#Black Southern culture

[tani-b-art]

“…socially despised and yet artistically esteemed…”

This quote from Alain Locke can be applied to every non-Black person. Non-Black American people included.

Our subcultures, regional cultural characteristics (especially Southern Black American culture) are sooo extracted and copied, emulated and imitated, gleaned from while simultaneously being ridiculed, mocked and degraded.

Southern identifiers, dialect and accents are belittled yet are modeled after and mimicked.

The specific disdain and shame for Southern Black American culture is truly something (which has really been highlighted since the announcement of this album).

And yeah, Beyoncé soo country! Been country! Is country and never shied away from it!

[flossytiptin]

Victoria Monét in On My Mama music video gifs pt 6

[powerlineprincess]

☆a spider building a web☆35mm 2024 K.E.A Lux Hill☆

[theafroamericaine]

Source

[cassiopoet]

Beauty/Death

You smile at the deer eating grass by the underpass

you smile at the dead ones on the highway too

Beauty does not stop at death to you.

4/9/24 via @cassiopoet

art is mine :]

[yinlotus]

Afro-American / Soulaan Culture: 1950s-1970s Girlhood

[vulturress-bone-pile]

a little peek into my collection

[hassanaliondant]

[bearimba]

Cooldown doodle featuring the beloved :)

edited bc I decided I didn't actually like the other drawing

[vinniedangerous]

Niggas Gonna Be Ok (ft. Kamus Leonardo)

Lyrics

Hook:

From the jump I’ve been through hell they thought I’d fail but I’m still here/Throughout history tried to wipe us off the map but we’re still here/In this game they want me gone but no I think I’ll stay/No matter what they say/ Niggas gonna be ok (x3)/

Verse 1:

This is my black pride/What the panthers stood for before they died/Florida textbooks won’t have inside/Can’t put this on the shelf for a quick dime/Labels tell you to not put it in your lyrics suburban kids won’t buy it/But nowadays nobody buy this shit anyway so might as well try it/I’m about this shit, ain’t gotta look like shit, niggas in suits still get lynched/You take us away and this world would look like shit without our influence/From the family to the stranger that hit the head nod when I see ya/From our highest heights to our lowest moments y’all are still my niggas/

Verse 2 (Kamus Leondardo):

Doing what I’m supposed to out in Nova Scotia/ Sipping wine watching whales, handing out Dames posters/ Can’t forget the coasters I don’t mean to sell I just used it when I rolled up/ Flickin ashes on an oyster/ Got me feeling boisterous not hearing what the noise is/ Somewhere feeding Koi fish attracting good fortune/ I don’t really care what they say we gon be okay/ I don’t really care what they say niggas gone be okay/

Verse 3:

Fuck them crackas that want to say nigga you don’t even matter/No exception I don’t care if a nigga is your favorite rapper/I don’t care if this your favorite song and you want to sing it with me/When that part come on you better mute it like we did R. Kelly/Fuck that nigga/If he locked up & all your victims black I ain’t yelling free that nigga/If he always talking down on black folks, I don’t see that nigga/We can’t let no Uncle Ruckus walk among us/I might bring back FUBU, if it’s for us then we gotta buy us/

[homiesondaweb]

GIVE ME JEFFERSON SENDING MILES DOWN TO HIS COUNTRY ASS COUSINS FOR THE SUMMER OR GIVE ME DEATH🗣️🗣️🗣️

The 100% get him into ATV and Dirty riding.

The boy has gained 25 pounds of muscle and 5 more inches by the start of July

Every college in Atlanta, Texas, and Tennessee is pounding on the Morales door for him.

Miles had made friends with multiple deer

Someone gave him a forest camo hoodie and a gold chain

They make him stand on a horse and he starts crying.

I'm still tryna decide if he's Midwest county or down south country

The Pentecostal church be triggering his Spidey sense and his great aunties gotta drag him to the car every morning

Charlie Wilson and Saturday mornings now trigger his PTSD

Cries because he can't get Big Granny's greens back home (Jeff cries wit him)

Has never ate this much pork in his fucking life

Had another life changing coming of age moment on a late night drive with 6 of his cousins in someone's pick up and a bottle of crown. They came back wiser yet more foolish.

Would like to go the rest of his life never hear cicadas every again, give him that city noise pls.

Cried seeing all the stars for the first time

Has made friends with every tamale lady in the tri-state area

[tani-b-art]

Beyoncé should write a book on her iconography within her motion art! I need her explanation of the imagery she uses. The meaning of her intent for the specific reason. What message she’s relaying visually.

Especially for this era she’s in (after Beyoncé Bowl).

[flossytiptin]

Football Pads Fashion ft OutKast, Teezo Touchdown & Travis Scott

[willowways]

While it’s important to not let the ( suspected; not yet convicted) shooters politics overshadow what he did it’s weird how many people believe that the revolution will begin with people of color and other minorities “getting over themselves” and keeping their mouths shut about his views altogether

[bohemian-nights]

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that.

-James Baldwin🖋️