Music
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Things Drake Does In The "Hotline Bling" Vid That Men Not Named Drake Can Never Do
Yesterday, Drake released a video to “Hotline Bling.” The song, the video, and the reaction to the song and video is quintessential Drake. It is perhaps the most quintessentially Drake thing Drake has ever done, which is saying something because everything Drake does is quintessentially Drake. What exactly does quintessentially Drake mean, you ask? Well, quintessentially Drake means that if literally…
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The Game's "The Documentary 2" Is The Album I Wish Kendrick Lamar Would Have Released
I know that sounds absurd. But follow me. Kendrick Lamar dropped a seminal work in To Pimp A Butterfly, a work so full of Blackness and filled with so many musical styles and elements that even if you don’t love it you have to appreciate and respect his ability to articulate his worldview in his…
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Love & Hip Hop Hollywood Season 2: Episode 6 Recap
I can’t lie to y’all, my boredom level with this season has potentially reached its zenith. I don’t know if this means I’m finally growing up or if this cast of characters has run its course in my life. How did I realize this, you (didn’t) ask? I had to watch this episode twice because…
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Love & Hip Hop Hollywood Season 2: Episode 5 Recap
This episode starts off where Nia’s life always starts off – running behind a man who actively goes by Soulja Boy who has been sleeping with and texting (as recently as the day before) his jumpoff, Nas, that he wants to be with her and in the words of Boyz II Men, “pleaaaaaaaaaaaase don’t go…
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Last Night, Empire Pushed Ridiculous To New Levels
***If you haven’t seen this episode yet but intend to, you probably should not read further. If this is you, why’d you even click the link, tho?*** If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a million times: I love Empire. Almost none of it makes any sense nor is it even remotely possible. That…
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6 Thoughts I Had While Listening to Fetty Wap's Self-Titled Debut Album
I’m a hip-hop head and could sometimes be considered a backpacker on a few Tuesdays a month, but I’m far from being a purist. I don’t hate all of this new “rap” the way that people who swear by Black Moon on Facebook do. I listen to Rich Homie Quan and laugh at Young Thug with the…
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Love & Hip Hop Hollywood Season 2: Episode 4 Recap
Finally, we hit pay dirt. This show has been boring the ever loving day lights out of me for three straight weeks mostly because its the most rehashed retread non-sense ever at this point. You’ve got fuckpeople doing fuckpeople things. Except there was no panache, no chutzpah, no oomph. Well last night that all changed…
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Love & Hip Hop Hollywood Season 2: Episode 3 Recap
Late pass. I can’t lie to y’all. This season has been a bit of a snoozefest for me so far. So much so that I somewhat dreaded writing this recap. So much so more so than the previous so much so that it’s Monday, the NEW episode is coming on tonight and I’m mostly writing…
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So, Sanaa Lathan Has A Thing For a Cokeboy. Good For Her.
A few days ago, the internet, especially the Black quarters were aflame with disbelief and WTFness at the news that, yes, Sanaa Lathan was indeed dating Karim Kharbouch, aka French Montana. HAAANH! The jokes only flew from there with people questioning why such a refined, educated, well-to-do woman would date such an opposites attract specimen…
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How I Discovered And Fell In Love With Phyllis Hyman
I remember the first time I heard a Phyllis Hyman song. This was in March 2006 at my boy Tim’s condo. He’d turned his second bedroom into a makeshift studio and we did a lot of writing and producing in that room. At the time, he was the producer and I was just learning the…