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9 Artists I Cannot Be Objective About Because All They Make Is Beautiful Music (and Things)
On December 17, 2020, Scott Mescudi, professionally known to the world as Kid Cudi, dropped a sneaker collabo with shoe and apparel brand Adidas called the Vadawam 326, so named after his daughter, Vada—the 326 is a reference to her birthday, March 26. Cudi’s shoe looked like it could have EASILY been a Yeezy shoe…
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11 Thoughts About Power Book II: Ghost Now That the 1st Season Is Over. All the Spoilers, Fam
1. Let’s just start at the top: I really enjoyed Power Book II: Ghost, which is hard for me because I literally was only hate-watching it at the start. My entire reason for watching this show was to see Tariq laid out on a Manhattan street somewhere, dead. I HATED Tariq in the entire last…
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My Family Celebrated Kwanzaa For The First Time. Here's How It Went
Despite my pretty obvious penchant for and desire to support the spirit behind “rooting for everybody Black,” I’ve been pretty intentionally absent from the Kwanzaa party. Let me go on ahead and note here that I’m fully aware that the founder of Kwanzaa (or at least the individual given the credit for its founding), Ronald…
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10 Potential Reasons Why Nike's SNKRS App Won't Let Me Be Great
This past weekend I did what I’ve done almost every weekend this year: took another L on the Nike SNKRS app. If you’re into buying sneakers, I’m sure some (if not most) of you can feel me. What is the SNKRS app? I’m glad you asked. The SNKRS app is the means by which Nike…
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The Root Jams Weekly (10/9/2020): 'Baby Baby Baby'
My family will soon welcome a new baby into our household so it only makes sense to dedicate a playlist to songs about kids and/or songs with “baby” in the title. The Root’s weekly playlist is going to be taking a hiatus. Thanks for sleepwalking with us and we’ll see you on the other side…
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I Didn't Intend to Do This Product Review But Rescue!'s Fly Traps Work Like a Mug and Sharing is Caring
Do you need to get rid of some flies? I did. Wrote a song about it; like to hear it, here it go. A few weeks ago I started noticing random posts on my social media platforms about the aggressive amount of flies in the Washington, D.C. area. While I wanted to scream at them…
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The Root Jams Weekly (10/2/2020): 'Jams Upon Jams'
This week there has been absolutely too much going on—sometimes you just need to rock with your favorite jams of the moment to get through the day. This week’s list is made up of folks’ personal jams. Jam on it. “Jams Upon Jams” (10/2/2020) Jessica Moulite Majid Jordan “Shake Shake Shake” D Smoke “Lights On”…
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Yo, It's 8 'Nicks' Before Nickelodeon. Cut the 7 Shit Out. That Don't Math
If you spend some time on social media, you may have scrolled right past one of the most important discussions happening in the 21st century: How many “Nicks” are there before “Nickelodeon” in the old Nickelodeon theme song? There is a school of thought—let’s call it the School of Hard Knocks—that thinks it’s 7. Hard…
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Is Above The Rim's Thomas 'Shep' Sheppard The GOAT Fictional Basketball Player? A Discussion
I love Above The Rim. Its soundtrack is always in the convo for the best Black movie soundtrack of all time, and Tupac Tupac’d the shit out of the movie. Then, you have Leon (I was today years old when I discovered his last name was Robinson) displaying another talent of his—a believable jump shot—to…
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Watch: Minding Our Black Business With Anika Hobbs, the Woman Behind the Retail Social Enterprise, Nubian Hueman
One of my favorite stores in Washington, D.C., is Nubian Hueman, located in the Anacostia Arts Center, a multi-use arts space in the Anacostia neighborhood of the city. Nubian Hueman is a retail space that exemplifies Black excellence; the stores—there are currently two retail locations, the D.C. location and another in Baltimore—are filled with items…
