(ThyBlackMan.com) Word came down Friday that Sean Combs got moved again, shipped from Fort Dix in New Jersey over to a low-security federal prison called Allenwood in Pennsylvania. The Bureau of Prisons confirmed the transfer on October 16. Only days before that, reports surfaced that he had suffered a head ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Two weeks of headlines about William Roberts, and something keeps sitting heavy on my chest. Not because I know Rozay personally. Because I know us. By now you have seen the stories. The rapper most of us call Rozay walked into a Miami Beach police station on October 1 ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Some news just lands on your chest and sits there a while. Monday night, Freddie Jackson went home. His family shared it through his own social accounts, saying he had gone on to rest, and just like that a certain kind of radio went quiet for those of us ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Presley Gerber died on Sunday at 27, and so much of the coverage placed his famous parents at the center of the story before the young man himself had a chance to emerge. That reflex tells you everything about the box he lived in. So let this piece do ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Ask me which records I’d grab if the house caught fire and I never even have to think. Nineteen seventy two through seventy six. One man at the center of it all, and he flat tore up everything the rest of us figured a record was supposed to be. ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) So the word came down Friday out of Los Angeles, and anybody near a hip hop timeline that afternoon felt the room shift. Lil Durk was cleared in federal court on all five counts. Not guilty straight across the board. The twelve who held his fate sat with it ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The news of Cassandra Wilson’s passing gave me pause before I could find the words to write. One of the most distinctive and influential voices in American music is gone. News of her death broke today, September 2, 2026. She died at home in Jackson, the same Mississippi ground ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) There is a particular kind of foolishness that only pride can buy. Duane Davis, the man the streets came to know as Keffe D, spent close to two decades telling anybody with a microphone or a publishing deal exactly how Tupac Shakur died. He talked to police. He talked ...