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  • Dear VH1, The Breaks Was Dope, But You Played Me.

    Last night, VH1 finally premiered The Breaks, a “movie” they’ve been promoting for the better part of the past two months. Why did I put “movie” in quotes? I’ll tell you why. It’s because VH1 is rude as fuck and played my life, b. Let’s start at the beginning: The Breaks is a “movie” based…

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    Panama Jackson

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  • Who Won 2015?

    2015 is almost over, which means its time to make forced assessments and half-assed evaluations of the past year. Because no year is complete without an arbitrarily crafted review of it. We will all die today if I don’t write up a summary of 2015 and if you don’t read that summary. Seriously. We will all…

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    Damon Young

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  • Remy Ma & Papoose Are The Black Love I've Always Wanted But Never Knew I Needed

    My earnest devotion to the Love & Hip Hop franchise is quite well documented. When it comes to the general thoughts that consume me any day of the week, it goes… 1. Ranking various chicken establishments by seasoning and breading 2. Praying that Serge Ibaka will finally respond to my DMs 3. Rabidly consuming the…

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    Shamira Ibrahim

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  • R. Kelly Is A Coward

    Last week, I was asked by HuffPo Live to appear with three other people on a segment about the moral quandary of supporting an artist or an athlete with an unsavory past. The half hour-long conversation was supposed to touch on a few different instances of this happening in pop culture, but ended up focusing solely on…

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    Damon Young

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  • Survey Says…Steve Fucked Up. But It Is and Isn't His Fault. (It's His Fault.)

    Being live is a bitch. Just ask Steve Harvey who managed to fuck up the most important part of the Miss Universe pageant that I’m fairly certain the vast majority of us had no clue was happening. Actually, that’s not true. After every move on Words With Friends, an ad for the show would pop…

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    Panama Jackson

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  • John Boyega's Response To White Tears Is The Blackest Thing I've Ever Heard This Week

    Earlier this week, while discussing Star Wars: The Force Awakens with my dad, I halfheartedly mentioned that I never was a huge fan of the Star Wars series. I didn’t dislike them or anything. But I just never went gaga over them either. He paused, took off his glasses, and gave me a look that could…

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    Damon Young

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  • Wu-Tang Is For The Children. Martin Shkreli Will Sell Your Children Into Slavery

    I’ve got a funny feeling that this is the plot to Undercover Brother 2: Electric Boogaloo. But in case it ain’t, let me run it down for you. Last week it was revealed that Martin Shkreli, the young pharmaceutical exec who jacked up the price of AIDS medication 5000%, purchased the single copy of the…

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    Chris Terry

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  • Zack Morris, Religion, and Me

    Have you seen Truth Be Told? It’s the new Zack Morris sitcom on NBC in the doomed Friday night slot when all of the people that might watch this show are out doing way cooler shit. It’s not the best show, but it’s also not the worst show, either, but I like Mark-Paul Gosselaar (Zack Morris) and Tone…

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    Jean DeGrate

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  • The Best Hip-Hop Tracks of 2015

    It’s tough being a hip-hop fan in your mid-30s. Your formative years took place entirely during the genre’s “renaissance” – roughly 1992-2000, when classics dropped weekly and before ringtone rap, singles-driven albums and J-Kwon came in and stunk up the whole joint. You know what quality and effort sound like. Some hip-hop heads – the…

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    Dustin J. Seibert

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  • Six Reasons Why Serena's Sportsperson Of The Year Honor Is The Blackest Thing That Ever Happened This Week

    1. Because Serena’s cover effectively turned Sports Illustrated into a late-90s King Magazine. My goodness. 2. Fortunately for men currently in relationships with women, Serena Williams also happens to be one of the few women it’s acceptable to, well, openly “appreciate.” (Basically, if you get caught liking an Instagram “model’s” picture, you might catch a sideeye. You…

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    Damon Young

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