Looking for a playlist to follow? I make them in my spare time for fun. They're all themed and all on
@Spotify
. And I'm a nerd about it. I update them at various frequencies. I'm gonna drop a bunch of them here. Maybe you'll land on something you like. [THREAD]
Meanwhile, "euphoria" has exposed an all-time low in reading/listening comprehension and critical thinking. Y'all claim you want that real lyricism but maybe you're truly not equipped to digest it.
Rolling Stone
#GRAMMYs
predictions — Album of the Year —
@Adele
reasserted her dominion,
@Beyonce
made the planet her dance floor, and
@rosalia
created pop music sans borders
Who will win: Adele
Who should win: Beyoncé
See ALL the nom predictions here:
In 1992, In Living Color did a special *live* episode during halftime of Super Bowl XXVI. You had to switch from CBS to FOX to watch. It drew almost 30M viewers. The following year, the NFL pulled the Brinks truck up to Neverland Ranch. The birth of the Super Bowl Halftime Show.
@Glock_Topickz
@MorningHustleAM
Body language screaming in this clip. Didn’t even give her the full frontal stance. Gave her the shoulder and 45 degree stance. Literally answered her questions sideways. Protecting his energy. He did well. In all honesty, she’s wild lucky. I woulda been flagrant.
BREAKING: The Senate has voted 50-49 in favor of moving the $1.9 trillion COVID relief package forward using budget reconciliation.
No Republicans voted for the resolution.
@318Dayion
I don't know how this all began, but I just wanna point out that this woman shoved him a good four or five times and he let it go. And when a dude got between them, she got all brave and swung. AND THEN RAN. That tells you everything. Keep your f*cking hands to yourself, y'all.
Dilla ended up crafting this for Erykah after she randomly pulled a record off one of his shelves in Detroit (she literally just reached out and grabbed whatever) and played the first song on the vinyl. On some Rhythm Roulette sh*t. It was “Dreamflower” by Tarika Blue.
@DiscussingFilm
This is literally a terrible joke. Somehow worse than Chris' joke. Forget the fact that it's about involuntary manslaughter on a movie set. Just mechanically, it's a horrible joke. What does Don't Look Up have to do with Rust? It's so sad that ppl don't know how to just be quiet.
@shannonsharpeee
This is like 1000x less ridiculous than holding a gun on IG Live. There’s no correlation between the two. But somehow these grainy photos of him getting a lapdance in a room that looks like Scrooge McDuck’s vault is the thing that’s gonna make it way worse for one reason.
The best part about Beyoncé albums regardless of genre? It’s a collaboration of creatives. An army of them. Writers, producers, graphic designers, set designers, wardrobe, editors, etc. It’s a whole universe of folks. More ppl need to approach things collaboratively.
@WorldLatinHoney
Ya man John Henry discovered a time machine, hit the shuffle button and ended up in a NYC McDonald's in 2022 and had to witness this. He was PERPLEXED. He didn't know Black men could carry axes for fun now and not to chop wood.
One of the best back and forth verses in rap history happened on the radio on Jan 12, 2001 and never appeared anywhere else after. I carried the Roc-A-Fella HOT 97 Takeover freestyles around on my iPod like it was an album.
My favorite part of the Caitlyn Clark/Angel Reese discourse is that the gesture we're all talking about was popularized by a white dude but jacked from a Black man. It's a racial double standard and an cultural appropriation 2-for-1. Fun times.
I know this has been said on here before but it's one of my favorite things ever: Ke Huy Quan's entertainment lawyer is Jeff Cohen, his costar in The Goonies.
#Oscars
The Jan 6 Committee's star witness is British filmmaker/documentarian Nick Quested, who embedded himself within the Proud Boys for a project he was developing about division in the U.S., not knowing he was collecting evidence of a planned insurrection.
Nick also directed this.
NYC antivaxxers, some wearing MLK images, storm a Burger King to protest vaccine mandates and begin cussing at each other. Many scatter when the NYPD show up.
@RossiSongo
For those not following, the Black man they put him in the room was not the man that tried to rob him. They wanted him to falsely ID someone for their arrest quota. And how funny and coincidental that this was the CENTRAL PARK PRECINCT.
@iamMelsmith
This so reminds me of one of the first times we took our youngest out post the worst waves of the pandemic. To Home Depot. Imagine one of your first major outings being HOME DEPOT? It might as well have been American Gladiators. He was trying to climb EVERYTHING.
I ate in the café at IKEA for the first time in my life today. I wasn’t aware that the mashed potatoes were hittin’ like that. Do ppl go to IKEA just to eat?
@snoozeflo
I swear to everything I thought y'all were playing around and made an edit. THIS IS REAL. On the doorstep of one of the biggest Disney remakes of all time w/ The Color Purple around the corner and she said "...let's do Pound Town, that'll be cute."
@masterwilliams
Y'all already twisting the words that came directly from her mouth and it's sad. She saved an entire car of black people from getting shot after SHE got shot by a bum ass n*gga IN THE CAR she had just left. IN LOS ANGELES. Period.
@legitblacksmith
@MatthewACherry
Overt surveillance is the official terminology for it. The idea is that they can use facial recognition technology to single out ppl that might want to grab. And it’s no coincidence whatsoever that it’s following a rap concert.
Do y'all know how hard it is to get banned from the two biggest social media apps in the world? Do you know the volume of vitriol and garbage you have to spew to make that happen?
@iAmJoeBlunt
Tell your mom that I’ve never seen someone work it so hard to Zhane’s “Vibe” in my entire life. This song is an early evening 2-step situation. She was dancin’ like she was trying to get a spider out her clothes. With that being said, she killed it.
Y’all know
#VERZUZ
is dead, right? And the crazy part is it didn’t have to die. It was a moment in time. A very fun one. They had a clear runway. But they had no intentions of cultivating it. They did the opposite. They no-look passed it to company not of the culture for a bag.
Can we bring it back to 2018 when Drake congratulated Kendrick for outselling him and Kendrick replied with a verse on the Black Panther album that said "Don't Congratulate Me - I Don't Like You" 😭
@XavierDLeau
She knew what time it was before she even pulled the first knot out. She wasn’t confident at all. It was written all over her face. Please stick to your Vidal Sassoons and Herbal Essences, y’all. This is not for you whatsoever.
Giancarlo Esposito turned 65 this week. I wanna be able to pull off fits like this in my 60s. I’ve never made a vision board but this would be dead center if I did.
I don't appreciate Becky Hammon coming on NBA Today talking crazy about my squad and being absolutely right about it w/ historical facts to back it up.
Becky Hammon: [The Knicks] don't have a dude... you got to have a 1A dude."
Kendrick Perkins: "They do have that dude."
B: "Who?"
K: "Jalen Brunson."
B: "He too small. If your best player is small, you're not winning... Steph Curry is the only dude."
@shannonsharpeee
I’m not gonna sit here and lie and say that I wasn’t impressed at how he ate those first three punches. That’s when he should have exited the building. But no. He kept spinning that Wheel of Fortune and hit bankrupt.
@mitchell_ness
C’mon, y’all. You see this? *THIS* is a jersey dress. Please look at the form of it and the fit. What you’re selling above is an oversized jersey. Women can just go in their uncle’s closets or a thrift shop and find those.
It’s kinda difficult to fall asleep when your president just gave the National Guard the green light to shoot black people via Twitter.
What are we doing here,
@jack
?
@larrenwong
When the employee hit you first, John Legend’s voice singing “give me the greeeeen liiiiiiiight” popped in my head. Made him backspin on the counter and everything.
@shannonsharpeee
“We love you Dave” pretty much cancels out anything they were trying to get across here. Not to mention the woman’s name is ANGEL, not Angela. They coulda kept this.
🔊 "Oh, I'm thrilled to be part of reggae." 🔊
Angela Lansbury hears the '90s reggae/dancehall anthem 'Murder She Wrote' by
@chaka_pliers
for the first time ever
I don't want ppl coming in here and thinking I'm making light of her death. I'm in my 40s. Both Murder She Wrote the TV show (my parents watched it religiously) and the song (too many parties too mention) are burned in my brain for eternity. This is me giving her flowers.
It also should be noted that the ratings for Michael Jackson’s performance at the Super Bowl XXVII halftime show were better than the actual game itself.
@iamMelsmith
I wouldn’t have been mad in the least if it was Bad Bunny that went home w/ that. But they gave him the Música Urbana earlier statue so I knew it was a wrap. Just like they hedged w/ Bey for Best Dance album.
Please don’t do these little compilations if you weren’t actually there. I was at the clubs. I was at the lounges. I was at the house parties. Not one single artist in this video was considered underrated.
@LeadersOTN
Please note at the :20 mark that my guy in the sweats grabs his bag of snacks and was ready to leave. But the white guy tripled and quadrupled down on the “n*gga” and right then... it was decided.
And bc the internet is amazing (for the most part), the entire live episode of In Living Color from 1992 is on YouTube. Peep the countdown clock on the bottom left so you knew when to switch back to CBS. The NFL had no hand in this at all. They were TIGHT.
@AngryBen_
Everywhere you go, they stop, they scared / when I’m blasting the fo’ / AT YA HEAAAAD AND YA TOOOOES / OUTTTTA CONTROOOOL baby you knooow... 🎶
Even if we never, ever get a joint album (and we probably won't), we can always cherish the fact that Jay Elec is the only person to ever get Hov to perform the "Young, Black & Gifted" freestyle live on stage.
@WorldWideWob
Security yanked that woman off the floor like when they peeped that Truman’s dad snuck back onto the set of The Truman Show disguised as a homeless man.
A photo from my disposable camera on the night of June 7, 1999 at Bowery Ballroom.
@fatbellybella
eventually made it after getting stuck in traffic. And did her first ever stage dive.
@arymsway_
@theDYNAMICS
And your first inclination was to pull your phone out and take a pic? Well, the tweet is doing what you expected it to do, so congrats there. But did you call 911 or anything? Please tell us that you did that at least?
This whole thing is a money grab w/ Xmas lights on it and nobody is really gonna get hurt for real but I just want Mike to give him one good fireball to the bread basket to let him know it's real.