(ThyBlackMan.com) I admit I miss Michael Jackson. I can’t lie his music, creativity and the humanity he possessed are the things I miss the most. People can say what they want…I don’t believe he was wacko, and the world seemed to be a better place when he was in it. Though ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In 2015, I was a 23 year old workaholic who was 274-78 pounds and quite unhealthy. I ate out at least four times a week and didn’t get any sleep because of anxiety issues. I relied on food as a coping mechanism to deal with the rigors of working 11 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I found it thoroughly comical and insulting that during the final stretch of the general election that instead of stating policy specifics, or going around from county to county, Hillary Clinton fell back on staying to large urban cities and using the classic pandering strategy of pulling out entertainers to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In recent news, it has been reported that Kanye West has been on a ranting binge. It has been said that nearly twenty thousand people, regularly, pay thousands of dollars to buy outfits, tickets, albums, clothes and other musical paraphernalia related to the Hip-Hop genius. However, now, many of his ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I can’t imagine my spouse being robbed at gunpoint and I’m a woman. One could only image the horror of a husband when he gets a call informing him that his wife was robbed at gunpoint. That she was overseas, and men broke into her apartment, held her at gunpoint, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Talk of a rapper with the perfect combo of almost everything that makes one the greatest rapper of all time—from a wicked sense of humor, technical complexity, a knack for storytelling, all the way to the number of verses that have managed to pass as rap quotes or hip hop ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) So… Rapper Lil’ Wayne apparently thinks racism doesn’t exist. The rapper was asked by Skip Bayless, co-host of the Fox Sports talk show Undisputed, about his opinion about the controversy surrounding 49ers quarterback, Colin Kaepernick. Lil’ Wayne asserted that he believed, “there was no such thing as racism.” Lil’ Wayne ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As I sit here and think about what’s going on in my mind today, I became more aware of an issue that has greatly bothered me over this past year: colorism One of the biggest weapons that The System likes to use to divide us is “The Light Brown Skin ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you’re a jazz lover and want to look upon the contemporary face of jazz royalty, take a moment to go check out Ms. Rita Edmond on Youtube. She’s the jazz world’s best kept secret. She’s currently working on her third CD, but even on her first CD, she made it abundantly clear ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Alicia Keys tells EBONY she doesn’t believe in being “flawless,” yet on the set of the September Issue shoot, the 15-time Grammy® Award-winning music artist, philanthropist and judge on the new season of NBC’s The Voice proves she’s still a girl on fire. The fresh-faced star posed perfectly in futuristic ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In recent news, a rumor has been spiraling through the internet that two of America’s most lyrical rappers are on a collision course that may possibly alter the state of Hip-Hop. In one corner, there is the Canadian born rapper/singer who appears to have single- handedly redefined the rap culture ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The minute I saw online that Adele would be having a new single out soon (Hello), I knew the pop world was going to be upside down. The song had yet to be released, but because of the new emphasis on streaming via record labels, it was going to be ...