Aww!! Ha, I guess they were, I usually never comment! Good to 'see' ya :)

I'm sorry, I don't know why you posted this?

The audacity of folk tryna lecture Black people about the "complexities" of race. I can't.

That's anti-Blackness. I'm from Providence and we have a very strong anti-Black Cape Verdean community.

Lol, wut. I'm addressing the fact that you said for some reason you thought she was "African-American". And if she identifies as Black there *is* no more complication. Being Black is a race, the rest are ethnicities. So she identifies as Black racially and there is no complication there. "African-American" is a…

I have to say that I'm incredibly amused by your name-dropping of Fanon when a lot of your argument is reminiscent of a lot of coded language that's used when discussing slang and its "legitimacy". So this makes me wonder if perhaps you just threw Fanon in there because it sounds good, not because you actually have…

I have to say that I'm incredibly amused by your name-dropping Fanon when a lot of your argument is reminiscent of a lot of coded language that's used when discussing slang and its "legitimacy". So this makes me wonder if perhaps you just threw Fanon in there because it sounds good, not because you actually have…

If you followed the link you'd see it's moreso about colorism within the Black community. Her family identify as Creole and believe that it makes them better than other Black folk, and there's an emphasis and what has been known for ages as "improving the race", she implied that her mother married her White father…

Amber has identified as Black in the past, and her being Cape Verdean definitely makes her part "African-American".

Beautiful song. Seems to change a little bit with every person singing it but that's expected. We sang this in NYC yesterday afternoon. In the section I was in the people who started it was an amazing group of WoC. It took hold and we kept it going for several minutes. it was really beautiful. Especially given that it…

Also, drake and wayne couldn't get bothered to dress up a little? Damn.

Posted my thoughts on this on Facebook so I'll just copy and paste [Disclaimer: I actually do like Nicki. And honestly I think I'm extra salty about this song because the chorus gets stuck in my head]:

When Chris Brown's part is the only not-awful component to a song then it might just be a shit song.

I also feel like Drake represents the male gaze. Not just during that last part but that by the end we realize it was his gaze/fantasy throughout. The last part seems so outside of the rest of the video, which adds to my theory.

As far as I've seen, as well as commentary I've read, they've all been White or pretty light skinned Black folk. Couple this with his generally anti-Black respectability politics platform and it adds another level of disturbing complexity.

Nooo!!! I didn't know they canceled it. How dare they?! ugh, awful news.

She's pop hip-hop. Pop being a sub-genre. Much like Beyonce is R&B but also pop so we can think of her music as being Pop(ular) R&B.

...hip-hop is a lyrical genre. It's not hard to find amazing wordplay and content in hip-hop lyrics. This is not decent according to the standards of the genre. This is radio music, thus "pop".

Generally pop music is understood to be shitty. I generally only find people trying to to use pop-hiphop as a barometer for…

That's a Ram!

I have been reading this site since 2008 and commenting since 2009. At this point I don't think you'll read this comment but I'll leave it anyway:

I will sincerely miss you. There were several points in time where there were commenter exoduses because of problematic things having to do with White Feminists ignoring…

I kind of think it's gross that people keep bringing of Lil Wayne. Like "I wouldn't sleep with Wiz or Lil Wayne!!" Like, did I miss a blurb about Wayne in this dirtbag? How is he relevant other than being another Black rapper with face tattoos. Several folks have done this in the comment sections, it's gross to me.