Hleethat'sme

15/10/2024

Shout out to these 2 right here. and Surprising the $ #@! outta’ me by showing up at 1 of 2 surprise parties for my Birthday weekend! I was truly speechless! Much love and appreciation for my brothers! 💪🏾💯💪🏾

20/09/2024

Ever been to TCP? Not a club, but "Taking Care of Parents." 😅 My 92-year-old dad’s got old-school wisdom... but man, bathroom duty ain’t the same when they’re 92! 🤦‍♂️

18/09/2024

Back in Detroit for the second time, and I know y'all are tired of hearing about Motown—kinda like us New Yorkers with the Statue of Liberty. 😂 But hey, it's good to be back!

16/09/2024

Ever had a "CEO moment" in the bathroom? 😂 Turns out pulling up a chair ain't appreciated… especially when there's some "nail cleaning" involved. 🤢

21/07/2024

At this point it’s safe to say T.P. has his formula for what works best for him..his audience and doesn’t matter what anyone outside of that thinks. How long has he been doing things his way? How long has the same criticisms been made over and over? Funny thing here is ..as much as Jess is criticizing and sharing her opinion..which she has every right to do..she’s also proving that the movie held her enough to keep watching and got her talking about it. I guess the thought is as the saying goes…If it ain’t broke…🤷🏾‍♂️

06/07/2024

IT'S..GOING...DOWWWWN!!💪🏾💯💪🏾

29/04/2024

09/11/2023

Mannnnn PLEASE! 🤨🤨

24/09/2023

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23/08/2023

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by Kerry Callen

25/07/2023

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When Tina Turner left her first husband - who was also her boss, captor, and brutal tormentor - she snuck out of their Dallas hotel room with a single thought in her mind: "The way out is through the door."
From there she fled across the midnight freeway, semi-trucks careening past her, with 36 cents and a Mobil gas card in her pocket. As soon as she decided to walk out that door, she owned nothing else.
When she filed for divorce, she made an unusual request. She didn't want anything: not the song rights, not the cars, not the houses, not the money. All she wanted was the stage name he gave her - Tina - and her married name - Turner. This was the name by which the world had come to know her, and keeping it was her only chance to salvage her career.
Things could have gone a lot of ways from there. She could have labored in obscurity for decades, maybe making records on small labels to be prized by vinyl connoisseurs in Portland. She could have stayed in Vegas, where she first went to get her chops back up, and worked as a nostalgia act. And, of course, given what she had been through, she might have ... not made it.
What happened instead is that Tina Turner became the biggest global rock star of the 80s. I'm old enough to barely remember this, but if you aren't, it was like this: The Rolling Stones would headline a stadium one day, and the next day it would be Tina Turner. A middle-aged Black woman - she became a rock star at 42! - sitting atop the 1980s like it was her throne.
She managed this because of whatever rare stuff she was made of (this is a woman whose label gave her two weeks to record her solo debut, Private Dancer, which went five times platinum); because she decided to speak publicly about her abusive marriage and forge her own identity, and in doing so give hope and courage to countless women; and also because - in a perhaps unlikely twist for a girl from Nutbush, Tennessee - she had her practice of Soka Gakkai Nichiren Buddhism, to which she credited her survival. She remained devout until the end.
Tina's second marriage - to her, her only marriage - was to Edwin Bach, a Swiss music executive 16 years her junior. Of him, she said, "Erwin, who is a force of nature in his own right, has never been the least bit intimidated by my career, my talents, or my fame."
In 2016, after a barrage of health problems, Tina's kidneys began to fail. A Swiss citizen by then, she had started preparing for assisted su***de when her husband stepped in. According to Tina, he said, "He didn't want another woman, or another life."
He gave her one of his kidneys, buying her the remainder of her time on this earth and perhaps closing a cycle which took her from a man who inflicted injury upon her to a man willing to inflict injury upon himself to save her from harm.
Born into a share-cropping family as Anna Mae Bullock in 1939, she died Tina Turner in a palatial Swiss estate: the queen of rock 'n roll; a storm of a performer with a wildcat-fierce voice; a dancer of visceral, spine-tingling potency and ability; a beauty for the ages; a survivor of terrible abuse and an advocate for others in similar situations; an author and actress; a devout Buddhist; a wife and mother; a human being of rare talent and perseverance who, through her transcendent brilliance, became a legend.

Credit: Will Stenberg
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20/07/2023

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24/05/2023

R.I.P. Anna Mae Bullock aka Tina Turner. THANK YOU for your music & entertainment! 🙏🏾💯🙏🏾❤️🙏🏾

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Tina Turner. With her music and her boundless passion for life, she enchanted millions of fans around the world and inspired the stars of tomorrow. Today we say goodbye to a dear friend who leaves us all her greatest work: her music. All our heartfelt compassion goes out to her family. Tina, we will miss you dearly. (© Peter Lindbergh)