(ThyBlackMan.com) To all black rappers, hip hop, R&B singers, artist, entertainers and musicians who are destroying the African American community with your degeneracy, vulgarity, pedophilia, drugs, alcohol, violence, thug behavior, loud, disorderly conduct etc. we the good people of Black America are asking you to stop making our African American ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Have you ever wondered how jazz, and then later rock ‘n’ roll, developed out of the blues? How Black music came to be America’s music? Whether or not people who are not Black can really play Black music? Amiri Baraka speaks on these things in his 1963 classic, Blues ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Lies on the lips of a priest Thanksgiving disguised as feat – Jay-Z, “No Church in the Wild” The preacher want me buried why? Cause I know he a liar Have you ever seen a crackhead, that’s eternal fire – Tupac, “Blasphemy” Is there any doubt that today the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In recent days we’ve seen where two Black men…Kanye West (Rap artist) and Kyrie Irving (NBA star)…were accused of antisemitism and were forced to apologize. In Kyrie’s case there’s more to it, society isn’t interested in just his apologizing they want to break him as a man. To illustrate ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Hip-Hop music is an art form all unto itself. Its unique rhythmic beat and craftily-packaged rhymes can be very catchy, entertaining and stimulating. Because listeners are often caught up by the beat and impressed with the artist’s literary creativity, and, perhaps are just happy to see one of their ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There are albums that are considered everyone’s favorites. Like, everyone agrees you should check these albums out. Then there are albums that folks say that you should check out but you probably never heard of the artist before. I’m not going to lie, often times the ones everyone say ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Families come in all sizes and shapes. Immediate, extended, separated and crazy too. These films, from the 60th annual New York Film Festival, showcased how loving, eccentric or dysfunctional familial relations can be. Aftersun (**1/2) Calum (Paul Mescal, Normal People), a divorced Scottish father living in England, reunites with his 11-year-old daughter Sophie (Francesca Corio). They meet up on a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, seized headlines over the past couple of weeks because of offensive behavior on social media that lead to social media bans, dropped collaborations, canceled contracts, and public outrage withal. It’s been a frenzied up and down all-around observation in recent days ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) My fellow African Americans, We saw it coming from a distance in the same way that we saw the American mainstream media come after Michael Jackson, Bill Cosby, Prince, Kevin Kaepernick, Kevin Samuels, Tommy Sotomayor and anybody else who is a proud black men and women attempting to speak ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) (****) “Hardly a moment goes by when I don’t think about Emmett and the lessons a son can teach a mother.” Quoted from Mamie Till-Mobley. Emmett Till, a black teen, was murdered by racists in Money, Mississippi on April 28th in 1955. Writer/director Chinonye Chukwu (Clemency) and cowriters Michael Reilly ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Although each of us hates to admit it, something is alluring about an automotive accident or unexpected incident that causes us to strain our necks to capture a glimpse of what is occurring. Unfortunately for those of us who love Black people, one of our own has managed to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Rappers Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, Kanye West, “P” Diddy, 50 cent, and hip-hop businessmen Russell Simmons, and Snoop Dog, just to name a few, are members of the 250 million Dollar Club—Robert Johnson perhaps being the lone billionaire. The accomplishments that each has attained is remarkable; however, the means to ...