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Just a country boy born with a gift to think and make things. South Carolina born and raised

South Carolina, USA
Joined July 2013
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how it started how it's going
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The whole country needs to stop right now and listen to Killer Mike. He’s verbalizing what a lot of us don’t know how to express
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South Carolina commit, Zia Cooke scored 43 points in a high school game last night. Watch highlights:
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Vans stole my concept. They couldn’t stand the fact a Black man marketed this design so well. Plus my version looked better than the ones they released
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Hi, twitter. I got bored one day and turned my white Vans into cows. Now, it just so happens that @VANS_66 is having a contest, so I entered. If my design is chosen, I win $25,000 and these will become a shoe. If you want to own a pair one day, RT this!
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The oldest living American was born on this day in ~1904 in Lancaster County, South Carolina and turned 116 today. Happy Birthday to our mother, Miss Hester Ford 🎈
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Prayers go out to the Kennedy Family. Legend, James “Radio” Kennedy passed away this morning. Radio is perhaps best known from 2003 film, ‘Radio’, based on his life in Anderson, South Carolina, where his character was played by Cuba Gooding, Jr. He was 73 years old
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Thoughts and prayers go out to the loved ones of Ms. Demetria Bannister, a third grade teacher at Windsor Elementary School in Columbia, South Carolina who recently passed away from complications of COVID19. It’s obvious in just one clip the joy she brought to the ones around her
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I really don’t see how people call this mumble rap
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7 years
My grandma had a photoshoot yall
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I can't even roll in peace Everybody notice me
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WATCH: Leaked Video Alleges To Show Malia Obama Blowing Smoke Rings
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She passed away 2 days after this 😔 RIP Angel
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South Carolina hospital staff makes dream come true for woman battling cancer by throwing her the wedding she always wished for.
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Saw a black woman promoting her new business while waiting at a red light. Told her I would share it. Sista Sista spiritual shop located at 102 Shaw Street in Greenville, SC
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Bus Driver Teresa Stroble of Duncan, SC saved 56 children from a burning school bus yesterday
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Barack Obama pointing out the fact that Zion’s “shoe broke” will forever go down in history
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y’all bout to ruin somebody vacation
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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina 😍☀️🌊
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Two nights ago I was involved in a bad car accident and am currently hospitalized with a spinal fracture. I hear the car is split in half but thankfully I’m still here. Please keep me in your prayers as I move forward from here
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It costs $0 to RT my art. Thanks in advance
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Drake surprised students at Miami Senior High by filming a music video, and donating $25K. He then visited the University of Miami where he donated a $50K scholarship to a random student who just so happened to be Destiny James of Denmark, South Carolina #GodsPlan
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RIP, Queen
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108-year-old South Carolina woman, educator, activist, the granddaughter of slaves, dies
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Watching Killer Mike tell black people to go home reminds me of the night James Brown successfully used his influence in the black community to literally save the city of Boston April 5, 1968, the night after Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated
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Drake seen wearing 16 year old South Carolina basketball star Zion Williamson's Spartanburg Day School Jersey
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Here’s a rundown of the full story. It’s currently going viral on TikTok. If you’re reading this, go and find it to help raise awareness!
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Hey Twitter, can y’all share my political art? I’m a first generation creator from the rural Lowcountry of South Carolina. One retweet could introduce me to my next buyer. I sell my work at
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Hi, twitter. I got bored one day and turned my white Vans into cows. Now, it just so happens that @VANS_66 is having a contest, so I entered. If my design is chosen, I win $25,000 and these will become a shoe. If you want to own a pair one day, RT this!
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6 years
At least 30 injured at a Clemson University party in South Carolina after floor collapses during a Chief Keef song
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7 years
"Why you got the oven wide open like that " First of all, it's a heater
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I'm a 31 yr old, black artist from a small town in SC. I'm the first artist in my family and it’s not the easiest selling art where I am, so I rely on social media to reach places I can't go. I sell art at . A simple RT could introduce me to my next buyer
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It costs you $0.00 to RT the work of a Black artist. Many of my watercolor pieces are painted using rain. I sell prints and originals here:
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I'm a black, self taught artist from the Lowcountry of South Carolina. 1 RT could introduce me to my next customer. Help a brotha out
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@NICKIMINAJ Nicki’s team: we don’t think releasing the track is the best move at the… Nicki:
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A kid talks to his terminally ill grandpa about death
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Congrats James "Radio" Kennedy. He was inducted into the T.L. Hanna Hall of Fame last night in Anderson, SC
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I was walking with my camera today and these dudes asked if I was a photographer. The rest is history
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Cow print isn’t “new” but the company realized once my design went viral, they could profit off it. They even commented on my design multiple times in 2018 before I entered this contest
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Caught grandma slippin one day. Now she got her own gear
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Only in South Carolina is an entire crowd at a football game transformed into a gospel choir. Watch singer, Jarell Smalls lead as the crowd backs him up in "Come on in the Room" by the Georgia Mass Choir at Cross High School Homecoming in Cross, SC
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@historyinmemes This clip was based on a true event during the 2020 George Floyd riots in Minneapolis
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@elonmusk I painted this. I’m a black artist
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I also love the beautiful symbolism of “Killer” Mike being the voice of reason at a time like this
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Gullah Gullah Island premiered on Nickelodeon in 1994, was based on South Carolina and openly embraced African culture #BlackHistoryMonth
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My friend Jo’lee was recently a victim of domestic violence. Thankfully she is still here to share her story and help raise awareness. I hate this for her. No one deserves this, especially not such a kind soul. She now has to have corrective eye surgery and is taking donations.…
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I’m a 30 year old self-taught artist from a small rural town in South Carolina. I use my platform to promote small town pride as well as share my art. I’m currently in the process of selling art to have my own studio work space. A retweet would mean the WORLD to me
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Bush move like the plug y’all
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Gullah Gullah Island premiered on Nick in 1994, was based on South Carolina and openly embraced African culture
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Hey Twitter, can y’all share my black art? I’m a first generation creator from the rural Lowcountry of South Carolina. One retweet could introduce me to my next buyer. I sell my work at
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Do y’all remember Ms. Natalie from the Nickelodeon show, “Gullah Gullah Island”? Well, now she paints at her studio in South Carolina and sells prints of her art here: Hopefully this reaches everyone who grew up watching the show
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Another reason I stopped planning so much is because if you would’ve asked me in January what I’d be doing in March, locked inside learning about the life of a gay, redneck tiger breeder would not have been my answer
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"You playin that #hellchallenge ?"
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Dick Gregory explaining how hurricanes follow the same path as slave ships and refers to them as the black woman
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@misandrynoir “I know people wouldn't usually rap this But I got the facts to back this Just last year, Chicago had over 600 caskets Man killing's some wack shit” - Kanye West As far back as 2007. “Everything I Am”
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It costs $0.00 to share the work of a Black American artist
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Destiny James of Denmark, SC
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Drake surprised students at Miami Senior High by filming a music video, and donating $25K. He then visited the University of Miami where he donated a $50K scholarship to a random student who just so happened to be Destiny James of Denmark, South Carolina #GodsPlan
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My grandma and her friend makin homemade butter
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@MeekMill This should’ve been the first tweet
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I just spoke to Mr. Terry. He’s facing challenges around the farm. It’s heartbreaking because he and his family are receiving hundreds of thousands of views on TikTok, yet his truck is broken and he needs hay for his farm. If you can, please consider a donation:…
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It’s a pleasure to film the Terry family of Yemassee, South Carolina who has been raising horses for generations. I love the idea of documenting our culture so people can revisit decades and centuries from now
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I spoke to my dad again today. I love the fact that there’s no bad blood and we click like we’ve known each other forever. Not to mention we resemble each other so much!
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I recently met my biological dad for the first time in 33 years thanks to @Ancestry . Tonight he drove to South Carolina from Alabama and we spent our first Christmas together
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I was unaware Vans had already copied my design before I submitted it to the contest in 2019. They released a pair in 2018 which made it more obvious it was inspired by mine.
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I’m the artist
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This original painting could make one Lowcountry artist millionaire
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Old Town Road hit different when you live in a town with a piggly wiggly
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In 2018, they commented on my post before releasing a similar design shortly after a few months later. Pay very close attention to the dates
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South Carolina has always been lit. Let's not forget we had a blind rapper as a freestyle champion. Blind Fury
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Also the state where most Africans entered the US then weren’t allowed to read and write. Once they were, schools were segregated. Once segregation ended, private schools started popping up in SC and only accepted whites. Racism is the root cause of poor education in S.C. in 2019
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South Carolina one of the least educated states in the U.S., study says
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All of the following people are from South Carolina (or have S.C. roots): Zion Williamson Ja Morant A’ja Wilson Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther) Chris Rock Dave Chappelle 50 Cent Diddy Charlamagne Tha God Michelle Obama and the list goes on Is South Carolina culture, lowkey?
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Happy bday to a legend, Andre 3000
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I recently met my biological dad for the first time in 33 years thanks to @Ancestry . Tonight he drove to South Carolina from Alabama and we spent our first Christmas together
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The fact that this is only one game and not a compilation
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You need to build these South Carolina roads
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We are not going to ABANDON the wall. We are going to BUILD the wall!
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Lil John and the Restaurant Singers - Piedmont, South Carolina
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70% of enslaved Africans who came to the US came ashore here on the coast of South Carolina. Here's why Gullah-Geechee culture is important
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I'm a 29 yr old black artist from the Lowcountry of South Carolina. I was named after Rev. Clementa Pinckney who was murdered along w/ 8 of his church members in 2015 by a white supremacist. I use my platform to carry on his legacy in some ways. Please RT to help me share my work
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They even commented on my design TWICE in that same day. Here’s the other comment they left to someone who tweeted it to them
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“This South Carolinian young man is still missing in Arizona. His Columbia dad will stop at nothing to find his son. 24-year-old Daniel Robinson was last seen driving away from his job site in the Arizona desert June 23.” .
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South Carolina legends
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@MeekMill You should be going at whoever put the documents out homie. Akademiks a spectator just like everyone else
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@gardenoutro Hey reminds me of my painting
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It costs you $0.00 to RT the work of a Black self-taught artist. Many of my watercolor pieces are painted using rain. I am based in South Carolina where I was born and raised
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(Rock Hill, SC) There' racism in South Carolina, then there's this :
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South Carolina people will understand
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The entire student body at Fairfax Elementary School in Fairfax, South Carolina singing ‘Smile’ by Kirk Franklin to close out Black History Month 👋🏾😩
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Let’s all pray for our friend, James “Radio” Kennedy. He was hospitalized with fluid retention and other issues related to his diabetes. Radio is perhaps most well-known from 2003 film, Radio, based on his life in Anderson, SC, where his character was played by Cuba Gooding, Jr
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I didn’t win by the way
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It costs $0.00 to retweet the art of a self-taught, Black artist from South Carolina. Many of my pieces are painted with rain or melted snow. I sell my work here: . My next collector could be on your timeline
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Hi, I’m Ment, an artist from the Lowcountry of South Carolina. I grew up in a double wide trailer on a dirt road but my art is currently part of a traveling exhibit with the Smithsonian Institution for the next 6 years 🙏🏾
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SC artist represents state’s rural landscape in Smithsonian exhibit
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@joerogan Wait til you meet Charleston White
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