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What happens when you go out? I know when I do, I live for the nights I won’t remember with the people I won’t forget. If you’re like me, you notice a difference when you’re hanging out with your “white friends” and when you’re hanging out with your “Black friends.” Personally, I made a decision [...]
Editor’s Note: The fellas and I were talking about old posts and I remembered this one from years ago that I thought our new readers would enjoy. You old mofos will be able to reminisce as well. Throwback Wednesday! -StreetZ So I find that in our macho ways, a lot of men dismiss the notion [...]
All along it was a fever A cold sweat hot-headed believer I threw my hands in the air and said, “Show me something,” He said, “If you dare come a little closer.” There are some lucky people who meet the person of their dreams and go on to lead a normal life. Normal lives aren’t [...]
LL Cool J high again, y’all. All jokes aside, LL Cool J has made news lately because his song with Country music singer, Brad Paisley has sparked controversy. The song, “Accidental Racist” features some very “odd lyrics.” Although LL Cool J and Brad Paisley still support the song and its lyrics, they appear to welcome [...]
I absolutely loathe Tyler Perry movies. I think they’re horrible, poorly plotted and executed movies – like each and every one of them is just bad. If there was a way to give half stars, every Tyler Perry movie I’ve ever seen would get no stars. Despite the fact that I don’t like his movies, [...]
Pretty rough day for The Onion. I don’t want to give the story too much more play because I think it was actually a publicity stunt that they knew would incite this reaction and drive a ton of traffic their way. I’ve always said, the best way to treat situations like these is to completely [...]
Let’s take a quick look at what transpired at the 2013 Grammy Awards last night — here’s a quick list of 10 observations that stood out to me: 1. Whatever in holy hell Frank Ocean was talking about during his acceptance speech had most of America like, “Is Frank Ocean getting ready to put down [...]
Incoming message: Please remind the following that there are rules associated with this thing called real life. (CC: Chris Brown, Rick Ross) I’ve long said that hip hop (and I’ll include Chris Brown in that industry for now, although he’s a pop artist moonlighting in the hip hop community) was just a grown-up version of [...]
On Thursday’s show, @WilliamHStrafe, Streetz & Midtown Mo discussed the “controversial” movie Django Unchained. Young Ness was also on the show, although he hadn’t seen the movie yet (but he got a clean bootleg though!). We discussed Spike Lee’s (foolish) feelings toward the movie and Dick Gregory shooting it down. We also discussed the following… Whether the use of the n-word made us [...]
I received several text messages and tweets about a week ago when it was announced that Kanye West got Kim Kardashian pregnant. Everybody thought I was distraught, in tears, or somewhere reenacting the way I felt when the Niners lost last year’s NFC Championship game. I was actually celebrating. I was happy for them and [...]
