Category Archives: Music
My 13 Favorite Pop Culture Moments of 2013
I don’t have a long preamble for this. This list is just my way of trying to pull together a lot of disparate pop culture moments that struck me in some profound way during the year. I think the more … Continue reading
Posted in Best of 2013, Culture, Film, Music, Television
Tagged 12 Years A Slave, Arrow, Baggage Claim, Beyonce, Breeze, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Doris, Earl Sweatshirt, Fruitvale Station, Funkmaster Flex, GQ, Hot 97, Huck, Jenifer Lewis, Kickstarter, Lost Girl, Lupita Nyong'o, Man of Steel, Mister Cee, Oscar Grant, Ryan Coogler, Scandal, Spike Lee, The Best Man Holiday, The Originals, The Vampire Diaries, Veronica Mars
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Best Songs of 2013
For the third year in a row, I felt like this was a better year for individual songs and singles than it was for albums. I suppose it makes a certain kind of sense in a digital era that the … Continue reading
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Tagged 702, Ab-Soul, Ahsan, best songs, Beyonce, Camp Lo, Dawn Richard, Fantasia, Kelly Rowland, Kevin Michael, Last Offence, LastO, Latoiya Williams, Ledisi, Luke James, Meelah, Missy Elliott, Pete Rock, Pusha T, Rashad, Soulo, Sy Smith, Zo!
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Defining Gay Hip-Hop: Reviewing LastO’s ‘Where’s Vivian’
“I don’t want to spend my time on earth performing, yelling “Look At Me” or “Confirm My Humanity, Please” in various tongues. I have problems of my own.” – Ta-Nehisi Coates One of the things that I’ve found most difficult to navigate … Continue reading
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Tagged black gay, Black SGL men, gay hip hop, gay rapper, hip hop, homo hop, Last Offence, LastO, Not For Non-Profit, Run A Lap, Sony Cobain, Where's Vivian
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On Kelly Rowland’s ‘Dirty Laundry’
I think if you’ve followed Kelly Rowland’s career, you’ve always gotten the sense that she was holding something back. Like she was afraid to be as magnificent as we all know she can be. There was always the sense that … Continue reading
Thinking about Janet Jackson’s (Alleged) Retirement
I’ve been thinking a lot about the news that Janet Jackson is allegedly going to retire from the entertainment industry for a minute now. I think if I were honest, I’d feel the need to say that Janet Jackson has … Continue reading
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Tagged black self-determination, Control, Janet Jackson, self-love, The Velvet Rope
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