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[quote_simple]”Who can come back years later, still hit the shot? Still them tryna move we off the fucking block”- Phife Dawg[/quote_simple] Yo are we live right now? Are we on the air? Do the people fucking hear me right now? Good. While everyone was watching or not watching the inaguration of our most trash president elected to date (you know the name), ya mans and dem Ta-Nehisi Coates was in the cut on a rooftop in some undisclosed location rocking Timbs and a Wakandan School of Alternative Studies college sweater while looking at the masses. Homes hit the ear piece and said,”Ayo, Time Magazine? Drop that hot shit on ’em one time.” Call it resistance or call it a move similar to Beyoncé dropping Lemonade on us without warning, but they just announced that “The Crew” will have it’s own spin off series. My gawd, I’m crying actual tears right now. Real fucking fandom tears because this is the series we fucking deserved, the series we need right the Black now. *Glory plays in the distance (the version without Common)*
Now I done told y’all how after a now fourteen year wait, your boy Coates remixed The Crew for a cameo in Black Panther. I done told you all that, I done told you that this shit right here is the Baton pass and Ta-Nehisi Coates is taking that shit for the 800 meter relay and he’s joined by poet Yona Harvey for this run as well? You telling me we’re not only going to be getting prose but lyric bars as well? Is that what you’re telling me right now? *Sam Wilson ha…
YOU’VE REACHED YOUR LIMIT
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