• Did Warren G. Get Robbed By His Homies On "Regulate"?

    I was perusing the rap blogs and came across a new song by Warren G. featuring Nate Dogg called “My House”, which is presumably on his new album Regulate…The G-Funk Era 2. As you’d expect, the song is trash, but you weren’t ever going to listen to it anyway as you’ve probably not listened to anything…

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  • I've Got a Dumbass Medical Condition

    Let’s just start with the punchline: the glands on my eyelids are being bitches. Actually, its just one of my eyelids. So the glands on my right eyelids? Straight bitches. I’ve got blepharitis.  Blepharitis (blef-uh-RYE-tis) is inflammation of the eyelids. Blepharitis usually involves the part of the eyelid where the eyelashes grow and affects both…

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  • 10 Thoughts On Rihanna's "BBHMM" Video

    1. Hmm. Okay. That was…something. 2. I know I’m late to the movie Gone Girl, and I realize its had a bit of a resurgence here on VSB as of late, but between this video and that movie…if we’re getting a look into the psyche of pissed off women, I’m off the boat, yo. I’m…

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  • 7 (ish) Of The Greatest White Saviors To Ever Have Done It

    One of my favorite tropes is the white savior, especially in movies. You know this person, mostly because they’re white and they come in and do the types of stuff that white people with money and time* do: save coloreds. Well, pop culture and movies have been littered with tremendous examples of the white savior.…

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  • Somebody Get Your Confederate Flag Wavin' Cousin Karen Cooper

    There’s always one. Some of your families have two. But there is AT LEAST one in every damn family. Meet your play cousin Karen Cooper, a former New Yorker and former member of the Nation of Islam, turned Confederate flag wavin’, southern slave owner apologist living in Richmond, Virginia. How a Black person moves to…

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  • 10 Thoughts About The 2015 BET Awards

    I had a lot of thoughts about the BET Awards. But because I’m Black, here are 10. 1. Fuck this is long. This is Easter Sunday long. This is record-breaking long. This is the kind of long that starts out cute but ends up being super annoying…and I watched it at home where I could…

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  • Hey You! You're Pretty Fucking Awesome!

    I’m feeling inspired today. So let’s inspire. But first, question time: do you actually know how fucking awesome you are? Real question. Do you? If you don’t. I’m here to tell you. Before we get into how fucking awesome you are, allow me to tell you how awesome I am. Just consider this your complimentary…

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  • Fuck Your Confederate Flag, Cuh!

    I hate that gotdamn flag. I always have. I’m a Southerner, which means that I’m super familiar with it. Not only that, I did my high schoolin’ in the great state of Alabama in the mid-90s. This means that there were high school year book quotes from Confederate generals and shouts of “The South Shall…

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  • Killed At A Church? A Church! A Church.

    By now, almost everybody has heard what happened in Charleston, SC. It’s all over local and national news and when you walk into work (if you haven’t already) there’s a good chance somebody will bring it up. For those not in the know, a white gunman walked into Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC, sat…

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  • What About Bob?: My White Friend Who REALLY Wanted To Be Black

    When I was in middle school in Frankfurt, Germany, I had a friend named Bob Dobalina. Obviously this isn’t his real name, but a name I’ve made up to protect the identity of said friend….who is not named Bob Dobalina. But we shall call him that. Mr. Dobalina, Mr. Bob Dobalina. Bob would be 36…

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