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Hello, how are you? Happy Saturday?
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It is Saturday, November 18 2023. Olori Lolade Skentelemonies calling out to the Black Globe
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Um, few different things on my mind, and I will, um, can I connect the dots as soon as I can.
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So I’m sending this to the noirpress community. So thank you, noirpress for being so loyal and so sweet and so dedicated.
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And like 50% of you all actually open our emails. And some of you reply to our emails, and, you know, you click on the links, and we appreciate you.
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We appreciate the engagement. We know that many of you want more.
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And you have been holding on hoping that, um, all the things that we have dreamed of together will manifest and they are manifesting.
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So I’m going to share a bit of what’s been happening and, um, help you understand how they are manifesting.
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Even though we are on a new world timeline, this new world time line, it may feel slow, but it’s actually really fast compared to what our ancestors experienced with this type of work.
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So I will do my best to make sense, um, but I’ll tell you, the top thing on my mind right now is Puff Daddy.
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P Diddy (ugh) vomit when I even say his name it makes me wanna throw up I don’t wanna say the rest of his names.
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You knows, I’m talking about nauseating nigga. You nauseate me like I literally wanna throw up.
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Every time I see your face vomit disgusting.
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God help me to have compassion for the evil, oh Jesus, because they deserve your most wicked wrath.
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But I know that I am not worthy.
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I am not as powerful as you. I’m not worthy to dictate what you do.
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But I have an opinion, and I need to Um.
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Oh, I got off my chest.
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Love you. Cassie. Prayers to you. I know it’s not easy putting your business out there, telling the world what you’ve been through, exposing your soul like that.
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I can only imagine how traumatic it was for you to even say those words and put that stuff on paper and have to relive it and have all the world relive it with you.
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It’s disgusting that you have to experience this.
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But it’s gonna be for transformation, because as this Satan gets exposed and brought to justice, but you will all the other people doing similar and I-I can’t even imagine somebody doing worse than him but similar and whatever.
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They’re gonna stop they’re Gonna stop this is the rise of the black femme you know This black woman divine rising has been happening for almost a decade now and it’s continuing.
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But this is, this is the rise of the black femme.
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And I know, I don’t even know your background Cassie, so I can’t even say whether you, um, you, you identify as black, but there’s a lot of melanin in you girl.
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You got some Black in you. So it’s that divine feminine coming through
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Um, there’s a lot of spiritual things happening right now, and it’s an awakening.
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It’s an awakening, and it’s an exposure of the evil.
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There’s a major exposure of evil happening right now. And we have to hold on, those of us who are light filled beings who wish for the best for the planet and for each other.
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Hold on, baby. Just gotta hold on. Hold on to me.
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Hold on to your, your, your soul spirit tie.
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Family is supposed your soul spirit ties, and your spirit family, your soul family.
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I got some soulmedicine for you.
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So much. Soulmedicine. Okay, so let me close out with a few things.
04:17
So, talking about soulmedicine, I do wanna talk about some of the herbs that I’m taking and teas that I’m drinking just health food products that you may wanna try out, especially as the winter um, takes hold, so medicines, plants, fruits, special, et cetera.
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I’ll go into that.
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I wanna talk a little bit more about Satan and the music industry.
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And I’m talking about the person that I called Satan before, um, or shatan, as they like to say, I’m gonna say shatan in the music industry, um, the entertainment industry, the cabals that run the so called governments.
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And, um.
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I’m gonna talk about Harvard, Yale.
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Today’s Harvard-Yale’s annual game. I think it’s like the 159 or something.
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I gotta look it up. But coming to herbs, so I navigate I struggle with a lot of different health things, but it really, it boils down to being nourished enough and getting enough nutrients, getting enough sleep, getting enough hydration, water purification, um, probiotic fermentation, et cetera.
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So I’m gonna talk about some of the things that I’m doing that are really critical for my well being, especially in the wintertime.
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And um I-I highly recommend a lot of this a lot of us.
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We gin weight in the winter because we’re moving less um we are indoors more we’re just not going out as much and so our
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Metabolisms might slow down a bit it might be easier to gain weight.
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And of course, we’re eating heavier things. We’re eating more starches, um, maybe even more meats.
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We have all these holiday dinners.
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So, um, one secret key that I highly recommend, although I don’t recommend getting it on Amazon because I don’t trust theirs.
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But, um, wheatgrass powder. So I know you can get it at Whole Foods again.
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If you could find it outside of Whole Foods, be my guest.
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You gonna probably gonna pay a little bit, whatever. But I highly recommend, um, Amazing Grass is the brand that I use.
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I’ve used it for many years. I mean, literally probably over 15 years or something.
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I don’t know. When I started… 2007, I probably started using that type stuff, 2008.
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So that’s 15 years, highly recommended, it still improves my metabolism. The problem with Amazon products is in a lot of these things, we gotta start testing them at home ourselves, because you just don’t know what people are putting in these things, and they label it one way you don’t know.
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So we really need to normalize (cute). We need to normalize, um, ah, I likes I likes.
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Turn around. Let me see.
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Sorry, I’m making a recording for the newsletter. Um, it’s okay.
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So we need to normalize testing our foods at home. But I’m doing wheatgrass for for metabolism.
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Taking walks. I highly recommend daily walks. Mine are not necessarily that frequent, but at least three times a week.
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I’m committing to taking a walk, even if it’s cold, layering up, um.
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You do need to get out in the sun regardless. Even if it’s cold, whatever vitamin D you can get from the sun is still worthwhile.
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And you definitely want to take a vitamin D supplement. You can also get vitamin D from salmon from, I think, red meat.
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Um, like the good thing I’m on this one, I can actually look it up.
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So salmon, um.
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Nettle is a big one that I use. So nettle leaf, let’s look up vitamin D sources.
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Um.
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And then I’m getting liver. I haven’t done this in a while, but liver is so important, so important, especially black women, most of us are anemic.
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Um, you definitely want to have some liver.
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If you season it well, and you, you know, you season it overnight, and you might even mix it with other meats.
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But, um.
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It’s worthwhile. It’s worth doing. But you just season it heavily, make it taste good.
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And even putting it in like a green salad, like a herb salad, salad, spring mix type of thing, um.
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So this is saying best food sources of vitamin D are oily fish, including salmon, mackerel and sardines.
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Other sources include egg yolks, red meat and liver.
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Vitamin D is added to some foods too, so you can also get it as as a supplementation to your vegan milks.
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But I don’t think that’s enough, because I definitely don’t do enough.
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It’s not doing enough for me, because I was still low my last blood work.
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So, um, so I’m looking at my cup of Sorrel tea.
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So, like I mentioned, nettle, that’s a great vitamin D source.
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Sorrel is a great iron source, or sorrel / hibiscus. I think they’re slightly…I would say that sorrel is probably more advanced a plant than hibiscus.
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I don’t know. But I get it. The sorrel is usually drier and stronger than the hibiscus plants that I get.
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But soaking that, you know, making an infusion means letting your herbs soak in the water for at least four–I like to do mine overnight four to 10 hrs. I like to make my teas overnight…but there are teas if you need to drink something quickly…
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There are teas that you can, um, you know, you can just steep them for 10-15 minutes, and you’ll get something.
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But you get the most by doing an infusion. And it gets, you know, it varies by the plant.
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Some plants work better with different soaking times, so you wanna research that for each plant.
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But I have a cup of sorrel in front of me, actually, it’s hibiscus–as labeled–and, um, I’ve been sipping on it, but it’s been steeping, probably for the last few hours.
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So, so that’s that. And, um, tiger balm. There are some natural tiger balms out there.
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I highly recommend finding, like a bees wax, coconut oil based tiger balm with some camphor / menthol in it, because the other ones are just petroleum, like we’re literally just putting petroleum in our bodies.
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And I will share some data on the dangers of petroleum very soon.
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But, um, you don’t want, you don’t want that on your skin all the time.
10:18
I, I’ve overdone it, and I feel the repercussions. So, um, looking at my deodorant, and I can’t remember the, the name of it, I have to turn it around and see.
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Shea Butter is very helpful in the winter time for keeping your skin moisturized.
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Um, I don’t do as much apple cider vinegar in the winter.
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My goals in the winter time, health wise, are to definitely stay away from colds and flus, which is garlic, ginger, lemon juice.
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I juice them, keep it in the fridge and, um, sip it whenever I feel any kind of way, any kind of respiratory thing, any kind of cough.
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I sip it. Try to have it on hand. So this is help, you know, helping me to hold me accountable, to make sure I have it on hand.
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I just made some today. I will do my best to have some in the fridge at all times.
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And if you’d like a bottle, you know, hit us up, um, we have $20 bottles, I think, OK.
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So staying free from any seasonal issues is a goal, so I use those.
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And then just keeping nimble and keeping light, you know, like feeling light in my body.
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The way that I judge my weight is, how do I feel, do I feel light, or do I feel heavy?
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And if I start to feel heavy, then I switch it up because I don’t like to feel heavy, right?
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And so that switching it up might mean more yoga, might mean more protein and more greens, like raw greens.
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It might mean more hydration, more juicing, you know, um, more teas, right?
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And so I try to make sure I balance that. But, of course, in the wintertime, we crave more dense food than we do I-I know for me especially um I crave, more dense food in the winter than I do in the summer so where my summer might be very raw greens heavy and fruit heavy and juicing heavy
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And I’m in the sun a lot, and I’m walking a lot more. In the winter time…
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I’m gonna lean more towards cassava base foods. I mean, I’m literally craving like actual boilable Casava right now.
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Um, more fish, more red meat, you know, just things that warm up my body.
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Um, I’m not a big soup person, but probably something I’ll do, and porridges here and there.
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So, so staying light and nimble in spite of the cold, but staying, we’re generating heat inside my body as I’m not as prone to the cold, um, that’s important for me as well.
12:37
So, and just keeping my mood up, one of the things that I did over the last week was to replace some light bulbs my space and yo, the major, major difference it made in my life.
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I think the brand is called Eco Smart, they have daylight bulbs.
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This is new for me. I’ve never done these bulbs before.
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And the way they light up my life is bananas. So I highly, highly recommend daylight bulbs.
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I think these are eco smart LED. So LED is supposed to use much less, um, much less electricity.
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So just look into that. Just keep your space bright, because that darkness can really weigh on you.
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It can really take a toll. So, um, goals for the winter…
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Mental health. Mental health is so important. So meditation is so important.
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Um, I did a good, long meditation earlier. I’m gonna do another one.
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UM. So what I like to do when I get up is to, is to do some yoga and then sit at my altar, sit up my prayer mat and meditate.
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And, um, my prayer space.
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So I’ll close my eyes, I’ll take deep breaths, you know, I’ll fill up my lungs.
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I’ll breathe slow, you know. And so I like to do that until I feel like I can just zone out and it, you know, it can take time, um, I don’t use the Silva Method as much these days in terms of, like, shortening the relaxation time, but that is an option that you can employ.
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But yeah, highly recommend just deep meditation, consistent, daily, 30 min you know, multiple times a day.
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I highly recommend us normalizing, um, praying multiple times a day, like the, you know, like Islamic faith recommends, um, even if it’s three times a day, when you get up, when you go to sleep sometime in the middle of the day, you know, just having that moment of calm.
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Of peace, of respite. And of visualization. Highly recommend, you know, for me, my meditation is not done until I visualize.
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That’s why I be feeling incomplete. So, um, so I highly recommend deep meditation.
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And if you wanna do it with community, um, you know, there’s a lot of videos on youtube, et cetera.
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But, um, I have a 21 Day, you know, of course, coming up.
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So if you’re interested in that, we could do it together there, but I will be looking for other sources where you can kind of like tap on and do meditation with people live, because I don’t even know some.
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So that ooh, Agape, Agape Church.
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Agape live I think is what their youtube channel is called. They have actual meditations for their church services.
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Um, they are less Christ-focused, more God-focused, more spirit-focused, more Holy spirit, life, light, you know, freedom-focused, energy-focused.
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So I highly recommend them for I like their meditations, um.
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And they have live meditations with their Sunday, you know, services as well as, um, you know, other times in the week as well.
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So I really, that’s probably my favorite thing about them. So, so, and it’s a black pastor, um, reverend Michael, I believe.
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So that’s an option. You know. Hit up a friend. Get on Zoom, meditate with your people, right?
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If you’re interested in having me host some before 21 days, which starts December 20.
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Um, let me know. But you can look forward to that either way.
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All right. So, um.
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I talked about the wellness I-I said I wanted to talk about more about the entertainment industry. So I saw something today about um Rick Ross, I think, hiring a flight attendant… I recorded a TikTok last week about the whole Jim Jones, Rick Ross thing, and this artist named Dee1.
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Who they were attacking for calling em out, for making trash music.
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Listen, it’s the the music industry reckoning is here. Y’all been doing foul shit to black people for the last 50 plus years, programming us with bullshit.
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It’s time for you to be overturned like. It’s time for you to be like…let a new philosophy reign.
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Let a new message reign. You all are not gonna do this forever.
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Niggas don’t want to hear that shit anymore. Nobody wants to be programmed to go fucking kill people.
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Stop that dumb shit.
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So.
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That’s just what it is. Um.
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The part of your brain that processes music. Music is processed by the same part of the brain that processes memory.
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So if you want to remember something, put it in a song.
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You know this already. You’ve been known this. This is inherent knowledge as a human being.
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You want to remember something. Put it in a song, whether you want to remember consciously or subconsciously.
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Put it in music, put it to a track, put it to a beat, put it to a rhythm, put it to a melody, put on a frequency that will be embedded, that will embrace, that will come deep into your body.
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I’m at 17 min y’all. So music industry reckoning is here.
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It’s coming. It’s here. Kim Porter, rest in peace. You better come through Sis
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Come through!
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Come through, Kim Porter! Make this shit…yo…right. Overthrow this.
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Throw this shit up on it’s, like… I see Jesus throwing the tables in the church.
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Come, come, come through, girl! Throw these tables over. Let these niggas.
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Ooh. Let them feel your wrath, girl. Let them feel your wrath!
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Oh, yeah, so that’s enough for music industry. And so the last thing I’ll talk about is Harvard / Yale.
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I’m in the New Haven area. I didn’t make it to the game.
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My body was not interested. I tried my best, and it was not happening.
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Um, shout out to Mama Sheryl, holding it down for the Yale Black Alumni Association.
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I’m so sorry I couldn’t be there. Shout out to Kennedy, formerly the head of the Yale Nigerian Students Association.
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Shout out to C’Ardiss Gardner Gleeser, um, who just makes amazing things happen for Black founders all over the world.
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So, so many people. Shout out to the alumni that I met this week at Assembly, and shout out to the conversations yesterday.
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Yeah-I Salovey, I give you some props. I don’t agree with everything you do / stand for / say but I give you some props for moving more resources towards Black New Haven.
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I’m here for it. We gotta multiply that many more times, but I’m here for it.
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I think it’s a beautiful beginning. It’s a beautiful start. And, um, I didn’t quite like what you said about Palestine yesterday, but I understand your position, so we’ll talk more about that in the future.
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Um. But Harvard / Yale, I see as such a tremendous opportunity for black intellectual and commercial exchange.
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I really need it to be that because it’s so ridiculous, like what goes on down here.
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And so it’s beautiful that there are a lot more events this year than usual.
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What, what I’m usually aware of is, you know, a welcome happy hour here and there, um, a tailgate at the game and then a party at the, you know, the end of the night on Saturday.
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Um. And that’s cool, you know. But some of us creatives wanna do more interesting shit.
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That’s just what it is. And so, as an alum who wants to be able to come back and see other alum?
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I wanna be at a speakeasy, with y’all niggas, I wanna be, you know, maybe smoke a cigar or two, but drink some juice, you know, be cute.
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And here’s some dope, like, nineties. Soul, R&B Andre 3000 with the flutes and the meditation music and all the best stuff, all the best shit.
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That’s what I would like to do during Harvard. All this other stuff…
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I’m not interested. But kudos to Jason of UPN, who is hosting with the Yale Black Grad Network.
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Um, hosting a lot of events this weekend, a lot of amazing events that I, I’m sure will be very well attended.
20:53
Okay, so, um, I wanna see Harvard/Yale become…major black exchange.
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That’s just what I’m here for. And I know y’all can make it happen.
21:03
We can make it happen.
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And, um, I look forward to the next Harvard / Yale, when the game will be in New Haven again.
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And it’s gonna be some major changes in New Haven by then. Is, is the city is just growing, and by leaps and bounds.
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And I wonder if the ConnCAT, um, the Dixwell, center across from the Q house, I gotta remember what it’s called, if it’s gonna be, um, open by then.
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But that’s a very exciting development. That’s gonna be here in New Haven, as yo, y’all Harvard folk that are coming back, y’all about to be in for a treat.
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This is about to be the new shit. So y’all just need to pay attention.
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All right, I love y’all. Thank y’all for listening. And we’ll talk soon, peace. If you want to support, noirlabs.org/support
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Yeah. That’s the best way for now. Peace and love.
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