pop culture
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Thank God The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Isn't Being Rebooted
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air may be my favorite television show of all time. Yes, I liked it even more than The Wire, Law & Order: SVU, and Unsolved Mysteries. I loved A Different World, and liked The Cosby Show Family Matters, but I was all about Fresh Prince. So when “news” broke that the…
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"Straight Outta Compton": An Interview About The Movie With Panama Jackson
(Full disclosure: I saw the movie for free a few nights ago. But I was not asked to nor paid to convince you to see this movie. I think you should because I love NWA and Black films.) VSB: Hey Panama, so we noticed you requested to do an interview…with yourself…about the movie Straight Outta…
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Fontella Marie Holmes: The 88 Million Dollar Trap Queen
So. Fontella Marie Holmes, 26, single mom, lotto winner. Black lady. She hit the numbers back in February to the tune of $88 million after taxes, and she has since dropped NINE milli bailing her man outta jail two times. I keep reading articles about how people are enraged and baffled by her spending this…
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Damon Discusses Drake, Meek Mill, And…Men Mooching Wifi On Melissa Harris-Perry
Damon was invited to Melissa Harris-Perry Saturday to discuss Drake vs Meek Mill, rap beef in a historical context, sexism/misogyny in hip-hop, and Drake’s skin regiment. Also on the panel, Toni Blackman, Sean Malcolm, and Penny Wrenn. Notable notes and shit from the panel 1. Kerry Washington tweeted about how entertaining it was: Since Damon had…
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Meek Mill Can't Defeat Drake. But Petty Drake Definitely Can
So, I have to recant something. Last week, in a piece I wrote for EBONY, I stated that Meek Mill has absolutely no chance to win this beef with Drake. Mainly because he just does not have the particular skillset necessary for this type of battle. Meek Mill’s problem is that he’s just not equipped…
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How Knowledge Just Fucked Up Coke For Me.
Fuck knowledge, b. Do you remember the movie Renaissance Man? It’s the movie where Danny DeVito ends up teaching the slow kids at bootcamp in Michigan in hopes of making them not do the slow. Day very boring. Well one day while making them read…something…one of them asks what he’s reading and it turns out…
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I'm Going To Have A Daughter. I Love Rap Music. These Two Things Do Not Match
They said I can’t rap about being broke no moreThey ain’t say I can’t rap about coke no more The Wife Person and I have driven to the D.C. area four times this summer. And, with each drive comes a couple dozen or so new additions to my Spotify playlist; a trip soundtrack occasionally interrupted by Google…