Fat Joe said to the contribution of Hip Hop (MCs, B-Boys/B-Girls, Graffiti and DJing), not just rap. Latino contribution to dance and graffiti is unquestionable. That’s already 50% of what is known. Honestly, too often the other elements of Hip Hop get ignored (as rap being the most marketable aspect), and then we’re…

Latinos, mostly Puerto Ricans, can absolutely claim equal (or nearly) ownership of “hip hop,” but if you just focus on the rapping part, sure, that was always overwhelmingly black.

The first rap hit? Uh no that would be “Rapper’s Delight.” Doing one verse in a song doesn’t make it a rap song.

“Rappers Delight” by the Sugar Hill Gang, 1979 was the first hit for the urban/hip hop world back then. Done by actual rappers (even though a lot of the rhymes were taken from other MC’s). Blondie’s Rapture was dropped in 1980, a pop singer using rap.

Do people know where hip-hop started? Have people ever been to the Bronx? Do they know the kind of people that are from there?

I hope he suffers some repercussions of his ignorance. Clapping back at him is not enough.

So he is, what, auditioning for Uncle Ruckus in the inevitable live action version of Boondocks?

Nyota Uhura served in Starfleet for 22 years, until she retired with the final rank of full commander on approximately star date 9524.0 (2293).

For the love of Christ can everyone stop pretending that cancel culture “isn’t a thing” just because it doesn’t always result in the targeted person disappearing from public life *forever*?

Regular people, people who aren’t famous, get cancelled and it results in lost jobs, lost friends and sometimes suicide. It’s the…

He also helped keep the WNBA going when a lot of owners wanted to shutter it.

I was under the impression that “serving papers” in such a way was only a last resort type thing, when other more professional/discreet avenues (eg via lawyers or certified mail) had been dodged. Is that wrong?

It’s really telling that she’s doing a lot of handwringing about her children “because they’ll have to see that,” when she is literally the only one of the two children’s parents who has spoken publicly in a disparaging way about the other.
I think a kid is far more likely to have difficulty processing a) reading an…

Really tired of hearing and reading about Wilde’s attempt to spin this bullshit.

“I find myself just really wishing him health and evolution”

That’s the absolute truth. It’s like Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop. I’m in the two percent of people that actually enjoyed it, but it seemed like half the people said it strayed too far from the source material and the other half said it was too similar therefore what was the point in making it.

It’s funny because shows that deviate too much get criticized as being bad, but then there’s the ones that DON’T deviate get criticized for not being different enough...even though this “enough” sweetspot is never really clearly defined.  

White privilege is a hell of a drug.

The culture of “fame” in America?

So happy Single Female Lawyer might be coming back!

These folks would permanently wipe all footage of the civil rights marches and speeches from the face of the Earth if it would boost this quarter’s profit numbers, so making Sesame Street inaccessible is no sweat to them.