Nikki Payne

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Nicki Minaj and the Black Infamy Index The Quiet Rules of Black Exile

Black Exile is wild to watch in real time.
Kanye West gives the Big Apology in the WSJ, tryna slide back into Black folks' business.
Nicki Minaj is having a full post-Grammy crashout.
I wrote the full breakdown, the mess, the analysis, in today’s Substack.
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The Danish Deception The Painful Racial Economics of TikToks' Biggest Romance Scam

My new Substack is up and yes…I chose maximum chaos. The Onyeka Danish Deception is an economics lesson in what we’re all willing to pay to feel “chosen.”
Bring your sociology degree, cuz I pulled out Fanon.
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I just want to talk about the way Ken Follett can give us in-depth medieval minutia about the technicalities of bridge building and also slay me with an absolutely breathless Romance. I mean tension, stakes, hot scenes what can't the man do? 😭 #bookthreads

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Tittie Tales The secret anthropology of boobs, shame, and survival. Come get free therapy in the comments.

🚨New substack!
I asked one question on my book tour...❓"When was the first time your boobs were the drama?"
and y’all… the stories.😮‍💨
Duct tape. Bloody Boobs. Praise dances.
The Tea is, our boobs have been everybody’s business but ours.🍿 Free therapy in the comments.
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Wow! Thank you all so much! What did y'all do? This is truly amazing!

The Princess and the P.I. by Nikki Payne: 9780593817360 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books An amateur online sleuth must enlist the help of a jaded PI to clear her name while taking down a shady tech start-up in this exhilarating romantic suspense novel. Fiona Addai is ready to set her pla...

THE PRINCESS AND THE P.I. by @nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social is the hard-boiled, true-crime-savvy romance you need as the days get colder. Heavy on religious trauma, but also sometimes you have to go undercover as a couple in a sex club. You know, for justice. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/752214...

For justice!!! Thank you so much for a gorgeous review 😭

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My queen 🔥🔥🔥

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I have no words. This Kickstarter campaign has raised 👑a million dollars!!👑👑Thank you all so much for everything you have contributed to make the After The End Kickstarter a success 😲😲
Thank you Adriana Herrera and Ali Hazelwood for thinking big over empanadas

Forever!!

The Real Performative Male Contest Is Happening in Hip Hop Young Thug’s leaked jail calls reveal what soft-boy contests can’t: masculinity is always performed, and always policed.

Young Thug's phone calls were leaked and he is telling on everybody...
My new substack is live and I talk about the feminization of gossip and performative masculinity in hip hop.
WHO is actually putting on a show?
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I feel like this book has been a pre-order for 84 years
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I mean...I'm very much a thug, But don't these book spines look so cute together?🥰🫣

Southern Gothic Honmoon: In Sinners and K-Pop Demon Hunters, the scariest monster is assimilation

Sinners and K-Pop Demon Hunters are the👏🏾 same👏🏾 damn🧵 movie. Not about vampires. Not about demons.
About the monster we all live with: Netflix Fight me, or read why →open.substack.com/pub/payneful...

Some argument about treatment and expectations

It was a movement spreading on social media

Tyla Flopped. The Black Diaspora Did Too. How a Grammy winner’s crash-and-burn exposed our messiest Black love politics.

Essence Fest bombed.
African braiding shops are getting boycotted.
Tyla sold 3.7K units after a Grammy.

Are African Americans beefing with Africans? And why Is interracial romance catching strays?

📖 The Anthropology of a Flop → paynefultruth.substack.com/p/tyla-flopp...

🚨SALE ALERT🚨
My book is just $1.99 now through August 3!
✨It’s Black Pride and Prejudice with Washington, D.C. as its beating heart.✨
Plus get to know Maurice from Princess and the PI before he ever picked up a badge or broke a heart.
tag a fellow Austen girlie for a buddy read🫱🏾‍🫲🏽
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My heart oh my God. Thank you so much 😭😭

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Thank you so much for reading!

Sidney Sweeney and The White Utopia Fantasy in romance You are undesirable...hope this helps

What do "Good jeans" and All white Arkansas towns have to do with your TBR?
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