This is my favorite Cake Lady! The world 🌎 is truly just cake 🍰

Happy birthday to N'dea Davenport, born September 22nd! Read about the triumph of her 1998 self-titled solo album here: medium.com/@markchappel...

Happy Birthday to fave and fam, N'Dea Davenport 💖🎂🫶🏽🎙️ N'Dea Davenport - BRING IT ON @peacebisquit.bsky.social 'Best Of' Mixtape Edition 🙌🏾🔥 🔊 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... 🔊 open.spotify.com/playlist/2KC... *Here's our mixtape of select hits, faves + deep cuts from N'Dea's vast catalogue!🪩🎧

God can’t pour into full hands. release something first.

He’s gonna slip up miraculously. He thinks he’s indestructible. And it’s gonna be the smallest little thing. That will blow it all up.

OnTrac is the worst delivery service I have ever used. AI is NOT your friend. They couldn't get my address right or follow the delivery instructions THAT THEY ASKED FOR. "Alex" was certainly not a real person, and I want my money back, Best Buy.

There's a lot of news to take in. Please make sure you're counterbalancing it with joy and rest AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. "Don't let them... get the best... of your heart."

I feel bad for the generation of people handing over their ability to act creatively to AI… i don’t think they realize that creativity is a muscle, and when you don’t use it-

DID YOU KNOW... 🤔 Stevie Wonder & Anita Baker collaborated on a song that sounds like it's from New York Undercover? www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNsu...

Jane tries on this madcap Anderson Paak collab "Stare at Me" and it fits her perfectly. I'm game to hear more from her.

I think Jane Handcock got me with this one. Her delivery on this track (with the Biggie sample sounding like he's actually SINGING) got me a little captivated.

whoooo whee

My new interview with Marcus Miller, Lenny White, and Mark Kibble of Take 6 is live! soultracks.com/news-nicki-r...

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

Method Man w/ one opaque contact in “Bring the Pain.” Keith Murray on top of the Lexus in “The Most Beautifullest.” Clipse and the whole state of VA in “Grindin.” Just to name a few. An integral figure in my HS + college years. Diane Martel was a masterful architect, a visual genius and an icon. 🕊️

Good things come to those who wait. 🙏🏾

this is a man with literally no principles so he must have some ulterior financial motive for not wanting to see disney bullied

You're being rage baited into a culture war, because the ruling class knows they’d lose a class war.

Lol, I'm the "This is fine" meme

A three-disc 25th anniversary deluxe vinyl edition of Outkast's #Stankonia is releasing on 10/31/25 from Get On Down. getondown.com/products/sta...

NEWS --> Anna Gomez, the lone Dem on the FCC, tells me the Trump admin's pressure to oust Jimmy Kimmel may be unlawful as well as unconstitutional. FCC chair Brendan Carr may be committing censorship in violation of federal law. That and much more in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2006...

I wrote an essay for Anti Records introducing the next Mavis Staples album, out in November. "Grim days call for fierce love. And Mavis Staples, one of the most enduring figures in American music, is laying it down. Sad And Beautiful World is the latest solo album from a national treasure."

also, if I’m not mistaken, the FCC chair just affirmed his plan to end free speech in America in a reply to the guy who played the wheelchair kid on Glee

"This isn't the America I know" Black People:

"This isn't the America I know." Black people:

“This isn’t the America I know” Black People:

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

8 months after the leak, Brandy does an official reveal on the cover of 'Phases: A Memoir.'

The other thing to remember is that white Americans have historically had an appetite for wanting to watch Black ppl being physically brutalized. You don't trust their advice.

The 7 Authoritarian Tactics: 1) De-legitimize the press 2) Politicize the elite 3) Co-opt the military & police 4) Disallow dissent by limiting what can be taught,said,& read 5) Scapegoat the “other” 6) Undermine elections 7) Once in power, rewrite laws so you never have to leave Sound familiar?? 🚨

so do i need to call the last one to ask how it felt??? 👀

To those in Los Angeles, the 2025 KITFO Film Festival is upcoming. The festival celebrates Ethiopian and Eritrean cinema. www.kitfofilmfestival.com

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

This is fucking insane

I don't watch Jimmy Kimmel, but Disney and all of their affiliates should be boycotted. Disney Hulu Marvel All of them.

Yesterday, Trump was threatening a reporter. Today, he coerced ABC to kick Kimmel off the air. He's also suing NYT & WSJ for reporting the truth. And it's not just media: he's threatening private companies, colleges, Congress—everyone. Enough. NONE OF US should cave. We ALL need to push back.

The Jimmy Kimmel firing, Colbert's show, what's happening at WaPo, CBS... legacy journalism is slowly but surely coming under state control. It is more important now than ever before that we support the independent journalists out there doing the work not beholden to a fascist's bidding.

I’m a little bit in love with Rep. Jasmine Crockett. She’s not taking any of the Trump Administration’s bullshit, and perfectly sums up why Cash Patel is utterly unqualified to lead the #FBI.

Sorry I was late to your wedding, my flight was canceled because my pilot posted a Charlie Kirk quote verbatim in the comments of an Instagram Reel.

“What are we to make of a man who called for the execution of the American president, and then was executed himself?”

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to BlackSky

L. M. A. O.

It MIGHT be @soymusica.bsky.social's birthday 🎂 but it might not. Who's to say? 🥳🥳🥳

I catch the eye of a stranger. Another Black man. Older. He asks what happened. I gave the rundown. He goes after the other man. He walks back in and says: He has a job now. I just hired him. He was the hiring manager at a non-profit. Look at gawd

I am disgusted. First off, take them signs out the windows if you aren’t hiring. Second, she should have pulled him aside and spoke with him privately. She didn’t even go look at his app. 2/

At a fast food place today. A young-ish Black man in his church suit walks in. He submitted a job application a week ago and is checking the status. Now hiring signs in all windows. Manager: We are good right now, but will let you know if things change 1/

I've got @sysmith.bsky.social's "Summer of '93" stuck in my head. It's a prefect end-of-summer bop.

And if you know what #jouska is, I've been experiencing A LOT of it this week.