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Everybody Loves Cardi: Cops Let Offset Go During Traffic Stop After They Facetime With Bronx Hitmaker
There are perks to having Cardi B’s number on your phone—one of which, apparently, is getting out of a possible traffic ticket. That’s exactly what Offset says happened to him according to a tweet sent off early Monday morning. “W H E N G O D S H O W S Y O U N…
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Cardi B Really Is P-Popping Up the Charts
Hey y’all, it’s me, the resident Cardi B stan at The Root. While your “queen”* spent her weekend generally being a jerk, wealth-shaming people and getting bloggers fired just for offering a valid critique of her work, my queen spent her weekend being pregnant and fabulous—and breaking records on the Billboard list. Not only did…
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The 10 Most Awesome Parts of The Roots x Backstreet Boys x Jimmy Fallon's 'I Want It That Way' Classroom-Instruments Video
1. Black Thought—possibly the greatest rapper of all time, in the back row in a white, cat-daddy ensemble, complete with white, cat-daddy hat—getting his entire life with a triangle. 2. Black Thought having possibly more fun than anybody else singing the greatest song to ever come out of the white boy-band phenomenon of the late…
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Men In Black Spinoff Coming Soon Featuring Les Twins and Tessa Thompson
Men in Black is back! It looks like Men in Black is coming with a spin-off movie and they’ve already started filming. The spin-off will include an all-new cast and will be launched on a global scale with a modern twist. Some of the cast members included are Les Twins (Beyonce’s backup dancers), Tessa Thompson,…
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Power Is Finally Back. I Can't Wait For Every Character to Die
(This article contains mild spoilers. Very mild.) Power is one of those shows that is must-see television for me. I’ve been waiting all year for its return so my nephew and I can get back to our after-show debates and commiserate on what shenanigans just ensued. I love the show. But I must admit, I…
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A 246-Word-Long Review of Drake's Scorpion
You ever put a frozen waffle in the toaster but not quite long enough and you bite into it and the inside is still frozen? But you don’t want to put it back in the toaster, so you eat that sad-ass, half-froze waffle while pretending it ain’t a sad-ass, half-froze waffle? And then you go…
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Dear Mariah and Shades on Luke Cage … I Love You, but 'OMG Please Stop!'
Unlike everyone else in the world, I didn’t watch all of season 2 of Luke Cage until this weekend. So that meant I didn’t get to be thoroughly and properly freaked out by this season’s “It” couple, Mariah Stokes Dillard (Alfre Woodard) and Hernan “Shades” Alvarez (Theo Rossi), until June 30, a full week after…
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Lee Daniels Heaps All the Praise on Damon Dash, but Says Mo'Nique 'Needs to Shut Up'
When Damon Dash publicly confronted Lee Daniels at a Diana Ross concert last week over an alleged $2 million loan, you might have thought to yourself, “Mo’Nique was right.” Mo’Nique has accused the director, whom she worked with on Precious, of blackballing her after her Academy Award win, admonishing her for not “playing the game”…
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Lee Daniels Puts Some Respect on Damon Dash’s Name and Plans to Pay Him His Money
Don’t let the release of Drake’s new album Scorpion distract you from the fact that Dame Dash walked up to Lee Daniels in the good seats section at the Hollywood Bowl, in the middle of a Diana Ross concert—as Ms. Ross herself was on the stage singing “Reach Out and Touch (Somebody’s Hand)”—and demanded to…