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A Failed Attempt at Deciphering Nirvana's Indecipherable "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

Recently, I saw a video featuring America’s most popular and liked light-skinned dude, Blake Griffin (liked being the operative word; Terrence Howard is more popular but nobody actually likes him) helping some ne’er do well folks (Jarrett and Traci “who says ‘it’s SO gangster’ at the least gangster thing ever…I hate her) from ClevverTV interpet…

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Panama Jackson

Published

June 12, 2015
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In Too Deep (No, Seriously. In Waaaaaaay Too Gotdamn Deep): The Rachel Dolezal Story

Thoughts about the post-racial Imitation of Life. 1. You know those news stories and segments that’ll pop up every couple months or so about a White mom who has no damn clue what to do with her biracial daughter’s hair? And the piece will always be accompanied by a pic of the clueless mom and…

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Damon Young

Published

June 12, 2015
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Donnie Trumpet and The Social Experiment's "Surf" Makes Me Really Happy

I love Chance The Rapper. I’d be willing to argue with almost anybody that his 2013 wrecking ball, Acid Rap, is easily one of the best hip-hop albums to come out in the past 10 years. In my own estimation, only Kanye’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is a better album. And I’m including Kendrick’s…

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Panama Jackson

Published

June 11, 2015
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The 10 Worst Haircuts In Black Male History

Earlier this week, Baron Davis made an appearance on First Take and introduced us all to a new hairstyle. It’s been called a Jheri Curl, but I wouldn’t quite call it that. Mainly because it’s not wet enough. It looks more like a batch of collard greens an aint-shit cousin left on the stove too long…

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Damon Young

Published

June 10, 2015
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Nothing Makes Sense Anymore: Five Takeaways From The Weirdest And Wackiest NBA Finals I've Ever Seen

1. It’s far too early to make any concrete declarations about victors or losers in this series. Mainly because Stephen Curry is a preternaturally gifted lightskinned genie equipped with the ability to actually make the type of shots that regularly get terrible pick-up basketball players stabbed for even attempting. And I’m forever fearful of people…

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Damon Young

Published

June 10, 2015
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Iggy Azalea, And Why We Need To Stop "Stupid-Shaming" Dumb People

A wise man once told me “You can teach stupid. But dumb is a talent.” Ok, I lied. It wasn’t actually a wise man. It was a guy selling DJ Clue mixtapes and lighter fluid outside of my old barbershop in 2002. And he didn’t actually say that. At least not to me. It was just…

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Damon Young

Published

June 9, 2015
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The Black-Ass Books, Albums, Movies And More I'm Giving My Black-Ass Baby When He's Born

As I wrote a couple weeks ago, The Wife Person and I are expecting. A child. An actual human baby. An actual human baby we will have to actually parent. In anticipation of this actual human baby we will have to actually parent, we’ve had a few conversations about the type of parents we anticipate being.…

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Damon Young

Published

June 8, 2015
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10 Ways FitBit Changed My Life In Less Than A Week

For my birthday, I was gifted a FitBit Flex. My sister came into town to visit for a week and kept going on about how she had to get her “steps” in everyday, often pacing back and forth in 5 or 10 minute spurts trying to crack her goal for the day. The idea of…

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Panama Jackson

Published

June 8, 2015
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"Trap Queen" And Other Black Songs White People Love Waaaaaaay More Than We Do

Essentially, everything about Fetty Wap is an anomaly; his name sounds like a colloquialism for masturbation or a Great Value brand version of a “Money Dance.” He’s from New Jersey yet sounds like an Atlanta artist, and while he reps Haiti to the fullest, he isn’t remotely West Indian. For real, he had some griot…

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herbetteroption

Published

June 8, 2015
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What Those Kids In McKinney Should Have Done To Prevent The Cops From Assaulting Them

Like many of you, I’ve spent much of today watching and talking about the disturbing video of the police officers assaulting and arresting Black children at a pool party in McKinney, Texas. This incident apparently occurred Friday evening, and at least one officer has reportedly been suspended as a result. But while the suspension would seem to…

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Damon Young

Published

June 7, 2015