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🤜🏿 that 🔔 if u fw the vibes ✊🏾
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N.W.A., Laylaw from Above The Law, and The D.O.C. before their performance during the "Straight Outta Compton" tour at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri 1989, © Raymond Boyd
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"Politics (Re-shoot)(Wordplay #9)"
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THE ILLEST CHRISTIAN DEATH METAL RAPPER I EVER HEARD
With Election Day finally over with it was an absolute pleasure to speak with Marty Hillard of the legendary Ebony Tusks crew out of Lawrence, Kansas; from Los Angeles to the Midwest, it’s time for J.T. the L.A. Storyteller Podcast to branch out, and I could think of no better way to do so than with support from Hillard, a powerhouse of talent and authenticity. We discussed Hillard’s earliest…
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Grace The Evangelist - 'Christ Walkin' | @gracemusic314
Grace The Evangelist - 'Christ Walkin' | @gracemusic314
Grace The Evangelist releases her latest single – “Christ Walkin” on all streaming music platforms Grace The Evangelist aka Annette G. Peoples was born in St. Louis, MO. She is an independent Christian Hip-Hop/Gospel Rap artist and minister who has been involved in the Christian Hip-Hop scene for several years with music premiered on Holy Culture Radio/Sirius XM Radio, receiving a 10 of 10-star…
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Happy Birthday Tech N9ne‼️
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MC Rue "little bird" Ft. Cvmel (Single)
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MC Rue "little bird" Ft. Cvmel (Single)
MC Rue a triple threat of producer, artist, and engineer releases his latest single “little bird” featuring Cvmel. The Mexican-born, Kansas City native shows off his knack for canvasing an enticing Hip Hop and R&B nuptial. An intro with smooth, soulful harmonies over gentle keys commences
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Safe & Sound | j.m. | 4
Joel Miller x fem!reader
Word Count: 2.3k
Warnings: Canon levels of violence. Murder.
Author's Note: Listen. All I want is a man who is soft for me and our adopted child, but is also willing to straight up murder someone for me.
Series Masterlist | Talk to Me!
Something shifted between the two of them after Joel admitted what he’d really done to the man beyond the fence. It was an unspoken change; something that she didn’t quite understand because she realized she didn’t quite understand Joel overall. But it was within this change that she realized he cared.
Joel Miller cared about her.
He always had.
The cold, jaded smuggler —who made it clear to her the second time he’d kissed her, for her 25th birthday, that what they were doing was a favor and nothing more. Who told her that he wouldn’t touch her beyond hands in her hair or on her hips. Who insisted that every kiss was careless and simply to give her some semblance of experience. To experience intimacy without strings attached —fucking cared about her. Enough so that he did terrible things to the man that tricked her and got her to leave the safety of her uncle’s fence.
It wasn’t that she thought he didn’t. She always assumed he kind of cared, just a little bit. If anything, she hoped he had simply because it made kissing him feel less impersonal. But after what happened, with the man from the QZ, she had stopped stealing kisses from Joel. Stopped wanting to feel any kind of intimacy, because it had been ripped away from her.
But now that she knew what he’d done —for her —things had shifted. Frank had always warned her that Joel was not a good person; neither was Tess for that matter. She always knew that neither of them were good people. But knowing that Joel did something genuinely sadistic because someone had hurt her…
It excited her. Made her feel desired, and looked after. But it made her excited to think that Joel —who had insisted that kissing her meant nothing. That he didn’t care if she talked to anyone else because they weren’t anything —hurt someone for her.
Killed someone for her.
The end of the world really fucked a person’s perspective up.
The shift in their behavior wasn’t all that noticeable –not really, at least. Joel was still stubborn and annoyed with both her and Ellie whenever they spoke too much. And there was still a semi-permanent scowl on his face as they drove. But occasionally –when he thought she wasn’t looking –he’d glance at her. Glance at her lips, then her hands. And just barely –she could see the tug at the corner of his lips. And it made her heart pound in her ears.
But any moment of normalcy was stripped away when they stopped in the middle of a graveyard of cars, just outside Kansas City.
“We’re gonna have to go through the city,” Joel huffed, hands on his hips as they looked up at the blocked highway tunnel.
She climbed on top of a car, peering through the rubble the best she could. “It’s clear on the other side. Isn’t there another exit we could go back to?”
Joel glanced at Ellie, who held the map in her hands. “Don’t look at me,” Ellie started, putting her hands up. “FEDRA didn’t teach me to read maps, remember?”
“God, you’re lucky you’re funny,” she teased, hopping off the car she stood on and walking back to the teenager to take the map from her. “Because you’re kind of useless otherwise.”
“Wow, fuck you too.”
“I’m only joking,” she reassured, elbowing Ellie with a grin. The girl still mumbled under her breath, but peered over her shoulder. “There’s an exit like two miles back we can go back to.”
“Might still be quicker to get through the city,” Joel argued, taking the map from her to look it over himself. Their fingers brushed against one another, and she glanced up to see if he even noticed.
“And run the risk of infected? Or raiders?”
“Runnin’ that risk regardless,” he reminded her, giving her a pointed look as he returned the map to her and made his way back to the truck.
Ellie and her shared a look, before following after him. The teenager peered into cars, but she grabbed Ellie’s backpack and tugged her along. There were plenty of dead bodies in these cars, and she wasn’t sure what Ellie had seen in her life –but she would rather the teenager not see more than necessary.
“Okay mom,” Ellie groaned, pulling her arms out of her backpack straps and letting the weight drop.
“We need one of those leashes parents used to put on their kids,” she mused, adjusting her hold on the backpack before she tossed it into the backseat of the truck. “You remember those?”
Joel chuckled, earning a smile from her as she looked up at him. “Oh, I remember. Had one for my –,”
But he stopped, and the smile he had given her dropped. For a moment, she considered reassuring him –telling him that it was okay to talk about his kid. But she knew better than to try; not right now anyway. Her brow furrowed as Ellie climbed into the backseat, not noticing the sudden shift in Joel. As far as Ellie was concerned, Joel was always like that –it didn’t mean much.
She hopped into the front seat, keeping her eyes on the road in front of them as Joel backed away and moved to find them a better route.
*****
“Where the fuck is the highway?” Joel snapped, looking around the streets. “It’s gotta be right –it’s gotta be –,”
“Joel!” Ellie exclaimed, hitting both her and Joel to point out the window. “Isn’t that the QZ?”
“Where’s FEDRA?” She asked, looking up at Joel in confusion.
He gripped the steering wheel tighter, realizing what had happened there. As he was about to explain, however, someone started crying out for help. She turned to face the cries, reaching out to grab his arm but he pushed her away.
“Put your seatbelts on,” he ordered, looking back at Ellie to make sure she was following orders.
“Aren’t we going to help him?” Ellie asked, but Joel shook his head as the tires squealed against the pavement and he took off.
The man cursed at them, jumping out of the way, but she grabbed his arm and yelled out, pointing just too late as a cinder block crashed into the windshield. Ellie ducked behind him, and she dug through her bag to pull out her gun as shots rang out around them. Joel cursed angrily, whipping around a turn –only to have nails tear apart the tires. She held the gun out the window, shooting blindly at their attackers, as a barrage of bullets ripped through the windows. He pushed her down, forcing her to duck, as he drove into a storefront.
Gunfire rang out around them, but he turned to look over Ellie, making sure she was okay. Confirming she was, he turned to the passenger seat, where she was holding a bloody hand covered in glass. But she didn’t seem phased, shoving the door open and sliding to the ground. Ellie followed close behind and she wrapped her arms around the teenager, keeping her close, as Joel joined them outside the truck.
“You see that hole?” He demanded, pulling his shotgun from the backseat and cocking it. Ellie nodded, breathing heavily as a shot shattered another window of the truck. “When I tell you, both of you, get through that hole. Do not come out ‘til I tell you to –understand me?”
Ellie nodded frantically, trying to pull away from her to get closer to Joel. She, however, shook her head. “You’re not taking them on alone,” she snapped at him, reloading her gun and cocking it.
“Yes, I fuckin’ am,” he snapped at her, pushing her towards Ellie. “You’re hurt, and I need someone to –go,”
The gunfire ceased, just momentarily, and Joel shoved her towards the hole in the wall. Ellie was ahead of her, slipping through the drywall with ease. She hesitated, looking back at him with weary eyes, before finally squeezing through with a bit more effort. He kept his eyes on that spot for a moment, before finally moving to take aim at their attackers.
One shot hit, and silence followed for a moment before the other shooter started screaming at him. Joel moved to reload, ducking back down against the truck, only for the gun to jam in his hands. He made a sound of anger, trying to fix it. Just in time, the other hostile came after him —but a gunshot rang out and his would-be attacker dropped.
He looked to the hole in the wall, where she was perched with her aim at the hostile on the floor. Chest tightening at the sight, he took a breath as she pulled back, no doubt to check on Ellie. When he went to retrieve his gun, however, someone grabbed him from behind and threw him to the ground.
Joel kicked out, trying to pry the gun from his throat, to catch his breath. But he couldn’t get a firm grip, and could feel the oxygen rapidly leaving his lungs. Vaguely, he could hear Ellie’s voice, arguing with her about something, before his vision started to get spotty.
But another gunshot rang through his ears, and the air flooded Joel’s lungs again as he watched through blurry eyes as his attacker was swung at with a pipe and dropped to the ground. Ellie clutched the gun in her hands as she gripped the bloody pipe like a lifeline.
She stood there, grasping the lead pipe in her hands like it was the only thing keeping her grounded. Blood dripped off the end of the weapon, and a closer eye would notice it was trembling. Joel was pushing onto his hands and knees, trying to regain his breath, though his eyes were glued to her. When he managed to push himself from the ground, he turned to both of his girls.
“Why did that feel so much worse than shooting him?” She whispered, as Joel pried the pipe from her grip.
“Because it was more violent,” he explained softly, though his voice was hoarse from being choked out. Ellie held the gun out to him to take, but he just stared at her for a moment before tossing the pipe to the side.
“Oh, yeah,” she managed to say, and he could hear the shock that laced her voice. “That…that makes sense.”
“We need to get outta here before more come,” he commanded, taking Ellie’s arm in his hand to haul her with him. “We need to get higher up; find out how to get outta here.”
Ellie nodded once, reaching out to take her hand. The touch seemed to bring her back to reality, and Joel watched as she turned to look down at the teenager with a glassy eyed stare. Joel let Ellie go, letting the two cling to one another as he motioned them forward and towards the back door of the store.
*****
It took several hours, but they did eventually get to the tallest building they could find. Joel had spent several of those hours trying to apologize to both Ellie and her for having to shoot and kill people —but Ellie finally managed to get him to stop by telling him it wasn’t the first time she’d killed someone.
The admission seemed to surprise both her and Joel, but Ellie blew off the concerns and started trekking up the stairs of the building. Ellie, in trying to avoid talking about her first time killing someone, asked if she had ever killed someone. To which she simply said no, and moved on to climb the stairs ahead of them. Ellie wondered if Joel was going to bug her later, when he thought the teenager was asleep.
In hindsight, having Joel climb forty something flights of stairs was stupid. However, it was his idea and Ellie was quick to remind him of that after they finally made it to the top and he fell against the wall, trying to catch his breath.
“Finally showing your age, cowboy,” she suddenly joked —the first thing she’d said in hours —as she leaned against the wall next to him.
Ellie waited for him to scold her for the cowboy comment but it never came. Pretending to not listen to them, Ellie peered into a handful of opened doors, looking around. However, she kept a close ear and eye on what they were saying and doing, even as she moved through the hallway.
“Guess we’re even now,” she was saying, looking down at Joel.
“Don’t say shit like that,” he warned, shaking his head as he ran his hands over his face. “You shouldn’t’ve —you didn’t need to —,”
“You were being strangled to death,” she reminded him, and her voice was suddenly shaking; Ellie could hear it clear as day as Joel finally stood up again. “I couldn’t —Ellie needs you, and I…I need you, Joel.”
Ellie’s hand froze on a door knob, listening closely as she realized what was happening. From the corner of her eye, Ellie could see her offering her hand to Joel, who was looking up at her with the nicest fucking look he's had ever and Ellie was genuinely just shocked. She was telling Joel she had a thing for him! In the middle of the fucking apocalypse, while they were being hunted down!
“Holy shit,” Ellie whispered to herself, and it must have caught their attention because they stepped away from one another and towards her.
“Find anything?” She asked, hauling her backpack over her shoulder as she joined Ellie at the door.
“Cleanest room I could find,” Ellie offered with a grin. “Must have been like, a honeymoon suite or something.”
She gave Ellie a weird look as Joel approached, pushing past them and into the room. Ellie gave her a thumbs up, smiling at her knowingly before following after Joel into the room.
From behind her, Ellie heard Frank’s niece simply ask herself, “What the fuck?”
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GARAGES SONGS ASSIGNED TO FANTASY HIGH CHARACTERS (AND SOME OTHER STUFF)
For context, the garages were a band who wrote songs based off a game called blaseball, mainly rock but not confined directly too it. I am assigning some of their songs to fantasy high characters for the very small subset of people who are interested a.k.a mainly me. Most of these are based off season 1 but there is influence from the others. 👍
FIG
-Pyschoacoustics: Very loud but also kinda team based! (The bigger the garage/ the better the sound/ we’re just so glad you came around)
- Vanessa tables, the cheesiest love song ever. I can totally imagine fig singing this.
- ALBUMS: either Underground (its heavy metal) or Short circuit (psychoacoustics esque, it’s so loud!!!)
- CHARACTERS THEY WOULD LOVE? Probably Betsy Trombone or Allison Abbot. Or Jaylen HotdogFingers. Big Garages Fan probably.
ADAINE
- so mediocre, it’s about not being good enough and being told your not good enough. Yeouch.
-Sidelined, same album same reason but this one ends happier cause people do believe in them :)
- the entire Kansas City breath mints team failed the bar exam,
- won’t strike out, it’s about a frog kicking ass. For everyone who doesn’t know blaseball google chorby short right now.
- ALBUMS: either unstable (the first two songs are from it) or, while not a album, The Mike Townsend Trilogy because she would one hundred percent understand the looked down on for not being good enough vibe.
- CHARACTERS THEYD LOVE? Mike Townsend, Chorby Short, maybe Sebastion Telephone cause underperforming sibling vibes. I can see her being a big Hawaii Fridays fan or more accurately Yellowstone Magics
KRISTEN
- And I mean all gods, the first line is “I need to email god because I have some issues”. Kristen would say that, 100%.
- solar eclipse, this one’s a little bit of everyone but it feels especially Kristen because of the direct callouts to god in it. She’d very much understand this one I think.
- ALBUMS weirdly enough, no clue. She would probably like the garages kill gods cause of the title and maybe pathetic/spineless cause repressed rage.
CHARACTERS THEYD LOVE? Most of the like goofy ones I think. She’d see pitching machine (a player who is an actual honest to god pitching machine) and start cheering. She would actually maybe enjoy the monitor who is a god but is also a pushover and eventually anticapitalist. Shed like Randall Marijuana if only cause he’s called “Randy weed” She’d also be a big Fridays person but I can see her being a Hellmouth Fan.
RIZ
- operation plasma (swing and a miss) it’s a song by the spies about how they want a spy to bring them stuff, riz core.
- beautiful day, I don’t know why I can very much see riz in this, half of it cause shit canonically hits the fan even harder after beautiful day.
- the unremarkable ballad of Derrick Krueger, I can’t explain this one but I think it does have slight riz vibes of like overlooked underdog at the beginning of season 1
- Albums, be my valentine cause some of the songs are very sweet and a decent amount are not even romantic in like partner partner way or percolate or lofi hip-hop brews to kill siesta/kill gods to.
- Players he’d love? Parker McMillan, he’d love the insane complexity of trying to piece them together and like interrogating their socials. He’d be a big Houston Spies fan as well, no surprise, but he’d also be a data witch or something similar on the side, just digging round in the code.
EDIT: he would also love one of my fav players, Evelton mcblase 2, a trans mad scientist who is evil and also occasionally a eel.
GORGUG
- heart full of love mouth full of blood, it’s a little romantic but also about killing to protect your friends
- Mike Townsend is back, I can see him vibing to this, especially with the goofy “I learned how to solo!!!” Part
- hurt people, it’s about desperately not wanting to hurt those around you but being unable to.
- Albums I don’t know! Maybe encore cause some of those are very hard hitting and he’d like that I think but also maybe lofi as well cause chill out vibes. Potentially Immaterial Shores which is a bunch of like sea shanty’s.
-Characters they’d like? Jaylen hotdogfingers as well, he’d understand the tradgedy. Also Theodore Duende. Definitely Nagomi McDaniel because she’s a buff as hell mother , maybe the dad versions of Lenny Marijuana. Generally the strong ones who have hearts of gold. He’d be a Dallas steaks fan (their joke is that they’re all dads or dad adjacent, they do cookouts)
FABIEN
- Top ten Tillman Henderson moments that actually happened, dude I cannot describe it but he would love Tillman, shitheel player who does the silliest shenanigans.
- Rise, I can’t really explain it but the extreme confidence mixed with the knowledge that Jaylen actually deeply regrets her revival and fame feels very Fabian.
- Betsy trombone (+ r - s version) I can’t explain it but specifically this version has Fabian feels.
- Albums. Uhhh maybe just straight up discipline, it’s super long but he’d like it I feel. Something shorter would be Caught in the Reverb I don’t know why but I think he’d like it a bit.
-Favorite Characters? Tillman Henderson, he’d love how much of a shitheel he is. I can see him also liking Nagomi McDaniel and Jessica Telephone. I can also seeing him being part of the Jaylen resurrection efforts and just supporting her girlbossing murder spree. He’d actually care if they’re good at the game, similarly he’d be a crabs fan since they’re pretty consistently good, if not the crabs then the hades tigers cause they’re sick as hell. I can also see him really really enjoying York silk because it’s a 12 year old with a gunblade who’s unironically super strong.
BAD KIDS IN GENERAL
- Well suck forever
- A horrible Mistake we will make again and again
Gilear (special edition!!)
-on fatherhood, im adding this just cause it reminds me of him. If you didn’t know people died in blaseball! That was a key thing! While figs alive this does give that vibe with how much she gets into.
#blaseball#outside of blaseball#fantasy high#dimension 20#music recommendation#music recs#do genuinely listen to the garages#even if not curious about what blaseball was#it’s super good#their songs are about screw capitalism and kill gods#and also love each other#yippee 👍#headcanon
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So, this is my tumblr I intend to use this account to be more open and basically as a restart compared to twitter So, for people who don't know me I'm Kenzie. I'm a plural system of 3, Me, Frost, And Savannah, Just calling me kenzie is good I'm the only one who commonly fronts anyway. My main interests are Music, Cubing and, Basketball I play alot of Jtoh, trackmania 2020, Geometry dash, and l4d2 though the games i play are on constant rotation, expect this to age like milk soon Sports wise I'm mainly fans of my local teams ( kansas city/seattle ) plus my main basketball team the 76ers, i plan on getting more into the NFL and NHL Music wise i listen to alot of metalcore/trancecore/hip hop/post hardcore I'll end up posting my topster here someday hehe So yeah, that's me... Also i'm gay as fuck Btww i like vore also :3
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Black Artist Exploration: The Illustrious Janelle Monáe
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(Before we begin, Janelle is nonbinary and uses she/they pronouns, and therefore, she and they will be used interchangeably)
In each of her distinct eras as a musician, @janellemonae has not only risen to the occasion but brought something extraordinary out of their listeners. They make music for what they're going through and what they're looking for. At every stage of their career, they unboxed new characters and new stories. New challenges for her audience to address in themselves and furthermore liberate themselves from. Monae is not only looking to take up space but to nurture a community for all the arch-androids and pleasure seekers out there. She is a Sagittarius doing right by the stars, liberating people through new ideas and perspectives, and guiding us to the new age.
🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖The Wonderful Janelle Monae🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖
Born Dec 1st in Kansas City, Kansas, Janelle Monae Robinson felt she was destined to be a star. They grew up in the church and theatre, always looking for new opportunities to show off their talent. They have described themselves on numerous occasions as ¨a free-ass motherfucker.” This free-ass personalities genesis started when she was young. Janelle often struggled with her early religious background which had an undesirable effect on her, into adulthood. She was once escorted out of church for singing Michael Jackson´s ¨Beat It.¨ The restrictions she often felt as a kid, is what helped evolve her into a liberated musician and adult.
After high school, they moved to NYC to study at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy for musical theatre. During her time there, she recognized that this was not the place for their talents to flourish. She explained to the Guardian´s Dorian Lynskey,
"I felt like that was a home but I wanted to write my own musicals. I didn't want to have to live vicariously through a character that had been played thousands of times – in a line with everybody wanting to play the same person."
She also acknowledged a lack of diversity drove her out of the school, and she made her way to Atlanta. This was the start of her career and where she would meet some very important names in Hip Hop and R&B. When they lived in Atlanta, they stayed in a boarding house and worked at Office Depot. She performed anywhere she could, including the library steps of Clark-Atlanta, Morehouse, and Spelman -all HBCUs. She would end up being fired from Office Depot, where says she was ¨pushing ink.¨ Ironically, she was fired for attempting to reach out to a fan on their computers. This was a push-comes-to-shove situation where she knew it was time to be all in.
Bria speaking: This exact fucking thing happened to me this year, and bitch, im still getting shoved. But I´m figuring it out every step of the way. For any of my creatives out there who are still trying to get their footing, Janelle´s story is for all of us.
The shove helped her create a song called ¨Lettin' Go,¨ off her 2003 demo The Audition, which brought her attention from none other than Big Boi. She would later be featured on OutKast´s Idlewild, and continued to be featured on a few other projects until in 2006, she signed to Bad Boy Records. This began the professional career of the artist Janelle Monáe.
The Era´s
Merriam-Webster defines an Era as a period identified by some prominent figure or characteristic feature or a stage in development (as of a person or thing)
Just to let y´all know, I am not going into intricate detail on these albums because we would be here all day. 😭
However, maybe I'll study the specific eras of artists in detail for another post, but not today.
The Android era, Cindi Mayweather, and Metropolis
In this era, everything is mechanic, robotic, and Black and white. This era begins with the first EP Metropolis: Suite 1 (the Chase). Here we were introduced to Cindi Metropolis, Janelle´s alter ego, who is an android from 2719. The records from this era, up to Electric Lady, introduce Janelle´s ideology, style, and most importantly the talent they have for world-building in audio and video. Archandroid and ¨We Are Young¨ (2011) were where I was introduced to them, and I have been a fan ever since. For more than half my life, I have loved her talent and their ability to step in and out of androgeny. There are features from Prince, Solange, Erykah Badu, and Miguel.
Dirty Computer and The Memory Librarian (2018)
Dirty Computer (2018) is my favorite era because this is the conclusion of all of the world-building she created in her previous era. This album is all about deconstructing ideologies imposed upon us through the hegemony otherwise known as the owners of the narrative. It´s about acknowledging the harm society has done to brainwash us into feeling shame about our sexualities and general expression. This is the era where Janelle would come out as bi-sexual, acknowledging her own shame around who she was becoming. I really recommend not only listening to the album but watching the film. They also co-wrote a book called The Memory Librarian, which is a collection of short stories that integrated the concept of Afro-Futurism -the integration of black culture and history into concepts of the future. Basically we been Black, will stay Black, and will forever be Black.
The Age of Pleasure and The Tig ole Bitties (2023)
This is the newest album of Janelle´s that caught her a lot of flack. She decided to show her breasts to the world, and many people were not so happy about this. I think her titties are pretty and most would agree. Unlike her earlier eras, this is where she completely omitted the outside world. She is talking about sex, seeking out sex, and partying after a time of the whole world being locked inside. This is where her ideas of liberation hit its pinnacle. You break out the system, and now time to party & fu...
Her influences
Janelle has cited Prince -someone who was a mentor and friend of hers, Sun Ra, Michael Jackson, Grace Jones (a recent collaborator), Quincy Jones, Pam Grier, Tina Turner, David Bowie, Parliament-Fundelics, Stevie Wonder (another collaborator,) Brian Wilson and so many more. Janelle is an artist who knows that to elevate, you need a background, you need a history. If you can´t name the artists before you, who will name you when you're gone. The moral of the story: Study your heroes and icons. You may even get to work with them one day.
Signing off,
B the Virgo
Sources:
For specific links from within the Wikipedia page, make sure you look at the footnotes. It was super duper helpful.
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Snotty Nose Rez Kids Continue to Impress with Latest Release “DEVIL’S CLUB” featuring Rezcoast Grizz
Canadian Indigenous Hip-Hop artists Snotty Nose Rez Kids return with their single "DEVIL’S CLUB," featuring Apsaalooke Nation singer/songwriter Rezcoast Grizz and produced by BZA (Normani, Kevin Gates, Dom Corleo). The gritty track marks the fourth release from their forthcoming album RED FUTURE, slated for release September 13, 2024 – available for pre-save/pre-order here!
“DEVIL’S CLUB is a double meaning. Most people would assume it’s our crew, our ride or dies, but devil’s club is actually a plant that is used as medicine for our people. It's a dangerous plant, covered in spikes, but when cultivated and prepared properly holds a lot of power,” said Yung Trybez.
About the track Young D said, “this track made total sense for Rezcoast Grizz. We've been wanting to get one in with him for a long time and we brought this to him thinking he might hit it with some of his R&B style vocals, but he came at it with an attack and bodied the hook and his verse. This is one of our favourite songs from the upcoming album.”
Along with this highly anticipated release, Snotty Nose Rez Kids have officially announced the Red Future Tour, crossing North America starting this fall in Vancouver, BC on September 21 and ends in Toronto, ON on December 6, 2024. Tickets available for general on-sale today at 10am local time at www.snottynoserezkids.com
The energetic tour starts in Vancouver. BC on September 21, 2024, and ends in Toronto, ON on December 6, 2024. Between this time, they will be performing 34 shows at stops such as Sacramento, Los Angeles, Dallas, Oklahoma City, Kansas City, Detroit, Edmonton, and many more. Full list of tour dates below.
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15 Questions for 15 mutuals (thanks @parmejeannecheese for the tag!!)
Were you named after anyone? I’m pretty sure my mom got the idea for my name from a celebrity but I don’t know the celebrity
When was the last time you cried? Probably pretty recently? I’m guessing during a movie or show this week; I cry pretty often, so it’s hard to keep track 😂 (maybe while watching Love, Victor yesterday???)
Do you have any kids? No; maybe in the next few years? It is still a topic of discussion between me and Jam Man
Do you use sarcasm a lot? Not really? Maybe with Jam Man, idk, we tease each other a lot. But I tend to be the doe eyed genuine person in my friend groups. (Though if I’m talking politics… yeah, maybe pretty sarcastic then)
What sports have you played/do you play? In 8th grade I played basketball but I quit in the middle of the season 😂; I did a full season of cheerleading in 8th grade; and if you count dance- I started dancing in 2nd grade and I still do 😄 I’ve done tap, jazz, ballet, modern, hip hop, and contemporary, which is what I dance now
What’s the first thing you notice about other people? I have no idea, lol; faces, maybe?
What’s your eye color? Brown
Scary movies or happy endings? Happy endings ☺️ I am a scaredy cat; I do like a little horror in my sci-fi/fantasy, explain that, haha, but I’m definitely not a horror movie person
Any special talents? I can do a one-handed cartwheel! Also, I can do the worm, but I never seem to find myself at a 90s dance party in which that skill is useful 🤔. I can also play a little ukelele and I think I’m a decent singer ☺️
Where were you born? Kansas City, Missouri, which I didn’t learn until I was about 10: my dad and his side of the family are Kansan, so my dad told me I was born in Kansas so I wouldn’t feel different 😂 I was shocked and betrayed when I found out- and sad that I wasn’t born in Kansas afterall, lmao.
What are your hobbies? Dancing, strategy board gaming, reading (including book clubbing!), writing fanfiction, and recently- learning to draw!
Do you have any pets? A tuxedo cat! He is very big- people often comment when they meet him and I am often surprised at how small other people’s cats are- and he is turning 7 this year, which according to the vet means he will officially be a senior cat 😭
How tall are you? 4’11”! One of my fun facts is that I am under 5ft tall, which always shocks people bc despite the obviousness of my extreme shortness, I think people are often surprised to find out someone is below 5ft
Favorite subject in school? As a scientist I should probably say science, but it was actually probably English; I always loved reading and writing!
Dream job? If I’m dreaming big, I would like to get out from under the oppressive thumb of capitalism, but barring that… probably a job where I’m doing a mix of environmental protection, environmental field work, and environmental education.
Fifteen mutuals: @saecookie @emberfaye @madeofmydreams @sungmee @waterofthemoon @sk3tchid @eveningstarcatcher @tawnyontumblr @freyjawriter24 @miss-minnelli @madquerade @send-me-off-to-sea @hotchocolatedictator @akinmytua2 @mllekurtz
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