Earlier this year, several folks in my family (including myself) did some variation of DNA testing. You know what…

One of the fun things about this here semi-charmed life of mine is that over the course of the past, say, 12 years,…

I do not know the name of the spider who decided to fuck with me while I was driving home last night. He looked like…

Before we get going here, I’d like to be very, very clear: I’m in no way clowning Lil’Jordan Humphrey by calling his…

It’s no secret that I live in Washington, D.C. While I’ve had a love-hate relationship with this city for various…

Kanye West—you may have heard of him—is on the move. On the heels of recent comments about the 13th Amendment and…

In a little over a week, I will be a married man. I’m not entirely sure that I’ve fully grasped what that means yet…

On September 29, 1998, Outkast dropped their third album, Aquemini, so named after the portmanteau of Big and Dre’s…

On September 29, 1998, I was a sophomore at Morehouse College. I didn’t live on-campus. I was living in the westside…

1. This is exactly why I don’t fuck with nature. This is also why God made me a black man. More on that later.

The Temptations is one of my all-time favorite singing groups. I’m especially a fan of the “Classic Five” lineup (I…

1. Cliché as this will be, I’m starting with the quite obvious ability to walk around with that drank. Sure, Bourbon…

If you live in the Washington, DC area long enough, you’re likely to hear about the city of Waldorf, Md. Waldorf is…

Let us bow our heads:

I just got back from New Orleans, where a bunch of the homies and I took a Homie Trip to celebrate my upcoming…

Have you ever accidentally ended up in the middle of a fight by sheer virtue of your location and inability to…

The season five finale of Power aired on Sunday night. Look, for all of the criticisms of Power—and some of it is…

The rap world was enraptured for various reasons with the out-of-the-blue release of Eminem’s latest coaster, Kamikaz…

I was at the mall the other day procuring some procurables from one of those spots that sells shit. It is my…

On the heels of the surprisingly successful The New Edition Story last fall, BET decided to ride the gravy train…