Rihanna Gets #1 Spot, Nicki Minaj gets #28
In taking a look at album sales last week, Rihanna has finally earned the #1 spot on the Billboard charts. The 238,000 units and the number one spot is a…
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Unapologetic – Rihanna album review
The mood of Rihanna’s Unapologetic is just that, unapologetic. Its atmosphere is much like 2007’s Good Girl Gone Bad, bent on making an unabashed statement to the world of who…
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Black Power Hip-Hop, Please Don’t Die
Hip-Hop has been nothing short of a massive inspiration to pop culture since… let’s say the late 80s. I had an acquaintance once tell me that he was unaware that…
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The Child Support System is Due For A Change
For many Black men in this country, child support is an every day reality. However, with the way things are, the question to be, has the child support system become…
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Freestyle of the Week Review: Sean Price, Show N’ Off Freestyle
Let us begin by acknowledging the widely accepted fact that, despite living in the savage badlands between cultural and critical appeal and commercial success, Sean Price is fucking talented. A…
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Where Have All The Hip-Hop Executives Gone?
From the early 90’s up until the late 2000’s, whenever you saw a major artist on the scene, you couldn’t help but to think about the people behind them…
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Freestyle of the Week Review: Freeway – “Back Room Freestyle”
When I finally fell fatally in love with Rap music I was living in Southeastern, Pennsylvania, halfway between Philadelphia and Reading, and lacking a rap scene of any consequence in…
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Do-It Yourself: How to Shape Your Eyebrows
Tired of paying the salon to do it? Think plucking eyebrows is self-torture and unnecessary? Never shaped your eyebrows before? It’s really not that painful or complicated. With a few…
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Why Everyone Should Try Writing A Novel
Not everyone is a writer—but almost everyone’s thought about writing a book and most of us have at least one story worth telling. A lot of people talk about it—”one…
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Parle Mag
- Explaining The Afroman Saga – The Case of “The Lemon Pound Cake”
- Round By Round Break Down of the Tank vs Tyrese Verzuz
- 7 Lessons We Learned From The Book, ‘Hell Is Other People’
- 10 Facts About Samir Taleb, Author of ‘Hell Is Other People’
- Understanding the Lasting Impact of Spinal Cord Injuries on Health and Independence
How To Cope With Heartbreak
Before we start I want to make two things very clear: (1) learning how to cope with heartbreak isn’t a quick fix process to mend the broken heart. Heartache takes…
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