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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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msh'skeeta 🪇 @melodymocha.bsky.social · Aug 1

Good Morning! Sometimes things fall apart to come back together.

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msh'skeeta 🪇 @melodymocha.bsky.social · 43m

Jay Graydon 🎂

Collaborated (songwriting and production) with Al Jarreau on multiple albums: Breakin' Away, L is for Lover, Jarreau, High Crime, and This Time.

Save Me - LIVE
2004

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Al Jarreau - Save Me - 8/10/2004 - Newport Jazz Festival (Official)

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msh'skeeta 🪇 @melodymocha.bsky.social · 1h

I'm getting there.

msh'skeeta 🪇 @melodymocha.bsky.social · 1h

Catching up with #BeyondTheGates. Leslie in the country club bragging about her hook-up with Ted to Eva is unhinged.

a man in a tuxedo is clapping his hands in a crowd of people .

ALT: a man in a tuxedo is clapping his hands in a crowd of people .

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msh'skeeta 🪇 @melodymocha.bsky.social · 1h

The daily reminders that I can buy "bougie shit" from Amazon are enough for me. Links to Amazon are everywhere.

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 4h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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khokhoboo.bsky.social @khokhoboo.bsky.social · 1h

Al Green - Call Me #AlGreen #CallMe #HereIAm(Come&TakeMe) #Vinyl #VinylSky #MusicSky #SoulSky #R&BSky #NowPlaying #NowSpinning

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 14h

I am SO happy to be Black right now, cotdamn! #Blacksky

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msh'skeeta 🪇 @melodymocha.bsky.social · 1h

Jay Graydon 🎂

From Viktoria Tolstoy's Herbie Hancock tribute album, co-written with Bill Champlin, David Foster, and Herbie Hancock.

Paradise
2011

#Jazzsky #jazz

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Paradise

YouTube video by Viktoria Tolstoy - Topic

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msh'skeeta 🪇 @melodymocha.bsky.social · 1h

Jay Graydon 🎂

Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter who co-wrote one of my favorite Earth Wind and Fire songs.

After The Love Is Gone
1979

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Earth, Wind & Fire - After The Love Has Gone (Audio)

YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO

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msh'skeeta 🪇 @melodymocha.bsky.social · 2h

Ronald Bell 🎂

Co-founder of the soul-funk band Kool & The Gang. From their New Jersey roots as a jazz band, a cut from their 1969 self-titled album.

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Chocolate Buttermilk

YouTube video by Kool & The Gang - Topic

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msh'skeeta 🪇 @melodymocha.bsky.social · 2h

Tell it.

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 2h

Oh hey look at that the piece of shit that everyone keeps saying is a piece of shit does a thing that only pieces of shit would do yet the ppl in charge who deeply wanna push that he isn’t a piece of shit keep insisting that somehow he isn’t a piece of shit even though he’s blatantly a piece of shit

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 22h

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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msh'skeeta 🪇 @melodymocha.bsky.social · 2h

Like that shit isn't going to bounce back on you. 🤷🏾‍♀️

msh'skeeta 🪇 @melodymocha.bsky.social · 2h

She did.

msh'skeeta 🪇 @melodymocha.bsky.social · 2h

Hamish Stuart 🎂

Singer-songwriter and original member of Scotland's Average White Band.

Cloudy
1975

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Cloudy (Single Edit)

YouTube video by Average White Band - Topic

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msh'skeeta 🪇 @melodymocha.bsky.social · 2h

Good Morning!

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Black.Deathtronome 🇧🇧🇧🇲 💀💀💀 @blackmetronome.bsky.social · 2h

Take a Bow by Madonna and Babyface. I think i watched this video every single day that summer as a kid (and maybe I shouldn't have been, but hey 😏)

Beautiful song. ❤️