Very Smart Brothas
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Someone Please Tell Deadline.com That White Folks Gonna Be Alright
Yesterday, Deadline.com published Nellie Andreeva’s “Pilots 2015: The Year Of Ethnic Castings – About Time Or Too Much Of Good Thing?” — a piece with so many layers of wrong that calling it a wrong lasagna (ht to Kara Brown) doesn’t quite do it justice. It was a wrong lasagna dipped in wrong Progresso Italian bread crumbs,…
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Love & Hip Hop NY Ep. 514 Recap: ”Beasting Beyond Beastability”
I’ve decided to ride out this points system til the end of this NY run. As always, the points are absolutely arbitrary and almost exclusively beholden to my chicken levels at any point in time. Without further ado, let’s get to it. · Peter Gunz solicits Erica’s help to pick a ring. No points, but…
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It's A Boy!
Yesterday afternoon, the newest and youngest member of Team VSB was welcomed into the world. Panama is now the father of a baby boy! More details might come later — if P decides to share — but he just wanted to let everyone know the new Young P is great and healthy and ready to…
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It's Great Mo'ne Davis Had It In Her To Forgive That Guy. But Still, Fuck That Guy
Around this time last week, news first began to circulate that Mo’ne Davis helped unveil a new sneaker line — with 15% of the proceeds going towards impoverished girls. A day or so later, more great news about the 13-year-old appeared: From Variety: The Mo’ne Davis story is coming to Disney Channel. The 13-year-old who made…
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Intimacy Compatibility: The Most Underrated Part Of A Happy Relationship
Rarely does a week pass without someone asking me what married life is like. I usually provide the same answer (“It’s…just like life before marriage. Except now you have God’s blessing to have sex in Macy’s dressing rooms.”), but it always feels incomplete. Mainly because the best way to describe married life is to provide…
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Why Baltimore Raven/Mathematician John Urschel Is The Blackest Person Who Ever Existed This Week
1. Because math — not English, not social studies, not horticulture, not even science — is the Blackest subject. At least it is according to JR Writer. And Fabulous. And Cassidy. And every other rapper who’s devoted several bars to bragging about dropping out of school but always being good at math. Because being good at…
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Cheekie Does SXSW: Part 2
Monday, March 16th I woke up early to plant my butt in line for the second #SXSWFilm Keynote I wanted to go to: RZA. For those of you who may not know and are wondering why he gave a film-based keynote speech, RZA is a pretty talented film composer (I believe his most famous work…
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Dear Black People: Can Someone Please Tell Me What The "Gay Agenda" Is?
The first season of Empire concluded Wednesday night. Which means I went the entire season of Empire without watching one minute of Empire. There’s really no specific reason why. I’m not boycotting Wet Wipes Howard and it’s not like my Wednesdays are so busy that I couldn’t watch if I wanted to. It just belongs to…