🎯 Leftists need to have a long term strategy. 🎯 Actual wins > symbolic losses Also, “it doesn’t have to be genuine, it just has to get done”, is a bar, Olayemi Olurin

One thing I love about this moment with older rappers still showing they got it like Method Man, LL and Will is that the true fundamentals of communication never get played out. Diction, delivery, timing, wit and riding the beat are all eternal. There's another side to it too...

Here's my suggestion for a "Steve Harvey wardrobe." That is, a minimal number of purchases but with the highest impact and most versatility. Like Harvey, I'm only talking about tailored clothing. 🧵

For Pitchfork’s Sunday Review, I wrote about an astonishing (yet overlooked) album from reggae’s golden age: Hugh Mundell’s 1978 debut ‘Africa Must Be Free by 1983.’ He wrote/recorded it at age 14-15!! But sadly he was killed 5 yrs after his classic debut pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

Goat goating lol

I know we teach kids that words are just words. But with adults words come with intention, and can come from *intended* harm, disrespect, dehumanization, and violence. It's why verbal abuse is still abuse. Saying people shouldn't let words get under their skin also says people

One of the most reliable backup PGs in NBA history. If he was on the floor, things were taken care of. Godspeed.

Might actually be the best move I've ever seen. And I grew up watching Barry Sanders highlights

15 years deep for Tyler 25 years deep for Em Looks like weirdos have longevity in hip hop

I miss when serious, established, universally accepted institutions our national discourse with rigorous investigations and stories. To be clear, 60 Minutes is still that. People just chose to diminish their relevance, importance and credibility. In favor of idiots on YouTube.

It wasn't long ago. Literally 15 years ago, a thorough and authoritative analysis like this would just be the final factual word. Now, not only will nobody who needs to see it even watch, but they'll denounce the obvious truths told here as part of a powerful plot to trick them.

Finished Sopranos. Incredible. Let me get into this new Penguin episode though, TL going crazy about it

marchese was cookin. i would've fallen clean out my seat at least three times in there vulture.com/2018/02/quincy…

My internet had been going in and out all day yesterday. That made the ending of the series finale of The Sopranos even better, the ambiguity really made me think my WiFi fucked up lol

Quincy was, yes, one of the greatest and most influential composers and producers of... well ever. But he was also a living cultural repository. The stories this man carried within him. The things he'd seen. I truly do not think there is ANYONE left who was in *all* the same

Unreal

RIP Quincy, the ultimate recipe, Vibe godfather. This doc is worth watching netflix.com/us/title/80102… And of course a classic: vulture.com/2018/02/quincy…

in addition to being one of the best producers in the history of American music, #QuincyJones is the founder of VIBE magazine

What I think about in wake of Quincy Jones’ death is how big and audacious his life was. His grandfather was a slave. It’s not like he descended from talented tenthers. His imagination, talent, charisma-and amazingly good fortune-took him places almost no black men had ever been