(ThyBlackMan.com) Quick note from Dr. Boyce: Thanks you to you who’ve supported our efforts to confront Universal Records and the horrible song they were planning to release disrespecting Emmett Till. I spoke with Rev. Jesse Jackson yesterday, Bishop Tavis Grant, Change.org and the spokesperson for the Emmett Till family about ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When a rapper says he’s gonna “pop a pill” then “beat that p*ssy like Emmett Till,” that’s when we know that he might have gone just a little bit too far. But that’s just what happened this week, and the Till family isn’t happy. Lil Wayne and Future, two ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Hip Hop enthusiasts watched the 55th Annual Grammy Awards with bated breath wondering if this was the year Nas, whom CNN recently named the greatest lyricist of all time, would finally win his first golden gramophone. It wouldn’t take long to realize this year would be the same as ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As an African-American evangelical woman, Beyonce’s performance last night was pretty bittersweet for me. Quite simply it was both exhilarating and excruciating. Exhilarating because as a supremely talented black woman on a world stage surrounded by a plethora of talented black women, Beyonce and Co. were making history. (Even ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “They say money make a n*gga act n*gger-ish” Problem- A$AP Rocky Yes, Conservative talk show host, Sean O’Reilly hated Hip Hop with a passion. Yet, there he was, sitting in front of his flat screen watching the Grammys, anxiously, waiting for the rap song of the year to be ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In music, there are words to songs that become larger than the song itself and sometimes, larger than the artist. We still remember Marvin Gaye asking “What’s Going On?” We still remember Public Enemy bellowing out: “19-EIGHTY-NINE’S The Number…” Without even saying the remainder of the line, those words ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Although I am definitely one sounding an alarm about the evils of many music industry practices, I do get weary sometimes of hearing some musicians whining. I get weary sometimes because I know that with a few questions, I will discover that the musicians in question are whining to ...
(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 ...