pop culture
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Love & Hip Hop Atlanta, Season 5 Episode 9 Recap
Merry Memorial Day and what not. While y’all were gnawing on badly seasoned chicken and making up excuses for underbidding, Mona Scott was slaving over a hot stove to bring you this week’s serving of steaming foolishment BKA Love and Hip Hop Atlanta, Season 5. This week’s installment of confusion and shame brought us a…
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Morgan Freeman Turns 79 For The 79th Time Today. Happy Birthday!
They say it takes 10,000 hours of practice to become an expert at something. (They’re wrong when they say that, but they still say that anyway.) Well, iconic actor and professional stately motherfucker Morgan Freeman turns 79 today for the 79th time. Which means he’s had 700,000 hours worth of practice of being 79. Which…
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On Harambe, Worst Case Scenarios, And Being Judgmental When The Rainbow Isn't Enough
It’s my fault, really. “Don’t read the comments” (except for at VSB) is pretty much the only way to read articles on mass news sites on-line. Racists and trolls dwell in comments sections when they’re not testing glaze at Krispy Kreme. But I’ve always been hardheaded, so on each article I’ve read about the SUPER…
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How To Get Jay Z To Stop Threatening Us With New Music
For the past two years, malicious rumors of a Beyonce/Jay Z joint album have terrorized us on the internet. Vague ‘sources’ have been quoted everywhere from Rap Up to Vanity Fair, claiming that the cursed release is set to have a surprise stream on Tidal. This is a particularly harmful threat to a long time…
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Love & Hip Hop Atlanta Season 5, Episode 8 Recap
It’s been a long week, what with the demise of the Mimi/Stud Bae union and the consequent loss of opportunities to reflect on the morning mist that was her hair. Fortunately, this week’s episode of Love and Hip Hop Atlanta, Season 5, delivered enough replenishing shade to help me push on to see what the…
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What Happened To Craig Mack? (And Why Do So Many Ex-Bad Boy Artists Become Religious Fanatics?)
After a generally well received and meme-worthy Bad Boy reunion performance at the 2015 BET awards, the soon to be retired mogul Diddy took to Instagram to praise Lil Kim’s showmanship, and informally announce the coming of a Bad Boy Reunion tour. Earlier this year, he shared more details with DJ Khaled — the Dale Carnegie…
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Things I’d Like To See (And Not See) From BET’s Prince Tribute
(Some suggestions for next month’s tribute from a concerned fan who really wants to see BET pull this off) No yodeling from Trey Songz How dare you disrespect the legend by letting Trey Songz vocally tap dance on “Purple Rain.” Please exclude him and other fellow yodelers Jussie Smollet, The Dream, and Chris Brown. Put…
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Mary J. Blige Dancing At The Bad Boy Reunion Tour Is The Blackest Thing That Ever Happened This Week
The concept of being unapologetically Black ultimately boils down to a Black person being — or, at least, striving to be — their best self. And believing that this best self includes and doesn’t exclude or contradict with a shameless and unabashed embrace of Blackness. Admittedly, the journey to unapologetic Blackness as a Black American isn’t an…