(ThyBlackMan.com) I grew up with the X-Men cartoon on Fox Kids and whatever comics I could talk my mom into buying at the grocery store. In the 90s, comic books and magazines could easily be found in the magazine and book section in stores. There you’d find a few kids ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I love some manhwa and webtoons. We’ve gone into Hardcore Leveling Warrior and personal favorite Peerless Dad. There’s also a really dope, long-running series I covered that you’ll see here soon. Hint: it shares a theme with this series we’re about to explore. Something about Leveling alone or something. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This past Friday, rising hip hop star Lil’ Baby released the deluxe edition to his No. 1 album My Turn. Lil’ Baby has come a long way since his breakout hit “My Dawg,” but his hit song “Yes Indeed” with Drake in the spring of 2018 set the course. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Valiant Comics is a company that is doing great things for storytelling in comics. The company was formed in 1989 after Jim Shooter and his backers failed to purchase Marvel in 1988. Whenever there is a setback and you still have the money on hand, one option is to ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This was going to be another five dive on Metallica songs from the debut album but I decided to up the challenge and do several albums. As a refresher, Metallica is a heavy metal band with roots in the early 1980s thrash metal scene in California’s Bay Area. As ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In January of 2014, I visited the doctors’ office. I just turned 22 on December 15th, was back in school, and just got promoted at my job. Life was good, so I thought. I weighed 292 pounds and was pre-diabetic, according to my doctor. I could not believe it; ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “They act like guns are toys until they get shot.” That’s it. Kids playing games and suffering grownup consequences. It’s a prime symptom of misguided adolescent gang life. With a great feel for modern times and hip-hop music, Rapman (aka Andrew Onwubolu) mixes a bit of Boyz N the Hood, with Menace II ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) DaBaby released his second album in a matter of months, Blame It on Baby, in mid-April, and it was a commercial success. The album was another commercial success for DaBaby, debuting No. 1 on the Billboard 200 while selling 124k copies in the first week. But some fans and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In April, Drake released his hit single “Toosie Slide,” and like most things Drake does, it had a polarizing response. Some understood the tactical move behind the song: blowing up Tik-Tok and social media was his prime intention as we all sit in quarantine. Others found an issue with ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Back in 1988, Public Enemy recorded “Bring the Noise.” It appears as the first song on the A-side of It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back and also had the strength to chart peaking at 56 in the U.S. The song featured a couple of shout ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Growing up hip-hop is different for everyone. Hip-hop connected early for some folks, for others it hit a little later, and still there are those who are so far removed from the themes in a lot of hip-hop that they can’t relate. Also, depending on the period, the music ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Public Enemy is a group that dropped its debut late in the 1980s but came in with aggression, rawness, and energy. It was similar to LL Cool J coming in with Radio only there was less bragging and just more intensity. While I loved the “Bring the Noise” crossover ...