(ThyBlackMan.com) In case you’ve never heard the phrase “ghetto polygamy,” consider this to be your formal introduction to the ratchedness that some have come to define as “black culture.” Oxygen has decided to give a platform to ignorance by creating a show featuring the rapper Shawty Lo, his 10 babies’ ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have quite the Christmas gift for all musicians, as we all close out the year. And you’ll find that it works even better for Kwanzaa… I am about to reveal a secret nearly as old as time itself (fellow Bible readers will find it hinted at all the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I recently noticed that my homeboy TJ Holmes at BET recently had a show about professional athletes who find their finances in the toilet. I consider this to be an interesting and relevant topic, just the kind of thing that BET needs to show. As a Finance Professor who’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I am just a few birthdays shy of officially becoming an old head. I’m actually looking forward to entrance in that club. I’ve been able to grow a full beard since the age of 15 so I’ve always looked old as hell anyway. Specks of grey made their first ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The first music video ever played on MTV predicted the next 30 years of American popular music. If you don’t have hot a music video in rotation now, you can’t exist as a mainstream artist in hip-hop or any other popular genre. This you already know. And it will ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Dr. Cornel West seems to have gone on a shameless mission to disparage anyone in the Black community who tends to overshadow him. Now he’s after music mogul and entrepreneur, Jay-Z, regarding his business holdings. West seems to be bound and determined to demonstrate to the world that Jay-Z’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Russell Simmons is a brilliant man, a jack of all hip-hop trades. He has leaped tall piles of money in a single bound, doing yoga one minute and rolling with Young Jeezy the next. There is part of me that respects Russell to the core, when I see ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) With the same conned and misinformed fans/Want to place the blame on everybody eatin’/Money ain’t the root of evil, fool you need it/It’s just power and the inner-visual and how we choose to treat it.— from “Life Sucks” by Del The Funkee Homosapien and Tame One. Elitism drives underground ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Like everyone else, I was shocked and dismayed to hear the allegation that Nicki Minaj threatened to shoot Mariah Carey on the set of the television show, “American Idol.” Of course, this is Mariah Carey’s claim, but if it’s true, it’s certainly a problem. This is not just Diva ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Some would say the recent altercation at the BET Hip-Hop Awards was just the latest embarrassment to befall hip-hop, an oft criticized slice of pop culture…and they would be correct. It’s the “latest” incident, not an aberration. It’s more behavior deserving of more criticism, only to fall on deaf ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently my wife, born and raised in South Africa, recounted a story of purchasing tickets for a Musiq Soulchild concert in Johannesburg a few years ago only to have him replaced at the 11th hour by Will Downing! Attending the show, she found herself disappointed, disgusted and slightly psychologically ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “My kid’s can do whatever the hell they want.” Not my words, but the words of Snoop Dogg, Snoop Dogg Lion, Snoop Lion or whatever he is going by these days. A few days ago a picture surfaced of Snoop’s oldest son, Corde lighting up the ganja with his ...