(ThyBlackMan.com) “Black rock” doesn’t just mean the subgenre it’s all-Black or predominantly Black bands, Black musicians who perform rock, punk, and heavy metal throughout the diaspora. Wikipedia notes that the genre is also known as “psychedelic soul”. I believe psychedelic soul is a subgenre that is mainly played by Black ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s safe to say that CD Projekt dropped the ball with Cyberpunk 2077. Actually, that’s a little light. They sh** the bed. Hard. This was a game that had been in development for years with the planning stages starting in 2012—when the game was announced. From there, CD Projekt ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) While media bias is obvious to those on the right, those on the left dwell in a sea of misinformation and exaggeration related to the activities of the President. Donald Trump did not start a war in the Middle East with Iran. The Chicken Little “reporters” and “journalists” on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Since November 3, not a second has gone by that I haven’t gotten a frantic, pleading, imploring email from first, Joe Biden. Then after that: Kamala Harris, the Democratic National Committee, the slew of flip Georgia Blue Committees and groups, and the two Democratic senatorial candidates, Jon Ossoff and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Richard Pryor Show ran for four episodes in late 1977 on NBC. Pryor is a comedian that many should know similar to Redd Foxx and Flip Wilson—Black comedians who popped in the 1970s or had sitcoms at the time. I brought up this show for one reason. Pryor ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Let’s get into ten albums to listen to from 2020. All ten are albums that got me through 2020 and also got multiple listens. Did you check out any of these this year? Open Mike Eagle – Anime, Trauma and Divorce Here’s an album that released in October and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie begins her New York Times review of “A Promised Land” with this sentence, “Barack Obama is as fine a writer as they come.” This was, I am sure, music to Obama’s ears. As one commenter on the Washington Post review deadpanned, “Obama may have been the first president, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Donald Trump’s presidency provided a rich trove of examples for my annual review of the year’s highlights in blame-shifting. The 2020 edition focuses on the question Trump has been trying to answer for nearly two months: Why did he lose the presidential election? By Trump’s account, it was not because voters ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If Joe Biden is sworn in as president of the United States in January, many Democrats and their friends in the liberal media will instantly claim that he has a mandate. They will be mistaken. Joe Biden does not have a mandate to effect change, and no amount of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Is your vision blurred or cloudy? Do you find it difficult to see in dim or bright light, with very bright light uncomfortable to look at? Do you see circles of light around bright lights such as streetlights and car headlights? If so, you might have developed cataracts in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We are living in weird times. Everything seems like a science fiction movie. An alien force has invaded our planet, no one is safe, and everyone is forced to live in their homes. Yes, I am talking about the time we are living amidst COVID-19 havoc. Now things are ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s love at first sight. That’s true for the couple in this romantic period film and for audiences who will be transfixed by the stunningly beautiful footage. It’s the summer of ’57. Sylvie (Tessa Thompson), a twentysomething, works in her dad’s (Lance Reddick, John Wick) small Harlem shop, Mr. Jay’s ...