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AfroPunk Brooklyn 2018 Was an Explosion of Style
Every year like clockwork, the ultimate young black reunion takes place on the lawns of Commodore Barry Park in Brooklyn, as all the stylish friends you wish you had come out stunting in their bright, bold, and very unapologetically black street style, ready to mosh and sway the hot evenings away. This year was no…
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Family Portrait: Kanye and Kids Cover Bazaar's Fall Fashion Issue
He may be your problematic fave, but Kanye West is also a proud father of three, two of whom he poses with for one of two covers of Harper’s Bazaar’s September issue. It’s a departure in tone for the fall fashion issue, which usually amps up the glamour. But this year it’s all about “Families…
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Common Has Secured the Bag and Now He Just Makes Dad Rap
Common is killing the game; or, in today’s parlance, Common has secured the bag. I’m almost 40 years old, which means that I grew up in the ’80s and ’90s listening to Common (née Lonnie Rashid Lynn Jr.) when he was rapping about watermelons and communism and asking to borrow a dollar. I still own…
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Erykah Badu’s Daughter Puma Matches Her Mother in Looks and Voice: Video
When your mother is Erykah Badu, you can’t help growing up with talents in your own right (or Wright, as it were). We’ve already seen plenty of videos with the now 13-year-old Puma flexing her tremendous vocal skills. It is evident that she has been getting vocal lessons since the womb. Puma repaid her mother…
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Janet Jackson, Mary J. Blige Headlining 2018 Essence Festival
Secure your wigs and get your best shout-singing voice ready because the 2018 Essence Festival is coming with a star-riddled talent lineup. Queen Janet Jackson and double Oscar nominee Mary J. Blige will be bringing it to the crowd with their headline performances, but it doesn’t stop there. There will also be a headline set…
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Being a Contrarian Just to Be a Contrarian Just Makes You a Sheep With Bad Timing
I’m not sure if anything will top the “Hitler had some talent, tho” hill that some of y’all’s friends and cousins are choosing to die on this week. And I say this as someone who has chosen some extremely peculiar hills—including the “Pancakes are better than waffles” hill, the “New Kanye’s music is better than…
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This Conversation With Erykah Badu Will Make You Wonder if She Dabbles in Hotepery
“I don’t care if the whole group says something; I’m going to be honest. I know I don’t have the most popular opinion sometimes,” Erykah Badu said during an interview with Vulture that left me wondering if years of breathing in incense fumes could cause brain damage, because these opinions of hers are problematic, to…
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Erykah Badu Was Pulled Over in Dallas so Cop Could ‘Say Hi’
Erykah Badu’s new year certainly started off on an interesting note after she was pulled over by cops in Dallas for no reason other than that the officers wanted to “say hi.” The multitalented singer-songwriter posted a video to Instagram on New Year’s Eve captioned, “WTF BABYLON!! HAPPY NEW YEAREZZZZ!” In the video, Badu speaks…
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Celebrating Ourselves: A Toast to #TeamNatural
The year 2017 was a good year for black hair. Solange did the absolute most, impressing us with African-inspired avant-garde hairstyles. Then there was Erykah Badu—aka “Sara Bellum,” aka “Fat Belly Bella,” aka “Medulla Oblongata,” aka “Low Down Loretta Brown,” aka “Analogue Girl in a Digital World”—who pushed all the way through in what she…
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#ForTheDChallenge: Celebrities and People Across the Internet Rap About It
We have all gone to extremes or acted a fool for “the D” before. Don’t bother denying it. Somewhere in your past, or maybe even in your present, there has been a D you just couldn’t get enough of. One you would be willing to do anything for. Don’t bother lying in the comments, and…