Music
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Love & Hip Hop New York Ep. 502 Recap: "I Withheld Some Information But I NEVER Lied!"
Thanks to Big Home God, I finished my Christmas shopping just in time to catch ep 2 of “Cuffing Season Relationships and Instagram Clothing Lines.” No small feat either – chasing down Jordan 11’s for my baby brother’s size 15 feet is an effort comparable to Cyn and Erica making a million dollars out of…
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Azealia Banks Is Right On Iggy But Wrong On Just About Everything Else
In a fair amount of ways, Azealia Banks and I have had similar life trajectories. Bear with me here. I am by no means claiming that I could have become an infamous black sheep artist – anybody who’s ever heard me get a little too jiggy with my Spotify playlist knows that a record deal…
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Love & Hip Hop New York Ep. 501 Recap: Bride and Prejudice
Hello beautiful people. I know we are all rightfully verklempt that Love and Hip Hop Hollywood has come to a close and we’ve only got an imaginary dildo concept to show for it. Don’t fret though – Mona has decided us to hold over with another season of the lynchpin show that started it all:…
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10 Thoughts I Had While Listening To D'Angelo and The Vanguard's "Black Messiah"
At midnight last night, D’Angelo dropped his third (!!!) album entitled Black Messiah. This album came with very little fanfare. It seems like in this new Beyoncé world we live in, artists who can just drop an album then do all the promotion for it via the album itself. D’Angelo is one of those artists…
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On Really Wanting To Like J. Cole More Than I Actually Do
I’ve never had more people ask me how I feel about an artist than I have about J. Cole. It’s interesting, really. Somehow, J. Cole is like a hip-hop Hatfields vs McCoy standoff. People either love or give no fucks about J. Cole. And the folks who love him stan so hard for him it…
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10 Possible Reasons Why Diddy May Have Hit Drake With a 3-Piece
In the grand scheme of things, there’s not much funnier in life than Drake getting punched by Diddy in Miami during Art Basel. For one, while I can see Puffy slappin’ everybody out here back in the 90s, he just seems a bit over that at this point in life, which is part of what makes…
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On Rolling Stone, Sexual Assault, The Facts, And The Bigger Picture
By now, most people are familiar with the unravelling of the Rolling Stone story penned by Sabrina Rubin Erdely that chronicles the alleged gang-rape of “Jackie” at the Phi Kappa Psi house on the University of Virginia’s campus back in 2012. The story touched off a lot of (much needed) discussion about sexual assault on…
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I Came, I Saw, And I Conquered The Beyhive
On Tuesday, December 2 at 10:52 AM EST, the first shot was fired by me on Twitter. It read: Admittedly, none of this was being said to get the attention of any one group or even to cause controversy on my timeline. It was simply a thought I had about Beyonce’s new song that I…
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REMINISCE Ugly Sweater Holiday Party and Toy Drive | Saturday, December 6th | DC
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2014 REMINISCE UGLY SWEATER HOLIDAY PARTY AND TOY DRIVE Come out and party with the cool kids. We all want to have a holiday party where we don our ugly sweaters and drink to our hearts content! Well let us do all the heavy lifting for you. Come out in your best…