sh*t bougie black people love

  • Shit Bougie Black People Love: 33. Drinking Room Temperature Water

    If you happen upon a group of Bougie Black People in the wild — organizing Trap Kayaking trips or attempting to convince people they’ve “been on SZA since See.SZA.Run” — and you truly wanted to engage them in conversation, ask them about when they discovered that fruit juices and sodas were evil, and listen to them…

  • Shit Bougie Black People Love: 32. Adding "Trap" To Regular-Ass Things They Were Already Doing

    Although Black skin and student loans they’ll never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever pay off ensure that Bougie Black People are, in fact, authentically Black, sometimes BBP get self-conscious about how Black they’re seen by other people. While they don’t doubt their own Blackness, they’re aware that the perception of racial authenticity is arbitrary, and…

  • The Difference Between Bougie, Boujee, and Bourgie/Bourgeois, Explained

    Really? You’re going to devote an entire explainer to a pedantic semantic distinction only like 27 people care about? Yes. I am going to do exactly that. Why? Because it’s fun! Like, you know how you might see a flyer advertising a concert Jaheim is holding in a Arby’s parking lot next weekend — the…

  • The Definitive Ruling On The Single Best Way To Play Spades

    Last weekend, I attended a birthday party for a friend. Which, all things considered, may have been the bougiest birthday party I’ve ever been at. Consider the following: A)  It was marketed as a birthday party but it was actually just a day party that happened to occur during someone’s birthday. This is stealth bougie.…

  • Shit Bougie Black People Love: 31. Unnecessary Hashtags

    Bougie Black People are always doing things. In college, while the rest of their classmates were doing things like “listening to Sisqo” and “fucking on twin beds,” Bougie Black People spent the bulk of their time “writing spoken word poetry they’d never perform” and “vacillating between ‘hating White people’ and ‘dating White people.” As they transitioned…

  • Black Women Love Drake Because He Reminds Them Of Jesus

    Last week, Esquire Magazine revealed that scientists have “discovered” the face of Jesus. Using forensic anthropology, a group of British scientists and Israeli archeologists determined that Jesus most likely looked how…men from the part of the world he was from tend to look. (Duh!) A stark contrast from the blue eyed Jesus with long blond hair…

  • Hillary Crosley Coker Is A Writing Ass Chick We Love

    Hillary Crosley Coker writes for Jezebel, founded Parlor Magazine, and is the best person to know if you ever need to find “Hmm. That really wasn’t all that bad. I’ve had worse tacos” tacos in SoHo. And since I take taco recommendations quite seriously, this is more than enough for her to qualify as a Writing Ass Chick…

  • VSB Partners With Tees In The Trap

    VSB is excited to announce that Tees in The Trap will now be the exclusive retailer of our Bougie Black apparel and all other VSB-related products. We’ve long appreciated and admired the work they do and the products they sell, and this partnership is long overdue; a fact this picture… …reminded us of every time we’d…

  • Aisha Harris Is A Writing Ass Chick We Love

    I don’t know exactly how long I’ve been a fan of Aisha Harris. (Three years, maybe?) But I do know that the 27-year-old staff writer at Slate has been a personal favorite long enough for me to confidently state that she is the shit. (Also, I can confidently state that she is not Aisha Tyler.) With…

  • Shit Bougie Black People Love: 30. Jesse Williams

    You probably know Jesse Williams as one of the guys on one of those Shonda Rhimes shows that airs before another Shonda Rhimes show. Or perhaps as the racially ambiguous guy who really, really, really, really digs Ciroc. This, however, would mean that you’re not a Bougie Black Person. Because, if you were a Bougie…