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Lover of all things hip hop, anime, comic books, sports, and education. Lover of cooking and baking. Baby Momma’s favorite teacher.

The Sticks of Georgia
Joined December 2008
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Nike El Shabazz retweeted
DC fans going through the worst week of their lives and Feige out here dropping the best mcu post credit scene ever on a normal Tuesday night😭😭
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Nike El Shabazz retweeted
TO EVERYONE KEEPS ASKING WHERE MY MUSIC WENT, WHY RANDOM ALBUMS HAVE BEEN TAKEN DOWN AND WHEN IT’S COMING BACK TO DSPS, I WISH THE DISTRIBUTERS WHO REMOVED IT WERE AS INTERESTED IN ANSWERING THAT QUESTION AS YOU ALL ARE ASKING IT. OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS DISTRIBUTORS HAVE TAKEN DOWN RECORDS IV'E MADE AND RELEASED YEARS BEFORE AI WAS EVEN AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC. ALL THOSE RECORDS CLEARLY HAVE RELEASE DATES, APPARENTLY THE PEOPLE REVIEWING THEM DON’T CARE OR HAVE THE TIME TO DIFFERENTIATE. I’VE SPENT COUNTLESS HOURS AND SLEEPLESS NIGHTS WORKING NON-STOP & BUILDING THIS CATALOG AND AT THIS POINT TO MUCH TIME HAS BEEN WASTED MONTHS WAITING FOR ANSWERS. MY LOVE FOR MY MUSIC AND THE RESPECT I HAVE FOR EVERYONE WHO LISTENS AND SUPPORTS DESERVES MORE. IT’S EXHAUSTING TO HAVE YOUR WORK TAKEN FROM YOU THEN BE EXPECTED TO POLITELY WAIT FOR ACCESS TO IT, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOUR NOT A BIG ARTIST & HAVE TO DEAL WITH THESE COMPANIES GIVING US PENNIES AND ARE STILL GETTING DECIDING WHETHER YOUR MUSIC BELONGS ON THEIR PLATFORMS WHEN WE THE ARTISTS ARE WHAT THEIR BUSINESS IS BUILT ON. I CAN’T GIVE YOU A DATE FOR WHEN THEY’LL GET BACK TO ME BUT I CAN GIVE YOU SOMEWHERE ELSE TO LISTEN. BUILT MY OWN DSP. EVERYTHING I’VE EVER MADE TILL NOW AND ALL FUTURE RELEASES, REMASTERED BY ME IS LIVE NOW. THE APP IS AVAILABLE ON IOS NEW UPDATES, BUILDS & ANDROID VERSION IS COMING SOON. THANK YOU FOR STILL ASKING WHERE THE MUSIC IS. I INTEND TO KEEP THE ANSWER IN MY OWN HANDS. JOIN THE DISCORD GET UPDATES AND LATEST VERSIONS OF THE APP BC APPLE TAKES TO LONG TO PUSH UPDATES SINCE SO MANY PEOPLE ARE MAKING APPS. 私の音楽がどこへ行ったのか」「なぜランダムなアルバムが削除されたのか」「いつDSPに戻ってくるのか」と繰り返し尋ねてくださる皆さんへ。削除したディストリビューターたちが、皆さんがその質問を投げかけるのと同じくらい、その答えに興味を持ってくれたらいいのにと思います。 ここ数ヶ月、ディストリビューターたちは、AIが一般に公開される何年も前に私が制作・リリースしたレコードを削除してきました。それらのレコードにはすべて明確なリリース日が記載されていますが、審査担当者はそれを気にも留めていないか、区別する時間すらないようです。 私はこのカタログを構築するために、数え切れないほどの時間と眠れない夜を費やし、休むことなく働き続けてきました。しかし、この時点で、回答を待つために数ヶ月もの時間が無駄に費やされてしまいました。私の音楽への愛、そして私の音楽を聴き、支えてくださるすべての方々への敬意は、それ以上の扱いに値するはずです。 自分の作品を奪われた挙句、その作品へのアクセス権を得るために礼儀正しく待たされるのは、本当に疲れることです。特に、大物アーティストでもないのに、こうした企業からわずかな報酬しか受け取れず、しかも「自分の音楽が彼らのプラットフォームにふさわしいか」という判断をまだ下している最中であるのは、本当に疲れる。私たちアーティストこそが、彼らのビジネスの基盤なのだから。 彼らがいつ返答してくれるか、具体的な日程は言えませんが、代わりに聴ける場所を一つご紹介します。 独自のDSPを構築しました。 これまでに制作したすべての楽曲と、今後リリースされるすべての楽曲(私がリマスターしたバージョン)が、現在公開されています。アプリはiOS版で利用可能で、新しいアップデートやビルドが提供されています。Android版も近日中にリリース予定です。 「音楽はどこにあるの?」と今も尋ねてくれてありがとう。その答えは、今後も私自身が握り続けるつもりです。 Discordに参加して、アプリの最新情報や最新バージョンを入手してください。アプリを作っている人が多すぎて、Appleのアップデート配信には時間がかかりすぎるからです。 thepowerstone.com/
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Nike El Shabazz retweeted
When the father is a deadbeat, it’s the gay uncle who shows up to the games, does the hair, pays the bills, and still gets told he’s ‘not a real man.’ Define manhood.
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Nike El Shabazz retweeted
Charles Tillman: -Played for the bears -became federal agent -disappointed / upset lil Reese
Pat Tillman: -jacked -hot wife -3 year starter at Arizona State -benched 225lbs 29 times -374 tackles in 4 years with Arizona Cardinals -turned down $3.6M contract to enlist in Army after 9/11 -deployed to Iraq -passed Ranger school in 62 days (0 failures) -ran into enemy fire in Afghanistan to cover his squad during an ambush -hunted terrorists -lost his life fighting for his country Next time you feel like wasting your potential tell yourself: don’t be a do-nothing doughboy - be a grateful SAVAGE like Pat Tillman.
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Nike El Shabazz retweeted
How the Lakers are using the “L” screen for Luka 🧠 Explained by a master of the same play, @swish41 🎓
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Nike El Shabazz retweeted
FACTS! I know I'm gonna be on an island with this jawn but Ashanti to me was a dope voice but not the dopest singers. I feel like the ones with the dope voices do great for singing choruses but the INCREDIBLE singers aren't necessarily dope hook singers if that makes sense.
Replying to @Kil889
There is definitely a difference between having a great voice and being a great singer. One is not necessarily inclusive to the other. Dawn was definitely not Whitney but she slid all over them tracks effortlessly. Riffle Love is a stand out Track for me 🔥
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Nike El Shabazz retweeted
If a barber charges 5X regular price because the groom was getting married, nobody would question that it's insane lmao
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Nike El Shabazz retweeted
This is not a beat…ITS A SCORE. @theebruiserwolf @CondtrWilliams Marv Won 🎥: @directedbydiego
🤖 Made with AI
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Nike El Shabazz retweeted
Trump betrayed his own cult and squandered one of the biggest political opportunities in modern history. He inherited the House, Senate, a 6-3 Supreme Court, a popular vote victory, and a sweep of every swing state. Republicans were winning the culture war. He had an actual mandate and a base ready to follow him anywhere. Instead, he dragged us into a pointless war nobody wanted, gave us disastrous tariffs, higher costs, militarized policing, DOGE, crypto grifts, pardons for criminals, Epstein stonewalling, attacks on the Constitution, blatant self-enrichment, and virtually zero meaningful legislation. Meanwhile, he's posting AI slop, obsessing over a ballroom nobody gives a fuck about, botching the Reflecting Pool, and picking fights with our allies. And America is clearly exhausted. Many Republicans are tired of the narcissism, childish name-calling, nonstop vitriol, and manufactured hysteria about Democrats wanting to “trans your kids.” People want their lives to get better. They want affordability, stability, and some semblance of normalcy. They don't want to hear about John Husted's ass. I see this as a nationwide rejection of what MAGA has become. It's joever. An absolutely generational bag fumble.
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Nike El Shabazz retweeted
It really might be. Zero hyperbole. AZ basically signed a record deal w/ EMI off that one verse. Debut went gold.
AZ on “Life’s A Bitch” is the greatest feature in hip-hop history imo
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Nike El Shabazz retweeted
Jon Ossoff probably shouldn't make an appearance, but it would be peak Atlanta if he did.
Magic City, Atlanta’s famous strip club, is throwing a “From the Polls to the Poles” election night watch party:
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Nike El Shabazz retweeted
Why do so much of yall criticisms be “I don’t know it so it must be bad”
The fact that I can't name a single Prince song outside Purple Rain is a testament of this tweet. "prince played 182828 instruments and produced his songs" well clearly it made no noise and wasn't good enough since he's irrelevant outside the US lol
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WateRR x @DaGhawd "Larry & Jordan" (Official Video) Feat. Bub Styles 📽 by Gee Be sure to Like, Comment, and Share #DidYouMissMe Now Available at Waterr.bandcamp.com and all DSP's #WateRR #WorkDontStop #HipHop #RenaissanceOfTheCulture #Rap #CHICAGO #Brooklyn
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Nike El Shabazz retweeted
This is worth a thousand bars. Raekwon, Nas, and Mobb Deep three heavyweight forces representing the raw, unfiltered sound of New York hip-hop. Queensbridge and Shaolin connected. This is the culture right here.
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Nike El Shabazz retweeted
Mafuckas will get on this internet telling us how bad of a person Hov is but then turn around and gargle a Nazi lovers nuts. Y'all so crazy. LOL.
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Nike El Shabazz retweeted
😂 Lord Finesse spoke about this on Crate Diggers
🎯 Many elite digger of that period still share - with slight resentment - how he would buy out the premium crate heat at the record convention with that “set adrift” paper.. 💰💰🕊️🕊️
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Nike El Shabazz retweeted
Halloween in High Fashion: Horror Movies Edition
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Nike El Shabazz retweeted
"We ain't have everybody come out at 12:30 for no reason." Angel Reese and the Atlanta Dream force the WNBA's FIRST-EVER GAME 7🔥
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The reason there is a sub genre called Christian rap and not one called Islam Rap is because the 5 Percent, Nation of Islam, and Black Orthodox groups were foundational to the formation of Hip Hop itself and reflected the original message of Knowledge of Self and Do For Self.
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Nike El Shabazz retweeted
Queens Get The Money | Day 26 LL Cool J - "Ill Bomb" (Produced by DJ Scratch) Of course I had take it over to the legend. Hard to choose just one record, but if I had to pick a favorite, I'm going with this banger!
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