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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
Posted in Best of 2013, Music
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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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
Best Albums of 2011
My thoughts about the 10 best albums of 2011.
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Posted in Best of 2011, Music
Tagged 4, 7..., 80s synth pop, Anthony Hamilton, Anwar Robinson, Avenue: A, b-side, Best Albums of 2011, Beyonce, Big K.R.I.T., Bleuphoria, Common, Complex Simplicity, Cookies or Comas, Dre and Vidal, Elgin, Everything, Frank Ocean, Ginuwine, Goodie Mob, Gutter Rainbows, Habits of the Heart, Here I Am, Idle Warship, Jean Grae, Jewell, Jill Scott, Johnny Gill, Kelly, Kelly Price, Kelly Rowland, Lalah Hathaway, Ledisi, Luxurious Underground, Mary J. Blige, Meshell N'degeocello, Mint Condition, My Life, My Life 2, Nicole Wray, nostalgia/ultra, Open Invitation, Organized Noize, Pharoahe Monche, Pieces of Me, Raekwon, Rahsaan Patterson, Raphael Saadiq, remix, Return of 4Eva, Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang, Still Winning, Stone Rollin', Sy Smith, Talib Kweli, Tamar Davis, Teedra Moses, The Bootleg of the Bootleg EP, The Breakthrough, The Light of the Sun, The Paxtons, The Roots, Trey Songz, Tyrese, Van Hunt, W.A.R., We Are Renegades, What Were You Hopin For? Michael Jackson, What's The 411?, Wines and Spirits
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