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I have a confession... I never really knew which one was Chloe and which one was Halle. But hear me and hear me good.
I know now.
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Before you start projecting your own relationship onto Issa’s and going on about “moving in silence” and “popping up married” please remember you’re not famous and literally no one cares about who you’re dating and you should probably post your partner if it makes them feel good.
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More often and more seriously.
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Two separate announcements. Last week marked my final day at VIBE, and today begins the rest of my life.
She said yes 💍
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Never forget the peak of VICE’s video content was when they was dropping anxious white boys off in Chicago and Atlanta like they’d been deployed to Beirut.
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I grew up to have unwavering male confidence because TV writers told me these two average looking mfs had women doing backflips.
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Someone call Hov lawyers.
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Noname is right like 90% of the time. The other 10% she’s just tryna figure stuff out, just like us (except she probably reads more and does more work).
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Clubhouse really dispelled the myth that famous people are busy.
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There’s something very corny about her insulting the tastes of the fans who contributed to her breakthrough simply because she’s now inspired to do something different. She coulda skipped all this weird projection and just recorded the Fem-F Doom album she wants to make so bad.
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@THEEBlackleftie
Unmarried man telling a husband of 20 years about roles in a marriage is about as silly a father of five wasting time arguing with a podcaster.
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The “average day” for Issa Rae hasn’t changed in seven years. It sounds cliche, but a strict routine really is what most successful people have in common.
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Sheck Wes dropped a trash album, had his hit single coopted by art school white boys, and is now stalking a woman he abused and had his friends jump one of the most likable rappers out.
Crazy to think just 6-8 months ago he was a media darling writers tried to force us to like.
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Usher seems really intent on speaking with black journalists and black publications at a time when most of his peers are doing the opposite. That’s great to see.
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Matt Lauer dirty ass really had the nerve to damn near drive Kanye to tears asking what his mother would have thought of the Taylor incident. What would your mother think of you locking women in your office to sexually harass them, dog?
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“So you wear a hoodie to bed?” is about to have me weak for the rest of the day lmao.
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Y’all act like Toronto is on another planet and not eight hours from New York. I’m certain a dude born in 1986 has a genuine attachment to 2000s pop culture lol.
Drake wants so badly to have been an American teenager in the 2000s. The Aaliyah samples, the cosplay and now purchasing camrons pink coat. Y’all don’t think this is weird?
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“Other players dominated during LeBron’s prime,” says the Kobe stan. Tim Duncan won four rings and back-to-back MVPs during Kobe’s prime lmao.
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If Frank Ocean has the audacity to get up there and sing seven-year-old Blonde songs, I’m going to do absolutely nothing about it and stream the shit out of that performance anyway.
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Meghann Cunnif is a legal affairs reporter. She can cover high-profile celebrity cases because year-round she covers smaller, less sensational cases. Black culture journos don’t have that training because we’re staffed at glorified blogs and not real newsrooms. Hope this helps.
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"You a bad father and don't really respect women like that" as a rap diss really is some evolved and examined masculinity at work. I am fucking shaken.
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@juliankeaun
Not to be elitist but I also noticed people who don’t like salmon be pronouncing it with the ‘L.’
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Chance saw the timeline and thought because we know niggas don't value black women that we actually wanted to hear a nigga admit he doesn't value black women and I'm sorry but that type of pandering gone wrong is hilarious.
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Quentin Tarantino watching all those white men in BlacKkKlansman get to say nigger.
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If I’m Hov “it must be your cash cause it ain’t your face” is keeping me up at night.
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I was today years old when I found out Bobby Brown was cracking Janet Jackson.
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I think a few people are severely missing my point. That stuff was garbage and no matter how many times VICE pivots, their content just isn’t that great. Get outta here telling me how “classic” those exploitative ass Noisey videos were lol.
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@keiyaa_
Block, mute, delete, etc. And treat heartbreak like grief, meaning something that’ll probably always be with you but becomes less debilitating with time.
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Iggy got her body done and rapped in a fake accent and now she’s a pariah. Drake did both those things and he’s GOATed.
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It finally happened. I pitched something to a publication in June, it ultimately got rejected after the editor and I discussed the idea in great detail, and months later that exact story has been published by one of their staffers. This is not a great feeling.
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Because the people most willing to forget children died at a Travis Scott festival are those who’ve already forgotten Charlamagne is an alleged rapist. He has an audience that’s attractive to potential pariahs because he should realistically be one himself.
Why was Charlemagne the go-to for a Travis Scott sit down interview? Laughable.
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Usher has hits in three different decades and multiple Moesha cameos but y’all want him to do a Verzuz with Chris Brown.
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Imagine defending your MAGA friend tooth and nail only for him to show up late to your wedding in a dickies suit.
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Some news I’m excited to finally share. I’m wrapping up my first week here at BET Digital as the site’s Senior Music Editor. I’d like to thank my mama and Sallie Mae for the endless motivation.
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Never need a gig, I’m what a gig needs.
Just put in my two week notice at BET.
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“A minorrrrrrrr” doing what Drake thought “Dave Freeeeeeee” was gonna do in the club gotta HURT as the hit song battle rapper.
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@fwmj
“A black man selling sneakers… None of the white niggas u dick ride think that is the future.” I know that gon HURT when Rhymefest reads it to him.
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When Nore cuts Kanye off for the 18th time on Drink Champs.
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A part of social anxiety is randomly feeling like everyone hates you. Imagine the subsequent depression that comes with finding out some people do in fact hate you because of how your anxiety makes you act. It’s a sick cycle.
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One of my *college age* students said she was born in 2004. I jokingly noted she was born after Get Rich or Die Tryin’ came out. She responded, “what’s Get Rich or Die Tryin’?”
When I didn’t immediately answer she asked if it was a game show.
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Some news: Today is my first day as the Senior Music Editor at
@VibeMagazine
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People making the case that Twitter is no longer necessary is how know they never engaged this platform in good faith. I’ve been encouraged to consider issues concerning gender, queerness, and identity in ways that would have never reached me had I relied on traditional media.
Man. Folk want twitter to die SO BAD.
I get that Edgelord Musk is a problem but it’s feeling real “urban renewal”-ish because when this place goes…WE will be displaced
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There are like 5-10 songs in pop culture that are so good and so inexplicably memorable that they kind of feel fake. This is one of those songs.
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If you had a good 2020, don’t let anyone shame you into being quiet about it. But a global pandemic that killed 200,000 people in America alone cannot be a “blessing in disguise.”
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I hope editors who email you back to confirm they're passing on a pitch as opposed to simply ignoring you know how appreciated they are. I don't know about other writers, but that sort of common courtesy means a lot to me.
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@IAMNJERA
It’s even deeper and nastier than that—he *doesn’t* believe what was alleged, so he’s feigning victimhood in suggesting something unfair or malicious would happen to him online if he expressed that opinion. He’s basically claiming “cancel culture”without saying the phrase.
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Rory and Mal dropping this on a Saturday, which is one of the days the podcast drops, is really clever.
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One day we’ll talk about how often black podcasters squander what’s become the fastest growing digital medium by starting “pop culture” pods with no clear vision or purpose other than shooting the shit.
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@shaTIRED
Mean people get called ugly every day on this app. It’s basically the genesis of “this you?” Idk. Doesn’t seem that deep, especially since she didn’t mention any particular thing that she thinks makes her ugly.
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For BET, I personally decided not to cover any of the follow-up info on Juice WRLD's death, because it just felt kind of gross and intrusive. No judgement. Maybe I'm wrong. But I feel like drug overdoses should be treated with the same sensitivity as deaths by suicide.
JUST IN: Juice WRLD reportedly swallowed multiple Percocet pills during a police search of his private jet prior to his death [via
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I don't know anything about what Shaun King does or doesn't do. I just know this is very weird energy to have for college students, black women and young organizers.
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happens to be all three.
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March 2, 2020 vs. March 2, 2021
40lbs lighter, 10x stronger, just as dedicated. It’s my first fitness anniversary.
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Y’all were raised by TV?
How the FUCK did a generation raised on South Park and Family Guy become so offended by everything?
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Kanye getting ignored by Souljaboy in 2007 is even funnier when you consider the way he spazzed on MTV for not giving Soulja a bigger stage to perform on at the VMAs that year 😭
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Are we allowed to admit Izzy is corny for stooping to the level of a literal child or is it fair play because him thinking he’s an anime character makes the nerds feel warm and fuzzy inside?
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Between the Rory and Mal drama and this Olivia Dope story, the common theme seems to be Joe Budden being wildly unprofessional and not knowing how to interact with people he has power over despite so desperately wanting to be seen as a competent boss.
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Some news: Today is my first day as a Market Editor at BuzzFeed. I’m excited for this next step in my journey as a brand journalist, as I pivot away from music and culture reporting. More lecture material for my Branded Feature Writing course!
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Me and my girl got our first place together, but she wasn’t able to move in until a week after I did. So I put together a lil welcome home lunch for her today. Crab legs and chicken wings and garlic shrimp and crawfish mac n cheese and red wine and her favorite brand of chips.
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The shirt I wore before proposing at her grad party vs. the shirt I revealed after she said yes. All her friends and family witnessed just how extra I am 😂
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Gave my students a very easy pop quiz on their last day that they could use as a makeup grade for any assignments they missed this semester. One of the bonus questions was “What’s Professor Williams’ favorite hobby?”
Someone wrote “talking about his fiancée.”
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They have to make time on nights and weekends to pen longer features like reviews, opinion pieces, and interviews. They work overtime on stories y’all don’t even read (can’t stress that enough) only for you to ask for a whole other type of journalism that you also will not read.
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Every January/February I'm reminded y'all was never serious about boycotting the NFL.
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Yeah this sounds accurate, which is sad because it’s basically the inverse of the rapper shitting on hip-hop once they want their crossover music to be taken “seriously” by people who never fucked with them in the first place.
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I had the honor and privilege of interviewing Big Freedia, her choreographer, and her backup dancers in New Orleans.
"Inside Big Freedia's Black-Queer Utopia"
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Yesterday my girlfriend reminded me Christmas has always been a special time for us, even before we started dating in 2019. We’ve actually linked every year since 2015 to shop for our families together. It was our friendship tradition. And now she is my family. Truly blessed.
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Think about your favorite black culture writer. The one you dickride on the timeline but don’t actually read. Yeah that one. They wouldn’t know what to do in a courtroom. That’s not their beat. They wrote five news posts yesterday on what so and so said about such and such.
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I started following Drake's trainer on IG to get some tips, but all he does is post vacations and the OVO jet. I hate wealth.
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On Clubhouse scrolling past the black capitalist and wealth building rooms, the gender and diaspora war rooms, and sex and relationship rooms, the industry rooms, the celebrity rooms, the rooms about the celebrity rooms—maybe I don’t really wanna talk to people after all.
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What makes a podcast listenable, and ultimately successful, is expertise. Whether it be sports, true crime, history, or anything else, your platform needs specificity and purpose.
Not every pod can be four people talking about Twitter topics and pop culture headlines.
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I interviewed Snoop yesterday and he implied on the phone that he was disappointed it wasn’t in-person. He then mentioned it on his IG story (you can hear his PR guy say my name right before passing him the phone). It was a really endearing moment. Talent usually doesn’t care.
What’s ya most awkward or interesting celebrity interaction you have had? Lol
I have so many 😂
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Leaving a show to launch one of your own and wording your exit tweet in a way that’d prompt people to bash the original, still existing program is 3D chess lol.
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Top two people I’m mad found God is Kanye West and Meagan Good.
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Lots of things bother me about this site but the anti-intellectualism takes the cake. I promise what reads as “think pieces” and “dissertations” to you are often off the cuff thoughts to others. Stop telling on yourself.
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Remember that “Mary J. Blige is NOT my auntie” tweet? Same goes for Sheryl Lee Ralph, and I’m not ashamed.
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