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  • Why I Don’t Steal Music Anymore (For the Most Part)

    In a recent VladTV interview, living rap god Bow Wow (formerly of the “Lil’” varietal) discussed his entire career. He referenced Ray J. and Lil’ Kim’s “Wait a Minute,” a joint that I’d forgotten made me nod my head around the turn of the century (and the only worthwhile thing Ray J. ever did that…

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  • What A Time For Cultural Appropriation To Be Alive

    Much as it pains me to admit aloud, maybe there’s something to all those stupid-ass memes that your “woke” Facebook friends like to share that compare real-life “ignored” atrocities to the asinine shit that makes Buzzfeed headlines. That Blake Lively’s delusional Instagram post dominated an entire Wednesday lends credence to their gripes. Even I couldn’t…

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  • Yeah, What Lauryn Hill Did Was Wack, But Artists Are ALWAYS Late To Concerts

    I’ve been to more concerts in my lifetime than I can remember. But I can tell you which were distinctly the best and worst that I’ve attended. The best was in early 1999, during my senior year of high school. I went to see The Roots at the State Theatre (Now The Fillmore) in Detroit.…

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  • 15 Truly Underrated Hip-Hop Albums

    Since I had to conceal the “Parental Advisory” sticker to convince my mama to purchase my very first compact disc – Bone Thugs-n-Harmony’s E. 1999 Eternal – from Blockbuster Music back in 1995, I’ve accumulated somewhere just south of 1,000 retail CDs. After 21 years of collecting so much music, I’ve forgotten about certain albums…

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  • Why Won't Hollywood Let Black Movies Be Great?

    I’ve long been of two minds about Kevin Hart. On the one hand, I appreciate that he’s a seemingly bonhomous young brother who’s built an empire for himself by selling out shows and racking up receipts at the box office. There’s little more gratifying than a black man starting from the bottom (the actual bottom, Drake) and making…

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  • Fuck This Entire Election Cycle

    When Donald Trump was scheduled March 11 to stump on the University of Illinois Chicago campus, I was driving to Detroit with the goal of getting out of town before the inevitable protests began. I openly questioned on Facebook the purpose of protesting Trump, as if making a scene in public wouldn’t just embolden his…

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  • Complex’s “Best of” Lists Are Garbage

    The media company never seems to get their rankings right…I wonder why…

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  • The Best Hip-Hop Tracks of 2015

    It’s tough being a hip-hop fan in your mid-30s. Your formative years took place entirely during the genre’s “renaissance” – roughly 1992-2000, when classics dropped weekly and before ringtone rap, singles-driven albums and J-Kwon came in and stunk up the whole joint. You know what quality and effort sound like. Some hip-hop heads – the…

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  • An Abridged Guide to White People Shit

    Don’t let my Neon Carrot crayon complexion fool you. Both of my parents are Negroes. Mind you, they’re also Neon Carrot Negroes: Pops is Louisiana Creole – a (literal) cotton-picking product of the rural Jim Crow south. Mama was raised around the project housing culture of Detroit in the 1950s and 60s. I was born…

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  • Maybe You’re Single Because You’re Wack

    Maybe You’re Single Because You’re Wack

    Perhaps it’s not them and the dating pool isn’t filled with pee…it’s just you.

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