Attempting to Decipher J Cole’s Middle Child Video
While 21 Savage’s A Lot video is my favorite rap video so far this year, J. Cole’s Middle Child is my favorite rap single this year. So of course I was hotly anticipating his video release for the track. Coming off the heels of momentous hip…
Image Comics Presents ‘Excellence’
While I haven’t actually purchased comics in a 4 years, Image comics will always hold a special place for me due to it being the home of my favorite character ‘Spawn’. Before Black Panther gained mainstream name recognition, Black protagonist Al Simmons (Spawn) was the…
Damned If You Blue, Damned If You Don’t
When Disney first dropped their live action adaptation of Aladdin featuring Will Smith as ‘Genie’, folk were upset because he was not blue. Being that the animated version included a blue genie voiced by Robin Williams…folk don’t like change or studios fucking up their nostalgia….
MA – Starring Octavia Spencer
Don’t you hate it when you feel a trailer gives away the whole dame movie? I feel like the trailer for ‘MA’ does just that. From what I can tell the film is a thriller set in a small town. It features MA who appears…
Collector’s Edition of Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys
Some of you may be familiar with the African Spider god Anansi brought into mainstream media by the Starz television series American Gods. American Gods is a novel by Neil Gaiman which mixes mythology and fantasy revolving around ex-convict Shadow. In the television series we…
Can We Just Acknowledge That J. Cole’s ‘Middle Child’ Is the Truth?
I mean…them horns nigga! Producer T-Minus laid that foundation but Cole sealed the deal. You good, T-Minus? Niggas been countin’ me outI’m countin’ my bullets, I’m loadin’ my clipsI’m writin’ down names, I’m makin’ a listI’m checkin’ it twice and I’m gettin’ ’em hitThe real…
Tarell Alvin McCraney’s ‘David Makes Man’
Premiering on the OWN network; David Makes Man centers on a very intelligent 14yr old from the projects who is grappling with the death of his closest friend. He has to make a decision to embrace the streets or his education, which could provide a…
21 Savage Was #1 trending, arrested days later
I had just watched 21 Savage’s video ‘a lot’ featuring J. Cole a couple hours earlier and knew I wanted to do a quick post about it. The video has the dope ass ‘phantom’ J Cole verse. It’s directed by Aisultan Seitov and the backdrop…
Bravado & Action are on tap in Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw
I’m not a huge F&F fan, as such, I haven’t seen one of the films in a couple of years. The last one I believe I saw (months after its debut) was F&F 6, which Cypher Ave co-founder Nick Delmacy did a review when it…
DL Hughley Responds to Terry Crews
The Internet (Yes I’m speaking as if the internet is a person. If the Supreme Court has ruled corporations are people, then I’m saying the internet is a person) has been praising Terry Crews not only for being a sexual assault advocate but also speaking…
After 3 Test Screenings, Viewers Still Think X-Men Dark Phoenix Sucks
Test screeners are speaking out stating how horrible the Dark Phoenix is after multiple re-shoots. Directed by Simon Kinberg (more on him below), the Dark Phoenix was supposed to premier November 2018. It was then pushed back to February 2019 and has finally been pushed…
Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films
Premiering February 7th, Horror Noire brings to the screen the acclaimed book by Dr. Robin R. Means Coleman. Directed by Xavier Burgin, Horror Noire discusses the history and depiction of Black people in Horror. Just viewing the trailer brought back so many memories while acknowledging…
Netflix’s High Flying Bird
Moonlight’s Oscar winner writer, Tarell Alvin McCraney, has written a new film premiering on Netfilx Friday, February 8. High Flying Bird stars Andre Holland (also from Moonlight) and is shot on entirely on iPhone. High Flying Bird is directed by Steven Soderbergh who also…
Closeted Rapper Finds His Truth in Web Series ‘Single Record’
We’ve seen the story of the DL closeted rapper finding love, not know how to deal with it, subsequently being outed and then dealing with the consequences; similarly in The LA Complex and Empire. Filmmaker Nelson “Moses” Lassiter adds his creative perspective to rehash this…
Kevin Hart Discovered To Be Homophobic Five Years After We Tried To Tell You (Receipts Attached)
If in an alternate universe, Kevin Hart were “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” comedian Kevin James and people found dozens of racists tweets from 2009-2013, I highly doubt Black people would be as defensive for someone “evolving” so slowly and viciously.
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