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  • Love & Hip Hop NY Ep. 504 Recap: Bad Choices Everywhere!

    If you’re hanging off of a cliff and and had to choose between Peter Gunz and Stevie J to save you, how far can you jump without fatally injuring yourself? Yesterday’s episode featured Peter Gunz doing his damnedest to cement a first-round ballot vote into the Fuckboy Hall of Fame. I’m sincerely at the point…

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  • Love & Hip Hop NY Ep. 503 Recap: Running Around Like Loose Chickens

    Happy New Years, ladies and gents. Mona decided to give our weary spirits a week off from the trials and tribulations of the Young and the Couthless, but we have now returned – and fortunately for the rest of us, the cast of Love and Hip Hop NY have not adhered to the “New Year…

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  • Love & Hip Hop New York Ep. 502 Recap: "I Withheld Some Information But I NEVER Lied!"

    Thanks to Big Home God, I finished my Christmas shopping just in time to catch ep 2 of “Cuffing Season Relationships and Instagram Clothing Lines.” No small feat either – chasing down Jordan 11’s for my baby brother’s size 15 feet is an effort comparable to Cyn and Erica making a million dollars out of…

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  • Azealia Banks Is Right On Iggy But Wrong On Just About Everything Else

    In a fair amount of ways, Azealia Banks and I have had similar life trajectories. Bear with me here. I am by no means claiming that I could have become an infamous black sheep artist – anybody who’s ever heard me get a little too jiggy with my Spotify playlist knows that a record deal…

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  • Love & Hip Hop New York Ep. 501 Recap: Bride and Prejudice

    Hello beautiful people. I know we are all rightfully verklempt that Love and Hip Hop Hollywood has come to a close and we’ve only got an imaginary dildo concept to show for it. Don’t fret though – Mona has decided us to hold over with another season of the lynchpin show that started it all:…

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  • African-ish: Can You Pass Citizenry Down Through Generations?

    When I was watching the first episode of Black-ish, I felt a certain level of understanding of Anthony Anderson’s worry of his kids retaining their culture/identity/hood pass, as I’m sure most of us did. For me though, it extends beyond the “black in America” experience. As a first generation child of East Africans, what becomes…

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  • #IStandWithJoseline: Why Part 2 of the Love and Hip Hop Reunion Was a Trifling Mess

    As Labor Day weekend came to a close and I finally managed to get the last bit of baby powder out from behind my ear from the last night’s fete (it’s a West Indian thing), my good homegirl reminded me that my favorite weekly stories were blessing me last night with the second part of…

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  • Dance Dance Revolution: My Love Affair with Dance Movies

    For those of y’all who don’t know, let me tell you a lil something about me: I’ve been dancing pretty much all my life. All of my baby videos are of me trying to get my groove on. I’m 60% sure that I was two stepping in the womb. As soon as I got old…

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  • Ladies, It’s Not Worth It To Pretend to Care About Sports

    In this 21st century era of brunch parties, Urban League happy hours and Diva Dudes™, the dating game has changed. Instead of guys trying to impress you, the onus is on women – shout out to the black professional gender ratios! The cocktail dresses are tighter, the bras push upper, and the “arbitrary quality that…

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Brooklyn-based writer by way of Harlem, Canada and East Africa who comments on culture, identity, politics and likes all things Dipset.


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