(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently I have been thinking, that I am glad South African apartheid was gone before Alicia Keyes, Rihanna & Beyoncé were born because I really believe that they would have performed there just to get a check. Now I am not holding the aforementioned to the platitudes of others ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The general consensus of America doesn’t like the idea of a musician dominating in a genre that they are naturally gravitated to succeed in; Chuck Berry with Rock, Michael Jackson initially with pop, and now Eminem with rap music. Pound for pound in terms of record sales and pop ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) He’s known by his stage name “Lil Tei” but goes by Tylan Mitchell another young black African American from West Coast California who trying to make his big come up. He started rapping at an young age and released his first now well known mixtape entitled “The Rise of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Baton Rouge Rapper Lil Boosie’s release from prison has some celebrating as if he were Nelson Mandela reincarnated. While it’s debatable that the celebration was warranted, one thing that is not debatable is that the mainstream media is always happy to highlight black dysfunctionality whenever possible. So, in typical ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Over the last few years an actor been trying to find his way to fame but claim he hasn’t had any type of notices from the press or news media from the work he’s done. His name is Jeremy L. Murph an young African American actor who say’s he ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I think I speak for a lot of normal black people when I say that I sometimes grow tired of the rapper Rick Ross. Ross has always been a creative, yet relatively useless public figure in the past, but his recent disrespect for the legacy of Trayvon Martin might be ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) You may speak and ponder what you will about Kanye West, but it’s unbearable to refute his cultural impact as a rapper, songwriter, and producer/beat maker in music period. Ten years ago today, Kanye West released his groundbreaking debut, The College Dropout, to critical appraise and rap fans who ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Historically speaking, the Grammy’s have always leaned toward presenting the more prevalent act in any particular category. While it may have come as astonishment to many that Macklemore beat Kendrick Lamar head to head in each category they were featured in, it was common knowledge that Macklemore had the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Ever since I have written about America’s Pursuit of Unattainable Beauty, I have been keenly alert to issues within current feminism. On a fundamental level, feminism is supposed to be about women’s equality. As simple as that definition is, it’s also effortless to see what feminism is not. And what Beyonce did ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After Sunday’s Grammy catastrophe which mainly included Seattle rapper Macklemore sweeping the rap categories (excluding the Best Rap/Sung collaboration in which Jay-Z’s Holy Grail won,) many fans of the hip hop and overall music world have been appalled at the nonexistence of attention that Kendrick Lamar received at the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) ”I don’t know what this means. I don’t think it means anything.” – Singer Eddie Vedder after winning a Grammy for “Best Hard Rock Performance” with his group Pearl Jam in 1996. “I think the Grammys are nothing more than some gigantic promotional machine for the music industry. They ...
(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 ...