pop culture
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White People Won’t Let Our Edges Be Great
You know that Viola Davis GIF where Annalise Keating serves an epic black girl eye roll, grabs her purse and goes the hell home because as she was leaving her house she wished a nigga would, and they clearly did? Well, those were my exact sentiments last week to the folks over at Victoria’s Secret…
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White Men are Winning at Literally Everything, So Why are they Still so Angry?
Who hurt you, boo? You should smile more. It may feel like the whole world is against you, but do all of you have to be so bitter? Look at all of your athletes and celebrities with astronomical success. You have special programs to get you into colleges and businesses based almost entirely on your…
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"Return of The Mack" Is The Best Song Ever That Nobody Acknowledges Is The Best Song Ever
There’s no need to parse words here: “Return of the Mack” is easily one of the best songs ever created in the history of the planet. Sure, it’s no “Moonlight Sonata”, but “Moonlight Sonata” is no “As”, feel me? But far and wide, nobody wants to put the proper ‘speck on “Return…” Well that changes…
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If Baby Boy 2 Is A Thing, I Have Some Sequel Ass Questions!
In what can only be described as the most covfefe’s of all covfefe’s, Baby Boy 2 might actually be a thing. What’s that you say? You didn’t know Baby Boy 2 was even a possibility because why would anybody sequelize (surprisingly, “sequelize” is a real word, in the same vein that Pinnochio was a real…
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…And In More Racism's Still Alive News: A Noose at the Blacksonian
You may have heard by now that a noose was found INSIDE the National Museum of African American History and Culture, more affectionately know by Black people locally (in DC) as the Blacksonian. Somebody actually placed a noose, one of the most vile and explicit symbols of America’s remarkably racist history, inside of a museum dedicated…
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Snoop Dogg Is Still Gangbanging So Hopefully We Won't Have To Go Through That. I Guess.
Snoop Dogg/Snoop Doggy Dogg/Snoop Lion fan here. Snoop Dogg recently released an album. It is called Neva Left. There’s no reason that Snoop should release an album in 2017 where the opening lines of the album are “I gangbang to the fullest, a lot of niggas talk about it, but they really don’t do it,…
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Am I A Blerd? Are You A Blerd? What Makes One A Blerd?
Back in the days when I was young – I’m not a kid anymore – I think I lived pretty squarely in nerd territory. And because I’m Black, we’ll refer to it as blerd, though I will mostly use the term nerd. Urkel was my muse. We’re talking early 90s and well into high school.…
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I Had A Crush On 1983 Michael Jackson In 1993 Because My Religious Parents Kept Me In A Pop Culture Time Warp
I grew up in a rather religious household to reformed Born Again, Evangelical Charismatic, Non-Denominational Christians. I know, that’s a mouthful, right? Like most folks, on Sunday we went to morning service. Unlike most people we were back later that same day for afternoon service or, “Church Part Two: Electric Boogaloo” as I mockingly referred…
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Where Does Dru Hill Fit In The Pantheon of Great Male R&B Groups?
Sometimes, I feel like Dru Hill gets lost in the sauce. When having discussions about great R&B male groups from the 90s (and 2000s), Jodeci is typically the gold-standard, and while Boyz II Men is pretty much a snoozefest in retrospect, their accomplishments cannot be ignored. New Edition is, well, New Edition despite being of…