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Gene Grey

@sapphireskyys.bsky.social

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📍 The White Hot Room Taurus ♉️ Just talking to myself fr but feel free to add your 2 cents if you want! I think I’m pretty cool 😁 Unapologetically Black 🤎✊🏽 Gay 🏳️‍🌈 and a CatDad 😻 MD IG: sapphireskyys

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Gene Grey @sapphireskyys.bsky.social · 1m

Their downtown has like 5 traffic lights but it’s right on the water. The streets there are super wide bc the original plans were for it to be a city.

Gene Grey @sapphireskyys.bsky.social · 5m

What’s interestingly annoying about where I live now is that its design is from plans to originally be DC.
Williamsport is a rural town right on the Potomac river.

Gene Grey @sapphireskyys.bsky.social · 17m

Dc ppl always be acting like they on their own island.

“Bitch aint from dc fr, her aunt got a big ass house in upper Marlboro like shit” 🤣🤣🤣 they be stingy af lol

Gene Grey @sapphireskyys.bsky.social · 30m

The cities always represent the culture for the states. I always disliked the dissociation of the rest of the states outside the metropolitan areas

Gene Grey @sapphireskyys.bsky.social · 37m

Both beltways have signs for Frederick md exits lol

Gene Grey @sapphireskyys.bsky.social · 38m

I have never heard Fredericksburg mentioned without the Burg, so I was always confused ppl don’t know the difference lol

Gene Grey @sapphireskyys.bsky.social · 40m

I always found it sad anytime I told ppl in the dmv or bmore that I’m from Frederick, and they always said “Virginia?” 😂

Gene Grey @sapphireskyys.bsky.social · 55m

Look I don’t watch alot of stuff. 😂 I stick to my comfort films lol

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Gene Grey @sapphireskyys.bsky.social · 2h

Yikes… it looked like it might be okay.. I guess I won’t even waste my time lol

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Jae @heyjaeee.bsky.social · 2d

The sun at 5pm:

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Gene Grey @sapphireskyys.bsky.social · 10h

I put my draws on inside out this morning smh

Gene Grey @sapphireskyys.bsky.social · 22h

I’m not surprised by Nicki’s tweet. The rich are always gonna choose money.

Gene Grey @sapphireskyys.bsky.social · 1d

If DMX came out today, his music would just be instrumental if he didn’t record an edited version of his music 😂😂😂

Gene Grey @sapphireskyys.bsky.social · 1d

So by highschool, understand and hearing the real lyrics was like a whole different song lol

Gene Grey @sapphireskyys.bsky.social · 1d

I was a kid back then so I couldnt really understand rap as much bc in those days they actually made clean versions of songs, not just censoring words.

Gene Grey @sapphireskyys.bsky.social · 1d

Biggie was a terrible person fr. He had no choice but to get famous. Cuz how you ugly af inside AND outside????

Gene Grey @sapphireskyys.bsky.social · 1d

And a lot of them share the common themes of, either they were romantically involved with a peer or didn’t have the freedom/support their male peers had

Gene Grey @sapphireskyys.bsky.social · 1d

And love & hiphop just exposes live how the industry preys on women. A lot of them have shared stories over the years of what happened after their hit song or debut album.

Gene Grey @sapphireskyys.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like Da Brat deserved more, but she couldn’t be herself. But they made us like these female rappers over the yrs that they never had the intention of making successful

Gene Grey @sapphireskyys.bsky.social · 1d

Missy was able to succeed without Timbaland, but I feel like her run started to slow when the industry tried to make her conform to pop culture. Conveniently around the time Timbaland did 🙃🤷🏾‍♂️

Gene Grey @sapphireskyys.bsky.social · 1d

Biggie had Kim, Jay had Foxy and Amil, Busta had Rah, Ja had Vita, Wayne had Nicki, three 6 mafia had La chat, the fugees, trick and trina.

Gene Grey @sapphireskyys.bsky.social · 1d

The conversation needs to happen about how female rap has relied on the endorsement of men all these years. Bc “sex sells”, mainstream rappers since the 90s always had to get a female rapper on their team or some kind of eye candy. Then they eventually faded away 🤷🏾‍♂️

Gene Grey @sapphireskyys.bsky.social · 1d

Notice thru rap history, female rappers started out a lil more masc and aggressive. Then Salt n Pepa came a lil softer and gave some appeal to help with mainstream

Gene Grey @sapphireskyys.bsky.social · 1d

Straight men never truly supported female rappers fr 🤷🏾‍♂️ only for their benefit. They show respect when it’s due, but female rappers success has always been tied to men’s standards

Gene Grey @sapphireskyys.bsky.social · 1d

Hiphop will always be sexist. So these podcasts and convos I can’t take serious anymore when they complain about an industry they shaped