Category: The Beat
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Medusa | A Tale Of The Damned
For a billion reasons, I love Florence. It is my favourite place in the world to visit, short breaks, long breaks, hours even. It’s a dreamers dream and a place of fantasies, but one of the reasons I really LOVE Florence is the Uffizi gallery and its many superior works of art. It houses a…
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Now Playing | Phyno the Playmaker
OMG!! I am way late to this but I couldn’t let this go because… of course. But PHYNO pronounced FIN-O has been bustling my iTunes for weeks on end. I cannot move on from his album, he takes me back to growing up in Nigeria, back to the days when my mom and pop got…
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London | Soul Of A Nation; Art In The Age of Black Power
What is Black art? What should it do? What can it do? These are questions posed and answered in this most powerful exhibition of works from 65 Black artists over 150 art works, spanning twenty years from, 1963-1983 currently on exhibition at the Tate Modern. From a replica of Fred Hampton’s door to the portrait…
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13th- An Awakening
My cousin died seven years ago after being restrained by 11 police men whilst in a mental health institution he’d voluntarily checked into for help. He collapsed and never regained consciousness. He died four days later. The CPS ruled that there was insufficient evidence that the collective action of 11 policemen to restrain one man, using…
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Saw Bridget Jones’s Baby, Hated Bridget Jones’s Baby
I am not a fan of Bridget Jones, I saw the first movie and was duly irritated by her, I skipped the second movie, but I went to see this one with a gun to my head. I’ve never been able to relate to this type of movie, I find characters like Bridget sloppy, and annoying…
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Formation- Beyoncé
“I did not come to play with you hoes. I came to slay bitch.” When I die I want this on my tombstone. It is 2:30am in London and I find myself going through a very dejá vu moment. It seems Beyonce has a connection to my sleep time because every time I try to go to…
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WOMEN, New Portraits- Annie Leibovitz
When its all said and done, Annie Leibovitz will go down in history as one of the greatest visionary of our time. Without question, she would deserve this honour because for years to come we will marvel at her body of work. Her photographs capture the soul, the essence of a person, her subject whether animate…
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Dior and I
Over the past few months, I’ve had something akin to a block, creatively speaking, life got in the way of my creativity and I let some things fall by the way side. Last weekend I was bent on rectifying that; I moved my room around, this always helps navigate my brain in a way, and then…
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The Knockoff; Lucy Sykes & Jo Piazza
Its been a long time since I read a good fashion book, everything that comes from the genre is either trying to be Devil Wear Prada or worse. And over the past couple of years we have fallen down the rabbit hole of that other book, you know the one; Fifty Shades…doms, subs and billionaire…