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kondjimlimwengu · 9 months

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What Does “The Culture” Matter if We Don’t Defend it?

Essentially Melle Mel made an accurate statement that many other emcees agree with but are too scared to make publicly for fear of this kind of backlash.

I don’t think he should have been made to apologize. Mel is a pioneer of Hip-Hop, one of the literal forefathers of Hip-Hop. He was doing his thing before “the industry”, before the commercialization and gentrification of hip-hop. He was doing this before companies like Billboard, MTV, Rolling Stones-companies ran by white men- purchased Hip-Hop then told us that a white man was the GOAT.

Eminem is a talented emcee sure but it’d be dishonest and delusional to say that him being a white man plays no role in his prestige in Hip-Hop. Like no disrespect intended but Eminem would be Royce Da 5’9 if he wasn’t a white man.

I feel like we like to act like Hip-hop is some kind of oasis- shielded away from the rest of the world- where the rules, laws, biases and oppressive systems of society don’t apply. It’s the opposite. Hip-Hop is a direct reflection of the society we live in and all of its systems of oppression. Under this colonial-capitalist system that we live under, white men run the world. And as long as these companies, labels, streaming services etc. determine who we listen to, white men are gonna run hip-hop too.

What Melle Mel said is an objective fact and I believe that all of these emcees who built careers off his blueprint as well as black people at large (so-called “the culture”) had a responsibility to stand up and stand beside him. We shouldn’t allow the architects of Hip-Hop to have to bend over and apologize to white people for making accurate statements about white people. What in the world does “the culture” even mean if we don’t defend it?

#blackout #eminem #melle mel #hiphop #black culture #culture #the culture #capitalism #colonialism

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kondjimlimwengu · 1 year

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“Back in the days, when I was young

I’m not a kid anymore

But some days, I sit and wish I was a kid again”

- Ahmad

Philadelphia, 2021

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kondjimlimwengu · 3 years

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Every last one

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kondjimlimwengu · 4 years

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Today

“What are you waiting for”

is a question that’s been tormenting me as of late

Cuz I’ve always been waiting

But I’ve been unclear on the what, or even the why

The when is always changing

From “next week”

To “next year”

To the recurring, excited bursts of “today!!”

Which then becomes last week

Then last year

Then never mind

“Extensive yet unfulfilled” can be used to describe more than my notes section

It can be used to describe the many ideas and ambitions which undoubtedly grow tired of a lifetime confined to my mind

When they just want to live

It can be used to describe my 27 years on this earth

Which have been largely unremarkable

Spent devotedly waiting for a what and a when that’ll likely never come

I’m tired of waiting, and I just want to live

Well I let me live?

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kondjimlimwengu · 4 years

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Ghost.

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kondjimlimwengu · 4 years

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You ever got a phone call right in the middle of Trina’s freaky deaky verse on Nann Nigga?

The worst

#blackout #bgm #melanin #blm #themightydexter #black family #poc #black culture #trina #trickdaddy #hiphop #boredinthehouse #quarantine

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kondjimlimwengu · 4 years

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Sun kissed inna sundress, ykwtfgo

#sundress #sundressseason #blackness #hey look it me!#blackwomen #black history #bgm #blackgirlmagic #blackgirlsaremagical #florida #tampaphotographer #blackmodels #tampa

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kondjimlimwengu · 4 years

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Forward Ever

Backwards Never

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kondjimlimwengu · 4 years

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Old Havana, Cuba

“Hush now, don’t explain

Just say you’ll remain”

- Nina Simone

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kondjimlimwengu · 4 years

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“She was the perfect verse

Over a tight beat”

- Brown Sugar

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kondjimlimwengu · 4 years

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“My feet is my only carriage...”

- Bob Marley

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kondjimlimwengu · 4 years

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‪People need to stop using “🥴” to represent something sexy or flirtatious, because all I see is constipation ‬

#blackout #bgm #melanin #blm #themightydexter #black family #poc #blackgirlsrock #blacklivesmatter #black culture #emoji #bitmoji #emojies #kanyeshrug

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kondjimlimwengu · 4 years

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So on-point. Black people were stripped of our humanity at the onset of capitalism. Now we are seen as nothing more than tools/objects to produce for this system- whether it’s laboring in the fields, factories or performing night after night after night on stage and throwing ourselves at the mercy of “fans” and their unrealistic expectations, brutal demands, unhealthy praise and viscious, demoralizing attacks. We don’t see Summer Walker as a human with emotions, fears, anxiety and human physical limitations, we see her merely as an object who is refusing to dance for us.

Shoutout to @youhadme-at-hella for this dope analysis by a black woman.

Interesting take but I think part of the reason y’all won’t let up on Summer Walker is bc of the idea that black people can’t feel pain, in particular black women. U might say “it’s not that deep” but I think there’s something highly significant about the fact that black women’s bodies were literally used to develop medical sciences and all kinds of acts of torture were committed against black women and the justification was that we can’t feel the same pain as white people. Y’all let that lil white girl Ariana cancel fan events and concerts bc she was overwhelmed, depressed, having panic attacks and what have you and told her to take her time and get better bc y’all were scared she might kill herself but Summer says she doesn’t want to do that stuff right out the gate bc she knows how difficult it’s going to be for her mental state and people tell her she should have chosen a different field. There’s literally no field in this world, under capitalism, where black people are not expected to perform back breaking, mind-breaking labor and the music industry is no exception. Anyway rant over, the capitalist-colonial mentality runneth deep.

#blackwomen #summer walker #depression #anxiety #suicide mention #tw suicide #ariana grande #bgm #mentalhealth #anxienty #blackgirls #capitalism #melanin

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kondjimlimwengu · 5 years

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9 times outta 10, “emotionally unavailable” means “emotionally unavailable (to you)”

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kondjimlimwengu · 5 years

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“... In the beginning, I was not a political person at all. I had no interest in the struggle. My life at the time had been such a mess and I was so unhappy with myself. One day I saw MOVE demonstrating in front of a police precinct and I was just struck. It wasn’t necessarily what they were saying but the way they were talking and these were women, powerful women. I had never seen a woman get on a bullhorn in front of all these people and the police and talk so confident and assertive. This is what drew me to them”

- Janine Africa, 2019

Janine Africa was one of 9 MOVE members who (in an effort by the city of Philadelphia to destroy the MOVE organization) was framed for the murder of a cop and imprisoned in the year 1978. They were routinely beaten, tortured, poisoned and made subject to the most inhumane living conditions all in attempt to break them.They were told that if they renounced their beliefs, they’d be released. They refused and so they remained imprisoned, enduring all manner of brutal treatment for over 40 years. As of 2019, Janine has been released and remains committed- mind, body and soul to the struggle to liberate all black and oppressed people.

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