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10 Thoughts I Had While Listening To D'Angelo and The Vanguard's "Black Messiah"
At midnight last night, D’Angelo dropped his third (!!!) album entitled Black Messiah. This album came with very little fanfare. It seems like in this new Beyoncé world we live in, artists who can just drop an album then do all the promotion for it via the album itself. D’Angelo is one of those artists…
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On Really Wanting To Like J. Cole More Than I Actually Do
I’ve never had more people ask me how I feel about an artist than I have about J. Cole. It’s interesting, really. Somehow, J. Cole is like a hip-hop Hatfields vs McCoy standoff. People either love or give no fucks about J. Cole. And the folks who love him stan so hard for him it…
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10 Possible Reasons Why Diddy May Have Hit Drake With a 3-Piece
In the grand scheme of things, there’s not much funnier in life than Drake getting punched by Diddy in Miami during Art Basel. For one, while I can see Puffy slappin’ everybody out here back in the 90s, he just seems a bit over that at this point in life, which is part of what makes…
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On Rolling Stone, Sexual Assault, The Facts, And The Bigger Picture
By now, most people are familiar with the unravelling of the Rolling Stone story penned by Sabrina Rubin Erdely that chronicles the alleged gang-rape of “Jackie” at the Phi Kappa Psi house on the University of Virginia’s campus back in 2012. The story touched off a lot of (much needed) discussion about sexual assault on…
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Dear America, Where's My Hug?
“…so how you feel? Frustrated, irritated, sometimes I don’t know myself I be too numb, to feel something sometimes…” ~ Khujo Goodie of Goodie Mob, “Thought Process” Soul Food (1995) As the news of Eric Garners murderer – and I use that term with all of the weight it carries considering that the medical examiner…
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REMINISCE Ugly Sweater Holiday Party and Toy Drive | Saturday, December 6th | DC
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2014 REMINISCE UGLY SWEATER HOLIDAY PARTY AND TOY DRIVE Come out and party with the cool kids. We all want to have a holiday party where we don our ugly sweaters and drink to our hearts content! Well let us do all the heavy lifting for you. Come out in your best…
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Love & Hip Hop Hollywood Ep. 12 Recap: Is This The End?
On this season finale – well at least before we get the shenanigans that are the reunion show – we get some stories that end up on an up-and-up note and also we get stories that involve Hazel. And to know Hazel is to know that she never wins. Ever. But, let’s talk about Ray…
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F*ck The St. Louis Police Officers Association And Everything They Believe In
If you watch the news, you’ve probably seen or at least heard about the pre-game display that a few of the St. Louis Rams football players put on when walking out of the tunnel on Sunday before they, the Rams of St. Louis put an otherworldly ass whippin’ on the Raiders of Oakland. Five players – Stedman…
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Rapper Drops Mixtape. Just May Pay For It With His Life
What will follow is the most ridiculous thing I think I may have read in life. I don’t even mean that in a cavalier fashion. I mean that in the most sincere way possible. Like, when I say that I don’t like J. Cole, like, at all, I say with the utmost sincerity. That’s how…
