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Tory Lanez Drops Explosive New Audio From Shooting, but Megan Thee Stallion Just Clapped Back…
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Taraji P. Henson Is Going to Be a Bride, Y’all!
Taraji P. Henson is officially off the market! The actress announced her engagement via Instagram Monday morning, showing off her brand-new ring. “I said yes y’all!!! He started with the Cartier love bracelet BUT that was my #Mothersday gift and then he dropped to his knee and I almost passed out!!!” she captioned a shot…
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Wait, Did Gayle King Just Admit That Oprah Smoked Weed?
I’m crying right now. I didn’t think that it was possible to love someone I don’t know personally more than I do right now, but again, Black Jesus has proved me wrong. Today is like learning that James Baldwin was a Washington Wizards fan, or that John Coltrane owned a pair of Bred Jordan 1s.…
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Childish Gambino’s ‘This Is America’ Has Been Colonized
It was only a matter of time before someone co-opted Childish Gambino’s “This Is America” video, but who knew it would be so horrible? YouTube comedian Nicole Arbour, who got dragged a couple of years ago for a fat-shaming video, decided to put a “feminist” twist on Donald Glover’s latest. Arbour’s “This Is America: Women’s…
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André 3000 Drops 2 New Songs for Mother’s Day
André 3000, one of the best who ever did it, dug into his personal stash of music to bless us with two new joints for Mother’s Day. And frankly, that nigga playing clarinet for 17 minutes still sounds better than all the rap that’s out here today. Mother’s Day, especially for those who have lost…
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Beyond the Blue
Vibrantly glowing inside a dark hall, a small ball of fire burned suspended midair. The flaming orb bounced upward, lingering shortly, before landing in Princess Inara’s palm. Her brown eyes stared intently into the flame as if it were a mystical crystal ball. Unfortunately, she found no answers to her problems hidden within the circular…
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Did Azealia Banks Bully Cardi B Into Deleting Her Instagram Account?
Azealia Banks, “the poster child for self-destruction,” continues to sow her seeds of dissension by calling out yet another black woman in entertainment for some politically impossible standard of blackness that she herself cannot live up to. This time, that woman is Cardi B, who, after clapping back at Banks on Friday, deleted her entire…
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Ava DuVernay Has a Mother’s Day Gift for Us All: A Wrinkle in Time Will Be Rereleased for Mother’s Day Weekend!
“Ava’s looking forward to speaking with you,” one of Array’s publicists said via the phone. (Array is Ava DuVernay’s grassroots distribution, arts and advocacy collective focused on films by people of color and women.) I smiled harder than necessary at the publicist’s statement, since I was the only one in the room and on the…
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R. Kelly Gives a Defiant Performance in Midst of North Carolina Protests and #MuteRKelly Campaign
I thought this dude was canceled. Apparently not. And as a recent show in Greensboro, N.C., reveals, R. Kelly is still as nasty as he wanna be, with his fans there to support this accused child sexual predator and woman abuser. The Associated Press reports that the singer told the crowd gathered for his concert…
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Former Loud Records CEO Announces a Wu-Tang 36 Chambers Redo. We Say Blasphemy
Personally, I think it’s a byproduct of the “sampling culture” of the ’80s and ’90s, plus capitalism, that’s eating up anything remotely creative. These days, so-called artists can’t seem to come up with anything original, so it’s all about reboots, remakes and taking whole swaths of already released songs instead of coming up with something…
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Young Dolph Blesses the 2 Duke University Baristas Who Were Fired for Playing His Song ‘Get Paid’ With $20,000
Two Duke University employees, Britni Brown and Kevin Simmons, were fired from their job at the university coffee shop, Joe Van Gogh, for playing the aspirational new Negro spiritual by Young Dolph entitled, “Get Paid.” Following in the tradition of Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington and Madam C.J. Walker, Young Dolph raps: Get paid, young…