Let’s talk about this oddly familiar scene: a Black athlete emerges post-game, the crowd surges, Sharpies start flying, sneakers are unsnapped and suddenly, it’s autograph season for everybody but the Black kids on the sidelines. You know, the ones wearing your jersey, rocking your highlight reels on TikTok, and calling you more inspirational than their own parents. Yeah, those kids. […]
Business was booming. That little news interview had turned my dorm room “start-up” into an underground empire. We were moving so many DVD orders, I started naming the DVD burners like pets, Burnie Mac, Smokey, Ashy Larry. Money was coming in so fast I considered dropping out and opening up a legit LLC called Scholars Gone Wild. But […]
All publicity is good publicity. THE TAPE, THE TRAP, & THE 6PM NEWS Let me tell y’all something, when the money first started coming in from my website, it was like watching cheat codes work in real life. Balancing classes and porn? That was the real work-study program. One minute I’m in African-American Studies trying […]
Every UK rapper starts their verse like they just stepped off the set of Top Boy and into a Call of Duty lobby. “Man got the ting tucked in the ride,” he says… bro, the only ting you’re tucking is your Tesco Club card. Let’s talk logistics. You need government clearance to own a dog that barks […]
Let’s talk about a little corner of the internet that smells like a rotten bologna sandwich left in a squad car’s glovebox during a Texas summer: mugshot websites. You know the ones, RecentlyBooked.com, WhoGotBusted, and a dozen others with names that sound like rejected reality shows on truTV. These sites proudly display your worst photo ever taken […]
Step right up, folks! No ticket required, no popcorn needed—just Wi-Fi and a front-row seat to the greatest show on Earth: Black Twitter and TikTok at 2 a.m. It’s giving drama, it’s giving delusion, and it’s giving… “who raised y’all?” Act I: The 50/50 Debate That Won’t DieEvery week, like clockwork, someone resurrects the ancient scrolls of “who […]
If you asked Delante why he named his blog From the Block to the Books, he’d probably squint at you over the top of his glasses (you know, the ones he bought because they looked “intellectual but still Harlem”) and say, “It’s a testimony, not a tagline.” Before I ever crafted policy briefs, he was navigating […]
