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If You Have Student Loans, Grown-Ish and Scholly Are Trying to Make It Rain on Your Loan Provider (for You)
If you’re like me, and presumably millions of other folks across Los Estados Unidos, student loan debt is a monkey on your back. I personally know people whose student loan burden ranges from $4,000 to as high as $200,000. Whether you’re on the low end or the probably-need-to-stay-high-to-manage-it high end, no sentence is more exciting…
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Sabrina Setlur, One of Germany's Biggest Ever Hip-Hop Stars, Was One of My Babysitters Growing Up
The internet can take you down very strange rabbit holes, but sometimes those rabbit holes remind you of good times past. Such was the case recently as I perused Facebook looking to see what shenanigans the people I follow were up to. Somebody posted the music video for “Bist du down?” a 2017 single with…
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I Don't Ever Want to Try Whatever Kool-Aid Kanye West Keeps Drinking
Radical acceptance. The Serenity Prayer. “It is what it is.” That’s just a few of the myriad methods many of us employ when trying to come to grips with shit we don’t like. You didn’t get that Chrimmuh bonus you just knew you deserved? It sucks, but being unwilling to accept it isn’t going to…
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I #StandWithBennett. Hopefully, It’s for the Long Haul
Attending an HBCU tends to unlock one’s awareness about the other hundred or so HBCUs that you’re not attending. Some of us get to school and know the big name ones, but our football and basketball schedules put schools like Benedict College, Paine College, Lane College and Lemoyne-Owen College (to name a few) on the…
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Black Kids Swim Wants to Help Get More Black Children Into Competitive Swimming
When many of us think about athletic paths for our children to follow, competitive swimming isn’t typically high up on the list. Black Kids Swim (BKS) is an organization trying to change both the way we look at swimming in general and competitive swimming as an outlet and scholarship source for black children. We talked…
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I’d Pay Good Money to See a Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Vs. Migos Rap Battle
Since the dawn of time, there has always been tension between “old school” and “new school.” Nowhere is this shit more common than in the world of hip-hop, though it’s been happening in R&B, too. Where’s the love? Despite the nostalgia we are all coked up on, half the groups we swear to love—just because…
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And Here's Why You Shouldn't Pick a Dentist Based On A Radio Ad
I don’t try to make bad choices. Really, I don’t. In fact, I don’t think most people set out to do make them either. I think we all end up in a place we hoped not to be and in retrospect say, well, that was probably a bad idea. Such was my life this past week…
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A Review of Jacquees’ 4275 Album Because He Called Himself ‘The King of R&B’
OK, Jacquees might be an idiot. Perhaps a brilliant idiot since before last week’s “King of R&B” (of his generation) moment, I couldn’t point him out in a lineup, much less tell you the name of a single, solitary song he sang. But now? That pendulum has swung the entire other way. Again, as much…
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Is It Sneakerhead Sacrilege to Not Like Jordan IIIs?
I’m not sure if I qualify as a sneakerhead or not. Most people that come into my home and see my shoe collection would probably say that I am, but I follow several people on social media whose collection of shoes would look at mine, call it a bitch and then give it a wedgie.…
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I Thought I Played Candy Crush Too Much. Apparently I'm an Amateur Compared to Some People
I’m about to admit something that I was originally ashamed of because I thought I’d been neglecting my responsibilities (family, work, Black Jesus, etc.) because of how much time I clearly had spent playing Candy Crush. Turns out, what I’m about to admit actually makes me feel shamed for having thought I was doing something…
