Author: Zaria Jackson
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Sampa The Great Shows D.C. How to Be Great
BAM! The lights hit. Her name is illuminated as her band beautifully starts “Energy.” She walks on stage and the crowd screams. I look to my right and instantly make friends with the boy next to me as we dance with Sampa the Great. Her energy captures the crowd. Sampa the Great stopped in Washington
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Healing Anthems
Happy New Year to all! As we move through January, most of us are feeling this Venus retrograde mixed with this Mercury retrograde. Pardon my language but shit is feeling real. If you can’t tell, this album review is for those needing some more affirmations in their life. Felukah, a Neo-soul Egyptian rapper taking the
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Queen of the South Reigns On
Queen of the South. When I first came across this album, I was so excited. After the success of Dobale, the diaspora was excited to hear about Shaybo and her newest project. As a UK-Nigerian rapper, Shaybo has released music since 2011 when she was 15. Now 24, Shaybo has released an album called “Queen
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Little Simz: The Musical
OK GUYS. A cinematic masterpiece. Sometimes I Might Be Introvert by Little Simz is a cinematic masterpiece. You know those tiktoks that give you daily affirmations to manifest prosperity and growth in your life. None of them come close to having THEE Princess Diana herself, Emma Corrin, speak about needing to pace myself and breathing. Little
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Bring Out the Henny For ENNY
Chronicles of an average college student. I had a kickback at my apartment with my roommate and a few of our friends. I took this as an opportunity to play ENNY’s Under Twenty Five. I had to write an album review and I wanted to listen to it in a known pressure filled environment. After
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Connecting Your Worlds: Intersectionality
I grew up as a military kid. My ma and dad were in the military so even though they were separated, I was always on a military base when I moved in between them. I grew up in a pretty shelter environment for the first half of my life until I reached middle school. I
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Rwanda to France
For the blog post, I was told to find an African artist based outside of Africa. For Rwandan artists, the artist pool was huge. There were so many stories of Rwandan artist who had to flee and went to their respective country. But Gaël Faye stuck out. He was born in Burundi to a Rwandan
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Stickin 2 u
For each assignment we have been given, I have tried to make it a habit to focus my blog post on the women rappers of Rwanda. I found the personal goal challenging. Most women artists from Rwanda were singers rather than MCs. So I would sit for hours searching the web until I found a
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Accidentally Fighting Beauty Standards?
I came across Ish Kevin’s Toto Mtosso and began to vibe with the music. I, then, decided to look at the music video just to get a vibe of what the music was supposed to be showing me. The music video is the way an artist expresses their music through vision. But something stuck out
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Miss Girl, Just let Loose
My assignment for today was to find a “hip hop” video and write a blog post about it. The assignment gave me a lot of freedom to choose whatever video with whatever message I wanted. So I searched the internet for an hour trying to find a song that made me go AYYYYYE. Now, there