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Supply Chain Shortage and the Homies Are Messing Up My Skin Moisturizing Situation—An Ode to Palmer’s Lotion, Vol. 2
Damn, why they trynna stick me for my papers? A brotha is just trying to live ash-free.
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A Comprehensive List of Every Person I’d Choose Dinner (and Hopefully a Movie) With in Lieu of $500,000
The constantly churning dinner with Jay-Z vs. $500,000 conversation will not die
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Aaliyah, Missy Elliott and Timbaland Changed the Game With 1996’s One in a Million. Thankfully, I Now Get to Relive That Moment
Aaliyah’s sophomore album and especially its title track are the kind of songs you never forget.
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‘C.R.E.A.M.’: U.S. Government Sells One-of-a-Kind Wu-Tang Clan Album That Once Belonged to Martin Shkreli to Help Cover Debts
The disgraced hedge fund manager was ordered to pay $7.36 million in a forfeiture judgment following his 2018 conviction.
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'I'm Still Spending Money from '88': 9 Thoughts About Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt, One of the Best Albums of All Time on Its 25th Birthday
On June 25, 1996, Jay-Z released his debut album Reasonable Doubt and launched a legendary hip-hop career.
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De La Soul's Classic Album De La Soul Is Dead Is Turning 30. It Was The First Album I Fell In Love With
You never forget your first love. As cliché as it sounds to say that hip hop was my first love, in my case, it’s actually true. I don’t remember anything else becoming as essential to my being as devouring all of the homemade mixtapes my older sister’s friends made for her. As a military brat…
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Was Drake’s Views Really Fire or Did It Leave a Lot to Be Desired? Let’s Argue
On this fifth anniversary of Drake’s fourth studio album Views, I think it’s high time we say what needs to be said. The album was not that great. Sure, it had bops. Looking at you, “Child’s Play,” “Controlla,” “One Dance, “Pop Style,”and “Feel No Ways.” Yes, it had vibes. Shouts out to you, “Weston Road…
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Wu-Tang Clan’s Ghostface Killah and Raekwon Are Bringing Da Ruckus for the Next Verzuz Battle This Weekend
Clan in the front, all others to the back! The ever-popular party-at-home Instagram Live series Verzuz will be taking it back to the streets with its next music battle, Wu-Tang Clan’s Ghostface Killah and Raekwon are set to face off against each other this weekend. Billboard reports that after the soulful debut of D’Angelo and…
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A List of All the Biases That Prevent Me From Considering Drake One of the Greatest Rappers Ever (Which He, Unfortunately, Is)
1. He reminds me of hotel shampoo so much that I’ve just started calling him Hotel Shampoo. 2. The irrational and disproportionate emotional and spiritual attachment I have to the rappers I listened to and loved when I was younger, which makes it more difficult for a “newer” person to move me. 3. He’s never…
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28 Days of Album Cover Blackness With VSB, Day 21: Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly (2015)
Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly (all parts of it) has been think-pieced to death, so that’s not what’s going to happen here. Plus, I probably already did that and am too lazy to look it up. And this series is about Black ass album covers anyway. To Pimp a Butterfly is one Black ass…