Very Smart Brothas
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Every Conversation I've Ever Had With A Woman Who Prefers Much Older Men
“So, I’ve noticed you seem to prefer to date guys who are quite a few years older than you.” “Define quite a few.” “Stop it. You know what I mean. Whichever age discrepancy officially makes the man an older man. For a 19 year old woman, an older man would be a 26 year old…
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Love & Hip Hop NY Ep. 509 Recap: Spoke When Spoken To
Apparently we’ve reached the maximum threshold for a character on a Mona Scott show to be presented as reasonable within a season arc, because Yandy Smith was mainlining haterade. Yandy was suspicious of a woman named Remy that Myanmar had hired to be an assistant of his management company – to which I ask, who…
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My Dad, The Man
Much of what I’ve published in the past four years was written while sitting in the Bakery Square Panera Bread. There was a time when I lived three blocks away, so it was a convenient drive to make when writing from home got too monotonous. And, even after moving across town to share a place with my now-wife,…
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The Lightskinned Revolution Will Be Televised During All-Star Weekend
Saturday night, at approximately 10pm EST, Kyrie Irving was competing in the final round of the 2015 three point contest. The other contestants? The “Splash Brothers” — Golden State Warriors guards Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson; a duo doing the exact same thing to the NBA in 2015 that Al B. Sure and Christopher Williams…
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Things Learned After Buying My Wife A Bunch Of Flowers And Shit
(Disclaimer: I’m aware there are people who think that, since getting married, I’ve dedicated the bulk of my writing to marriage-related topics. I’m also aware that some of these people are tired of me writing about marriage-related topics. If I were the type of person who said things like “You know, out of the 142…
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10 Thoughts About Drake's "If You're Reading This, It's Too Late"
1. Drake dropped an album last night. Yay. Not to be all ho hum about it, and obviously I’ll let Drake finish, but ever since Beyoncé pulled off the greatest album drop in music history, folks have gotten really predictable with the “album out of nowhere” schtick. The novelty’s over. It’s the same reason I…
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I Just Was Not That Into Rap Music…Until I Heard The College Dropout
This is an embarrassing thing to admit, but the first rap album I ever owned was Beware of Dog by Lil’ Bow Wow. In my defense, I was young and that “Puppy Love” video was lit. But I still cringe thinking about it — my early insistence that Shad Moss was the GOAT — especially…
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All You Need To Know About Race In America Happened To Me In 90 Seconds Today
It was 10:00am. The Wife Person surprised me with tickets to the Cavs/Heat game yesterday, so we made the two hour drive to Cleveland, stayed overnight, and drove back early this morning. I took her directly to work, and drove back home. “Home” for us is an old high school building that had been closed…
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On Falling And Staying Madly And Deeply In Love With…The Library
I still remember my first library card. It was tan and all the private information that could be used for identity theft — name, age, face, favorite member of SWV, etc — was typed on its face. I don’t remember it because I have a great memory, but because my mom still has it. She is…