pop culture
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Meet The Police Chief Who Gets It. Let's Hope There Are More.
This year has been one hell of a roller coaster ride when it comes to law enforcement and the public perception of it. While it seems like many white people got to see a little bit of what Black folks have been screaming about for years, there are still those individuals who struggle with the…
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Why "Meet Me In Temecula" Is The Perfect End To This Shitty-Ass Fucking Year
1. Because “Meet Me In Temecula” is a song created by a man (@MyTweetsRealAF) who, on Christmas day, made a 35 minute drive to Temecula, California to fight someone (@SnottieDrippen) who dissed Kobe Bryant on Twitter. @Snottiedrippen didn’t show up for the fight, so naturally @MyTweetsRealAF recorded and released a diss track. 2. Because if this…
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Logic, Kendrick Lamar, and the Frustration of Derivative Artistry
At first listen, Logic’s major label debut album Under Pressure is brilliant. It’s listenable. It’s well-produced. He’s a very, very gifted lyricist. He even managed to weave his album together with a voice over reminiscent of one of my favorite albums of all time, A Tribe Called Quest’s Midnight Marauders. But while I listened to…
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Love & Hip Hop New York Ep. 502 Recap: "I Withheld Some Information But I NEVER Lied!"
Thanks to Big Home God, I finished my Christmas shopping just in time to catch ep 2 of “Cuffing Season Relationships and Instagram Clothing Lines.” No small feat either – chasing down Jordan 11’s for my baby brother’s size 15 feet is an effort comparable to Cyn and Erica making a million dollars out of…
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Azealia Banks Is Right On Iggy But Wrong On Just About Everything Else
In a fair amount of ways, Azealia Banks and I have had similar life trajectories. Bear with me here. I am by no means claiming that I could have become an infamous black sheep artist – anybody who’s ever heard me get a little too jiggy with my Spotify playlist knows that a record deal…
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I Tried To Get Mad About VH1's Sorority Sisters. (And I Failed.)
I was sitting at my desk yesterday and my friend sent me a GChat message. “Are you in the office today?” “Yeah.” “I need to ask you something.” “Okay.” “What’s your extension?” I gave it to her and her name popped up on the caller ID. I answered, though I wasn’t sure what she was…
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Love & Hip Hop New York Ep. 501 Recap: Bride and Prejudice
Hello beautiful people. I know we are all rightfully verklempt that Love and Hip Hop Hollywood has come to a close and we’ve only got an imaginary dildo concept to show for it. Don’t fret though – Mona has decided us to hold over with another season of the lynchpin show that started it all:…
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10 Thoughts I Had While Listening To D'Angelo and The Vanguard's "Black Messiah"
At midnight last night, D’Angelo dropped his third (!!!) album entitled Black Messiah. This album came with very little fanfare. It seems like in this new Beyoncé world we live in, artists who can just drop an album then do all the promotion for it via the album itself. D’Angelo is one of those artists…