msh'skeeta 🪇
@melodymocha.bsky.social
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Old hip-hop head + music nerd. Unapologetically Black. THE culture, sneakers, and the randomness of life. Neuro, sarcastic, and protecting my peace. #MondayMarvin ✡️✊🏽👸🏽
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Good Morning! Sometimes things fall apart to come back together.
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I keep hearing good things about them.
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Jonathan Butler 🎂

Singer, songwriter, and guitarist born in apartheid South Africa. He was the first non-white artist to play on South African radio. Although he initially played r&b, he's a smooth jazz superstar.

#Jazzsky #jazz

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"African Moon" by Jonathan Butler | International Jazz Day 2021
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In Coachella Valley, California near Palm Springs.
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Monk Montgomery 🎂

Indianapolis native, jazz bassist, and brother of Wes Montgomery.

#Jazzsky #jazz

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Little O's
YouTube video by Monk Montgomery - Topic
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The ignorance displayed here is not a flex.
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As usual, you have me laughing in my coffee.
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"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.
White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion
Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.
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Good Morning! Explaining yourself doesn't make people understand you better; it just gives them a reason to doubt you.
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I remember this album cover from back in the day. I need to go back and listen.
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I'm an empath and I struggle with this.😔
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Kenny Garrett 🎂

A living jazz legend whose career has spanned more than 30 years. His alto sax has graced many an artist from Miles Davis to Woody Shaw to Duke Ellington.

The Tiny Desk Concert, 2023

#Jazzsky #jazz

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Kenny Garrett and Sounds From The Ancestors: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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elgringofeo.bsky.social
On this #tbt Lucky Strike filterless cancer stix invites you to remember how great. Remember how great it was before we had armed troops in Chicago, L.A., and Portland? Remember when our racists were closeted? Remember due process? Remember Pepperidge Farms?

#VinylSky #JazzSky #BigBand
The Lucky Strike album Remember How Great?
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He's incapable of humiliation.
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Disturbed sleep doesn't begin to describe it. 😱