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Madonna Sucks The Everlasting Living Human Spirit Soul Out Of Drake
During a Coachella performance of his song, “Madonna,” the actual Madonna joined Drake onstage for a special guest performance. But, wait there’s more. She ended the performance by forcing a kiss on young Aubrey, much to his chagrin. Seriously, homie looked like when our mama used to force-feed us Tussin whilst inflicted with the cold…
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Cheekie Does SXSW: Part 3
Thursday, March 19th I woke up to do headshots with my bestie, Lauren (of Lauren Michelle Photography), which I had never done before. Right after that, she dropped me off at the Austin Convention Center for more SXSW festivities. At this point, all of the film panels were done (though, I believe there were some…
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Cheekie Does SXSW: Part 2
Monday, March 16th I woke up early to plant my butt in line for the second #SXSWFilm Keynote I wanted to go to: RZA. For those of you who may not know and are wondering why he gave a film-based keynote speech, RZA is a pretty talented film composer (I believe his most famous work…
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Cheekie Does SXSW: Part 1
South By Southwest has always been on my bucket list. And since you’re never too young to start checking things off of the bucket list — and since I’m a filmmaker myself and shit — I decided to go this year. One of my friends suggested that I write about my experience and Damon one-upped…
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I Wish It Was "Just Hair"…But It Aint
Full-disclosure: I’m a proud member of the #naturalhair community. I’m the chick who schedules huge blocks of time to wash, condition, and style my hair, all the while claiming that #bighairdontcare. The summary of my hair journey has been a rollercoaster of tender-headed press and curls to perms to (cluelessly) natural to the return to…
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On #BlackBrunch And Bottomless White Tears
Earlier this week, NYC protesters supporting the #BlackLivesMatter movement decided to take it up a notch and encroach upon “White spaces” in order to express their outrage over police brutality against Black folks. I thought it was a splendid idea. More often than not, creating awareness about an issue to facilitate change means making folks…
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The Black Movie Solidarity Struggle
“Pizza is a lot like sex. When it’s good, it’s really good. When it’s bad, it’s still pretty good.” I discussed this quote with one of the homies, recently. We both agreed that it’s bullshit logic. If I’m not mistaken, the point of the pizza and sex is pleasure. It’s expected to be pleasurable. So,…
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A Second-By-Second Recap Of Momma Dee's "I Deserve"
Yes, that’s right. Momma Dee (of Love and Hip-Hop: Atlanta fame), aka Live-Action Scar, created a song, and made a video for this song. This song is called “I Deserve.” You will now watch a video for this song and read a recap of the video, because you deserve to be entertained by this. 0:07…
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My Name Is Tonja. And I Think About Committing Suicide
“Ain’t too much sadder than…” I was a Robin Williams stan growing up. And, yes, most of that had to do with his voice work as “Genie” in Aladdin. But, when I saw that, I had to see it all. Mrs. Doubtfire. Hook. Good Will Hunting. Ferngully. Jumanji. The Birdcage. Even a little ‘Mork & Mindy.’ He was…
