I hope you enjoy your weekend by listening to all the great new music that’s been offered to you this week. You don’t have to choose and limit your jam choices based on gender. Please don’t.
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Jean Grae
Jean Grae (born Tsidi Ibrahim, November 26, 1976), formerly known as What? What?, is an American hip hop recording artist, actress, and comedian from Brooklyn, New York City. She rose to prominence in the underground hip hop scene in New York City and has since built an international fanbase. 2Early life Jean Grae was born Tsidi Ibrahim, in Cape Town, South Africa, on November 26, 1976. The daughter of South African jazz musicians Sathima Bea Benjamin and Abdullah Ibrahim, she was raised in New York City, where her parents relocated after her birth. She studied Vocal Performance at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, before majoring in Music Business at New York University. She dropped out after three weeks of class. 2Musical career 31996–98: Career beginnings In 1995, she was discovered by George Rithm Martinez, when he recruited her for a five-song demo under the name of his group, Ground Zero. Their demo was critically acclaimed and earned the duo "Unsigned Hype" honors in The Source in March 1996. She later joined a hip hop group called Natural Resource, along with fellow rapper Ocean and disc jockey James "AGGIE" Barret
Anyway. Be great. Make all the great things in your imagination. It’s not weird. You’re not weird. Don’t get distracted. Do that shit. It’s hard as hell. Demand your credit. Keep going.
I’ve got my own shit to deal with too. At the very least of all these points, be kind. Be open. You cant solve everyone’s everything, just let them know that you are OPEN. And if you need to steer them towards help, do it. We’re all just people trying to make it.
Sometimes it helps to just get the things out in a safe, loving environment. But you can't solve everything. So do your best to not make anyone feel terrible about just feeling their feelings.
Not everyone is okay with talking about uncomfortable things, or LISTENING to uncomfortable things. We’ve been made to feel certain ways about them. Like it’s not normal. But it is. Please just be open to listening. Please try your best to get things out of your head.
I’ve been in some very dark places. Different times and different things, over the course of my life. Thought about ending things. Attempted to end things. Thankfully, I openly talked about it. I’m okay with talking about extremely uncomfortable things. Not everyone is.