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On Being Mary Jane And Making The Leap Towards Greatness
I remember when Being Mary Jane first hit the BET lineup. I didn’t love the show, but I also didn’t dislike it. I largely watched the show because of Black Twitter and the tremendous shade tossed the way of Pauletta Patterson aka Mary Jane Paul. Mary Jane was one of those women who never saw a bad…
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A Man’s Take on Being Mary Jane
I remember when Being Mary Jane first hit the BET lineup. I didn’t love the show, but I also didn’t dislike it. I largely watched the show because of black Twitter and the tremendous shade tossed the way of Pauletta Patterson, aka Mary Jane Paul. Mary Jane was one of those women who never saw a bad…
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Love & Hip Hop Hollywood Season 2: Episode 8 Recap
Hey…y’all notice its like the Miles and Milan storyline…then the rest of the storylines? Like their storylines never intersect with other castfolks? No? Just me? No biggie. Anyway, so last week, Amber found out that the love of her life has another life to live of his own. She lost her shit. She rolled around…
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Adele Is Coming For You Even Though You Didn't Send For Her
Unless you live under a rock, you probably heard and saw Adele’s new song and 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) a million dollars a…
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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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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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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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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…
