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ayebeee16.bsky.social @ayebeee16.bsky.social · 10h

did your boots show up?

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ayebeee16.bsky.social @ayebeee16.bsky.social · 10h

Marriott or Hyatt

kia speaks @kiaspeaks.us · 1d

What’s your go to hotel? Like you’re going to a city you’ve never been to, what hotel are you booking?

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Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 12h

There's actually a reason for that!

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tye tribbin @hatzigsut.blacksky.app · 16h

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

Be Here (feat. D'Angelo) by Raphael Saadiq on Apple Music

Song · 2002 · Duration 3:48

music.apple.com

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 16h

Someone made a complete discography for D’Angelo in chronological order. So complete it has edited versions when available.

Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/2YR...

Tidal: tidal.com/playlist/116...

Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

Spotify – Web Player

open.spotify.com

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 12h

‼️ I never liked his incredible music being reduced solely to the “Untitled (How Does It Feel)” video. The Voodoo tour caused him a lot of pain.

Article (Amy Wallace; GQ) excerpt reads: “D'Angelo felt tortured, Questlove says, by the pressure to give the audience what it wanted. Worried that he didn't look as cut as he did in the video, he'd delay shows to do stomach crunches. He'd often give in, peeling off his shirt, but he resented being reduced to that. Wasn't he an artist? Couldn't the audience hear the power of his music and value him for that? He would explode, Questlove recalls, and throw things. Sometimes he'd have to be coad not to cancel shows altogether.

When I ask D about this, he downplays his suffering. Watching him pull hard on another Newport, I realize that he finds it far easier to confess his addictions than his insecurities about his corporeal self. Self-destructing with a coke spoon—while ill-advised—has a badass edge. Fretting over what Questlove has called "some Kate Moss shit" seems anything but manly. If given the chance, he tells me, he would absolutely shoot the video again. But he does admit to feeling angry during the Voodoo tour.”

“Amen! (D'Angelo's Back)” via GQ

Article (Amy Wallace; GQ) excerpt reads: "’One time I got mad when a female threw money at me onstage, and that made me feel fucked-up, and I threw the money back at her,’ he says. ‘I was like, 'I'm not a stripper.' He was beginning to sense a darkness beckoning. He recalls a particular moment onstage at the North Sea Jazz festival in 2000. The band was in the middle of ‘Devil's Pie,’ his song about the spell fame casts upon the weak—Who am I to justify / All the evil in our eye / When I myself feel the high / From all that I despise—when he felt an ominous presence in the crowd. ‘That night I felt something that was like, whoa,’ he tells me. E-vil.

On the last day of the eight-month tour, Questlove says D'Angelo told him, ‘Yo, man, I cannot wait until this fucking tour is over. I'm going to go in the woods, drink some hooch, grow a beard, and get fat.’ Questlove thought he was joking. I was like, ‘You're a funny guy.’ And then it started to happen. That's how much he wanted to distance himself."

While the tour was a success, both critically and commercially, it left D broken. ‘When I got back home, yeah, it wasn't that easy to just be,’ he says. ‘I think that's the thing that got me in a lot of trouble: me trying to just be Michael, the regular old me from back in the day, and me fighting that whole sex-symbol thing. You know: 'Hey, I ain't D'Angelo today. I'm just plain old Mike, and I just want to hang out with my boys and do what we used to do.' But, damn, those days are fucking gone."

“Amen! (D'Angelo's Back)” via GQ

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ayebeee16.bsky.social @ayebeee16.bsky.social · 11h

people that ain’t never died before keep on dying and yet the wicked continue to live and ruin this planet without impunity.

my faith in anything outside of myself dwindles by the day.

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steve harrington’s hair swoop @uxalchemist.blacksky.app · 13h

“I am grateful for your thoughts and prayers during these very difficult times, it has been a very rough and sad year [..] I ask that you please continue to keep me in your thoughts as it will not be easy, but one thing that both my parents thought me was to be strong, and I intend to do just that.”

D’Angelo’s Son Michael Speaks Out After His Father’s Death at 51

D’Angelo’s son, Michael Archer II, shared a heartfelt statement following his father’s death at 51 after a private battle with pancreatic cancer.

thesource.com

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It’s Courtney. @hersoulwrites.bsky.social · 12h

It’s nice that yall want to quote the stats on life expectancy and medical outcomes, but the system won’t suddenly start doing right by Black People because we all magically start going to the Dr regularly.

So please keep the judgement out your tones.

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ayebeee16.bsky.social @ayebeee16.bsky.social · 1d

coke.

SWIIRL @thatonegirlkendra.blacksky.app · 25d

I really only care about Black opinions. Are you a Pepsi or Coke drinker?

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Mik | Graphic Designer + Strategist @oksoboom.blacksky.app · 1d

Touching grass isn’t enough. Some of yall need to smoke some of it.

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ayebeee16.bsky.social @ayebeee16.bsky.social · 1d

got a new shower oil yesterday with the following fragrance notes (Passion Fruit, Sparkling Tea, Vanilla, Patchouli) and i just realized it reminds me slightly of the now discontinued ‘London Calling’ candle by Bath & Body works which i adored.

ayebeee16.bsky.social @ayebeee16.bsky.social · 2d

if you’re in NY or the tri-state, Humans of NY will be dedicating his current installation at Grand Central to Tanqueray from 8p - 12 a on Friday, 10.17.

may she dance on full of joy, peace, and safety this life couldn’t give her 💔

On Friday night between 8 PM and midnight, the main concourse of Grand Central will transform into a tribute to Stephanie’s life. Thank you, Steph, for being such an important part of Dear New York.

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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.social · 2d

Not to mention. . . we lose unlimited ride options (weekly and monthly Metrocards)

The only people benefiting from this are surveillance capitalists

YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 2d

The NYC MTA is transitioning to OMNY tap-and-pay cards, rendering swipe cards obsolete by June 2026.

OMNY is notorious for tracking riders through our devices, digital wallets, and credit card top-ups, and the MTA is besties with the NYPD. MTA Surveillance is a given.

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SinnamonS @sinnamonscouture.bsky.social · 2d

"André Leon Talley: Style Is Forever" opens Oct. 15
at SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion in ATL!

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C🌹B, MPH✨ @tinarose0103.bsky.social · 2d

!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bald-Headed Demon 😈 @such-a-frknlady.blacksky.app · 2d

i need to be kissed in the mouth omg! 😂

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ayebeee16.bsky.social @ayebeee16.bsky.social · 2d

the hotel i’m at is hosting family for an engagement and i’ve loved seeing all the beautiful lehengas.

ayebeee16.bsky.social @ayebeee16.bsky.social · 2d

this type of limo makes sense for oklahoma 🥴

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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 8d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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ayebeee16.bsky.social @ayebeee16.bsky.social · 2d

the bed at this hotel is like sleeping on a dense popeye’s biscuit and i’m so grateful i’m getting a massage tonight because i woke up so sore this morning 😫

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Adeninsola @eyilanke.bsky.social · 2d

The Angel of Death is really not on job bc why tf would you take Diane Keaton when there’s any number of other 79 year olds to get tf up outta here?

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ayebeee16.bsky.social @ayebeee16.bsky.social · 2d

weather is currently gorgeous but the high is gonna be 91 and the real feel was 93 yeaterday.

bring back real seasons 😭

ayebeee16.bsky.social @ayebeee16.bsky.social · 3d

them 17 bangs done ran me so low, sis.
she got too much money for that to be the pink bussdown we had to see all season.

ayebeee16.bsky.social @ayebeee16.bsky.social · 3d

i love A’ja but i will never forgive her for that ugly ass pink wig.

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ayebeee16.bsky.social @ayebeee16.bsky.social · 3d

smartfood has a movie theatre popcorn and i need them to make and sell a white cheddar/movie theatre mix, ASAPtually.