pop culture
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VSB + Friends Podcast Ep. 1: Drake Is Not Dadsafe
It’s been a long time, we shouldn’t have left you. So we came back. Damon and I bring you the reboot of our old VSB Podcast, renamed VSB + Friends. Check out our first episode, currently available on SoundCloud (as we wait for the iTunes link to go up) where we talk about pitching to…
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Bevel Sent Me A Free Shave System. I Tried It. Here Are My Thoughts.
[Editor’s Note: I was not paid to write this review. The people suggested I try something and because it was made available to me, I tried it. I do this for the culture. The culture does not pay very well, or at all really.] One of the more awesome things about this writing action we’ve…
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Love & Hip Hop Atlanta Season 5, Episode 10 Recap
Lawd, black people ain’t got nothin but jaysus! When I tell you it all hit the gotdamn fan this past week for the puppets cast of Love and Hip Hop Atlanta, Season 5! Outside of the studio, Tammy and Waka’s sham marriage done fell the hell apart. Joseline and Stevie J’s alpha sham marriage (they…
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Game Of Thrones Recap: Season 6, Episode 7 “The Broken Man”
(Editor’s note: VSB is the Blackest space on the Internet. Which means CPT isn’t just an idea. It’s an editorial edict. Which means that it shouldn’t surprise you that we’re debuting Game of Thrones recaps today, six seasons into the show — and seven episodes into that sixth season. Anyway, people of VSB, meet Carcetti…
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Where The Hell Is Panama Jackson, Explained
Who is Panama Jackson? He’s the lightskint half of VSB. You may remember him from such luminary documentaries as “The Other Splash Brother” and “I Know You Hear Me Looking At You: A DC Gentrification Story”. Okay, well, where the hell has he been? As you can tell, he cares about DC’s gentrification problem, so…
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Muhammad Ali Is Dead. 2016 Can Go To Hell.
Perhaps, later today or two days or a week or a month from now, I’ll have more to say about the life and the impact of Muhammad Ali. Right now, however, I have nothing besides shock and sadness. Not so much that he’s dead. But that his death leaves humanity with such a gaping and…