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#HowToughAmIBlackEdition is the latest trending topic to have Black Twitter reacting, and it’s comedy. The premise is simple: there are certain threats our parents sent our way—whether you grew up in NYC, the Deep South, the Caribbean to the Mother Land—that usually kept us quiet for fear of an epic butt whipping if we dared […]

Kanye West has never been one to shrink under the hot spotlight of fame, and the results of his candid nature have largely been hit or miss according to the masses. In a new interview with BBC Radio 1, the Chicago superstar opens up once more and shares details about his depression, marriage to Kim […]

Netflix is set to make you binge again with the series The Get Down and associate producer Grandmaster Flash breaks it down.

Beef patties are delicious, but we wouldn’t say they’re worth getting arrested for. Nevertheless, back on July 23, a man got pinched for stealing a beef patty, and a soda, from a restaurant in…wait for it…Flatbush, Brooklyn. 

It’s been a downhead of an offseason for NBA player Dahntay Jones. A month after celebrating an NBA championship with the Cleveland Cavaliers, Jones has found himself waived off the team and now he’s learned that a storage facility where he kept 400 pairs of his sneaker collection has auctioned off his keep (Storage Wars […]

Ghostface Killah is about to start hearing a familiar name a lot more these days. The man who composed the Iron Man theme song is reviving his copyright infringement lawsuit stemming from samples on Supreme Clientele.

DeMarcus Cousins is a national treasure. The NBA big man was clowning teammate Draymond Green over the Snapchat d*ck pic struggle the Golden State Warrior found himself in over the weekend. 

Hell hath no fury, on the Internets, like the Beyhive scorned. Rachel Roy learned this the hard way when she voluntarily stepped into the “Becky with the good hair” struggle, only to have her mentions start looking like Hiroshima. 

Charles Barkley, aka the Round Mound of Rebound, is not necessarily the first person you think of when it comes to being a mouthpiece for informed commentary on race relations. Nevertheless, the NBA legend is set to host a series on TNT called The Race Card.

Kid Cudi has never been one to shy away from expressing his disdain for the music industry, despite the several connections he’s built over the years.  The Cleveland rapper and actor blasted former G.O.O.D. Music boss and colleague Kanye West for his recent tweets demanding that Apple Music should buy Tidal from Jay Z.

The “surprise guest” list at Drake‘s annual OVO Fest continues to improve. This year Rihanna was added to the show as treat.

Lil Uzi Vert levels up and drops a new mixtape in what has been a very competitive summer 2016 in rap music. It includes features from Future with production from Metro Boomin, Zaytoven, Nard & B and Slade Da Monsta.