(ThyBlackMan.com) What is the role of the modern day recording artist? If you answered “to entertain and or make considerable profit” then I would say you are correct. Contrary to popular belief, the persona that any particular entertainer brings forth is, indeed, a calculated attempt to generate funds for their ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Now I got tattoos on my body Psycho b*tches in my lobby I got haters in the paper Photo shoots with paparazzi Can’t even take my daughter for a walk See ‘em by the corner store I feel like I’m cornered off Enough is enough I’m calling this off” ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ve always respected Jamie Foxx. Not only is he extremely talented in a multitude of arenas, he also understands the depth of personal power that celebrities have at their fingertips. From what I’ve heard both in public and behind the scenes, I can confirm that Jamie has left me ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) No, I didn’t watch the VMA’s, and judging from my Twitter Timeline I am glad I didn’t. I gave up on the MTV Video (which we never play anymore) Music awards after they publicly humiliated Michael Jackson in the early ‘00’s, but that’s a different story. Sadly I could ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The problem is that most want to cast the performance of Miley Cyrus at the VMAs into one of two extreme categories. Most want to say that either the performance exemplified all that is wrong with today’s youth, or run to the other end of the spectrum and suggest it ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What comes to your mind when you hear the word “ratchet”? Knock-off purses from the corner store, a “hot mess” in a public place, or, as society has conditioned us to describe, someone or something that can be relayed as “ghetto”? The word ratchet is loosely used in slang ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Honestly, I’ve haven’t had the chance to listen to Robin Thicke’s summer jam until I was commissioned for this article. So this should let you know where he’s at in my musical radar. Is his music important when you start thinking about R&B culture or is he just a ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last Monday night, the rap world was taken by storm thanks to Kendrick Lamar’s outlandish but time-stopping verse on Big Sean’s “Control.” He called out various rappers, such as Big K.R.I.T, A$AP Rocky and Drake amid others and expressed to them his tactics of “murdering” them. Of course, he ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For years, I wasn’t too much of an admirer of the actor ceremoniously known as Aubrey Graham. Of course, it was more of his transition to “Drake,” the rapper-and-singer. Up until the fall of 2011, I always thought he was extremely overrated and over-hyped That all changed, when the song ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Chris Brown has an undeniable talent to entertain While we didn’t watch him grow up right before our very eyes, like say a Michael Jackson for example, the general feeling is that we had him under our scope long enough to watch him develop into something more than what ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Yesterday Beyonce unveiled her new hairdo on instagram—a short blonde pixie cut. And, of course as with everything Beyonce does, the world went crazy. Peoples’ reactions were a mix of praise, shock and disappointment, which is truly saddening even as I write this. Twitter had a #beyhairheadlines hashtag where ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I will always love Whitney Houston. And millions of other people will too. I’m recalling my recollection of the news of Whitney Houston after just watching film clips of her on YouTube. I had just finished turkey chili over chef Rick Bayless’s Frontera lime + sea salt tortilla chips, ...