tyrese

  • Tyrese Being Investigated by Los Angeles Child Protective Services: Report

    Tyrese Gibson, R&B crooner and actor best known for the Fast and the Furious film series, has an open case with the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services after his ex-wife claims that he abused their 10-year-old daughter, spanking her so hard she could not sit. TMZ reports that Tyrese’s ex-wife, Norma…

  • Judge of Characters: The Bodega App and Tyrese Make the World Ask, ‘Why?’

    This week, the biggest question that’s being asked all over the internet is … why? Why are people trying to reinvent, aka gentrify, bodegas? And why is Tyrese pleading for the Rock not to shoot the Fast and the Furious spinoff? I don’t have the answers to these questions, but I do have some hilarious…

  • Unique Views, Episode 45: High on Covfefe

    Nothing else matters this week except covfefe. Thank you, President Donald Trump, for being good for something. We all laugh to keep from crying—which so happens to be the theme of this week’s episode. Guys, there’s so much misery in the world, and the worst of it is my co-host, The Root’s Senior Editor Stephen…

  • 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…

  • A Petty Ranking of the Most Annoying Types of Co-Workers

    Co-workers are basically the Tyrese of our professional lives. You can’t live with them and you certainly could live without them. No matter your career there’s a strong possibility you’ve encountered some pretty annoying people in your quest to make a dolla. And while all co-workers and their endless stash of Lean Cuisines are pretty…

  • Unique Views, Episode 42: When Stuntin’ Goes Wrong

    Adulting is hard. This week I complain to podcast co-host Stephen A. Crockett Jr. the third that I’m having a rough time trying to keep up with all the things life gives adults. He does something that surprises me: He listens and even offers me advice. Stephen then goes on to let me know that…

  • Tyrese Apologizes for Misogynistic Comments About Women

    R&B singer and actor Tyrese Gibson got everyone riled up last week when he decided to air his views about women he referred to as “hos and skeezers.” During what was supposed to be a promo for his new movie Fate of the Furious, Tyrese’s interview with BET went all the way left during his…

  • Meet Tyrese: R&B Singer, Actor and Dumbass Misogynist

    Years ago, before becoming famous, Tyrese was singing the praises of Coca-Cola on the back of a bus. Nowadays, he’s not only in the Fast and the Furious movies, but he also uses his platform to slut-shame women. Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve seen mentions of Tyrese all over my social media timelines.…

  • Tyrese Very Obviously Needs A Hobby, So Let's Find Tyrese A Hobby!

    Empty Stacey Adams shoebox lined with Baby Boy DVDs and back-ordered bigen with sentience Tyrese Gibson is very obviously bored. Because there’s no other reason for a recently married man to hop on Instagram and offer his unsolicited hotepian insights on how the women he’s not married to or even dating or sleeping with (because, again, this…

  • Unique Views, Episode 31: 10 Minutes With Loretta Devine on a Shaky Cellphone

    When we tell y’all that we are trying, I don’t think y’all understand what that really means. This podcast is held together with shoestring and bubblegum. It’s not a joke when we call ourselves the Sanford and Son of podcasts, and as Ms. Patti LaDanielle, aka The Root’s social-content producer, Danielle Young, told me, “Yeah,…