Here's the entire promo for context and how this was worked back into a wrestling angle youtu.be/PNlu73R3n4k?si…

Slam poetry excellence

Excluding boys and men who were killed in drone strikes from the collateral damage numbers to reduce the civilian death count.

Normalizing extrajudicial killings as standard US foreign policy, including executing American citizens without trial, and institutionalizing weekly "Terror Tuesday" meetings where he'd personally select who would be murdered that week. (See nytimes.com/2012/05/29/wor…)

RIP Shad Gaspard

This is the video that got me into battle rap

"Poor Nigerians beg. Middle class Nigerians beg (We can have a whole conversation about whether there is anything like a middle class in Nigeria). Rich Nigerians beg. It is easy to look at the fuel attendant begging at the petrol station and get irritated while you are on your

RIP Prince and Tom Petty. The most hilarious thing about this is Prince was asked about an hour or two before the performance to join them. The dark haired smiley boy on the guitar is George Harrison’s son, just ecstatic at seeing a legend do his father’s song justice.

Whilst Ba’al was being written out, his traits were simultaneously being absorbed and merged with YHWH (cloud rider, bringer of rain, drought & famine etc, speaks in Thunder). The Canaanite pantheon is so fun

There’s a small section of African Americans intent on believing their cultures are free of all external influences whilst simultaneously influencing all other cultures in turn. They push back on any suggestion that dancehall influenced hip hop but insist rap influenced grime

In the early 1970s, a Nigerian student, Mudashiru Ayeni, believed he had invented a battery-powered robot office assistant and asked to personally demonstrate it to the head of state, Yakubu Gowon. He was sent to a psychiatrist instead. According to a 1971 feature story by TRUST

When Wemby catches Jamal Murray yeah

Titus O’Neil on being asked how it feels to have a gay daughter... “How does it feel to have a straight son that’s an idiot?” “She’s my daughter and I love her no matter what her sexual preference is”

Me!!!!

“All I do is lay around, two ears full of tears” is such beautiful, visual songwriting

— update: it’s over 500+ films now on my ‘vintage black films of old hollywood’ list, y’all! i dug DEEP for these, even finding some lost black cinema! more material for us to appreciate & me to talk about in archives. enjoy! 🥰🌹🏛️🎞️boxd.it/PW5C6