Uhhhh…nah, you can't just redefine words like that. You can't reclaim something that wasn't yours to begin with, and you appropriate anything from anyone who hasn't consented, "power imbalance" is not a factor.

I'm guessing if Nat Turner stole a loaf of bread he'd have been shot though.

I lose my touch, man.

It's one thing I liked about The Keeping Room, it didn't shy away from ugliness and gave us the perspective of characters that would ordinarily be fairly thin antagonists. The audience gets to parse morality themselves with films like that.

They don't call them the "terrible twos" for nothing bro.

I'm really excited to check it out given this reception. It was on my radar because I read about it on Shadow & Act a while back, but I thought it sounded like an ill-conceived vanity project.

Not to split hairs, but is it "reclaiming" the title or appropriating the title? I'd have thought the latter.

I honestly had to verify this. Died in '04…

Chris Tucker in whiteface?

Indeed, I just think Push wore it better. New God Flow, fuck everything else!

This article is depressing enough without going into detail there.

Corrections: Yeezus is *a* god, he's god level, but he's never claimed to be the creator.

lol fuck's sake

For reasons I won't fully go into, conspiracy theories in hip-hop really upset me.

A distressing lack of representation!

I'm hoping for some funk and soul and a general 70s throwback tone.

Thanks, Obama!

Blew my mind too when I found out.

She's good in The Man From UNCLE too.

I do not get the hate.