I love Above The Rim. Its soundtrack is always in the convo for the best Black movie soundtrack of all time, and…

Do me a solid and go watch Salt-N-Pepa’s 1994 music video for “Whatta Man.” Around the 1:07 mark, Salt is getting…

You’ve probably seen a ton of lists circulating on social media lately ranking the 50 greatest rappers of all time.…

Jerry Foxhoven—his real name, not his rap name—was the director of Iowa’s social services agency. He was also a huge…

We’re sure Tupac would be proud.

Jussie Smollett may be bruised, but he isn’t broken. The 35-year-old made his first public appearance on Saturday…

Netflix may be raising its prices, but maybe this black-ass content during this black-ass month will be worth it.

Since the dawn of time, there has always been tension between “old school” and “new school.” Nowhere is this shit…

Nearly 22 years after he was gunned down in Las Vegas, the mystery of who killed rapper and actor Tupac Shakur still…

Quincy Jones’ recent viral interviews have proved that he’s thoroughly fuck-deprived. And also, to quote the homie…

On Feb. 2, 2018, Brooklyn, N.Y., wordsmith Skyzoo released an album called In Celebration of Us. I don’t know…

When I was a kid, my dad used to make a Kool-Aid concoction he’d call “Kool-Aid wine.” It was reserved for special…

Last week, Tariq Trotter, aka Black Thought, frontman for the Roots, tried to break the rapper-nets with a 10-minute…

Perhaps there are bigger fish to fry. Racism is still alive; they just be concealing it, after all. Or more likely,…

I realize that talking about the aches and pains of getting older is a pretty cliché thing to do. But since I try to…

Move over, Taylor Swift. Kendall and Kylie, have as many seats as you need. There’s a new front-runner for The Root’s…

Apparently, Jada Pinkett Smith was the plug. ... Stop laughing. She’s serious.

Remember earlier this month when a letter written by Tupac Shakur in prison to Madonna went up for auction? In the…

Jada Pinkett Smith’s outrage over the Tupac Shakur film All Eyez on Me has not subsided one bit. During an…

Well, well, well. It looks as if Kendall and Kylie Jenner are going to have to actually put their money where their…