The feeling arrived before the two rap giants appeared on stage. This was prior to waiting nearly two hours — most of it spent watching a dark screen projecting nowhere in particular inside a packed Los Angeles Coliseum. Although the concert was scheduled to begin on December 9, 2021 at…
Ifyou’re going to release a “new” song from Aaliyah, it should at least be audible. That not only meets the bare minimum for any musical release in 2021, but when it comes to Aaliyah specifically, it’s a sign of reverence for someone who managed to become one of the…
In1996, the now-defunct hip-hop magazineRap Pagespublished The Roots’ very first cover story, written by Bay Area scribe Joseph Patel. Twenty-five years later, Patel is an accomplished visual storyteller living on the intersection of culture and music. His résumé boasts media brands like VICE and Vevo. …
In1965, James Baldwin, writing for theNew York Times, opined that “unless we can establish some kind of dialogue between those people who enjoy the American dream and those people who have not achieved it, we will be in terrible trouble.” In other words: Unless we figure out how…
“Happy C-Day, Neighborhood Nip,” said Young Dolph in a clip posted to Instagram in August, on what should’ve been Nipsey Hussle’s 36th birthday. “R.I.P. my boy. Real niggas still miss you down here, bruh.”
Dolph drove the point home by showing off a brand-new custom chain, a sequence of chunky…
I was proclaimed dead at birth. After many grueling hours of labor, I finally decided to make an entrance into this world. My entrance however was sickening — I was very blue colored, wheezing and my appendages were disjointed. One of the doctors declared my condition terminal with merely just…
Iwill never understand why people willingly choose to broadcast their drama to the world on social media, but by now we should all be used to DaBaby delivering chaos and bullshit to the masses.
The rapper, still reeling from a controversy of hisown makingthis summer, started the…
Asmuch as I’ve grown accustomed to waking up to bad news, I still struggle with accepting what little empathy so many people seem to have.
当谈到悲剧发生the weekend in Houston at the Astroworld Festival, as shocking as it was to…
Throughout his recent interview withGQ, Jeymes Samuel, director and executive producer of the new Netflix filmThe Harder They Fall, doggedly emphasized that although his first feature is a western with an all-Black cast, it’s not a Black western.
“IfRio Bravois not a White western andUnforgiven…
One can make a case that the fan favorite character on Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’sPowerspinoffRaising Kananis its early 1990’s aesthetic — the designs under high-top fades, the apple red and baby blue BMWs, the BBS rims, the Polo––Oh lord, the vintage Ralph Lauren pieces (“Suicide” Goose…
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