Steady now... ...back to the future I go.

It's the 🍿in 💺 for me! All love to the ones unkle G Cassette Blair and Eóin MacManus for this flirtation with real maraviolloso that is cleverly unruly. 📽 Check out "Popcaan Said My Riddims Aren't Good." youtu.be/zRiYM7v6WHA?si…

10s across the board Sean Paul

“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.” - Assata Shakur

🇯🇲 Roots reggae friends and dub loves! Can anyone tell me how we are pronouncing the title of Burning Spear's big chune "JAH Boto"? I cyaa overstand if it's "boto" like "beau-toe", nor can I overstand what "boto" might mean. (Surely it isn't meant to be bootoo/butu.) Help!

Stop watchy watchy.

Is there a good movie that I can escape into? Taking recommendations.

When some of the execs asked me why I made Luke Cage a bookworm, this was why. The majority of brothers I've known who have spent time inside, and aren't recidivist, come out bookworms. That's why Pop was a fan of Donald Goines, where Luke liked edgy Detective fiction (Mosley,

🚨Submissions are now open for #AAIHS2025! 👉🏽AAIHS encourages conference participants to reflect on how histories of African and African-descended peoples from slavery to the present shape our present and futures. loom.ly/FGDc1ik

Woman makes a parody of Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" about being a mother. 🙌😅

Not sure what all is in retrograde, but all kinds of wires have been crossed lately. I think things are finally starting to untangle…

Questioning is not proof of distrust; it’s proof of critical thinking.

Looking forward to reading the debut collection from Yashika Graham — a truly talented poet!

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So we just never found Jasmine Dean huh?

Maybe im stupid (im not) but there is literally not a single thing id need chatgpt for??????????? like does it do the dishes?

The haunting by the dead & the living, the exploitation of downtown girls by uptown men & downpressed mothers, the rebel joy of gully queens & the horror of anti-trans violence, the open secrets & bold denials, the pleasure & the sexism. Nuff tings! Ep 1 was 👌🏾. #GetMillieBlack

My ancestors sent me. Big up Kendrick Lamar 🖤

Pythagoras would have to turn ‘round, ben’ up, and curve to get anywhere in Kingston in any reasonable amount of time. This traffic is not normal.

I wish somebody coulda told me that book writing is such a reflexive and inside-outing process. (These dub echoes are REAL!) As an outlet to tease out the more elusive bits, I’m back to blogging. Have a read ➡️ it’s not the soil – "write pon di riddim" isissemajhall.com/2024/12/14/its…