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IANA Blog- December 2024

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  Blog Happy December, As we close out the year, I wanted to focus this final blog on something that I noticed during the second week of December. During the Summer, I wrote a blog on the Kendrick Lamar-Drake feud. This December, Kendrick Lamar released a surprise album, GNX . It is his first hip hop album released not from his former record label, Top Dawg Entertainment. Another hip hop artist, Doechii is one of the up-and-coming hip hop artists out today and is one of my coworker’s favorite artists right now. I’ve also listened to her music and I became a fan. Listening to her music is very throwback to the 90’s Boom Bap style and for those that don’t know, 90’s Boom Bap will always be one of my favorite sub-genres in Hip Hop. She is signed to Top Dawg Entertainment and she released a mixtape this year called Alligator Bites Never Heal , which received critical acclaim. Kendrick’s album also received critical acclaim as well. A couple weeks later, after Kendrick was receiving pra...
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IANA Blog- November 2024

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  Blog Happy November, For last month’s blog, I talked about online diaspora wars within the African diaspora and how those diaspora wars were created to bring division and separation within the African diaspora. I called out anyone involved in diaspora wars, whether you’re African, Caribbean, Afro Latino or if you’re African American/Black American. For those that remember, I also called out members of the ADOS/FBA Movement. I also mentioned that I would make this month’s blog about FBA/ADOS, because I definitely have something to say about them. For those that don’t know what both FBA and ADOS stands for, ADOS stands for American Descendants of Slaves and FBA stands for Foundational Black Americans. ADOS and FBA refers to African Americans who descended from enslaved African Americans, basically if you can trace your family lineage back to US chattel slavery, you can classify as either ADOS or FBA. ADOS started their own hashtag on social media known as #ados. It would soon turn ...
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IANA Blog- October 2024

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  Blog Happy October, For this month, I wanted to get something off my chest and talk about it, because it seems that every year I see it. I also kind of talked about it in my second August blog. I want to talk about the online Diaspora Wars. For my IANA people who don’t know what it is , I’ll tell you. Diaspora wars are conflicts involving the African diaspora over petty and trivial things. I see them online on Twitter, Instagram and YouTube, mostly Twitter, and let me tell you, the stuff that the diaspora argues or goes into conflicts over is so stupid. For example, when the olympics were happening, you had Africans on Twitter cheering for the countries that they’re from that were being represented (like South Africans, Ghanaians, Nigerians, etc.), you had Caribbeans cheering for the countries that they’re from being represented (like Jamaicans, St. Lucians, etc.) and you had Black Americans rooting for the Black American athletes being represented in the olympics like Simone Bil...
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