say it with me: libraries, social services, schools, affordable housing, healthcare.
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wise words from our new kang everyone.
Damson Idris Calls Out 'Unprovoked Hatred Toward Black Women' From 'Grown Black Men': 'Grow Up'
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based on tonight’s reactions, no one read from this summer’s anti-racism book list.
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my debut for the washington post.
Black women saved the Democrats. Don’t make us do it again.
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“The men in the hip-hop community have failed Megan Thee Stallion. On social media she was mocked and memed, diminishing the gravity of the violence enacted upon her. It points to a larger problem: the sadistic nature of misogynoir in hip-hop. ”.
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The grace Black women extend to those who hurt us, only for us to receive lies and hatred in return.
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this is for every Black kid who went to warped tour or shopped at Hot Topic.
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meet the grahams (2024).
yall ever meet ppl and just wanna tell them “aye your parents did a terrible job”.
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you couldn’t tell my tumblr/ thrift shop wearing ass shit when this dropped.
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not the owner of the most popular Black restaurant in Dallas telling women to “get the fuck out his restaurant” for twerking.
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I knew the creole lady was watching love island usa.
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the Black church is the birthplace of music in America.
Remembering Sister Rosetta Tharpe, born on this day in 1915 in Cotton Plant, Arkansas. Here she is performing “Up Above My Head” on the TV Gospel Time program in Chicago in 1965.
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In 2020, I’ll interview Normani and Meg about being Black girls from Texas.
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first of all, it’s scientifically proven that all Black people are targaryens. so what now?.
#HouseOfTheDragon star Bethany Antonia responds to racist DMs . "You all won't ruin this first glimmer of dragon joy for us negroes 💋"
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wearing denim cut-offs all year long is some true texas shit.
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jalen hurts lookin a lil bit too fine in teyana taylor’s jumpman campaign.
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Father, the men you have sent us to build houses are frying fish again and we are so thankful. I’ll take two filets with hot sauce.
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me: giving offerings of coffee, liquor and tobacco. my ancestors:.
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I hope to live as many lives as flavor flav.
Flavor Flav supporting the women’s water polo team is one of the best stories in 2024 🥹
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“The greatest lie country music ever told was convincing the world that it is white.”. for my @TIME debut, I wrote about Beyoncé and how the release of Texas Hold ‘Em and 16 Carriages challenges America’s last great white genre.
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jasper was a general in the confederacy.
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morning california is under a heatwave during a pandemic which means encampments are going to need consistent donations of water/frozen water bottles. summer is one of the most deadliest seasons for folx experiencing homelessness, so if you have a car and money -please go help!.
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I told my dad a few weeks ago that kamala was going to be the nominee. now, the family group text is calling me a witch.
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the common thread between all the disses (quavo + chris brown included) is misogynoir.
it’s contradictions on both sides.
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after watching the Janelle Monáe, Victoria Monét and Teyana Taylor video countless times, I understand why Kehlani wrote “I Hate The Club” about Monét. Because I too would go to the club for her.
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nothing will ever replace or compare to what daft punk did on the tron legacy soundtrack
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brown sugar birthed one of the best movie soundtracks.
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95% OF BLACK WOMEN IN TEXAS VOTED FOR BETO O' ROURKE.
Yet again, we do not deserve black women, and white women have chosen color over gender. Not surprised.
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mariah carey & whitney houston on when you believe >>>.
25 years ago today, ‘THE PRINCE OF EGYPT’ released in theaters.
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y’all remember when mike pence cut public funding to planned parenthood which resulted in one of the biggest HIV outbreaks in the nation?.
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gavin degraw sang the one tree hill theme song like the rent was past due and the sheriff was on the way.
I truly miss soap opera television. Like the One Tree Hills and early TVD and original 90210 where absolutely WILD things good happen and plots were nuts and things went on forever and people got kidnapped and the discourse was bananas. Like let me write THAT I'll be so happy.
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WE DID IT, BLACK TWITTER.
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we really just saw a seven day master class in ancestral veneration, reversal work, left hand work, protection work and glamour work at once.
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anyone who eats before 4 is a fed.
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welcome to being a Black person in the country music space. we have been waiting for y’all. wait until you try to go out with your friends to the dance hall and they let everyone in but you. or pat you down until you feel less than human.
I requested Texas Hold ‘Em at my local country radio station (KYKC) and after requesting, i received an email from the radio station stating “We do not play Beyoncé on KYKC as we are a country music station. @BeyLegion
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in honor of PRIDE, donate to Black trans womxn - the founders of our movement and radical praxis towards liberation for LGBTQ folx.
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I know gangsta boo is smiling to see another Black girl from Memphis talk her shit.
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first, it was a glass bottle being thrown at rico nasty while she was on tour with playboy carti. now, it’s flo milli having things thrown at her on tour with gunna. when are male rappers going to step in and stop this kind of harassment towards women rappers?.
On her first night on tour with Gunna, Flo Milli cuts her set short after having things thrown at her
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aht aht the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house!!!.
After this election, Black people need a political party.
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“Thank you for keeping my name in conversations, even when no one was talking about me.” . That’s a prayer because when you are at your lowest in your career. All you need is one person to speak your name to bring an opportunity through the door.
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this is the Black love clip we wanted from bet.
“Get your head out the gutter until we are backstage!” . Sabrina and Idris Elba are keeping us FED 🥵
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LOOK AT YOUR NEIGHBOR AND SAY “STOP THINKING SO SMALL. YOU NEED TO BE THINKING BIG BITCH.”. PREACH, VICTORIA. PREACH.
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if you went to college in texas or any hbcu in the south, beatking was being played. he was the soundtrack of your youth and countless drunken nights out with friends. rip legend.
Houston artist and producer, BeatKing, has reportedly passed away at the age of 39. 🙏🕊️
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in a few hours, I move into my new apartment (no co-signer or guarantor) while driving in my car that I purchased solely off freelancing. When I tell you that God is good all time.
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[tw: abuse]. a lot of people have tried to kill me, but I refuse to die.
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the question on everyone’s mind is how many Black people work at NASA?.
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I am ready for the crunk R&B renaissance.
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I JUST SCREAMED IN MY HOUSE. THE NAME OF MY @TIME ARTICLE IS THE URL FOR BEYONCÉ’S NEW WEBSITE.
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in yesterday’s hip-hop feminism class, a student asked me if whitney houston would still be here today if the industry allowed her to be open about her sexuality. so, to read @VictoriaMonet’s story about coming to terms with her bisexuality feels like a full circle moment.
This week’s Variety cover story with @VictoriaMonet: . Victoria Monét's Grammy Moment: The Singer on Nearly Quitting Music, Working While Giving Birth and Finally Seizing the Spotlight
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let 2020 be known as the year where kehlani took control of the narrative.
.@Kehlani talks about getting creative during the pandemic and working at home with her quarantine team. #HPintersections #KeepReinventing #TogetherApart
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I love me a vacation bible school cookie.
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🗣 I HAVE RECEIVED CONFIRMATION THAT MY @harpersbazaarus OP-ED IS FEATURED ON #GOODNEWSMEGAN , @theestallion DEBUT ALBUM.
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someone needs to write an essay about J.Lo’s historical utilization of Blackness from being a fly girl, Diddy’s girlfriend, and cultural theft of Ashanti and (apparently Amerie) to present day as a Super Bowl performer.
Remember when jlo tried to steal this so Amerie and Rich leaked this so she couldn't? Lmaoo.
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WHEN GEORGE BEGGING FOR HIS MOTHER SAYING THAT HE COULDN'T BREATHE, YOU THOUGHT TO WRITE ABOUT ME?.
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