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Tekashi 6ix9ine’s Breakfast Club Interview Is Why Young People Need Mentors
For an entire hour yesterday, I watched The Breakfast Club interview with Daniel Hernandez, better known to folks under 35 25 as Tekashi or Tekashi 6ix9ine or, officially, per his recent Day69 album release, as 6ix9ine. He’s the current self-proclaimed king of New York, something that used to matter back when niggas would pull your…
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Why Do Some of You Suck So Much at Parking?
Every day I get reminders about the inadequacies of public driving instruction in this country. It never fails. I’ll come home, preparing to park my behemoth Suburban along my street—I have on-street parking—and some individual for whom parking in a neighborly way is more inconvenient than economical will put a tiny-ass car smack in the…
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Kanye West Was Right. Also, Rick Santorum Is an Idiot
Rick Santorum is an idiot. The former senator from Pennsylvania and potential GOP presidential nominee is making Kanye West, who we’ve all thought has lost several sets of marbles throughout his life, look like a high prophet. Back in 2015, Kanye West received the VMA Vanguard Award from MTV and went on an 11-minute speech…
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If You Could Be in a Black Stage Play, What Would You Call It?
If you are related to black people, there’s a better-than-100 percent chance that somebody in your family has gone to at least one chitlin circuit play (but more likely several). My parents have been to multiple Tyler Perry plays, something I’m sad to say that I’ve never had the pleasure (?) of doing myself. The…
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Snoop Dogg’s Gospel Album, Bible of Love, Is All Right With Me. Praise the Lord
On Friday, March 16, 2018, the good Lord saw fit to release music for the homies through his shepherd, Snoop Dogg. Pun intended. Because shepherd … and dog. You get it? Right. Snoop Dogg, aka the artist formerly known as Snoop Doggy Dogg, aka Snoop Lion, aka Calvin Broadus of Doggystyle, Murder Was the Case…
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Why You Should Never Address Non-MFing Factors
One of my favorite disses of all time is “non-motherfucking factor.” It’s just so rude. The ancient Mayans attribute the black popularization of the saying to Evelyn Lozada in all of her Basketball Wives glory. She uttered the statement to Tami Roman during what I can only imagine was one of the many riveting conversations…
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A Friend of Mine Asked Me to Explain Some White Shit to Her and Now I’m Offended
All my life I had to fight. That’s not true, but you can’t say “all my life” and NOT add “I had to fight” if you’re black and over a certain age. Shoutouts to The Color Purple and Miss Sophia. Hey, Oprah, boo. Anyway, all my life I’ve been black. Only recently have I become…
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Is It Just Me, or Is BuzzFeed’s Headline About Big Lez Mad Disrespectful?
I was perusing the internet streets like I always do looking for what’s good in the hood when I came across an article from BuzzFeed that made me clutch my pearls, then touch my chest and say, “Why, I never!” The headline? “We Found the Girl Who Danced to Living Single’s Theme Song and Sis…
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Even 21 Years Later, the Notorious B.I.G. Is Still the MC Who Impresses Me Most
“The greatest rapper of all time died on March 9th.” —Canibus, “Second Round K.O.” Every year, March 9 rolls around, and we celebrate through music and reflection the life of Christopher Wallace, aka the Notorious B.I.G., aka Biggie Smalls, aka Biggie, aka the only Christopher we acknowledge, who was gunned down in Los Angeles on…
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‘I Gotta Go. And I Can’t Take Her With Me’: A Mother’s Love on This Is Us
Somehow, I didn’t realize that This Is Us had returned to my Tuesday nights. The last episode I saw was THE episode where Jack [CENSORED]. You know what? “[CENSORED]” means died. Bought the farm. Kicked the bucket. And any other euphemism for dying you can think of. Anyway, on Facebook, I saw somebody mention this past…
