taylor crumpton
@taylorcrumpton
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she/they. writer + journalist. bisexual blunt. texan. @TIME , @Essence , @harpersbazaarus , @washingtonpost , @WSJ . emails:taylor @taylorcrumpton .com
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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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ghetto until proven fashionable
I saw a tweet last year making fun of this girl on FB and someone said “watch y’all take the matching hair and colored lashes and turn it into a trend”,,, And sure enough here we are.. do I need to say it or do y’all catch my drift?
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“you shouldn’t be talkin all that shit, I guess”.
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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).
Million Man March in Columbia is getting ready to go. Lead by the organizers and a DJ
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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
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#SuperBowl
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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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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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Black women saved the Democrats.
Don’t make us do it again.
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the Black church is the birthplace of music in America.
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wearing denim cut-offs all year long is some true texas shit.
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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.
A fish off??? Let’s get into these catfish sliders.
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JC was supposed to be the chosen one.
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#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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me: giving offerings of coffee, liquor and tobacco
my ancestors:
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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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mariah carey & whitney houston on when you believe >>>
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WE DID IT, BLACK TWITTER
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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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aht aht the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house!!!
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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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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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the question on everyone’s mind is how many Black people work at NASA?
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[tw: abuse]
a lot of people have tried to kill me, but I refuse to die.
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I am ready for the crunk R&B renaissance
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@VictoriaMonet
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This week’s Variety cover story with
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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 JUST SCREAMED IN MY HOUSE.
THE NAME OF MY
@TIME
ARTICLE IS THE URL FOR BEYONCÉ’S NEW WEBSITE.
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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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🗣 I HAVE RECEIVED CONFIRMATION THAT MY
@harpersbazaarus
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#GOODNEWSMEGAN
,
@theestallion
DEBUT ALBUM.
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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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if you have copies of old hip-hop magazines, please digitalize them for the next generation of authors and journalists. I beg.
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I love local journalism.
Who is Keke Palmer’s boyfriend, and does he prove that men from Philly are ‘embarrassing’? We investigate.
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Jalen Hurts is our last chance.
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wrote about how we need to support Black women organizers in the South who are advocating against abortions bans!!!
Alabama, Georgia and whoever else— the fight for reproductive justice is not over!
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the intention of journalism is not for access to celebrity or clout. it’s to archive and document cultural trends in real time.
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thinking of breaking my nda and airing out a publication who hasn’t paid me in three months and stopped returning my emails.
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Black Twitter’s Husband Won Tonight.
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MAMA TINA SHARED MY BEYONCÉ ARTICLE. TINA KNOWLES SHARED MY ARTICLE. TINA KNOWLES KNOWS WHO I AM.
if mama tina shares, I’ll actually catch the holy spirit and pass out.
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can’t you see the pain in his eyes everytime y’all ask him to do this?
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do yall understand the historical significance of this event in the context of Southern HBCU band culture?
I am proud to say that I am the next Head Drum Major and the FIRST FEMALE head drum major here at Alcorn State University! I am proud to be apart of such an amazing legacy and i won’t let SOD down. It’s only up from here 💯
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check on your Black LGBTQ friends and create space for them as we heal & mourn
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tw: sexual assault
I’m sorry to be a debbie downer but every time I hear beef win a
#GoldenGlobes
, I am reminded about how one of its cast members allegedly sexually assaulted a Black woman, and the two leads - Steven Yeun and Ali Wong - said nothing when the allegations broke.
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🗣ONE OF THE GREATEST CULTURAL THEFTS OF THE DECADE IS HOW CALIFORNIA STOLE THE “DOUGIE” FROM DALLAS
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quitting my full-time job in a pandemic was the best thing I’ve done.
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mother of the combahee river collective is finally getting her flowers!
.
@TheBarbaraSmith
helped build a Black feminist movement in the ‘70s, laying the groundwork for so much of what we know today.
@janetmock
elaborates:
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I imagine young dolph playing in the background.
This photo of Niecy Nash and Evan Peters at the Netflix Emmys after party!!!
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we’re waking up in a new world tomorrow. hope y’all know what role you’re playing in the revolution.
The fire at the MPD’s 3rd Precinct was only at one corner 5 minutes ago. It’s now spread across the entire building. With no firefighters on scene... that building will likely be destroyed tonight.
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“Until female rappers are granted the same creative flexibility – the same artistic license to freely engage in aggressive lyricism – as their male counterparts, then alter egos will be used as a powerful tool of expression.”
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