#kiki k

[colinfirth]

Without even thinking about it, I used to be able to fly. Now I'm trying to look inside myself and find out how I did it. KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE 1989 — dir. Hayao Miyazaki

[k-yujin]

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[devdas5z]

Xu Jiaqi

[dustedmagazine]

K-the-I??? & Kenny Segal — Genuine Dexterity (Backwoodz Studioz)

It was a pleasant surprise when the announcement came through that Billy Woods’ Backwoodz Studioz had a late-year release in store from Kiki Ceac and Kenny Segal. Anyone paying attention to hip-hop in the last 10 years well knows Segal’s name, most likely via Woods’ acclaimed Hiding Places and Maps. But anyone paying attention to hip-hop in the last 20 years will recognize Ceac’s peculiar K-the-I??? nom de plume from releases on Mush, Ninjatune and Big Dada. Memories are short in the rap game, though, so if anything, Genuine Dexterity serves as a welcome reintroduction to one of the finer artists working downstream from Def Jux’s late-1990s breakout.

Like others in the Backwoodz orbit, K-the-I??? has weathered the whims of hip-hop taste making over a timeline that’s taken him from Cambridge, Mass to L.A. to Chicago to Berlin and back again. He took a mid-2010s sabbatical from music altogether. As he noted in an illuminating interview with Caltrops Press over the summer, his writing has gone from paper and pen to freestyles on a phone that then get printed out so he can read them clearly from behind the mic. He’s a fan of Broadcast and Mach-Hommy alike. This is a dude who knows what it means to be older, wiser, more focused, less provincial.

It shows in the rhymes and rhythms of Genuine Dexterity. “Ionosphere” sets the album in motion as it will continue, and it’s clear right from the off that K has not come to play around — these rhymes are razor-sharp. One thing that’s always impressed me dating back to my first brush with him on 2006’s Broken Love Letter is the clarity of his vocal delivery for such high speeds of tongue-twisting spitting. If anything, what it conveys is a sense of engagement, that K is locked all the way in; you can get him rifling through his verses before pulling up the reins to make sure you notice how easily he says his mission statement: “I bet I can touch the sky so easily / even if you don’t believe in me.” Features from formidable emcees like ShrapKnel, Open Mike Eagle and Fatboi Sharif do nothing to deter this attentiveness.

For his own part, Segal aids and abets with some of his better recent beats. While K’s tearing the mic apart alongside both Woods and Armand Hammer compatriot Elucid on “Spellcasted Television,” Segal lays down a beat to match with scrawling guitar that weds spacey synths and claustrophobically dirty percussion; it recalls nothing so much as the best El-P productions. Vinyl crackle lines the sax-wailing, vibraphone-inflected “Warhammer.” More jazz sampling, this time featuring a busy bassline and more horns, hit on “Crushed Heavenly.” Rubber-band oscillations straight out of a 1950s sci-fi film drive the verses of “Season of the Sickness” before the bass weight hits for the chorus. A bubblingly bucolic, RJD2-esque downtempo tone colors “Immediate Imminent Immunity.” Together with K and company tying it all together, the album works as one despite its occasionally surprising sonic ventures.

There’s a loose union of antediluvian hip-hop vets out there — Run the Jewels, the Backwoodz crew, Open Mike, Roc Marciano, Shabazz Palaces, you know these names — that in recent years have found a modicum of fame while maintaining a respectable semblance of artistic integrity. With Genuine Dexterity, it’s safe to add K-the-I??? to that list. The game, as it turns out, needed him.

Patrick Masterson

[speakofthedebbie]

cant believe no one pointed out that kikis freckles are stars. shocked and heartbroken

[theamazingfeeling]

Retail therapy 🛍

[pizzatimewarners]

Reuploaded my main CEC OCs (and Brook Branch who’s now no longer a main character but a side character) in the style of the upcoming cartoon because I reworked the lore and story I made.

I made a community post on YouTube explaining why I no longer ship Bruck E. (Chuck E. x Brook). Long explanation short, I’m going to therapy for my anxiety and depression and I decided to make an OC for me to vent. She’s kind of a self-insert but still her own character. The ship name for Chuck E. and Kiki is Chiki. ^^

[pocket-jack]

Would you guys enjoy some Kikitober challenge if I make one?

[kaiser1ns]

seek my vision please young chika and 2018 jungkook LOOK EXACTLY THE SAME !!! THEY ARE THE SAME PERSON!!

(i shall now seek answering the asks in my inbox)

[purple0-0lilac]

K is for Kiki

I play the English Version of Animal Crossing, so I know here as Kiki! I say this because I know her name is different depending on the localizations (like her name also being Caviar, or references to female cats and jingling bells, etc.)

Playing Animal Crossing New Horizons, she became my favorite villager (for several reasons), the third resident on my island of Sandies! The cat villagers are also my favorite and she is on the top of the list, taking over Olivia's spot.

Kiki belongs to Nintendo

Edit: I realized that I forgot the border outline that I was doing for all these challenge drawings today (5/31)! My mistake!

[nobbykun]

Artist - 郷ひろみ・樹木希林 (Go, Hiromi & Kiki, Kirin) Song - 林檎殺人事件 (Ringo Satsujin Jiken) [Eng. "Apple Murder Case"] Release Date - June 1978

Listen 🎶

https://rumble.com/v54fcn2-hiromi-go-and-kirin-kiki-ringo-satsujin-jiken.html

My blog: Showa Music Library https://nobbykun.tumblr.com/

[iwanttobepersephone]

I have been in this new house for a month now, and one of my closest friends, who I would routinely update on our progress packing and moving, just now realized I moved. He's like "hey if I pay you can you come clean my cats' litter boxes I'm going across the country for like a month" and I'm like "I don't like 2 minutes away from you anymore! I can't!" Like KIKI. SIR. HOW ARE YOU THIS STUPID

[kindlythevoid]

So hey guys I feel like I should finally say that I've been posting a Merlin fix-it time-traveling fic that's Arthur-centric over on Ao3. And, like. I just finished posting it's mini-sequel series today. So that's two stories in the series done. Felt like I should finally let ppl know what was going on. Feel free to check it out here or ask me any questions. :)

Below is a slightly-spoiler-y meme based off the latest chapter that I posted today:

Please enjoy. :)

[devdas5z]

Xu Jiaqi

[married-2-the-music]

A Kpop Fan’s Favorite Alternative Music

Though this is a k-pop blog, first and foremost, I enjoy music from all around the world, in a dozen different languages. So here are those albums, if you’re interested! This page is alternative, from Lana Del Rey to Florence + The Machine.

(For all best albums, click here)

(For all non-Kpop, click here)

Alternative is a large genre, but tends towards understated; light and ethereal, drifting in and out of your ears, often with a comforting message. Think Generation by Triple S, Life Goes On by BTS, or Palette by IU.

[iceicewifey]

ads that popup the app store and open the browser my fucking beloathed FUCK OFF