(ThyBlackMan.com) The measure of a person should never shrink down to their hardest chapters, yet that is exactly the trap the coming days will lay for a woman who spent nearly her entire life performing for the rest of us. By the time you read this, the coverage will have ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Whenever cinephiles argue over the strongest bond between a filmmaker and his favorite leading man, the talk drifts fast toward Scorsese and De Niro, yet any honest reckoning has to save a chair at the table for two brothers who spent thirty five years sharpening each other into something ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Folks love to file Michael Jackson under pop and keep it moving. The glove, the moonwalk, the spin that stopped a stadium cold. All of it real. None of it the whole man. Anybody raised on a transistor radio and a decent pair of speakers knows the part they ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Somewhere between the streaming numbers and the sponsorship checks, rap forgot how to be dangerous. Not violent, not reckless with a pistol. Dangerous to the people who ought to be afraid of it. I sat with that feeling all through this year, watching another awards season roll past in ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Roc Nation is billing the weekend as history, and for once the label talk holds up. Across three nights in the Bronx this month, Shawn Carter became the first artist to sell out Yankee Stadium three shows running, each with its own setlist and its own staging. More than ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) People been arguing about who really pushed Michael for going on forty years now, and most of them are looking in the wrong direction. It was not Prince. It was not Madonna moving units, and it was not whoever the radio decided to prop up that season. If you ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) We asked a child to be a miracle. Not a good performer, understand me. A miracle. Every night, in every arena, under lights hot enough to sweat the paint off his face, thousands of grown people decided before the first note dropped that Michael Jackson owed them something close ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Most cats find a sound and ride it till the wheels come off. They stumble onto something that works, the crowd claps, the checks clear, and they spend the next thirty years doing a slightly tired version of the thing that made them. Can’t blame them either. Comfort is ...