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MC Lyte Talks Racial Bias, Female Rap Beef and the Longevity of Hip-Hop
MC Lyte recently performed with a nostalgic lineup at the Cincinnati Music Festival, proving once again that black don’t crack. Lyte (born Lana Michelle Moorer) looks and sounds like what happens when you mind your business and drink water. As one of the largest R&B music festivals in America, CMF caters to the grown and…
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Jill Scott’s Estranged Husband Says He Just Wants His Purple Rain CD and His Damn Shoehorn Back
Jill Scott’s estranged husband, Michael Dobson, says that the soul singer and actress is getting in the way of his personal belongings—and he’s asking the courts to get involved. TMZ recently recovered court documents from the divorce case in which Dobson asks a judge to punish Scott for withholding his things. According to the documents,…
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Is Jill Scott’s Ex Trying to Pull a Kendu on Her?
Neo-soul singer Jilly from Philly, aka Jill Scott, is the latest celebrity to have her marriage go the way of the 8-track, which is not uncommon if celebrity is involved. However, what we really wanna know is whether her estranged beau, Mike Dobson, is trying to pull a Kendu on her. That is, is Dobson,…
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Flint Premieres on Lifetime This Saturday; Will It Show Us the Outcome of the Ongoing Water Crisis?
It has been 1,278 days since the residents of Flint, Mich., had clean water flowing through their pipes. The problem has still not been fully resolved, and government infighting between the city and state has led to more red tape and more delays in finding a permanent, clean water source for the city. As the…
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Jill Scott Says She Had a Nasty Moment With Harvey Weinstein, Too
At this point, who hasn’t Harvey Weinstein fucked with? It might just be easier to keep track of that list of women, because the list of women who say they’ve had negative interactions with him continues to grow by the hour. It’s like the world’s sickest game of bingo. Singer-actress Jill Scott wrote on Twitter…
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#Flint: Queen Latifah, Jill Scott to Star in Lifetime Film on City’s Water Crisis
In news from the “Why weren’t we told this before?” section, Queen Latifah, Jill Scott, Betsy Brandt and Marin Ireland are all set to star in the upcoming Lifetime original movie Flint, based on the Michigan city’s lead-contaminated-water crisis. Deadline reports that Queen Latifah will also serve as executive producer on the project. It will…
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How Hotep Thinking Like Erykah Badu's Robs Black Children Of Their Childhoods
My childhood before the age of 10 had some big milestones. I moved to the US and learned English. I adopted Harlem as my hometown. I got my first self-purchased cassette—Sisqo’s underrated but absolutely flames Unleash the Dragon. I had also seen and touched and touched an adult man’s penis, on multiple occasions, by the…
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The Dos And Don'ts Of Sending And Receiving Nude Pics
In July, GQ Magazine ran a companion piece for the movie Sex Tape, the ridiculously titled “We Strenuously Fact-checked the Entire Premise of Sex Tape: An Investigation.” In this feature, Lauren Bans contacted an Apple Genius and rattled off “hypothetical” situations taken from the movie to see just how possible it would be for someone to…