Why didn’t the Black people come for the Jewish guy who’s also a producer and who gave Oprah the job initially? Cue Kanye. It got so bad that Taraji came back out to say though she appreciates the cultural response, please leave Oprah out of it. Taraji, bless her soul, exposed her paycheck to which Black America charged Oprah, another self-made Black billionaire. In fairness, the volume began rising after The Color Purple’s main cast hit the media for their promo tour. Since 2024 has kicked off, we have had a hard dose of financial realities. ![]() My first tap performance was to I Love A Piano. I explored different kinds of music because I fell in love with the performing arts. We watched all the Black TV shows during the 1990s as a family. My family is first-generation American, being immigrants from the twin islands of Trinidad and Tobago. It wasn’t like I needed music to teach me Blackness anyway. But in essence, I found my way musically in pop. That changed when I heard Seal perform Kiss From a Rose when I went to see Batman. R and B was never my go-to, it was too slow and mushy for me. After two of my favorite artists were killed by gun violence, I turned my back on Black music, especially rap music. I grew up listening to hip-hop around the 1990s. A lot of my Black friends sided with Kanye at the time and they hate him now for his same outspokenness. I was a fan before that moment but used my live Twitter fingers to show love to Taylor as a face from the urban community. I have been a Taylor Swift fan since Kanye took that girl’s award and told her to hold up a second. ![]() ![]() She mentioned her fanbase as an extension of her family, “the beehive gets me”, you can hear her say confidently. I went to the RWT on her birthday and also to watch the movie she dropped on December 1st, World Aids Day. When she won her Grammys, the ones that put her over the top, she used the word “we” in her Instagram announcement. We see a lot of her wins as our wins and vice versa. Beyonce is that sister or maybe Aunty to the millennial Black community. We have so many brothers and sisters that are unrelated to us in the everyday sense but those that we feel understand us in an ethos sort of sense.
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