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Blaise; where is her place among the greats?
I may be getting on in age but I don’t recall if there has ever been a time when our collective ability to stay indoors became a matter of life or death. But here we are.
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic across the world may have disrupted the way we live our lives but it also inspired new ways of making sense of it.
With the internet as our virtual isolation center, we dived into TikTok and embraced IG Live. Then, artist battles and honest conversations became our center of attention and in the process, nostalgia was re-awakened as we longed for the memories of the past to help us deal with the emotions of the present.
One of those sessions was hosted by eLDee tha Don, Trybesmen founder, who rolled back the years. The session contained plenty of untold stories and connected former members of the Trybe family scattered across the world. One person who was conspicuously absent but received adulation was Blaise.
And that respect should come as no surprise.
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