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D’Angelo Is Really Back – I Saw It With My Own Eyes
D’Angelo made what is, quite possibly, the best album of my adult-life. When Voodoo dropped in 2000, it split my head open. Black music had a remarkable (and sinisterly slept-on) run from about 1998 through 2002. But of all those c
Steve Stoute Wins Ad Age’s Executive Of The Year
Steve Stoute has been a major player in the business world since his days at Sony in the early '90s. He took that experience into the marketing world by creating his own company called Translation. His work in p
The KimYe Persecution Will Be Televised
The thing that makes the Kardashian name what it is in the subfield of reality television (and the super-field of celebrity life), actually has much more in common with what goes on in the theater district than on any sound stage. The theater exp
Azealia Banks Might Need To Shut Up
Azealia Banks is not the first artist to be a bit of a rabble-rouser, so it’s somewhat frustrating to see the reactions she garners over her ever-increasing number of public beefs. The latest involves fellow
Louder Than A Bomb
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back is the first album I ever bo
Great Moments In Colored Cinema: 21 Jump Street
From gangsta rapper to gangsta actor to much-loved gangsta comedian, Ice Cube has seen his career continuously evolve in accordance with the way the game has changed. In doing so, he has been able to keep his name as relevant today as it was when
Hector “Macho” Camacho: A Pioneer Athlete Of The Hip-Hop Generation
Back when Afrika Bambaataa converted the Black Spades – by far the largest gang in New York City in the 1970s – into the Universal Zulu Nation, hip-hop’s preeminent collective for the global promotion of our culture as a weapon
Good Morning: 11.29.12
GOOD MORNING
The Nets rolled over the Celtics in Boston, but not before a few notable highlighs.
Good Morning: 11.28.12
GOOD MORNING
James Harden's 24 points and career-high 12 assists carried the Rockets over the Rapt