pop culture
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I See What Dave Chappelle Saw
As you all are aware, a few weeks back, Damon and I had the opportunity to sit down and do some VSB-style interviewing of Key & Peele (see here and here). This is not something that we sought out, but rather the reverse; we were asked specifically to come out to Los Angeles, meet the…
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Ebola, Hoes, and Mixtapes: The Blackest Thing We've Ever Seen This Week, Redux
Every now and then you see something so hilarious you hope and pray that its true. This is how I felt today when a friend of mine sent me a link this Tumblr with the following exchange. It turned me into a detective to do as much research as possible into it. 1. It’s real.…
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Black-ish Is Cute And Cuddly, Not Controversial
The first thing you notice when watching Black-ish is how cute everything and everyone is. The voiceovers are cute. The kids are cute. Anthony Anderson (“Andre”) and Tracee Ellis Ross (“Rainbow”) are cute. Laurence Fishburne’s cuddly non-cuddlyness is cute. The interactions they all have with the kids are cute. The house is cute. The asides…
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Key & Peele Take The Blackness Challenge With VSB
Last week, Damon and Panama gave Key & Peele part one of the Blackness Challenge, which tested their Blackness by taking them through the Blackest Name in America tournament. This week features part two of the challenge, a clip that prominently features Kool-Aid, Black church ladies, semantics, and “motherfucking shark movies.” Key & Peele airs…
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Love & Hip Hop Hollywood Ep. 3 Recap: Common Sense Ain't That Common
As we’ve gotten further into the splendiferous world of LHH Hollywood, a few trends have emerged. I’m lying. It’s the same shit on a different day. Such brings us to episode 3. And like any good show begins, we start with the Chroni-WHAT-cles of Ray J da Gawd. Look, I’ve acknowledged that I’m here for…
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Growing To Appreciate Steve Harvey’s Shuckey Jivey Charm On Family Feud
I like to pretend that, after Steve Hightower went the way of Judy Winslow, Steve Harvey went to live in a cave with post-Emancipation of Mimi Mariah Carey, only to reemerge as the shucky jivey host of Family Feud back 2010. In a perfect world, nothing else—not the Cedric The Entertainer co-signing and certainly not…
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Love & Hip Hop Hollywood Ep. 2: The Cast Members You Don't Care About
This is a day late and a dollar short, but I’m Black. Sue me. Much like any great series, there are episodes of a show that feature tremendous highs and also those that are intended to move you from point A to point B. Episode of 2 of LHHH was the latter. In this episode…
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I Bought A Mountain Dew. Here's How It Happened. Don't Buy Mountain Dew.
You know how some people make bad decisions constantly? I’m one of those people. Sometimes I get away scott free with my middle finger to the law, nigga grippin’ my balls. Other times I pay tremendously. Like, tremendously tremendously. And you know I mean it because I wrote tremendously twice and italicized the first one.…
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More Famous People Are Naked On The Internet. What Does It All Mean?
Unless you sleep with the fishes, there’s a better than 100 percent chance that you heard about the return of The Fappening. Over the course of the weekend, the likes of Meagan Good, Gabrielle Union, Vanessa Hudgens, Hope Solo’s aggression, Selena Gomez, Kim K, and even motherfucking Omarion caught the tail end of a leaky…
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Why Charlo Greene Quitting Her Job On Air Is The Blackest Thing We've Ever Seen This Week
1. Her name is Charlo Greene and she’s a reporter in Alaska. This is an extra Black name in the lower 48. In Alaska, though, this is peak Blackness. 2. She is enterprising, and confident enough in her enterprise to sacrifice a career she presumably went to school for — and paid tens of thousands…