I got an appearance in the Boston Globe!
State Park, a watering hole frequented by MIT students and young professionals, isn't the first place you’d expect to hear live hip-hop beat
big thanks to Pink Navel for bringing me to Cambridge 💕 eight years ago when i was a freshman at umass boston, i wouldn’t have guessed that this is what i’d be doing today ~ finishing some hot ‘zza while reading an article about a bar that got its guts rearranged by my music 🍕
music has been a journey of patience and innerstanding, something i needed lots of when i lived in Boston. some of y’all know that i had awful racist roommates back then who literally tried to poison me dead 😱 i still have recordings and screenshots of the horrible things they’d said plotted against my space and wellbeing.
omg I was thinking about that whole situation when i was on stage. no matter how small or big, even the most minor micro aggression accumulates into a society that tolerated violence against Black and brown people. I read a lot about Sayed Faisal before I hit the stage, a Umass Boston student of color who was gunned down by Cambridge police. How does a government approved, trained officer end up putting a bullet in a student? If you don’t know the answer, think about it a little.
If you’re a radical thinker like me, you might think that it’s society’s overlapping prejudices toward POC that leaves us vulnerable to unreasonable violence. Because of my bad situation with the three girls who tried to poison me, i learned the hard way that it’s vital to call out all prejudices as soon as i smell em.
Deinvisiblize racism and patriarchal bullshxt by calling it out like YEAH I SEE YOU BEING AN ASSHXLE AND I’M CALLING IT OUT CUZ NORMALIZING THAT KINDA BEHAVIOR ACTUALLY COSTS LIVES ✨
so i dedicated my performance to my past self who had to deal with that violence before i could protect myself with the power of love and innerstanding. I dedicated it to Faisal, who didn’t get a chance at restorative justice and was taken from this earth too soon 🤍
happy monday, by the way! if you read this far you’re a literal faerie gem 💎 i love that you like getting to know me :) definitely take a look at my YouTube channel to see my full Boston performance, and listen to my new EP “Restorative Vengeance” on SoundCloud to feel the radical BXTCH vibes i radiate irl 🌙 love you!!! sweet dreams