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Why Listening to Adele’s ‘Hello’ Will Ruin Your Life in a Good Way
Unless you live under a rock, you probably heard and saw Adele’s new video for her first single off the upcoming November release 25, entitled “Hello.” She’s coming for you. She’s coming for me. She’s coming for us all. Adele saw that Taylor Swift was set to gross (on average) $1 million a day this year and…
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Love & Hip Hop Hollywood Season 2: Episode 7 Recap
Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaan listen. I don’t even have a good lead in for this episode except that all I kept seeing in my mind when Miles told Amber that he was bisexual was this: That was effectively Amber’s reaction. But let’s back up for a bit. When we last left our unsuper villain, Miles, he was at the…
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10 Things I'd Want To Do Before Getting Raided By The Police And Hauled Off To Jail
It’s entirely possible that you’ve heard this story out of Jacksonville, Florida – because of course its out of Florida – where the police were attempting to take 34-year-old Ryan Bautista into custody on numerous warrants. Except he refused to come out of the mobile home where he and his girlfriend, 30-year-old Leanne Hunn, were…
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The Game's "The Documentary 2" Is The Album I Wish Kendrick Lamar Would Have Released
I know that sounds absurd. But follow me. Kendrick Lamar dropped a seminal work in To Pimp A Butterfly, a work so full of Blackness and filled with so many musical styles and elements that even if you don’t love it you have to appreciate and respect his ability to articulate his worldview in his…
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Review: The Game’s The Documentary 2 Is the Album I Wish Kendrick Lamar Had Released
If you’re a hip-hop fan, then you are as familiar with the trajectory of the Game as any other artist out there. Game hit the scene in 2005 with his debut album, The Documentary, which is easy to call a classic for its incredible beats and top-shelf lyricism and the effect of the 50 Cent/G-Unit juggernaut…
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Love & Hip Hop Hollywood Season 2: Episode 6 Recap
I can’t lie to y’all, my boredom level with this season has potentially reached its zenith. I don’t know if this means I’m finally growing up or if this cast of characters has run its course in my life. How did I realize this, you (didn’t) ask? I had to watch this episode twice because…
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The Best Argument For Why Morehouse And HBCUs Matter You'll Ever Read
One of my good friends from college is a teacher in Chicago. One particular student of hers has begun the college search and in her attempts to convince him to attend Morehouse College, or at least an HBCU, she reached out to myself, and three of my best friends – all of us Morehouse College…
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Hey! Let's Talk About Vasectomies!
On this past Monday’s episode of Black Ink Crew – a show about a group of individuals who own and (many times horribly) operate a tattoo shop in Harlem – cast member O’Sh*t (this is literally his nickname), decides to get a vasectomy after thinking that he’d gotten a fourth woman pregnant after she showed…
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Love & Hip Hop Hollywood Season 2: Episode 5 Recap
This episode starts off where Nia’s life always starts off – running behind a man who actively goes by Soulja Boy who has been sleeping with and texting (as recently as the day before) his jumpoff, Nas, that he wants to be with her and in the words of Boyz II Men, “pleaaaaaaaaaaaase don’t go…
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Why I Feel Some Kind of Way About the Pope Meeting Kim Davis
I’m not a Catholic. I have a few rosaries, but mostly because rappers kept wearing them in videos as they referenced Jesus while pouring champagne over some woman’s head at the club, which is the stupidest thing ever. Champagne is not cheap at the club. Especially not the kind they’re pouring on models in the…
