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I Needed Some Help With My Little Sister, And I Found It Through Black Girls Code
Teenagers are perplexing. There’s something about that combination of physicality, virility and utter lack of perspective can make them seem cold and unfeeling. Mean girls, bully boys and all permutations in between hide their former cuteness and potential behind a veneer clouded by social media and raging, swirling, gurgling hormones. But, alas I have two…
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Drake's "More Life" Is Leftover Cooler Water From Last Summer's Trip To The Beach
I hope Drake forgets his flip flops just before he steps in the shower at the gym or maybe he buys a series of Tim Horton’s franchises that get shut down by the health department or maybe he stubs his pinky toe on the OVO office coffee table. I hope that something, anything, significant happens…
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The NFL Is Sociopathic And Racist Trash. But Keep Watching, And Just Know You're Watching Trash
The worst part about the Colin Kaepernick protest situation isn’t the flagrant hypocrisy, colorism, or the stifling of freedom of speech. It’s something a little more matter of fact. Something that I wasn’t truly aware of until this situation garnered mainstream media attention. Apparently, Colin is not a great football player anymore. Who knew? In…
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A Guide On How To Properly Slander, Shade, And Insult Millennials…From A Millennial
As the youngest adult generation, Millennials seem to be under constant scrutiny from those a bit more seasoned. Why can’t they get off social media? Why are they so fickle in relationships? And how do they listen to this bastardized version of something we used to call hip hop? How could anyone think booming 808s,…
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5 Things to Avoid if You Want to Have a Good Time at a Bachelor Party
Inside the black time capsule from the year of our Lord 1999, you’ll find a number of items evoking the spirit of the time: a CD-ROM single of C-Murder’s stroll classic, “Down for My N—gaz”; a 5X, Latrell Sprewell New York Knicks jersey; a copy of Zane’s Sex Chronicles. If you move aside the pile…
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Drake's VIEWS Is A Sadder, Colder, And Worse Version Of Every Drake Album
Has Drake fallen off? I’ve had a hunch that this was happening for a little over a year now, but the pop-culture whirlwind of Meek Mill and “Hotline Bling” threw me off the case. The truth was buried beneath a shower of memes and GIFs. Somehow, the stench of tepid-hotdog-water bars found their way into…
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Drake’s Views Is More of the Same, but Colder and More Joyless. Kind of Like the 2016 Cleveland Cavaliers
Has Drake fallen off? I’ve had a hunch that this was happening for a little over a year now, but the pop-culture whirlwind of Meek Mill and “Hotline Bling” threw me off the case. The truth was buried beneath a shower of memes and GIFs. Somehow, the stench of tepid-hotdog-water bars found their way into…
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No, Hillary Clinton Is Not Pandering When She Says She Carries Hot Sauce in Her Bag
Hillary Clinton has been involved in a number of snafus over the course of the election cycle. Being confronted about her use of the term “superpredators.” An ill-fated dab. Somehow putting Rosa Parks on the back of her ever shifting “H” logo. Hiding her forearm tattoo sleeves under a collection of Steve Harvey pour femme…
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The Hamburger Helper Mixtape, Reviewed
As the resident VSB Big Sean apologist, even I have to admit when some people’s third favorite rapper caught an L. Big Sean and Jhene Aiko’s joint album Twenty88 — which is undeniably hot, check it out — (Editor’s note: No) got overshadowed by possibly the greatest marketing triumph in recorded history, Watch The Stove. Hamburger…
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Soul on Ice: A Black Man Goes to His 1st Hockey Game
Having just moved from Los Angeles to New York, I was more than lucky to have avoided my first truly harsh winter in 10 years. However, and I’m not sure of the internal machinations that fed this feeling, dodging the biting cold and fierce wind of winter left me a smidge unfulfilled. Empty. Hollow as…
