House Negro vs Field Negro (2015)
So I ran across this post in my feed (pictured ) and I was thinking, why do we champion this understanding and embrace it wholeheartedly, because the average African-American will see this meme and feel as if it's on point! We tend to act as if every house negro was a...
Phuck “Real Hip Hop” Fans
And I say that with the best of intentions. I recently read an article on Medium written by one of the dopest emcees of all time, Talib Kweli! He spoke on why he left major labels alone and struck out on his own independently. Great long form blog post, very...
3 Levels of Blackness
Average Black people don’t care about the past, are afraid of the future and live expressly for Right NOW! It’s evident in how they think the past holds no solutions for whats happening NOW and that things will only stay the same or get worse in the future. So whats...
The Self Oppressed Syndrome
Self Oppression, We’re Headed for Self Oppression! Sing that to the tune from the 91 hit classic Self Destruction, by BDP and various top tier artist of the era, and then read this! One day I was in a debate with a couple brothers about the plight of the Black man in...
Black Women Ought to be Ashamed of Themselves/You Are Not The Father!
I was recently tagged in a photo uploaded on Facebook to Witches Brew page, of a Mahogany card, by Hallmark, for Father’s Day. I know some of you are saying “ok”, “and”! Well the card was for Fathers Day but as you can see in the picture it was addressed to Mothers on...
The “Great Radio Debate”
Chuck D of Public Enemy fame slammed one of the nations biggest urban radio stations, New York’s Hot 97, for its horrible representation of the hip hop culture (read it here). He goes in on the program director for this and goes into the usual diatribe about how...
Sterling Reputation
Donald Sterling has been in the news over the past few weeks because of racist remarks recorded by his girlfriend/“archivist”. She lead him into a conversation that saw the 80 year old owner of the Los Angeles Clippers spew hateful rhetoric and then try to justify it...
Flirt, Flirt On, Flirt On Flirt On!
So I’m watching Lust and Hip Hop Atlanta the other day with my wife and a certain scene stuck out to me because I’ve heard so many women use the words that were used via conversations, in real time, or online in social media post, that I decided to share my billion...
Jay Z, Solange and Sensationalist “Journalism”!
When the elevator recording was leaked that showed Solange Knowles attacking Jay Z in an elevator the internet went wild! All kind of speculations hit the fan, no one knows what occurred to provoke her to use physical violence on Hov but whatever it was, she surely...
Propaganda At Its Be$t!
When Michael Sams stood in wait praying that he received that coveted phone call from a team alerting him that he would become a member of the NFL, something struck me as strange. His scene looked nothing like the scene I had witnessed on hundreds to thousands of...