(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently, I once saw on one of Kanye West’s Voyr videos that the importance and anatomy of the artist has steepened and declined in magnitude that was once appreciated in the 1970’s and 80’s. Music has been generalized and commercialized to the masses and personal and meaningful content has ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Piri Thomas was born in 1928, in the El Barrio of Spanish Harlem. He was an accomplished poet, author, youth counselor, and speaker. The poet didn’t have an easy life and decided to change his name from Juan Pedro Thomas after living his entire young adulthood in prison. In ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Before his untimely passing, Michael Jackson notoriously dressed his children like they were always headed to a costume ball. It was his way of shielding his three kids from the press and various pariahs of the world. However, with the King of Pop gone Prince Michael, Paris, and Blanket ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) has been struggling as of late. That’s not breaking news. Desperate times call for desperate measures and that too is not breaking news. You can best be sure, OWN executives made the announcement of targeting African-American viewers as a weather balloon, a message in the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Tyrese is a ladies’ man and has two Grammys to prove why he can get them where they need to be–just at the right time musically. On his new album, “Open Invitation” the soulful crooner shows the world why he has stayed on top since joining the music industry ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It has been awhile since a rapper has risen to the top of the trap music food via a solo outing chain since 50 Cent was running the mixtape game in 2002-03. 2011 we have seen the rise of 2 Chainz, aka Tity Boi from Playaz Circle, and, quite ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Rap began as genre of music to not only to express happiness and fun and partying but also a genre of music to express anguish, strife, and struggle. The genre in its truest form is either loved for telling the truth or derided for over-exaggerating conditions some don’t want ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’m the best (or perhaps the worst?!!) hypocrite I know. Perhaps this is so because I intimately know the intentions of my heart and the stances my mind better than anyone else. As such, when I have a change of heart about a particular subject matter, this knowledge jumps ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) e 2005, the breakup of Destiny’s Child has offered varied careers for the three group members. Michelle Williams released a couple albums (in 2004, and 2008 respectively) and recently starred in Chicago at the Cambridge Theater. Beyonce has become arguably the biggest pop star globally, released number one albums, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In four seasons fans have watched VH1 Basketball Wives take Miami, Los Angeles, Madrid and Rome by storm. From the ladies show stopping fashion to their drama and betrayal, season three left the VH1 Basketball Wives audience wanting more and VH1 is kicking it up a notch and delivering ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Dear Mr. Tyler Perry, When fall television line-ups were announced by both broadcast and cable networks there were only two shows I was really excited about seeing: BET’s Reed Between the Lines and TBS’s For Better or Worse. Last Friday your latest TBS offering premiered. After watching both episodes ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Most of us have heard of the show, The Super Nanny, which centers on London born Jo Frost and her career as a professional nanny. The show debuted in the UK and soon began airing in the US in January 2005. Now cable’s Life Time Channel has created their ...