“Our future is our confidence and self-esteem.” ~Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971-September 13, 1996)
“Picture My Prophecy”: The Best 48 Tupac Songs of All Time
Nipsey Hussle, Spirituality, and The Temple of Hip Hop
“The best thing you can do for a person is to inspire them. That’s the best currency you can offer: inspiration.” ~Nipsey Hussle
Red Rose in the Gray Pavement
“Ten years from now, I would just like to have laid the blueprint down that other people can follow, that came from similar situations.” ~Nipsey Hussle in a 2018 Black Enterprise interview with Mia Hall
21 Savage: Hip Hop’s Face of Immigration
“Been through some thangs but I couldn’t imagine my kids being stuck at the border/Flint still need water/People was innocent couldn’t get lawyers.” ~21 Savage “a lot” verse performed on The Tonight Show 1/28/2019
#Kaeperbowl: The Silencing Continues
“I got to sacrifice a lot of money to perform. But there’s a man who sacrificed his job for us, so we got to stand behind him.” ~Cardi B on refusing to perform during the Super Bowl to support Kaepernick
The Plague of Racism is our Greatest Security Threat
“The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams.” ~Maya Angelou
2018 And The Transmutation of Black Womanhood
It’s in the reach of my arms,
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That’s me.
~Maya Angelou “Phenomenal Woman”
13 Times Tupac Prophesied, Inspired, and Challenged Us to Be Great
“When was the last time anyone told you how important you are? Did you know people stood on auction blocks and were bought and sold so that you could stay alive today?”
~Dr. Maya Angelou to Tupac Shakur on the set of Poetic Justice
7 Ways Hip Hop Culture Can Eclipse White Supremacy
“Whiteness is the process by which White people fail to recognise how race impacts their lives; White privilege is the personal benefits of living in a society where Whiteness is centred; and White supremacy are the political outcomes of this racial buffer.” ~Dr. Zuleyka Zevallos, Applied Sociologist & Swinburne University Research Fellow
