This is winning the future. And everything else for that matter: Some background: Jorge’s story is maybe a little familiar. He’s young, 24, and has a six-year-old and a two-year-old daughter. It took him a while to find his way. He found love young. Calls the mother of his children an “amazing woman” and part Read More
Anyone wanna take a crack at naming all the songs here?
Dee Rees‘s Pariah and Goran Olsson‘s The Black Power Mixtape deal with the Black experience in America, but very differently — after all, we are not a monolith. The first, is about a young black lesbian coming to terms with her sexuality in the heart of Brooklyn. Movie treatment of queer issues are usually reserved Read More
by Latoya Peterson, crossposted from Racialicious. Ok first things first I’ll eat your brains/ Then I’mma start rocking gold teeth and fangs/ ‘Cause that’s what a muthafucking monster do — Nicki Minaj, Monster Article after article, tweet after tweet, I watched the conversation about Kanye and all the dead women in “Monster.” But if you Read More
Kweli‘s penchant for packing tons of syllables into a single bar used to get away from him, making him sound like he was about to lose his breath a lot of the time. He’s gotten away from that a lot, but when he does it here, it sounds more like urgency than verbosity. This was Read More
Decided to throw this up here before the label undoubtedly takes it down: Kanye West‘s leaked video “Monster.” Soon there will be a host of blogs that pick a part every scene to explain what Kanye is trying to tell us, but here is the short version: there are a lot of dead, eroticized women- Read More
About a year ago, I got an early Christmas gift when my very good friend Donnie gave me a link to a blog full of the most random, dated R&B that I’ve never heard of in my life. Unfortunately, that blog is now dead and gone, but I managed to salvage some of the best Read More
Just in time for the holidays, Lupe Fiasco unwraps a new music video for his single “The Show Goes On” off Lasers, set to come out in March of next year. Visually, it’s not the most stunning thing we’ve seen in 2010, but his ability to spit positive messages on a regular basis is commendable Read More
In the charitable words of the Ying Yang Twinz, it’s the holidays, show a nigga some love: 1. “Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow” by Lena Horne. (Nicole)
