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Ivie Ani

@ivieani

5 months

10 years in media. My first award. Stay the course 💎 Thank you to Harvard and the Nigerian Students Association

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Ivie Ani

@ivieani

4 years

Hoes mad

FRANCE 24

@FRANCE24

4 years

With only three official cases, Africa's low coronavirus rate puzzles health experts

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She gave back to the community on the ground, she enjoyed the lavish sides of Lagos, she supported local creatives, and she didn’t post the signature savior photo opp with orphaned African kids. Love to see it

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We’re unemployed donating more money to funds than millionaires. Hate to see it

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4 years

This was done in tribute to legendary Bronx graffiti artist and pioneer, Phase 2, who passed away this week. RIP

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4 years

Eight whole cars painted from top to bottom in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

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5 years

1. Kodak Black’s rape charges were public for yrs. His peers stayed silent 2. Men being vocal after his Lauren London comments show women are only cared for bc of their proximity to men as a wife/mother/friend. They responded out of respect to another man, not to her as a woman

HOOD VOGUE is tired of poverty

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5 years

Umm..... ok..

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6 years

We’re all praising Beyoncé’s sheer talent, but Beyoncé is more than talent. She’s practice. She’s endurance. She’s calculation. She’s a lifetime of honing craftsmanship.

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4 years

Megan is on IG Live and revealed she was shot in *both* feet and underwent surgery. She said the bullets missed all bones and tendons, luckily. Glad she's here to even talk about this. An amazing survival story.

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7 years

Your WCW says she's "naive" about racism. She has a Black husband and 2 biracial kids. She 36

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4 years

This, of all things, is what he breaks his silence to address.

Rap-Up

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4 years

Tory Lanez is denying reports that his streams have dropped after Megan Thee Stallion shooting

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6 years

The term "genius" is mostly lent to men than to women in music. Like Donald Glover danced shirtless & sang a few diatribes against America & got called a genius. Janelle Monae dropped an entire visual album attached to a decade-long metropolis saga & got asked if she was gay

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4 years

Hip-Hop turns 47 today Thank Jamaica. Thank the Bronx.

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6 years

Roy Moore wanted to get rid of the 19th Amendment. The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote. 64% of white women still voted for him

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3 years

I spend every day thinking about how poverty doesn’t need to exist

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2 years

We should normalize saying “I’m not really interested in this conversation” and walking away

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4 years

No one has jobs. People are dying. We’re still paying rent

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3 years

This is not an exaggeration.

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4 years

If a famous, wealthy, beloved black woman is violated then isn’t allowed grace or even believed, how do you think everyday black women are treated?

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3 years

“Interesting” is my favorite neutral adjective

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4 years

Billie Eilish is beyond talented. Every time I see her I just can’t help but think about how much the youth of white America use black culture for their aesthetic though

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5 years

Kodak Black publicly harassing Young MA for sex as if he wasn’t charged with felony first degreee criminal sexual conduct and doesn’t have an upcoming rape trial he should be worried about

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2 years

Every day, people refuse to accept that Bobby Shmurda is Jamaican

HipHopDX

@HipHopDX

2 years

Wack 100 says Bobby Shmurda is "losing the streets" with his dancing ⏩ READ MORE:

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4 years

A Tribe Called Stressed

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4 years

Essential Realness by Aya Brown

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2 years

Today is the day when everyone posts “pay women” and then don’t

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@ivieani

4 years

They probably made this decision knowing about his 2015 sexual misconduct video case involving a minor

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@Complex

4 years

6ix9ine's $200,000 donation to No Kid Hungry declined: "As a child-focused campaign, it is our policy to decline funding from donors whose activities do not align with our mission and values."

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5 years

Gentle reminder: journalists have to say “allegedly” when reports and accusations surface, regardless of what we believe, so we don’t get sued lol.

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@ivieani

3 years

I once interviewed Kelis & she said ”Either you’re gonna be the biggest pop sensation in the world, or you’re gonna be able to walk in Central Park & like yourself. I made a very distinct choice. People fought me for it. People think it’s weakness or failure. I don’t really care”

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5 years

More than 500 indigenous languages are spoken in Nigeria, yet Nigeria’s official™️ language is English. A Nigerian film in English can’t win the Oscars’ foreign™️ category because it’s not foreign™️ enough. Colonizers love to punish the colonized for being colonized.

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3 years

It's actually wild how high-functioning we've been given all that's happened last year

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5 years

“You don’t possess people; you experience them.” — Lauren London

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9 months

I'm an advocate for re-reading the same books multiple times at different ages and stages in your life. You'll always see or interpret something in a new way. You're bound to learn something new. The discovery never really ends

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@ivieani

5 years

When Christian European missionaries came to West Africa:

CONCRETE BOY BOAT^

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5 years

Bitch u better praise god or ima shoot and das on god

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6 months

One day, it will no longer be controversial to refer to what's happening now as a genocide. In fact, people will pretend they knew and called it what it was all along. Palestine will be free within our lifetime and it will set a precedent for liberation movements across the world

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4 years

What's happening in Nigeria right now is a humanitarian crisis. And now the world is watching.

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3 years

All the heartwarming stories you hear about DMX are true. I’ll save mine for another time

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@ivieani

1 year

Exhausting to see Tory Lanez's legal defense &fans use Megan's sexual history to discredit the testimony that she was shot as if intimate partner violence doesn't affect Black women at alarmingly high rates. As if Black women don't experience gun violence at alarmingly high rates

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6 years

Hi, @kanyewest , I wrote you a letter and a book list, because free thinking devoid of a critical lens is wack. Make America Read Again. @okayplayer

Hey, Kanye, Here's a List of Books You Should Read To Strengthen Your "Free Thinking"

We've compiled a comprehensive list of books on race, the history of slavery, civil rights, capitalism, socialism, and more to help Kanye be a better Kanye.

www.okayplayer.com

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4 years

A lot of rappers are essentially conservatives: wealthy and/or opposed to high taxes, misogynistic, homophobic, etc. Is it a surprise when they begin cozying up to or rallying behind people like Trump?

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Ivie Ani

@ivieani

7 years

To women: You've probably spent most of your life giving. Now it's time to receive. Don't be afraid to take what's yours in 2017.

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Ivie Ani

@ivieani

3 years

Not gonna hold you, Beyoncé's Lion King album aged really, really well

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4 years

If 2019 didn’t make it clear enough, people in high positions across industries generally don’t know what they’re doing

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Dee Barnes was the 1st woman in hip-hop journalism with a broadcast TV show. She says her career derailed in 1991 after being brutally beaten by Dr. Dre, then blackballed. She still has health issues to this day. Now she’s homeless. This is her GoFundMe

Okayplayer

@okayplayer

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Pioneer hip-hop journalist Dee Barnes is now homeless and has started a GoFundMe.

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If you’re first-gen, gotta put “skilled in crisis management” on your résumé

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4 years

Happy Birthday, legends

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6 years

Lil Kim holding men in media accountable for how they cover women in rap is A1

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4 years

“Around 1900 Nigerians were killed by security forces in 2020.” That’s more than twice the amount of people killed by cops in the US this year #EndSARS

AJ+

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4 years

Nigerian protesters have hit the streets for eight consecutive days to call for police reform and an end to police brutality. Since COVID-19 lockdowns began in the country in April, more Nigerians have died from security forces than by the virus.

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Kanye saying he wants to give up his slave name and be called “Ye” as if “Kanye” isn’t already a Nigerian name. Help. I’m tired

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2 months

Beyoncé really is a once in a lifetime artist. A living Black music archive. An immaculate performer. A pop icon turned controversial figure. A legacy artist

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4 years

Lil Kim gave us a lot

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7 years

This is wild and it’s been happening for a while. Italy’s history of sex-trafficking & Nigerian women is believed to have started in the 80s

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4 years

Historically, men in hip-hop who abuse women don’t get ousted or held accountable. Not sure what people are expecting here but the record shows there’ll be little to no recourse. Unless there’s some grand cultural shift over night

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5 years

Rihanna on releasing a photo book applies to everything in 2019

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Big Daddy Kane giving Roxanne Shanté her flowers #VERZUZ

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Normani is talented and I’m ready to see a non-lightskinned black pop/r&b sensation take over

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3 years

Tierra Whack freestyling over the Onyx - Last Dayz instrumental. Not a lot of people rapping better than her

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8 months

As someone who consistently has lucid dreams almost every night, I implore everyone to write them down for this reason. Can’t count how many times literal dreams have turned into a reality

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@victoriantribe

8 months

Victoria is now on her way to the Bey Day Renaissance Show 🐆🐝

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Busta Rhymes is quintessentially hip-hop. He represents everything about its origin and he pioneered so much of what we see and hear now. Him getting this lifetime achievement award on its 50th year is so fitting

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5 years

Ppl critiquing Nicki Minaj for admitting she didn’t know what camp was, but she’s been it her entire career. Camp discourse often glazes over black culture so it’s more interesting to me that she never recognized the phrase yet is inherently camp bc of blackness, bc of hip-hop

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4 years

“Really ask yourself”

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If you're actively learning, you have to be ready to be wrong at some point. What's with the aversion to that?

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Glad Drake & race is getting examined a bit more. Kendrick was more delicate than Ross bc Drake navigates Blackness (US & global) like a white man; touristic/transactional. He’s studied Black culture(s) more than lived it. But that doesn’t invalidate his Blackness, it informs it

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"How many more fairy tale stories about your life till we had enough? How many more black features till you finally feel that you're black enough?" "I even hate when you say the word n***a, but that's just me I guess" — Kendrick calling out Drake on 'euphoria'

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bell hooks in conversation with Lil Kim for the 1997 cover story of Paper Magazine

Hardcore Honey: bell hooks Goes on the Down Low with Lil' Kim

LK: I don't think that either. You wanna know why? Because we have people like Too Short, Luke Skyywalker [of 2 Live Crew], Biggie [Smalls], Elvis Presley, Prince, who are very, very, very sexual,...

www.papermag.com

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7 years

Point blank. @kelelam for @thefader

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There’s been an alleged 20+ sexual assault claims made against Ian Connor. He’s reportedly going to prison for a year on unrelated illegal gun charges.

Okayplayer

@okayplayer

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REPORT: Ian Connor may be going to jail for a year.

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Sandra Bland died 5 years ago today A reminder that #SayHerName was created that same year to challenge the notion that victims of police brutality & anti-Black violence are predominantly men and to highlight the gender-specific ways Black women are disproportionately affected

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My landlord not having a Black Friday sale smh

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I don’t know who needs to hear this but wear SPF 30 or higher sunscreen. Every day. Even if you’re Black.

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4 years

I wish it were considered polite to ask, “why exactly are you contacting me?”

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Meg's words verbatim: "I was shot in both of my feet and I had to get surgery to get the bullets taken out... the worst experience of my life and it's not funny... Thank god the bullets didn't touch bones, they didn't break tendons... Where the bullets hit at missed everything."

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Now that Tory Lanez has been found guilty on all charges, the people who went from not trusting the justice system to relying on it for “more facts” are back to blaming the justice system for a “wrongful conviction.” The moral gymnastics people go through to discredit Black women

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This is getting out of hand. He’s interrupting her work now

Datwon Thomas

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At Rolling Loud...Offset brought out the crazy cake set up in the middle of Cardi's set...flowers that spelled out Take Me Back Cardi...she was so not feeling the gesture and had him and the set up removed! #RolllingLoud

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Me explaining how to pronounce my name

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DJs running out of things to say. This one just got on the mic and yelled, “Ladies, if you know your best friend would never fuck ya nigga, make some noise.”

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6 years

CAN YOU IMAGINE PRINCE ON FRONTIN. YO.

Okayplayer

@okayplayer

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WOW. @Pharrell reveals he initially wrote 'Frontin' for @Prince .

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Tonight’s candlelight vigil in Manhattan honoring the Nigerians who lost their loves to police brutality. #EndSARS

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3 years

It’s the 10 year anniversary of Pink Friday. Give Nicki Minaj all of her things

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Friendly reminder that Latinx is not a race. You can be Latinx and white. Good afternoon, beloveds

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Nicki Minaj on Azealia Banks: "When people apologize and they acknowledge their wrongs, I move on... And also, Azealia Banks' new record is dope." #NickiDay

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the colorism is what makes it extra spot on

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Overheard in Harlem: “You only live once.” “Nah, you only die once... niggas live every day.”

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They’re basically running an errand

BEYONCÉ LEGION 𐚁

@BeyLegion

3 years

Beyoncé and JAY Z at the 2021 #GRAMMYs

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I’m back in Yonkers and every car is blasting DMX

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Brandy said “let’s leave the curses out; there are millennials watching.” Millennials are literally pushing 40 lol

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People are not saying “Reform SARS,” they’re saying end it.

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WAP is a better video Hot Girl Summer is a better song

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Yeah, WAP is what we hoped that Hot Girl Summer joint with Nicki was gonna be. This shit jammin.

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Ariana Grande lifted 2 Chainz’s Pink Trap House aesthetic, Princess Nokia’s lyrics, and Soulja Boy’s flow

Okayplayer

@okayplayer

5 years

Does @ArianaGrande 's "7 Rings" copy @2Chainz , @PrincessNokia , or @SouljaBoy ?

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Wizkid at MSG is gonna be a motion picture

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BX

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If you’re seeing warnings to not donate to the Red Cross: After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the American Red Cross raised almost half a billion dollars “to help Haitians rebuild.” But no one knows where that money actually went

In Search Of The Red Cross' $500 Million In Haiti Relief

An investigation by NPR and ProPublica finds a string of poorly managed projects, questionable spending and dubious claims of success, according to a review of the charity's internal documents.

www.npr.org

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