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@okaysoundsgreat @DavidPassickEnt
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Joined June 2007
I'm starting a startup called Nah, that aims to disrupt the launching of startups aiming to disrupt things that don't need disrupting.
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Your “cousin’s friend” has untreated gonorrhea.
My cousin in Trinidad won’t get the vaccine cuz his friend got it & became impotent. His testicles became swollen. His friend was weeks away from getting married, now the girl called off the wedding. So just pray on it & make sure you’re comfortable with ur decision, not bullied.
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Mop! Mop! Mop! Mop!.
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This casual disregard for jazz in contemporary rap culture is something else.
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Industry plant.
Johann Sebastian Bach has surpassed 8 million monthly listeners on Spotify.
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Hey kids, come work in the music industry so you can meet your favorite artists and never enjoy their music again!.
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Imagine getting a placement on that album only to see this.
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Beyoncé’s “Love on Top” should be taught in every music class.
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We REALLY need to celebrate Stevie more while he’s still here.
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Are major labels planning to donate any money they made off Black culture, or are they just going to release statements of solidarity so they won’t be scrutinized for being silent?.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but one Instagram teaser and one post on release isn’t a rollout.
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The time spent arguing over who has the better album could be spent listening to better albums.
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How come y’all never do your own research when y’all break a bone?.
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Even the mask itself was genius. DOOM took a prop from “Gladiator”, modified it and made it his own.
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Everything Prince said about the music industry is true.
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Nobody sees color until you cast a Black woman as a fictional character.
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Jay-Z really used having two dishwashers as a pick up line in “Excuse Me Miss”.
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I don’t think people understand the logistics involved in this. Beyoncé’s tour team is really unmatched.
Due to severe weather, Beyoncé's.show last night was delayed, and trains were extended by an hour. Beyoncé funded the additional hour of Metro service covering the $100,000 cost to run more trains, keep all 98 stations open for customers to exit, and other operational expenses.
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What have you done to combat anti-Blackness and white supremacy since posting that black square a month ago?.
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Everybody talks about building community—nobody about maintaining and sustaining it.
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Album cover art is declining because graphic design has been democratized and repositioned as something anyone can do with simplified consumer tools.
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People are sitting in CH rooms for hours hoping to gain information they could’ve just Googled in 5 mins.
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When shows come back y’all better not still be rapping over your own vocals.
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Since we’re entering 2nd and 3rd waves and some ppl STILL equate adhering to safety measures to living in fear:. It’s been 6 months and I STILL haven’t fully recovered. Perfect health, No pre-existing conditions. Enjoy your parties.
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Does the winner get a blue vest?.
Usher, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, and Julianne Hough will host competition series ‘The Activist’. Activists go head-to-head in challenges to promote their causes, with their success measured via online engagement, social metrics, and hosts’ input. (
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And Chad.
Missy, Pharrell and Timbaland literally led an entire era of music in the 2000’s- I don’t think the “Virginia” sound gets enough credit.
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If we can talk about owning masters, streams paying peanuts, venues taking merch cuts, and producers stealing credits, we can also talk about major artists exploiting young people’s ambition to find their place in the music industry while having the capacity to pay them fairly.
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Thank you all for the well wishes and messages of support. I’m currently on day 12 of covid-19, but have been feeling much better and am well on my way to recovery.
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We can all agree that the music industry is broken, but expecting fans to take sole responsibility for fixing it while neglecting the roles of major labels, multinational entertainment companies, DSPs, and many other entities perpetuating the problems is not a viable solution.
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If the “lesser of two evils” doesn’t involve a President making erratic online statements, amplifying conspiracies, employing Nazis, undermining efforts to combat climate change, denying reproductive rights, defunding USPS and fumbling a pandemic response? I’ll take it.
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I’ll never forgive Interscope for shelving Bilal’s “Love for Sale”.
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Take $50 out your stimulus. Go get you a prepaid phone. Now get a pickpocket, casino worker, two mechanics, surveillance expert, explosives expert, acrobat and an elderly con man. Now you have a team. Rob the Bellagio, Mirage, and MGM Grand at the same time. Start living good.
Take $150 out your Stimulus. Go get you a LLC. Now you own your own Business. Now go online and get the 5k small business grant(SBA). That's how you turn $150 into 5k. Now you have 5k and your own Business. Take out a credit card in your Business name. Use half then pay it off.
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DOOM’s career spans 31 years. Let that sink in for a minute.
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This might be a hot take, but the music industry does not suffer from a lack of services and applications. It suffers from a lack of ethics and equality.
We can all agree that the music industry is broken, but expecting fans to take sole responsibility for fixing it while neglecting the roles of major labels, multinational entertainment companies, DSPs, and many other entities perpetuating the problems is not a viable solution.
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If your childhood is ruined by Disney casting a black woman as Ariel, imagine being separated from your parents and locked in a cage at the border. Happy 4th!.
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My favorite part of the “We Are The World” documentary is that between everyone’s net worth in that room, they could’ve easily put together millions to donate but instead relied on consumers because capitalism.
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Our parents’ generation really tried to convince us that computers would make us stupid, only for them to end up playing FarmVille and sending us hoax memes all day.
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I wish every artist and band, big or small, major or independent, would do something similar. For a lot of us working in the background of tours, this kind of name recognition is huge and unprecedented.
Credits for the RENAISSANCE World Tour are now live on Beyonce’s website. 🔗: . #RENAISSANCEWorldTour🪩
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Why is everyone self-diagnosing complex neurodevelopmental disorders?.
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I beat covid this year. That’s enough of an accomplishment.
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I can’t wait for music industry Twitter to find out there are genres outside of rap music.
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Artists with an impressive social media presence and a knack for making “content” should be an anomaly instead of the norm. The expectation we put on them should be that they express themselves through their craft, instead of tasking them with performing well at vanity metrics.
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The amount of non-Black people afraid to use the words Black, white supremacy and racism in their little statements is astonishing.
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It’s been almost four months since I’ve recovered from COVID-19 and I still experience brain fog. You’re not invincible, wear a mask, keep your distance and stay home when you can.
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Please don’t ever hesitate to tell independent artists that you love their work. These messages and words of encouragement can change the whole trajectory of an artist’s day.
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I don’t expect everyone to be up on Japanese Hip-Hop, but @5lack6 has been active as a rapper and producer since the mid-’00s, and his music is worth checking out.
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“Young Forever” just to see everybody present pretend it’s fire.
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People's response to lockdowns, measures, and precautions throughout this pandemic tells you a lot about their genuine empathy and compassion for others.
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I’m old enough to remember when people thought Dilla beats were soft and SV were conscious rappers.
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Quite possibly the worst headline of the year so far.
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Two years ago I quit my successful career as an illustrator to focus on working in music full-time. Sometimes the things we’re REALLY good at, and people know us for, aren’t necessarily what we’re truly passionate about and want to dedicate our lives to. And that’s okay.
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For all of the “99% sUrViVaL RaTe” people.
A third of COVID-19 survivors in a study of more than 230,000 mostly American patients were diagnosed with a brain or psychiatric disorder within six months, suggesting the pandemic could lead to a wave of mental and neurological problems, scientists said
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As much as Dilla gets his flowers posthumously, there’s not nearly enough mention of how he sonically reinvented himself when he went from Jay Dee to J. Dilla. When I first heard “Ruff Draft”, I had literally never heard anything like it.
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So many "one-hit wonders" were simply artists whose careers were deprioritized by major labels after their releases didn't meet projected sales anymore.
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While I wholeheartedly support Teyana mentoring other artists, it's important not to overlook how many pivots in the music industry stem from feeling undervalued, unsupported, or dismissed due to getting older.
Teyana Taylor is showing us how redirection could be the best thing that ever happens to you. Using your talents to help and elevate others could be your calling.
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@_KimChanel_ I’m convinced these people are not used to actually being listened to in conversation.
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The absence of ownership in streaming consumption is shortening the lifespan of releases significantly, resulting in an unhealthy expectation for artists to release new music non-stop.
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The problem isn’t a lack of artist development. The problem is a lack of good A&Rs.
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Techno is black. Techno is black. Techno is black. Techno is black. Techno is black. Techno is black. Techno is black. Techno is black. Techno is black. Techno is black. Techno is black. Techno is black. Techno is black. Techno is black. Techno is black.
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Dutch people basically eat the Fyre Fest meal for lunch every day. Without the salad.
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What we really need is a list of top 50 music journalists.
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To each their own, but if you’re not listening to ANY contemporary jazz in 2023, you’re missing out on many amazing artists.
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@StephBMore This shit is so incredibly irresponsible, and everyone is just shrugging it off because “younger people only have mild symptoms.”.
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I hate to say this, but if the cancellation of festivals is the worst thing that has happened to you in this pandemic and you’re not dependent on them for your income, you’re going to be okay and need to be realistic about how much worse things could have been.
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It still rubs me the wrong way that none of the prominent early 2000’s music bloggers in the hip-hop and beats scene were offered positions as A&Rs anywhere.
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“Making it” in music is rarely defined by a single moment that changes everything. Far more often, we should look at it as the collective achievements that form an ever-evolving career.
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It’s not Zoom fatigue, they’re just unnecessary meetings.
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Also, Nike Running, take note.
Happy Birthday to the Queen!! Misdemeanor herself!! The fearless leader of Supa Dupa Flyness, we wouldn’t know how to be Fly or a Boss without her, @MissyElliott happy birthday we love you!! 💕
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I’d genuinely like to know why anti-vaxxers have such an issue admitting they’re anti-vaxxers.
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Black people.
Music is so good wtf. How did we even?.
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Most of us don’t get offered big enough bags to justify remaining silent about the toxic behavior and practices in the music industry.
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@9thwonder Did I say any of that? It’d still be nice to see complete metadata so that those of us who legitimately want to know can find out.
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which album would you write your 33 1/3 about?.
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Many artists and bands I grew up on, who played an integral role in my musical education, would not be given similar opportunities in today’s music industry.
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One of the greats has left us. R.I.P. Dr. Lonnie Smith.
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Chad. Hugo.
Did we like Justin Timberlake or did we really just like Timbaland and Pharrell?.
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A lot of music labeled as “alternative R&B” is just contemporary R&B sung by artists with dyed hair and a “punk” aesthetic.
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