EDITORIAL

So much for unity in Hip-Hop’s burgeoning youth movement, this after Kodak Black wrote off contemporaries Lil Uzi Vert and Lil Yachty in a random freestyle rant recently. The South Florida rapper took to video to announce his new music moves before launching into the random attack.

We take a look back at the career of Decepticon Sean from Heltah Skeltah to his solo career and beyond.

A Staten Island judge has made may for nearly $4M in payments to the family of Eric Garner in a wrongful death settlement. Garner was murdered (don’t get it twisted) in 2014 after being placed in a chokehold by a cop, who still has his job. 

The Knicks have at least one more year where they definitely will not flourish. Beloved former player Charles Oakley has agreed to a one-year ban from Madison Square Garden in order to see charges against him dropped. 

Ray Lewis is in the sunken place, and don’t bank on him escaping anytime soon. The NFL legend took to social media to offer Colin Kaepernick some advice that amounts to “stop protesting.”

Confederate, the proposed HBO drama that depicts a modern world where the southern Confederacy states break with the northern Union and slavery exists, didn’t get a lot of love out the gate of its announcement. The network’s president of programming, Casey Bloys defended the show at the 2017 TCA summer tour, saying it was a […]

John Singleton has inserted himself in the ongoing R. Kelly saga and suggested that the beleaguered singer is being unfairly villainized. The director says that Kelly’s just a man with a “bunch of girlfriends” and not breaking any laws in his alleged sex cult scheme.

The annual Boy Scouts Jamboree had the displeasure of being graced by the presence of the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump. The orange overlord of chaos used the speech to tell a bunch of minors of his cocktail parties and even managed to throw around his win over Hillary Clinton in the […]

Diplo might be beloved by hipsters for his contributions to dance music and his Major Lazer side project, but the producer might want to lay off lame attempts at humor. The Mad Decent label head made a tasteless joke related to R. Kelly‘s ongoing struggle of allegedly holding women under his spell.

R. Kelly has come forth to deny the sweeping allegations that he’s been holding a number of women under cult-like control in his homes. Adding to this modern day mystery is one of the alleged victims has also revealed that she is not under Kelly’s hold although she’s being vague on what exactly her situation […]

Lawrence Ware, a Black Southern Baptist minister and Oklahoma State University faculty member, has decided to leave the church’s convention in light of its support of President Donald Trump and white supremacy. Ware shared these thoughts in an open letter published exclusively by the New York Times.

Bill Maher stepped over the line with his now infamous “house n*gger” quip, which he apologized for when the heat got too high. Now, the Real Time With Bill Maher host is suggesting that the word isn’t racist.