There is an enormous amount to unpack from this topic. I’ll mention just one detail.

While I love the idea of Black Kids Swim, I think their more basic mission should just be teaching basic water safety, buoyancy, and survival.

I had a weird dentist for a number of years. He would tell me his theories about alien life on Mars while he worked on my teeth, and it’s not like I could say anything, with his tools in my mouth. And I didn’t have insurance, and he was cheap. Now I have insurance, and I go to someone who doesn’t talk much. It’s good.

Glad to hear that his album isn’t trash. He just needs to realize you can’t even be nominated for the “King of R&B” title until someone at every performance, reaches into their purse or their pocket and launches a pair of their best underwear, stained by a barely legible sharpie written phone number, onto your stage.

Some promoter needs to put together a King of R&B tour and let those cats battle it out like The Five Heartbeats and Bird & the Midnight Falcons... night after night.

You too? I thought I was the only one with those love/hate feelings about private school.

And they run sub 5 sec. 40s. Because human evolution works just that fast. ;)

I will never understand people’s obsession with sneakers.

*whispers* My favorite Jordans are the ones in the Wizard colors *ducks and runs*

Counterpoint: Babe Ruth living today, in a country with legal alcohol, internet pornography, and being paid tens of millions of dollars a year, would be dead within 12 months. It’s like when Bender became human in that one Futurama episode.

Is male R&B in the same place female rap was in the late 2000's? Because that’s the only way I can see TV One’s version of Quavo getting this much hype.

freedom, equality and resistance

I don’t buy the Britney Spears argument, pop stars (especially women) have a box to stay in where they’re a blank slate for fans to project their opinions upon. If they start to step outside that even in morally/legally justifiable but controversial ways they risk blow back. Like the Dixie Chicks did, or Taylor Swift…

Awww...the poor widdle fee-fees are hurt...You’ll be okay little guy.

Lee Hwy runs down the western part of the state and Jeff Davis will take you from Arlington to Richmond.

That term is a slur and off-limits. He’s calling out Tekashi for being a fake gang member (the irony of Ross calling anybody fake is delicious)

Hell, there are Jeff Davis and Lee streets/highways everywhere in NOVA.

yet there are Wilson high schools everywhere

I’d rate The Five Heartbeats higher than just ‘merely watchable’. The music is catchy, the performances are solid (Michael Wright’s in particular) and the cameos from the older generation (Diahann Carroll, the Nicholas brothers) are a nice nod. It’s a pretty good weekend afternoon cable rewatchable.

Meteor Man, Undercover Brother, Pootie-Tang and the Wayans Bros films should be on an infinite loop somewhere thats free to view so all can bask in the glory..