The last two years on Valentine's Day, I provided a few playlists to help you folks deal with this day in whatever manner you needed. You can find those lists here. Instead, I will break out the somewhat tired…

I generally don't get behind boycotts and the likes, but check out this post Jasmyn Cannick has on that Shirley Q. Liquor character. Here's my thing with Liquor--he/she/whatever just isn't funny.  And I'm not trying to say that my…

It just dawned on me that Mary J. Blige's debut album, the dope-as-all-get-out What's the 411?, came out 15 years ago.  15! Now for the interesting part--she's straight up in the Stevie Wonder category on longevity.  She hasn't put out…

Yo, just wanted to tell you to check the blogroll for The Nubiano Project.  The site will tell you what it is, but I'm shouting it out particularly because of two of the writers--Eugene Scott, who's a frequent commenter…