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#BlackAltBae: Tee Kitonyi

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I've been friends with artist Tee Kitonyi on Facebook for a while now (where she likes to post a billion selfies a day ), but I only recently found out she made music. It was a pleasure to complete this brief interview with her on December 17th, 2023 . So I finally sat down to listen to your music . You are a weirdo, lol. You are a Weirdo with a capital W. I've heard a lot of the electronic/metal/trap type of music, but you're in a class of your own, lol. How long have you been making music and what drew you to this style? I love electronic music, what preferably drew to to this kind of music is FKA twigs and Sevdaliza and I've been producing, for a year but writing music and singing for a long time.

Lenny Kravitz's Point Still Stands

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"I'm what the industry's missing / If you want the real tea / Then go ask about me..." -- Baby Storme, "Bad Girls Club" This whole Lenny Kravitz situation is pissing me off, so I'm just gonna say my piece and bounce. Because in my humble opinion, the Lenny Kravitz situation...isn't really about Lenny Kravitz. It's about a much bigger problem that is once AGAIN being ignored by our people. As someone who has also never received an invitation to the Stellar Awards or a write-up in the Source Magazine, I understand Kravitz’s complaint. Sure, I don’t sing gospel music and I’ve never made a rap song but I also don’t know what the hell Kravitz would do at the Source Awards. The Soul Train Awards doesn’t even have a rock category and the last time Kravitz had a song on the top 40 Hip Hop /R&B charts, the BET Awards didn’t exist. Eminem appeared in multiple BET Hip Hop Awards cyphers because he is a hip-hop artist but haters like y’all insist on bri