B. Dolan

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

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Sometimes there’s satisfaction in watching them try to replace you with shitty AI. Good luck with them prompts, fellas.

Therapy homework is funny because my approach to homework hasn’t changed since Middle School, and now I’m 45 tryna cram and review my own terrible feelings weekly before class.

Pina Colada tastes like suntan lotion. Maybe I only feel this way because I grew up in the 80s but it’s fucked up either way. People shouldn’t have tried to have both. It’s one or the other. Now both are weird. Thanks a lot, Ronald Reagan.

You know it’s silly to boycott Ed Sheeran and support the NFL right? Even if they bring back the ghost of Woodie Guthrie for the Superbowl halftime… it’s still fuck that league. No Kap.

Real Housewives of Rhode Island Discussion & Watch Party hosted by some chill ass socialists somewhere in Cranston. Pasta is free and the sauce is fuego. We do this monthly until Italian-Americans return to their antifascist roots.

Macklemore and Ed got me reminiscing. Back in 2019 we were booking Epic Beard Men dates, and Sage got invited to play SXSW. When the promoter (who was working with a zionist rapper named Kosha Dillz) heard my name attached, we got this email and uninvited quick.

Indie artists should think twice before signing away any rights to indie labels. Are they gonna do anything for you that you can’t do for yourself? Will you starve waiting for them to pay you out accounting on this release in a few years? Would you like your labor to equal money?

There’s nothing wrong with North West writing songs and doing a show. There’s something wrong with North West being that rich and people who aren’t related to her buying tickets to that show and expecting it to be good.

Tiktok keeps showing me boomers with Karen haircuts who called themselves “estranged parents” talking about their no contact children… … and I keep commenting “it’s your fault. Suffer.” I can stop whenever I want. This is a legitimate hobby.

Made a new friend last night. We like all the same rappers, go to the same barber, and know a lot of the same people. He’s very worried he will be deported on Sep 11. He’s been in this country for 30 yrs and is the sole caretaker of his nine-year-old autistic son and 90-year-old elderly mom.

If you met this family you would probably feel like I feel this morning, like your skin is on fire with how fucked this country is.  Hopefully hopefully even at a distance, you still can feel compelled to act and can support his family’s GoFundMe www.gofundme.com/f/help-chan-...?

gofundme.comDonate to Help Chan Hong's Family After ICE Detention, organized by Kathryn SheriffUpdate: On Tuesday, August 4th a RI Judge ruled that ICE violated Chan… Kathryn Sheriff needs your support for Help Chan Hong's Family After ICE Detention

The old music industry model is dead because it deserved to die. It profited off the labor of artists and treated us like shit. Suddenly your radio station, music journalism website, promoter and distributor can’t help you. Now what?

“I heard motherfuckers saying they made Hov / Made Hov OK so, make another Hov!” Make another Dolly. Make another Prince. They can’t even make another underground. They never made shittt!

I single handedly birthed the backlash to Justin Timberlake. I should talk about that more or at least add it to the Wikipedia page.

We need more covers of “They Don’t Really Care About Us” pls and thx. The estate can’t sue all of us we gotta nationalize that hook asap.

As someone who's been obsessed with keeping an eye on the Mormons since at least 2006... I am very curios what effect the new Mormon-to-streaming platforms pipeline is going to have.

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We are devastated and outraged to hear about Mr. Priciliano Trejo's death. He deserved to be with his loved ones while fighting for his life with leukemia. He deserved proper medical attention & specialist care, not to be caged in a deadly ICE detention center plagued with abuse and medical neglect.

motherjones.comThe Deaths ICE Doesn’t CountPrisciliano Trejo Ricano passed away in the hospital days after being released from detention.

A gift and a curse of mine is that I’m always thinking about when and how things will end. Even when they’re at their height or just beginning. Saved my life more than once. Also causes quite a lot of hardship.

From the first time talented music producers wanted to work with me, I never assumed they would work with me after. So I absorbed all the information I could, every time. Most new artists I think take for granted that producers and engineers will always be beating down their door to record them.

I remember being a fan and being truly confused at why acts i loved started making shittier and shittier albums later in their career. Ive been working on How Not To Fall Off for like 30 years. At this point, I can promise you whichever one is my last album it’ll be dope.

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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...

wcpo.comHundreds protest outside ICE facility in Blue Ash amid termination of TPS for HaitiansHundreds 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.

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.

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.

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.