How to Destroy a Black Male in 10 Steps
Make sure the artist has a strong local following from perpetuating a self-destructive narrative and the charisma to make self-destruction seem appealing.
Make sure the artist has a strong local following from perpetuating a self-destructive narrative and the charisma to make self-destruction seem appealing.
Black people will be your first supporters, so for a time, support them back. Speak on the issues afflicting your race.
By virtue of being a defiant rallying cry of Millenial protestors from Ferguson to Yale University, Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright” is the most powerful song of this era.
So, it happened again. Another grainy video came out of a rapper dancing feverishly on a table while record label executives sat in boredom.
In a world of increasingly monolithic rappers, Queens MC Eff Yoo is an outlier. The rugged rhymer is a throwback to a bygone era for the New York underground
Your jubilance is irrepressible, and you rightfully embrace every success in a game you know has the chance to unalterably change your life on any given play.
Any time a new Cosby-related story breaks, Twitter resembles a breakneck game of tennis, with Black people—specifically Black men– finding ways to deflect the women’s accusations as a rite of Black solidarity.
Lyrics about drugs such as codeine cough syrup, Xanax, and other opiates aren’t new, but they’re acutely prevalent in 2015. As with anything else namedropped in Hip-Hop, it’s become a part of popular culture.
A producer and DJ, Cash says the sonic DNA of the album is, “a combination of me playing the keyboard and having a ton of obscure drum and bass, house and techno records.”
If modern Hip-Hop were a movie set in a post-2Pacalyptic world, Drake would be the drone manufactured to rule it all.