(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) In a formative scene that occurs about midway through Lee Daniels’ The Butler, audiences are presented with imagery from two widely divergent events that are purportedly unfolding at the exact same time. The drama is delivered in flashing, back-and-forth takes that accentuate the contrast between these two seemingly opposing ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Someone sent me a YouTube video of Actor Terrence Howard speaking on the use of The N-Word and how it should ultimately be removed from the English language. There has been a resurgence of intense conversation on the N-Word because of the upcoming (August 16, 2013) release of the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Russell Simmons seems to understand one thing about the recent Harriet Tubman s*x Tape video that was released on the Internet: It was a huge mistake. After the uproar on the web, Simmons was apologetic and remorseful, saying that he was deeply sorry for what happened. As soon as ...
(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) African American Lewis Latimer invented the filament for the light bulb that illuminates our homes and brings motion pictures to life. The first feature length film was D. W. Griffith’s Birth of A Nation (1915). Up until then movies were never more than 30 minutes. Birth Of A Nation, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I don’t dislike Don Lemon, but I’ll admit that he’s never made me comfortable. The only time he’s ever interviewed me was during a segment about Tiger Woods a few years ago, and I picked up a peculiar arrogance in his voice and gestures that, quite frankly, threw me ...
(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, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Last weekend I saw the award-winning movie “Fruitvale Station.” For anyone not familiar, the film is about the last 24 hours of Oscar Grant’s life, a 22-year-old black male who was shot and killed by a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police officer in the early morning of January ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I hate R&B, for the most part. Of course, it sounds harsh and as a music lover and writer, discovering music old and new is always an interesting and joyous experience that can never be expendable. With well over 3000 songs on my iPad of all genres, I’ve became ...