Alan Light’s The Skills to Pay the Bills: The Story of the Beastie Boys has been out for months now, but I finally got around to reading it this weekend. Truth be told, I wasn’t exactly looking forward to it, ...

Branching off from Friday's post about popular myths having to do with black men, I thought it'd be interesting to create a similar post addressing several myths about yours truly. I've resisted writing about myself too much here because a) XXL ...

Bernard Wright "Haboglabotribin'" (1981) Richard "Dimples" Fields "If It Ain't One Thing, It's Another" (1982) ...

Quincy Jones "Ironside" (1971) ...

1) "Rapper's Delight" Sugar Hill Gang The first full rap song..need I say more? 2) "Planet Rock" Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force This is what really started it all!! 3) "Hard Times" Run-DMC RIP Jam Master Jay 4) "Eric B. For President" Eric B. ...

All this year, ever since the New York Times published its story on the sad state of black men here in the US (apparently, we aren't doing so well), there's been a lot of discussion about issues affecting black men. ...

As Sickamore pointed out earlier this week, people simply do not like Lloyd Banks. Not on the Internet, obviously, but not in the press either. Rotten Apple has only been out a couple of days and the piss-poor reviews are ...