The Best Advice Quicy Jones ever got

God ate with the gift of music, honestly.

The most revealing part about this whole election cycle is that there’s a group of people that would rather see this country burn to the ground than share it. Yes they are. No I won’t elaborate.

PROTECT BLACK LIVES PROTECT TRANS LIVES PROTECT LGBTQ+ LIVES PROTECT WOMENS LIVES

normalize giving up on people. no more seeing the best in them, no more excusing their behavior. accept them as they are and reject them. If they wanted to appreciate you, they would’ve already.

Be delusionally optimistic about your future.

PLEASE go out, have fun, have friends, make connections, that mysterious lifestyle won’t save you.

My uncle would take me to skid row or somewhere comparable every chance he got to hand out food and that’s what started my community service - little did I know that would be my only way to balance the trauma of music industry politics, betrayals, disrespect and intentional

Anymore is out now! 💙

immense fear in posting this, but it's real. i know so many of you make music, & all of us love music. are we caring for the people that create it?

“Cause i worked hard in a white band. And they still laughed at the asian” OKAY ZAYN?? speak your truth baby

my twenties have taught me that people really are THAT horrible and they would really do you like THAT

We are living in an age where music, once the sacred language of the human experience, has been captured, encoded, and repackaged by machines that have never known hunger, never known love, never known heartbreak, never wept from the weight of being misunderstood, or wept from

Many of you don’t even care about dismantling the system that exploits us, you just want to be rich enough to survive the system and exploit others. Lack of class consciousness will be the death of us.

you can literally wake up one day and be like “actually, fuck everything ab my past and the self-sabotaging identity i had” and decide to live an entirely new life and be some1 who always fucking wins. it doesn’t take a feeling or breakthrough moment or epiphany. only a decision.

& i hope durand’s win sends shockwaves across the music landscape. 1. you do not have to shape shift for no fucking body. these people don’t have to like you, they have to respect you. 2. you can do this shit independently. 3. your dedication to the craft must be unwavering.

Record labels used to be the ones discovering talent… Now the public does it on social media and labels simply react, rewarding attention over quality and the entire scene pays the price as a result

Complaining about artists not changing outfits, songs or special guests during a tour is both brainless and entitled Tours are 1) expensive + 2) for live audiences to experience the SAME show in different cities, not gen z who watch every stop on live for free lol are yall okay

The FDA is worthless...“We use over 10,000 food additives here in the US. In Europe...there's only 400 approved.” “American food companies are selling the same exact products overseas without these chemicals, but choose to continue serving us the most toxic version here.”