B. Dolan
@bdolan.bsky.social
25 years of unapologetic outsider rap, activism, spoken word and writing. For music, merch, weekly streams and ongoing shows, visit IAmBDolan.com or linktr.ee/iambdolan
B Dolan - Advice To Young Writers "I've stayed alive through the wildest changes. Still survive by the kindness of strangers, Coincides with these silent exchanges. All around the world, it's the vibe of the language." @bdolan.bsky.social Hear hear. #BDolan #Rhymers #GlaringTypoRec #HeadBomper
Advice To Young Writers
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Hundreds turned out in Ohio to oppose racist round-ups of working-class Haitian neighbors who recently lost TPS status. People were forced to report to an ICE office and fit with an ankle monitor tracking devices. Fascist sick shit. www.wcpo.com/news/local-n...
Hundreds protest outside ICE facility in Blue Ash amid termination of TPS for Haitians
Hundreds of people protested in Blue Ash on Sunday outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility as Haitians were called in for check-ins at the facility, organizer Ignite Peace said.
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Our @AMORnetwork legislative team has been starting meetings with icebreaker questions. Yesterdays was “you can only keep one for the rest of your life: singing (which includes rap and spoken word) or dancing.” I chose dancing, shocking and offending some. I said what I said.
Dancing Dance
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Katy Perry trapped in a plastic bottle is my favorite performance art of 2026 so far.
This Summer, Rick Ross and Lizzo sold less copies than my 2010 underground LP. I'm working on a vinyl repress of that album right now. It's a marathon, not a sprint. Also, no one wins.
This afternoon in RI there's an emergency rally to stop ICE from taking someone who's been in the country for 50 years. The sole caretaker of his autistic 9yr old and elderly mom after his wife and father recently died. Abolishing ICE is the centrist position. Prosecuting ICE is the moral one.
Looking out for guards, I motion you through a locked security door to the sub basement of the museum of hip hop. After following me for several minutes down winding unlit corridors, we're there: The vault where we archive Talib Kweli diss records and the thousands of tweets that led to them.
The hawks curtail the squirrel problem, but what predator is coming to curtail the screaming hawk problem? #birdfeederdiary
Everyone hates being misunderstood, but not everyone has the bodily memory of being beaten while trying to explain themselves. Lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood. An atheist CPTSD prayer.
I insisted we write this song about passengers stuck at sea on a cruise ship because I think it's the perfect late stage capitalist metaphor. This "Shipwrecked: Nightmare At Sea" doc on Netflix is entertaining all my worst impulses. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBNC...
Man Overboard
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Hip hop after 40 looks like me summoning a murder of crows to my backyard every day with the intro to "40 Bars Of Death". I just open the window, play this loud and they appear now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3l4...
Jadakiss - 40 Bars of Terror
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Funny story: I've been listening to Beethoven's "Ode To Joy" with weed and coffee to start the morning for a couple weeks. And that is exactly what I was doing when I learned Lindsey Graham is dead, while knowing Mitch McConnel is probably also dead. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzyO...
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No 9 'Ode to Joy' // Sir Antonio Pappano & London Symphony Orchestra
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Re: Graham Platner. Men, especially white leftist men, really gotta realize that we are our own opposition. Even if you don’t mean to be or think you are. Deal with your shit so you don’t implode people’s good movements and hard work, PLEASE.
Shout to Summer Goths out here trooping thru climate change heatwaves. Your Hate is My Hate. Don’t get hatestroke. Hydrate so you can die great.🖤
Just found a sample that gave me full body chills. Guess I'm making a beat this morning. Patreon.com/BDolan to see what I'm working on between albums.
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It is officially Do The Right Thing degrees out here. Avoid the bookings.
"I wanna rock right now." "Stay away from me if you're contangious" "I'm not a sucka so I don't need a bodyguard" "Don't smoke buddha, can't stand cess" "I like the Whopper, fuck the Big Mac" Rob Base's verses from "It Takes Two" belong in the Smithsonian. RIP.
A new blog post! www.cupburger.org/wed-love-you...
We’d love your help with Cupburger! - Cupburger Mutual Aid
It’s nearly Cupburger’s first birthday! Cupburger literally wouldn’t exist without people in this community contributing their time, ideas and skills to make it happen. Now that Cuppy is nearly […]
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Little nephew broke his arm the first day of summer vacation. We’ll make a writer out of him yet.
Dads are like wisdom teeth. You don’t need em but they can cause a lot of pain for some folks. Happy Fathers Day to me, who has played a pivotal role in raising many fathers’ kids, starting with myself.
Imagine - a World Cup, but without the FIFA. This should be the goal.
As someone who routinely uses nature to ground myself amongst the evils of the world, I'm distressed to report that I think squirrels might be capitalists.
Going live @ 5:15pm EST on twitch.tv/bdolanofficial to talk with Brittany Kubicek, an independent socialist candidate for the RI House! www.instagram.com/brittanyforri
Rhode Island-based hip-hop artist B. Dolan wants to shut down the Wyatt and abolish ICE "...the more I learned the history of political art... The power songs can have to educate people and transmit messages... Make it seem fun. Make it seem joyous. How liberation should feel."
Rhode Island-based hip-hop artist B. Dolan wants to shut down the Wyatt and abolish ICE
"...the more I learned the history of political art... The power songs can have to educate people and transmit messages... Make it seem fun. Make it seem joyous. How liberation should feel."
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Mmm when you put it like that it does feel sorta “inappropriate”.
MovingTrainMedia@movingtrainmedia.bsky.social · 2mo agoMy biggest issue with a sporting event at the White House is that we are committing genocide in Gaza, bombing several countries including schoolgirls in Iran, summarily executing men in little boats that pose no threat, and rounding up nonwhite people and putting them in concentration camps.
If you see me moving without people I moved with for 20 years, and wonder if there are good reasons for that? Yes there are. I’m the same dude I’ve always been. Certain things were never negotiable. Certain accountability was lacking and certain repair was never done. It’s bigger than hip hop.
One thing I will do is steal your lighter. Been a lighter thief my whole life. True story, sometimes when I’m trying to purchase a lighter, I instinctively put it in my pocket and become an actual lighter thief. That’s how real I am with it.
