Music
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President Obama's Favorite Song Choice of 2015 Is The Blackest Thing We've Ever Heard This Week
Look, I know that Obama is a rap fan. But listening to Jay-Z just makes you American. Jay transcended with “New York” to the point where he’s less part of the hip-hop community and more part of the global community. Hip-hop doesn’t own Jay anymore. He’s on loan from the Smithsonian and shit. Kendrick Lamar,…
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Omarion Was Right: Any Song With "Eat The Booty Like Groceries" In It Deserves A Grammy
As we’re all quite aware of already, the 2016 Grammy nominations were released this morning. King Kendrick led the field with a whopping 11 noms, confirming that Kendrick’s 2015 will be one of those years remembered much more fondly by music critics than music fans. (And, before you get your pitchforks out, I’m not saying…
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Kendrick, Trap Queens, and Tamar! Let's Talk About These Grammy Nominations!
If you know like I know, then you woke up to an alert on your phone telling you that the Grammy nominations came out today. It informed me that Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar led the field. Now, let’s be real, I have no idea why they even lumped them into THAT same sentence. Kendrick…
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The Miseducation is Overrated: A Wakeup Call to my Teenage Self
Sometime last year I went through a gut-wrenching breakup. Not because anybody cheated or invited me to therapy to let me know they were gay in front of 25 cameras and a boom mic or anything. Just a regular ole’ “I think we just broke up and I don’t know how to function without my…
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Anthony Hamilton and the Blackest, Most Soulful, Most Beautiful Rendition of "Hotline Bling" Ever
Ever since Drake released “Hotline Bling,” we have been inundated with remake after remake. Some of them have been awesome, some of them have been interesting, one of them has even been anointed. But a couple of weeks ago I came across a “Hotline Bling” remake that deserves its own distinction as the blackest version…
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Love & Hip Hop Hollywood Season 2: Episode 11 Recap
Well it’s another day, another dollar, back up in the heezy baby. And our favorite nincompoops out in Hollywood are up to their usual shenaniganery. So let’s get down to business, bitches. On this last episode of Love & Hip Hop Hollywood, there really are only like two things I can remember, which is sad…
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Empire Is Getting That Pepsi Money. Smart. Very Smart.
For all of its faults – sometimes I feel like the writers behind Empire don’t actually realize that the people watching are old enough to know non-sense when we see it – I do happen to think that Empire is one of the “smartest” shows on television for what they are doing for a few…
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Spike Lee Releases Song "WGDB" from Chi-Raq Soundtrack. Misses Point. Offends People.
Oh, Spike. Everybody is currently aware that in a few weeks, Spike Lee’s latest foray into Black hypertension, “Chi-Raq” will be released. The trailer hit the Internet with a bang and had the e-streets and the real streets talking. Some folks are already offended by the movie because of the implied depiction of Chicago. Others…