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Straight Bangin'
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The truth about hip-hop, sports, politics, and life served with side dishes of humor, wit, and the melancholy foibles of the author.
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So Serious
WOW.This shit is not just the best movie of the year, and it's not just the best superhero movie ever, but it might be among my all-time favorites. I cannot rave about this movie enough. It needs its own category at the Academy Awards going forward. ...
Nas Is a Demagogue
A little information is dangerous...One of the conflicting elements of the new Nas album, Untitled, is that, for pretty much the whole record, he raps as you always hope that he might. And when I write "rap," I mean just that. Beats, content--forget ...
Billy Packer's Tyranny Has Ended. That Should Be the Story.
Some classic Packer. Not a sports fan? But you always seem so enthused. Weird.So let's just come out and say it: Billy Packer will not be missed. He is a crotchety asshole whose basketball broadcasts too often were joyless exercises in petty criticis...
Hot New Site (I Hope)
After years as a sporadically contributing guest to Straight Bangin', my sister--a newly minted college graduate with lots of free time and an almost frightening obsession with pop music--has launched a blog. Appropriately, its title is derived from ...
More Realness
At the Wale show, these dudes got a shout out from the stage, and they were polying (how does one really write that out?I think I'd prefer "poli'ing") with everyone. They are gonna blow up soon, and you shouldn't be surprised when it happens. I mean,...
