“I was covered in dollars, now I’m dripping in jewels…I started speaking my mind and tripled my views. Real b!tch, only thing fake is the boobs.,” Cardi B. raps on her Meek Mill-esque track “Get Up 10.” And that was just the first track of 13. She may have started things off speaking about her...
My son is 24 yrs old and he’s been dating this girl who has a kid. I don’t like it, but I tolerate it because I don’t want conflict. His father doesn’t say much, so it leaves me looking like the bad guy when I do make remarks. I want my son to concentrate on...
Jay-Z really shook a lot of people’s world causing them to wake up, and pay attention to their financial future with his latest album 4:44. Finance expert and entrepreneur Jeremiah Brown was another inspired to illustrate a guide to mastering the “game of money.” Brown’s book Financial Freedom My Only Hope differs from...
DISCLAIMER: this was written last year (2017) for BIG’s 20th anniversary, but for some reason or another, I never published it. Here ya go! Can you believe it’s been twenty years already? The phrase “how time flies” couldn’t be further from the truth. Especially since most of us can recall exactly where we were,...
Thirty years ago, during Black History Month. Spike Lee returned with his second joint School Daze. Who knew exposing black college life on the big screen would be so impactful. Daze was actually written before Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It, but budget prevented it from becoming his first release. School Daze, which was originally titled...
Financial guru Ash Exantus took his love for finance and hip-hop, and merged them into a phenomenal tool for the financial misfit. Ash Exantus, better known as Ash Cash was inspired by Jay-Z’s album 4:44 to write The Wake Up Call: Financial Inspirations Learned From 4:44. Although Cash is a finance expert, he was still...
The West family welcomed a new addition to their family. Kanye West and Kim Kardashian West welcomed their third child and second daughter into the world via surrogate. Kardashian West revealed the news via her website Tuesday. “Kanye and I are happy to announce the arrival of our healthy, beautiful baby girl,” Kardashian West wrote...
From Teacher to Singer: How Mark Donavin is balancing life in the classroom and the studio. B-radio sat down with Mark Donavin to discuss the ins and outs of his upcoming debut project. Along the way we dove into his professional transition, and how it aligns with his passion. B: So, you’re doing...
Music: that thing that’s part of our everyday lives. That thing that helps us with our ups, and helps us with our downs. That thing that heals, and that thing that brings many together. New Edition kicked off 2017 with their epic three-part biopic. The biopic smashed records in the ratings department for BET,...
Filmmaker Spike Lee reboots his first joint into a ten episode Netflix series. She’s Gotta Have It is based in modern-day Fort Greene Brooklyn, and chronicles the life of the sex-positive, polyamorous, pan-sexual Nola Darling, (DeWanda Wise) and the three men she’s dating all at once! Three completely different men, from different walks of life...