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Spare The Rod, Spoil The Child. Or Nah?
The NFL played a whole slew of games on Sunday but the recent worst week ever that the league has experienced was at the forefront of it all. And it should be. Real issues that plague society at large are plaguing the league. The recent case of and his indictment for whippin’ his 4-year-old child’s…
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7 Other Things The NFL Is Probably Lying About
I think we can all agree that the NFL is either the Illuminati or governed by an inept group of individuals who don’t know their johnsons from a stalk of lentils. And since the NFL is more popular than ever and making money hand over fist, I’m going with the former. Given this “fact”, its…
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Cinema Bun Podcast Episode 12 featuring Panama Jackson – Baby Boy
For their latest episode of the Cinema Bun Podast, the podcast hosted by Berook (@ethiopianboy) and Tonja (@embracethej) where they discuss movie news and conduct movie reviews, they enlisted the “expertise” in Black movie-dom, VSB’s own Panama Jackson, to talk about what is possibly the greatest movie of all time, Baby Boy. While that statement…
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#ThatSo90s: Jodeci – Stay
There is no conversation about 90s r&b without Jodeci. Sure Boyz II Men had the great ballads and what not and henceforth, but nobody gives a shit about Boyz II Men in 2014. Jodeci, however, still reigns supreme as the blueprint for most male bad boy groups. Sure they sang songs you could play at…
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10 Thoughts I Had While Watching VH1's "ATL Rise" Rock Doc
Last night, VH1 debuted their Rock Doc, “ATL: The Untold Story of Atlanta’s Rise in the Rap Game”. While watching it, I had a bunch of thoughts, mostly nostalgic 1. It’s been 13 years since I’ve lived in Atlanta. At this point, I’ve lived in Washington, DC, longer than I’ve lived anywhere else in life.…
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5 Unauthorized Behind The Scenes Movies I'd Like To See
On Monday night, Lifetime finally debuted their unauthorized Saved By The Bell story largely based on the tell-all book by Dustin Diamond who played Samuel “Screech” Powers on the show. Terrible casting aside (Zach was horribly miscast and AC Slater was just confusing) the movie was at least interesting. It showed some of the beefs…
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10 Ridiculous Rap Names From The Era We All Love
Over this past weekend, I found myself in the unenviable position of having to defend a rapper that I truly couldn’t care less about. And who would that rapper be? Bobby Shmurda. And how did I end up having to defend he of “Shmoney Dance” fame? Well, while at a bar a conversation about current…
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We Don't Get It. But Somehow These Dudes Stay Gettin' It. #D1CKTOOBOMB ALLSTARS?
It’s no secret that I’m a ratchetvision savant on these streets. No matter where I go, I watch the same shoooooows. Well this past Monday was Part 1 of the Reunion show for Love & Hip-Hop: Atlanta. Again, you need not know who these people are or watch the show or acknowledge it’s existence for…
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5 Ratchet Songs That Also Build Your Self-Esteem
One of the ways that bougie black people pretend to be ratchet is through the gateway drug that is current mainstream music. On any given Saturday at a day party you can hear the unintelligible musings of Young Thug, who not only wears dresses on occasion but has yet to make a song where I…
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And They Wonder Why We Say "F*ck The Police"
In a recent article posted on the Washington Post’s website entitled, “I’m a cop. If you don’t want to get hurt, don’t challenge me”, former Los Angeles Police Department (the same local jurisdiction that housed the infamous Rampart Division and the scandal) officer Sunil Dutta offered a police officer’s perspective on how to deal with…
