(ThyBlackMan.com) The year of 2015, in terms of urban music and culture, could be reminisced in two ways; the endless quantities of dance songs and gimmicky radio hits that has the youth of today at attention, or the immaculate run of Nayvadius Wilburn, better known as Future, that made his ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “I know when that Hotling Bling…” That’s my jam right there. I have it as my ring tone. So, when I hear my phone start singing… “I know it can only mean one thing”….And, then I remember Drake’s song… “Look What You’ve Done for Me….” That’s a deep song. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Up ye mighty Race” Pan Africanist Marcus Garvey was born in the parish of St, Ann, the same parish as Bob Marley and Burning Spear. He became a master printer at the age of eighteen. “Africa for the Africans” a term attached to Garvey actually came from Dr. Robert ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) So I was watching the Soul Train Music Awards just jamming. A LOT of my old faves were performing! It was the perfect way to end a Thanksgiving Weekend. Then it happened, R Kelly came on stage. As I watched him free I lamented for the girls who he ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Numerous reggae musicians both from the past and present are self-proclaimed revolutionaries. Modern society seems to accept their claims, whether or not they have done any revolutionary acts. Though Bob Marley is the commercially accepted king of reggae, his bandmate Peter Tosh holds a grander title: the title of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Life has an interesting way of changing directions as quickly as the wind. Sometimes we have some control in the matter, and other times all we can do is hold on as the storm rages. In times of chaos, and confusion, a step in the right direction can become ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In a previous article, I mis-spoke. I called Eminem an uncrowned king. I said this because of some misconstrued, prejudice that hides in a tiny crevice of my soul. I was doing to a white boy exactly what whites do to Black people. I was incorporating his skin color ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) From the inception of Hip-Hop, the Black woman has been portrayed as everything from a heroine to a house wife to a video-ho. Irrespective of the role she plays for said artists, she remains hitched to Hip-Hop like a descriptive plot interwoven in an intricate piece of a written ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Young Thug certainly embodies the title of his hit song, “I’m a Stoner.” I’m not one to throw stones; but, one would have to be stoned after absorbing music that is mixed with weed, lean, molly, and E. It is rumored that Young Thug drinks prescription cough syrup while ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Janet Jackson has returned to music with a grand entrance. Her new album “Unbreakable” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. I must say that I truly appreciated that she seems to be dodging the pitfall of trying to be “relevant” based on what many current ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) MsFourFiveSeconds from Wildn A.K.A Rihanna is singing more than hit songs these days. It seems my girl Rihanna is singing hero praises for the sociopath Rachel Dolezal, the N.A.A.C.P chapter president who impersonated the identity of black women claiming that she is “spiritually and metaphysically connected to black culture”. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Drake appears to be a breath of fresh air when it comes to the attractive music that lures and entrances millions of viewers. Hip hop is a billion dollar magnet that appears to attract every greedy, conniving, amoral capitalistic brother or sister who has a musical bone in his/her ...