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...
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Notorious B.I.G. is Still Notorious
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,...
School Daze: Class Still in Session 30 Years Later
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...
Finance Expert Ash Cash Flips Jay-Z’s ‘4:44’ Album into A Financial Freedom Guide
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...
2017 Year End Music Review!
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,...
She’s STILL Gotta Have It
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...
Tamar Braxton ‘Bluebird of Happiness’ Album Review
Deeming it her “BEST & LAST album” Tamar Braxton’s Bluebird of Happiness differs from her previous work. The third time around wasn’t as charming as the last two, but still offers something people will enjoy. Whether she’s updating the Gladys Knight classic “The Makings of You,” which is produced by Rodney Jerkins and has assistance from...
7 Lessons I Learned Watching ‘Boomerang’
Recently I moved into a new place, and being in a new place without cable or Internet will force you to find different ways to entertain yourself. Ruling out the options of playing cards or board games (do they still make them?), I simply reverted back to my childhood days when the cable might...
Do Black Women Really Have It Hard?
You hear it all the time. The debate on what sex or race has it worst. Between media’s portrayal and the agenda society pushes down our throats, it’s easy to remain in a constant war of the sexes and who actually has it worst. I was watching one of my favorite shows Being Mary Jane...
Tips to Perfecting the Tucked In T-Shirt
Gone are the days when your mother would force you to tuck in your t-shirt, in hopes it prevented you from looking sloppy. Those days are long and gone, just like the 80’s and 90’s. But the trends from those eras have returned with a vengeance; for instance, dad hats. Whether you want to fell...