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  • Damon On BET (And Jezebel) Speaking On The Wackness Of The "New Black"

    Last month, BET invited Damon to New York City to address the New Black wackness running amok and read an edited version of “Eight Signs You’re “Just Black” Even Though You Believe You’re “New Black.” While in the city, he also stopped by the Jezebel offices to contribute to a video piece Hillary Crosley Coker…

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  • A "Mixed Signal" Is Not A Mixed Signal

    Imagine you’re a pilot. Not a fake pilot like Frank Abagnale. But a real actual pilot who does real actual pilot shit. You’re flying a plane from LaGuardia to Dulles. It’s 10pm and there’s a storm, so the visibility isn’t great, but it’s nothing you haven’t experienced before. Because, again, you’re a motherfucking pilot. You…

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    Damon Young

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  • Cool Shit BET Did Back In The Day, Ranked

    8. BET Uncut Yes it was exploitative, distasteful, low-budget, vulgar, objectionable, hateful, and, quite frankly, embarrassing, but…well…hmmm. Actually, there are no buts here. It had no redeeming value. But I watched it, and you did too, and how else would we have been exposed to Joker The Bailbondsman? 7. Hell Date ***A meeting at some…

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    Damon Young

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  • Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift, And Lena Dunham Unite To Troll The Fuck Out Of Literally Everyone

    Certain collaborations seem so counterintuitive — at least initially — that they almost can’t help but be successful off the sheer ingenuity and ridiculousness of someone attempting to put those two things together. Fried chicken and waffles, for instance. (Also, Big Sean and public speaking.) The risk in doing this, of course, is in looking wasteful and…

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    Damon Young

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  • An Investigation: Why White People Hate Kanye West So Damn Much

    Human Rorschach test Kanye West closed out last night’s Billboard Music Awards with performances of “All Day” and “Black Skinhead” that were bleeped so many times they should have just had him holding a sign with the word “censored” as the entire performance. The reactions on my timeline and newsfeed about his pyrotechnics ranged from pissed to exasperated…

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    Damon Young

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  • Why I'd Give An Entire Kidney To Live In Key & Peele's "Negrotown"

    Life with white folks ain’t been no luxurious affair. It’s had tragedies in it, And bullshit, And patience torn up, And times when you wanna snatch ‘em bald— Bare… —Excerpt from “I’se Still Shinin’,” by Alexander Hardy, 2015 Being a chocolate wonder amidst the armed Zimmerbitches and institutional hateration in the dancery is no easy…

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    Alexander Hardy

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  • I Don't Know Where The Movie 'DOPE' Came From, But I'm Excited As Hell About It!

    ‘Round here, we love us some Black movies. The Blacker the movie, the greater the likelihood that I will spend copious amounts of money time on Netflix sifting through films featuring pantheon Black-movie savants like Clifton Powell, Vivica Fox, and Essence Atkins. Thing is, most of those movies suck. There’s a reason you haven’t heard of most…

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    Panama Jackson

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  • Jake Ballard And The Friend Zone Mt. Rushmore

    With each episode, Jake Ballard is discovering new levels of the friend zone. Levels we didn’t know exist. Levels we didn’t know were possible to exist. Levels that disrupt our understanding of the friend zone, and force us to reassess our concepts of time, space, dimensions, and cunnilingus. To merely call him a friend zone…

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    Damon Young

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  • 10 Things That Would Be Much Better If You Mixed Hennessy With Them

    Last week, I wrote that Hennessy was overrated and that we (Black people) need to finally collectively admit to ourselves that it just doesn’t taste good.  Boy, was I wrong. I don’t know what inspired me to write that. Because Hennessy is the greatest drink I’ve ever drank. I’m actually drinking Hennessy right now as I write…

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    Damon Young

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  • A Guide To Reading VSB For People Who Just Now Discovered VSB

    Hello, person who just recently discovered VSB. My name is Damon Young, and I’m the editor-in-chief and co-founder of VSB. That’s me in the picture with the sunglasses and the egghead. The fashionable fella to my right is Panama Jackson, senior editor and also a co-founder. Here’s another picture of a much, much, much, much-less-drunk…

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    Damon Young

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