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Askari ✊🏾 ~ Dick Gregory burner account 📚🌱 @askari.bsky.social · Nov 13

Anybody who knows me well knows that music is a huge part of my life (fun fact: it's a dream of mine to be tasked with compiling the soundtrack for a movie or TV series)

Here's a thread of some of my favorite playlists: different genres, different moods, great music

Enjoy! 💜🎶

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Askari ✊🏾 ~ Dick Gregory burner account 📚🌱 @askari.bsky.social · 2h

Why am I just learning of his connection to the Argonauts? Wow, now I'm REALLY sad we never got to see him as Coach Madden! 🏈

Askari ✊🏾 ~ Dick Gregory burner account 📚🌱 @askari.bsky.social · 3h

Bout to watch this John Candy doc. Bout to miss one of my childhood favorites. Bout to think about all the 'what ifs' roles he would've been perfect for (I'd always dreamed of him playing Coach Madden in a biopic). Bout to smile a lot, hopefully.

Askari ✊🏾 ~ Dick Gregory burner account 📚🌱 @askari.bsky.social · 3h

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(sorry, @onthecountof3.bsky.social, I couldn't help it lol)

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Askari ✊🏾 ~ Dick Gregory burner account 📚🌱 @askari.bsky.social · 5h

Rewind

Gaal Dornick @onthecountof3.bsky.social · 5h

Be kind

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Askari ✊🏾 ~ Dick Gregory burner account 📚🌱 @askari.bsky.social · 5h

Spotify's lossless audio setting has been a nice surprise, but it's draining tf outta my data

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Dr. Frisky Whisky McThicky, Ball Knower @professorpash.bsky.social · 6h

Sly Stone and D’Angelo in the same year… months apart… I’m not ok

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Askari ✊🏾 ~ Dick Gregory burner account 📚🌱 @askari.bsky.social · 6h

I wish you could live forever
Wish you would never ever
Have to feel pain
Hope you stay away from sin
I wish you nothing but love
Hope you'll never feel loss
Wish I could explain why some things ain't the same
I hope that you find somebody
And that somebody loves you unconditionally
And never puts a thing above you
I wish you never get cheated on or betrayed
Wish you learn from every single one of your mistakes
Hope one day you'll find peace within yourself, I do
'Cause the only one you're really stuck with is you
Hope you never gotta hide who you really are
Wish you find a passion and you're able to go really far
Hope that in your life you never make a single enemy
Hope you'll never know the feeling of hatred or jealousy
Wish you get a taste of all the beautiful things the world got to offer
I would sacrifice myself in order for you to have it

Askari ✊🏾 ~ Dick Gregory burner account 📚🌱 @askari.bsky.social · 7h

Beautiful words from Ms. Lauryn Hill.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7h

Lauryn Hill just shared a moving tribute to the late D’Angelo:

People need reflection.

I regret not having more time with you. Your undeniable beauty and talent were not of this world, and a presence not of this world needs protection in a world that covets light and the anointing of God. You sir, moved us, stirred us, inspired and even intimidated others to action with your genius. Thank you for being a beacon of light to a generation and beyond who had no
remembrance of the legacy that preceded us. Thank you for charting the course and for making
space during a time when no similar space really existed.

You imaged a unity of strength and sensitivity in Black manhood to a generation that only saw itself as having to be one or the other. It is my earnest prayer that you are in peace, far away from selfishness, fear and/or controlling interests. Far from possessiveness, far from greed, far from manipulation, far from exploitation, far from intentionally designed chaos and that you Brother are in peace, in bliss and in eternal light and fulfillment with our Father in heaven. I Love you and I miss you. May God grant peace and shelter to your family, true friends and genuine appreciators, Brother, King.

A photo of Lauryn Hill and D’Angelo, wearing black

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7h

Lauryn Hill just shared a moving tribute to the late D’Angelo:

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Askari ✊🏾 ~ Dick Gregory burner account 📚🌱 @askari.bsky.social · 8h

open.spotify.com/track/6ocRAg...

Green Grass Vapors

open.spotify.com

Askari ✊🏾 ~ Dick Gregory burner account 📚🌱 @askari.bsky.social · 8h

open.spotify.com/track/3tyUh8...

Brown Sugar

open.spotify.com

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Dr. Frisky Whisky McThicky, Ball Knower @professorpash.bsky.social · 9h

Michael Eugene Archer aka D’Angelo 🖤🕊️
“Africa”

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Dr. Frisky Whisky McThicky, Ball Knower @professorpash.bsky.social · 9h

Michael Eugene Archer aka D’Angelo 🖤🕊️

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Dr. Frisky Whisky McThicky, Ball Knower @professorpash.bsky.social · 9h

Michael Eugene Archer aka D’Angelo 🖤🕊️
“He made Soul raw again.”

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Askari ✊🏾 ~ Dick Gregory burner account 📚🌱 @askari.bsky.social · 9h

I have no issues with the swift brutality in which her career was essentially canceled (nor the reason), but I still love this track
open.spotify.com/track/5p3N0c...

Love Is You

open.spotify.com

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Nina @gotmyniinaa.bsky.social · 10h

D'Angelo & The Soultronics - Fall in Love (J. Dilla)

D'Angelo & The Soultronics - Fall In Love (J. Dilla)

YouTube video by Tijmen Coemans

www.youtube.com

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Askari ✊🏾 ~ Dick Gregory burner account 📚🌱 @askari.bsky.social · 9h

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Askari ✊🏾 ~ Dick Gregory burner account 📚🌱 @askari.bsky.social · 10h

D'Angelo's passing is affecting more than I expected, if I'm being honest. Not just because of the infinite amount of memories I have attached to his music, but so many other reasons as well. His age (very close to mine), his cancer (runs in my family), his geographical origin (hello?).

Prayers up.

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Sinnamon Love @sinnamonlove.blacksky.app · 10h

music.apple.com/us/album/so-...

So Far to Go (feat. Common & D'Angelo) by J Dilla on Apple Music

Song · 2006 · Duration 5:36

music.apple.com

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Askari ✊🏾 ~ Dick Gregory burner account 📚🌱 @askari.bsky.social · 10h

Probably, but if you haven't fully explored his entire body of work, you might be missing some of that from his younger mind may already be out there 🙃
open.spotify.com/playlist/67q...

(I clearly have no shame about sharing this playlist lol)

Fifty Shades of Dré

open.spotify.com

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Sinnamon Love @sinnamonlove.blacksky.app · 10h

Smh…

Both my favs, just gone.

music.apple.com/us/album/she...

She's Always In My Hair by D'Angelo on Apple Music

Song · 2004 · Duration 4:06

music.apple.com

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 10h

Earlier: The new Texas "bathroom bill" not only makes it harder for trans people to exist in public, it also attempts to grant immunity from prosecution to those enforcing it, even if they violate the constitution.

How the Bathroom Bill Weaponizes Transphobia Against Public Institutions

A legal expert called the new anti-trans Texas bathroom law “the most plainly unlawful, undemocratic legislation I’ve seen in recent history.”

www.texasobserver.org

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