Germans arrive on Monday so let’s see how that goes

Barely encountered the Norweigans…

Reading offseason NBA content (Redditors posting about how bad at chess Jaylen Brown is)

denying a visa to the man who imitates a statue of a man we assassinated

Everything isn’t for EVERYONE

I love that they stay in the same place for their next match. That’s pretty great to stay in the same place and keep your routines. Plus I know the Black folk in the Atlanta area are going to give them all the energy.

Just 10 people have already poured $617 MILLION into this year’s midterm elections. In the entire 2008 presidential cycle, the last election before Citizens United, total billionaire spending was $16 million. This is not sustainable. We need to get Big Money out of our democracy.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, DR Congo takes the lead & Le Chiffre is flustered

Shoot, I haven't heard Amin since I was listening to the TrueHoop podcast a decade ago

And it turns fans into iso fans. Willing to say anything and break the cardinals rule. Like your guy but never talk 💩 about a teammate. Celtics literally won 2 years ago as a team. Cared about winning since then it’s been about who’s this and who’s that. Power of Me will always defeat We

I’m exhausted by “basketball insiders” dining out on formerly working for teams, a decade ago or more, for a few years tops. Marks, El Hassan, Goldsberry, Dakhil, etc.

It set us ALL off… *AGENDA*

Wow, $75 to $100 and he has NEVER been funny.

Many of the women voters in Boston's Lower Roxbury and the South End supported themselves and their families by working at the United Drug Co. factory. Read our blog post, The Cherry Pickers of Lower Roxbury to learn more. sites.google.com/view/maryeli...

One more tomorrow

Red Sox swept the Yankees in Fenway Park but the fans all being really chill about it and this is a rarity in my 50.833 years on Earth

UN issued a 94-page detailed report documenting that the Israeli Govt committed genocide by deliberately targeting Palestinian children—killing 20,000+ Silence to this atrocity is complicity with this atrocity. Stop listening to any journalist, and vote out every politician, silent on this genocide

The Gentrifiers Anthem

I was walking around the Theater District seeing a bunch of deplorables and trash ass people gathered around so I had to get to the bottom of it… That MAGA waste of skin Rob Schneider is doing a show at the Boch Center tonight

…Totally forgot about how Wyclef Jean was able to create the whole mythos of being a creative mastermind/genius superproducer from “The Score” as if his cousin Jerry “Wonder” Duplessis AKA Te Bass didn’t exist. He could spin off The Refugee All-Stars into his LP “The Carnival”. Plus the accolades.

The Intruders “Cowboys To Girls” (1968): youtu.be/xc7Yz2ez1LA?...

Cape Verde defied odds to become the smallest country to earn a spot in the World Cup knockout. “We are small,” the team's 40-year-old goalkeeper said. “But we have big hearts and we are fighters.” on.nbcboston.com/lmypqgE

Tavares. Cape Verdean legends from Providence who moved to Brockton, MA then became Boston Soul/Funk legends as Chubby & The Turnpikes performing at Jim Nance’s Lounge in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood 5-7 nights a week before getting a deal with Capitol Records in 1968. The rest is Black history…

Lying on national media like this should have legal & financial consequences

For most people, DMX magically appeared in 1998 on Def Jam. I remember when he was DMX The Great back in 1991 batting Big L, Jay-Z, Busta Rhymes & feuding with K-Solo. He was signed to Columbia in ‘92/‘93 & running with Irv Gotti between ‘94 and ‘96 doing guest appearances

…But people KNEW Dre was in NWA before that… Fewer remembered him & Yella being in World Class Wrecking Crew but only nsive kids thought that

…I’d also like to point out that the release of “Illmatic”, “Ready To Die” & “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…” each paved a pathway for “Reasonable Doubt”. Shit, folks straight up LIED about “Illmatic”’s impact after the fact. That “first Rap album with a superstar lineup of producers” bullshit? BRUH!

…I’d also point to 1988’s “The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick”. Slick Rick The Ruler would call people “peasants” and “crumbs” while rocking mad jewelry. The Storyteller was so great Def Jam kept him signed through his incarceration and released multiple albums of his on furlough & parole!

…Also there was this guy named Rakim who dropped an album with his DJ Eric B. called “Paid In Full” back in 1987 that led to him being called “The God MC” a full decade before Jay-Z dubbed himself that to pair with his Jay Hova persona.

“Criminal Minded” was shrouded in mystery, the production credits didn’t list Ced Gee of Ultramagnetic MC’s contributions, there were no music videos released, the font for the group name & album title were switched on the cover and B-Boy Records bootlegged BDP music after Scott La Rock’s death!

I’d definitely start with KRS building a temple on the foundation of 1987’s “Criminal Minded” on an indie label/porn video company with a partner that was killed during recording their major label debut so he released his next album with a teenaged D-Nice filling in as the DJ to replace Scott LaRock

Boston’s GBH Archives are undefeated: youtu.be/n6DKhvLbwI4?...

Santana, Tito Puente, Willie Bobo & The Bo Gents, The Latinaires, Eddie Palmieri, Mongo Santamaria, Joe Bataan, Earth, Wind & Wire, Mandrill, War, Tower Of Power, Parliament/Funkadelic, Quincy Jones, Miles Davis, Marvin Gaye, Jackson 5ive, Aretha Franklin, Barbara Mason, Etta James, James Brown, etc

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They’re partying in Brockton, MA: www.instagram.com/reel/DaEm1hH...

Stark Reality were a Jazz/Funk outfit in Boston that made the theme song for WGBH’s pioneering Black affairs program in 1968 and made the music for the WGBH children’s program “Hoagy Carmichael’s Music Shop”. This record was in my Kindergarten classroom at the Prince School between 1979 and 1981

Cape Verde advance!!!!! From the Cape Verdean Association in Bridgeport, Connecticut

Cabo Verdeans on Boston Common: www.instagram.com/reel/DaEotYn...

“Oh shit, it’s Bonnie Hunt!” (c) me

I read critiques of The Bear and I'm just like ok I guess intellectually you might be making sense somehow but otoh THIS SHIT IS FIRE SO WHO CARES!?!?!? YAAAAAAAIDGAF!!!!!!

It's definitely different based on neighborhood. The Portuguese might also reflect the fact that MA has the largest Cape Verdean population in the US, not to mention people from Brazil.

CABO VERDE 🇨🇻

#WorldCup #CapeVerde

CABO VERDE IS THROUGH!

cape verde baby

Cape Verde’s World Cup Cinderella story continues. It advances to the knockout stage with Spain in its tournament debut. Now has a date with Messi and Argentina in Miami next week.

Congrats to Cape Verde, the most powerful 0-3-0 World Cup team of all time

Man, I really didn’t think Cabo Verde had a Praia to advance out of the group stage. What a team.

CABO VERDE!!! 🇨🇻🇨🇻🇨🇻