(ThyBlackMan.com) We’ve all witnessed the sad scene before: once spry and energetic rappers who have overstayed their welcome to the genre and now, well, they’re just old. Looking at an old rapper that has clearly seen younger days and is now trying to catch their breath in between lyrics is ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Music and song has always served as a catalyst to help Black/African Americans maintain a sense of internal calmness and hope during strife; cultivate, embrace and express individuality; as well as represented that living connection to and displayed through craftily-strung together lyrics trophies of cultural history, knowledge and heritage. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Life asked death: “Why do people love me but hate you?” Death said: “Because you are a beautiful lie and I’m the painful truth.” Kanye West’s incomprehensible and mindless comment that “slavery was a choice”, this along with his support of Trump have stirred up the wrath of many in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Stop and listen for a minute … have you ever noticed that the whole world is listening to our music? Then take a minute to wonder … how is it, if our music is being bought and sold across the whole world, that we as a community of Black ...
(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 ...