Gabriel
@theunclejuke
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Weaver and storyteller whose interdisciplinary practice explores, preserves, and celebrates Black aural histories a.k.a. Uncle Juke #MadeInChicago
Chicago, Illinois
Joined April 2009
Yall gotta put more respect on “The Famous Jett Jackson”. That show opened so many doors on Disney channel and ran so many of your faves on Disney could fly.
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Right about now, MTV’s Spring Break and BET’s Spring Bling would be happening. The kids don’t understand the quality entertainment those two channels once provided us.
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While we give BLAQUE their flowers, let’s also highlight their influence on K-Pop. Thanks to Left Eye’s vision, BLAQUE became the blueprint for K-Pop culture from choreography to fashion to overall direction. K-Pop girl groups wouldn’t be a damn thing without the vision of
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The girls don’t even have their own fonts anymore.
One of the greatest pairs of debut and sophomore albums in history 😮💨
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The world wasn’t ready for Electrik Red. I hate that we’ll never know what their evolution would’ve been like.
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And THIS is why crediting every single person in the room for your music IS important no matter what. Never let a swiftie convince you otherwise
Raphael Saadiq reveals that he ended up writing for the Sinners soundtrack because Ryan Coogler went to a Beyoncé concert and heard "Cuff It". "Ryan Coogler went to Beyoncé’s concert, and he heard one of her songs that I worked on, and he was like, “Who did that? ” He heard
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IT’S WILD THAT THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO SAVE SOMETHING AS A PDF IS TO LIE TO YOUR COMPUTER THAT YOU’RE ABOUT TO PRINT IT 😭😭😭
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Someone said they miss global warming in light of all the snow and cold weather and I’m like baby this IS global warming
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"When you forgive without demanding justice, you reward injustice."
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Read books. Borrow books. Buy books. Lend books. Donate books. Annotate books. Write books. Discuss books. Debate books. Apply books. Reread books. Review books. Love books.
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You don't drive off until you see that person walk into their house.
What is your most oldhead coded belief?
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From the newspaper owned by the billionaire who also owns a large supermarket chain and grocery delivery service. This is what it looks like when billionaires control the media.
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I'm a big fan of the "GPS Theory" when you miss a turn, your GPS doesn't judge you, it recalculates. No matter how many detours you take, it finds another way forward. Life works like that too. You'll make mistakes, but your destination doesn't vanish. The route just changes.
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Reminder that the civil rights movement was not just random people who had enough one day. They were carefully and militantly trained political activists who deployed strategic forces to end Jim Crow segregation. Never forget them.
A young girl in a school for black civil rights activists being trained to not react to smoke blown in her face, 1960.
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Once upon a time in Black American culture, if you were a singer, rapper, or a band you could cut a track and bug your local radio DJ to play it on air. Most of our cultural icons got on that way. This law is why you heard the same 5 artists on repeat all day the last 25 yrs.
#FunFact: Bill Clinton killed the local radio stations and independent artists with his Telecommunications Act of 1996. It allowed iHeart Radio to buy up all the stations. And only play artists they owned the licensing on. This is why you only hear the same handful of artists a
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