
Jul 31 2017
Gonorrhea, Pretty Nurses, and Embarrassing Moments
At 18 she told me over the phone what no 18 year-old boy wants to hear; “Kahn, I have gonorrhea and you should go get…
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Jul 20 2017
Emotional Crutches, Security Blankets, and Why I’ve Only had 2 Addresses
I’ve always been enamored with individuals who’ve moved regularly throughout their entire lives. There are those that grew up in households…
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Jul 3 2017
Jay-Z, Chris Cornell and Being Aged out in Hip-Hop
In a lot of ways being a hip-hop artist is like being a professional athlete. You have a short window to make a lot money and you’re going to have to come up with creative ways grow your income…
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Jun 22 2017
My Grandfather and Real Friendships
It seems almost anywhere that serves reasonable priced coffee or cheap beer; there will be a quartet of men, late in their years; congregating. They’ll meet weekly and even daily. If you’re a fly on the wall for any of…
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May 22 2017
Drake, Curry, The 90s, and Displaced Urban Masculinity
The barbershop discussion sounded the same as others I’ve heard.
“Isiah Thomas would have D’ed Curry up and dropped 40 on him. “
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Jan 14 2017
Meeting Redman and Method Man And The Day My Rap Career Officially Died.
It was late November 1994 and Redman and Method Man had just busted into BuyRite music on Detroit’s West 7 Mile to promote their separate Def Jam releases (Redman’s Dare Iz a Darkside dropped on 11/22 and Method Man’s Tical…
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Jan 6 2017
Why Love Jones Was the Most Important and Unique Black Movie of the 90s
Many African American movies of the early 90s gave us insightful looks into the culture of violence that resided within the black community. Sometimes the movies really hit close to realty and other times they were just entertaining. None were…
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Jan 3 2017
#FaSho90sBox “My Personal Journey Through Urban Fashion”
#FaShow90sBox is my story and my journey through urban fashion. I went from being a kid that just wanted to dress like his grandfather to being a kid what wanted to dress like his favorite rapper. Because my grandparents were…
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Dec 14 2016
Why Kayne West Is Not Hard to Understand
Writer and blogger Jessica Ann Mitchell says Kayne has a “Frantz Fannon complex,” and his social and racial rants have more to do with him not getting a “seat at the table” rather than him actually caring about social and…
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Aug 13 2015