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Iāve spent years amplifying music and culture as a journalist and host. This space is where I tell the stories that matters to ME... unfiltered. ME = MIMI
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Solange Gave Me a Seat at 19. At 29, Iām Finally Joining the Conversation. (opens the original)
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Ten years later, the album that soundtracked my twenties feels less like an album and more like a prelude.I was 19 years old when Solange released A Seat at the Table.Iām 29 now.That sentence alone has been sitting with me all week.Ten years
The Congo I Know By Ear (opens the original)
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I have never been to Congo.Even writing that makes me feel slightly uncomfortableā¦Because when you are part of the diaspora, there are these little tests that nobody officially tells you are tests.Have you been back home??Do you speak Lingala??How is your French??Do you know this song??Do you eat this??Do you know what this means??Sometimes someoneās curiosity can sound like an underlying attack or shade. And depending on who is asking, suddenly you can feel like you need to prove how Congolese
We Traded āCommunityā for Followers (opens the original)
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Community might be one of the most overused words on social media right now.Everyone has a community.Creators have communities. Brands have communities. Podcasts have communities. People with 50,000 followers will tell you they are ābuilding community.āAnd maybe they are.But sometimes I wonder if we have actually forgotten what community means.Because when I think about community, I donāt first think about followers, group chats, comments or people saying āproud of youā under a post.I think abou
You Can Make It Out And Still Not Know How To Rest (opens the original)
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Iāve been thinking about rest a lot recently.Two weeks ago, I went to church and one thing from the sermon has stayed with me ever since.āRest is holy.āI donāt know why, but that sentence hit me differently.Because I think Iāve spent a lot of my life seeing rest as something you earn.Iāll rest when this deadline is done.Iāll rest when the money is right.Iāll rest when this problem is sorted.Iāll rest when Iāve achieved the next thing.There is always a condition attached to it.And when youā
One Year Later, You Still Canāt Knock a Bad Bitch Down (opens the original)
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What a journey.I donāt even think I realised how much I needed this platform when I started it.Substack came into my life at such a specific point. I had spent years trying to work out where Mimi The Music Blogger actually lived.Because the funny thing is, for someone called Mimi The Music Blogger, I hadnāt really had an actual blog in years.During the first five years of my career, there was WordPress. Me trying to build a website, write my little breakdowns, edit all my pictures, upload everyt
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