Shootyourmark
@shootyourmark.bsky.social
Award-winning Independent Music & Culture MMJ from the Chi. Leading scorer. Jackson State alum.
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Shootyourmark
@shootyourmark.bsky.social
· Feb 18
How G Herbo's 'Welcome to Fazoland' Elevated Chicago Dril...
We talked to G Herbo about how he recorded 'Welcome to Fa...
www.complex.com
I finally got to tell the oral history of one of my favorite mixtapes of the 2010 that touched the world from years to come! The 11 year retrospective of the Making of G Herbo’s Welcome To Fazoland for Complex Music. One of the hottest mixtape from Chicago ever!
www.complex.com/music/a/mbra...
www.complex.com/music/a/mbra...
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The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama.
His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.
Now he is tweeting in support of me.
This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.
Or used to work.
His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.
Now he is tweeting in support of me.
This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.
Or used to work.
September 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama.
His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.
Now he is tweeting in support of me.
This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.
Or used to work.
His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.
Now he is tweeting in support of me.
This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.
Or used to work.
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If Trump freaked out about *this*, one wonders what might be in those Epstein case files...
www.wsj.com/politics/tru...
www.wsj.com/politics/tru...
Exclusive | Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump.
The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter ‘is a fake thing.’
www.wsj.com
July 17, 2025 at 10:51 PM
If Trump freaked out about *this*, one wonders what might be in those Epstein case files...
www.wsj.com/politics/tru...
www.wsj.com/politics/tru...
I think ICE might have gotten my pops, but IDK…
June 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I think ICE might have gotten my pops, but IDK…
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Why is telling Black truth treated like a threat… but erasing it isn’t seen as violence?
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June 14, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Why is telling Black truth treated like a threat… but erasing it isn’t seen as violence?
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I feel really dead…
June 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I feel really dead…
A lot of people really lack integrity.
June 11, 2025 at 9:32 AM
A lot of people really lack integrity.
Christian Brokeshaw. That’s me.
June 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Christian Brokeshaw. That’s me.
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Kids thinking Harriet Tubman is a myth isn’t ignorance—it’s erasure. They banned truth, defunded schools, and left TikTok to teach history. Now confusion controls the story.
📕 Erased reveals who’s behind it & why it works.
Read it before more history disappears: stan.store/gxldsociety/...
📕 Erased reveals who’s behind it & why it works.
Read it before more history disappears: stan.store/gxldsociety/...
June 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Kids thinking Harriet Tubman is a myth isn’t ignorance—it’s erasure. They banned truth, defunded schools, and left TikTok to teach history. Now confusion controls the story.
📕 Erased reveals who’s behind it & why it works.
Read it before more history disappears: stan.store/gxldsociety/...
📕 Erased reveals who’s behind it & why it works.
Read it before more history disappears: stan.store/gxldsociety/...
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Voter purges and protest bans prove: speech that shakes the system is a threat.
Tired of silence? F*ck Around & Find Out is your manual to reclaim power and fight back—state by state.
Act now: get your copy, register, organize, and shake the system today: stan.store/gxldsociety/...
Tired of silence? F*ck Around & Find Out is your manual to reclaim power and fight back—state by state.
Act now: get your copy, register, organize, and shake the system today: stan.store/gxldsociety/...
June 4, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Voter purges and protest bans prove: speech that shakes the system is a threat.
Tired of silence? F*ck Around & Find Out is your manual to reclaim power and fight back—state by state.
Act now: get your copy, register, organize, and shake the system today: stan.store/gxldsociety/...
Tired of silence? F*ck Around & Find Out is your manual to reclaim power and fight back—state by state.
Act now: get your copy, register, organize, and shake the system today: stan.store/gxldsociety/...
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Things that will be impacted by this and have nothing to do with trans identity:
Birth control
Reversing Female Genital Mutilation
Breast reduction
Puberty blockers for precocious puberty
Ectopic pregnancy
Abortion access
Pap smears
Childhood ovarian cancer
Childhood testicular & germ cell cancer
Birth control
Reversing Female Genital Mutilation
Breast reduction
Puberty blockers for precocious puberty
Ectopic pregnancy
Abortion access
Pap smears
Childhood ovarian cancer
Childhood testicular & germ cell cancer
June 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Things that will be impacted by this and have nothing to do with trans identity:
Birth control
Reversing Female Genital Mutilation
Breast reduction
Puberty blockers for precocious puberty
Ectopic pregnancy
Abortion access
Pap smears
Childhood ovarian cancer
Childhood testicular & germ cell cancer
Birth control
Reversing Female Genital Mutilation
Breast reduction
Puberty blockers for precocious puberty
Ectopic pregnancy
Abortion access
Pap smears
Childhood ovarian cancer
Childhood testicular & germ cell cancer
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Also my opinion. I think everyone deserves a partner, companion. This is gender neutral. Everyone is deserving of a loving, compassionate, considerate partner.
June 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Also my opinion. I think everyone deserves a partner, companion. This is gender neutral. Everyone is deserving of a loving, compassionate, considerate partner.
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📸 by @colinbphoto.bsky.social @abrarichardson.bsky.social @shootyourmark.bsky.social @afrodip.bsky.social Quinn Myers @franciagarciah.bsky.social @mollydevore.bsky.social @thewayoftheid.bsky.social
May 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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wrote about morgan wallen's never ending apology tour www.vulture.com/article/morg...
Morgan Wallen Has Hit a Wall of His Own Making
The country star’s fourth album, I’m the Problem, is the textbook performance of soul searching.
www.vulture.com
May 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
wrote about morgan wallen's never ending apology tour www.vulture.com/article/morg...
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The Trump administration has reportedly agreed to pay $5 million to the family of Ashli Babbitt, a Jan. 6 rioter shot and killed by Capitol Police as she attempted to break into the House Speaker’s lobby.
Trump Is Giving Millions in Taxpayer Money to Family of Rioter Killed on Jan. 6
Donald Trump's Justice Department will reportedly pay $5 million to the family of Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt in a wrongful death settlement.
www.rollingstone.com
May 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The Trump administration has reportedly agreed to pay $5 million to the family of Ashli Babbitt, a Jan. 6 rioter shot and killed by Capitol Police as she attempted to break into the House Speaker’s lobby.
My latest for @rollingstone.com! I review Rico Nasty’s new banger Lethal! One of my favorite new albums of the year so far. So much fun!
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Rico Nasty Keeps Raging -- and Growing
Rico Nasty's 'Lethal' Review
www.rollingstone.com
May 17, 2025 at 12:09 AM
My latest for @rollingstone.com! I review Rico Nasty’s new banger Lethal! One of my favorite new albums of the year so far. So much fun!
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Ok we’re $484.06 away from reaching $30k donorbox.org/save-the-chi...
Save the Chicago Reader - Leor Galil's Fundraiser on Donorbox
I published my first Reader story in the summer of 2010. It concerned a Logan Square DIY space called Strangelight, which operated out of a storefront in the Congress Theater. I was 24 at the time. Be...
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May 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Ok we’re $484.06 away from reaching $30k donorbox.org/save-the-chi...
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This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.
April 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.
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Since his breakout in 2011, Chicago has witnessed Lil Durk’s rise from rock bottom, to being one of the hottest breakout rappers, to being at the bottom again, to slowly becoming one of the most beloved rappers from the City of Big Shoulders.
thetriibe.com/2025/04/fede...
thetriibe.com/2025/04/fede...
Federal charges aren’t stopping Lil Durk’s message of peace • The TRiiBE
Lil Durk may be in federal custody, but his efforts to push peace are still influencing his Chicago fanbase.
thetriibe.com
April 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Since his breakout in 2011, Chicago has witnessed Lil Durk’s rise from rock bottom, to being one of the hottest breakout rappers, to being at the bottom again, to slowly becoming one of the most beloved rappers from the City of Big Shoulders.
thetriibe.com/2025/04/fede...
thetriibe.com/2025/04/fede...
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Violent crime is down in Chicago.
In the first quarter of 2025, Chicago reportedly had the fewest murders since 2019.
thetriibe.com/2025/04/prit...
In the first quarter of 2025, Chicago reportedly had the fewest murders since 2019.
thetriibe.com/2025/04/prit...
Pritzker, Johnson applaud Peacekeepers violence prevention program as crime drops in Chicago • The TRiiBE
Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson stood together to praise new findings crediting a violence prevention program for reductions in crime.
thetriibe.com
April 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Violent crime is down in Chicago.
In the first quarter of 2025, Chicago reportedly had the fewest murders since 2019.
thetriibe.com/2025/04/prit...
In the first quarter of 2025, Chicago reportedly had the fewest murders since 2019.
thetriibe.com/2025/04/prit...
My latest story for @thetriibe.com! On Lil Durk’s community work and what his music and legacy means to Chicago. I spoke to several of his collaborators and colleagues about the impact he’s made on the city and what he was working towards before he was arrested.
thetriibe.com/2025/04/fede...
thetriibe.com/2025/04/fede...
Federal charges aren’t stopping Lil Durk’s message of peace • The TRiiBE
Lil Durk may be in federal custody, but his efforts to push peace are still influencing his Chicago fanbase.
thetriibe.com
April 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
My latest story for @thetriibe.com! On Lil Durk’s community work and what his music and legacy means to Chicago. I spoke to several of his collaborators and colleagues about the impact he’s made on the city and what he was working towards before he was arrested.
thetriibe.com/2025/04/fede...
thetriibe.com/2025/04/fede...
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NEW — Superstar rapper Lil Durk is in federal custody after being charged, in October 2024, with orchestrating a murder-for-hire plot.
Despite this, his career continues to soar, bolstered by the success of his latest Billboard 200 chart-topping album ‘Deep Thoughts.’
thetriibe.com/2025/04/fede...
Despite this, his career continues to soar, bolstered by the success of his latest Billboard 200 chart-topping album ‘Deep Thoughts.’
thetriibe.com/2025/04/fede...
Federal charges aren’t stopping Lil Durk’s message of peace • The TRiiBE
Lil Durk may be in federal custody, but his efforts to push peace are still influencing his Chicago fanbase.
thetriibe.com
April 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
NEW — Superstar rapper Lil Durk is in federal custody after being charged, in October 2024, with orchestrating a murder-for-hire plot.
Despite this, his career continues to soar, bolstered by the success of his latest Billboard 200 chart-topping album ‘Deep Thoughts.’
thetriibe.com/2025/04/fede...
Despite this, his career continues to soar, bolstered by the success of his latest Billboard 200 chart-topping album ‘Deep Thoughts.’
thetriibe.com/2025/04/fede...
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If you don’t allow your kids to have internet access until they’re like 16 and then just give them a phone they’re likely going to get scammed and abused immediately. This already happens. Kids need to be actively taught digital *literacy* from a young age, that’s the problem
April 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
If you don’t allow your kids to have internet access until they’re like 16 and then just give them a phone they’re likely going to get scammed and abused immediately. This already happens. Kids need to be actively taught digital *literacy* from a young age, that’s the problem
