Very Smart Brothas
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Tina Campbell Is the Worst Type of Black Christian
Tina Campbell pissed me off. Here I am trying my damnedest not to curse because the niggas from church don’t like it, and the singer from Mary Mary takes her ass on The Real and informs the world that she thought it logically consistent to vote for a nigga who said he’s grabbing folks by…
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More Naps! Everyone Needs to Take More Naps!
If this past week has taught me anything, it is that we all need to find more time in our day to take a nap. On Monday we woke up to one of the most horrific mass shootings in American history. On Tuesday we saw the guy some call the president of the United States…
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10 Simple and Subtle and Easy Things I Do Every Day to Fight White Supremacy
White supremacy is like a wave at sea crashing into a beach—an unstoppable and transformative force, shifting sand, ferrying debris and constructing America’s topographical landscape. This is why, sometimes, you have to do what I used to do when at the wave pool as a kid, when I’d wait for the waves to come in,…
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Why You Should Stop Addressing and Referring to Women as ‘Females,’ Explained … Again
Cam Newton is a peculiarly attired star quarterback for the Carolina Panthers. Yes. The best way to describe Cam’s attire is that he dresses like he’s from the future and the ancient past at the same time. It’s like Blade Runner meets Caligula. It’s really quite fascinating. During a media session yesterday, he was asked…
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Rapsody and 8 Other Rap Cats You Should Be Listening To
North Carolina rapper Rapsody dropped her second full-length album, Laila’s Wisdom, on Sept. 22. It’s her first album under the Roc Nation imprint, and the first to feature a suite of top-tier guest stars, including Kendrick Lamar, Black Thought and Anderson .Paak. It’s easy, and quotidian, to reduce Rapsody to a “dope female emcee.” But the…
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Janet Jackson’s The Velvet Rope Is 20. It’s Still Dope AF
On Oct. 7, 1997, Janet Jackson’s sixth studio album and her fourth STRAIGHT BANGER in a row (following Control, Rhythm Nation 1814 and Janet.), The Velvet Rope, was released to the masses. That means it is fixin’ to turn 20 years old. I remember going to Tower Records on Peachtree Road in the Buckhead section of…
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Never Forget That Y’all’s Bum-Ass President Threw Paper Towels at Puerto Ricans and Didn’t Even Buy Bounty
Although pictures can say thousands—and sometimes millions—of words, when I saw the image yesterday of the president of the United States of America tossing paper towels at storm-ravaged citizens of Puerto Rico days after lobbing insults at San Juan’s mayor and calling them (in separate tweets) lazy and entitled and unworthy of aid because they’re…
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10 Black Things I Did While Watching Last Night’s Super-Black Season 4 Premiere of Black-ish
After last night, the ABC show Black-ish should change its name to Black-AF. Kenya Barris and crew decided that they wanted the crown for blackest prime-time television episode of all time (appropriately titled “Juneteenth”) and basically created a live-action version of a super-black episode of Family Guy complete with musical numbers, the Roots and the…