Doja Cat Is Too Weird To Be Cancelled
Doja Cat’s newest album Planet Her debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart. With the album’s popularity, it’s hard to believe...
#DMVTaughtMe Something About Twitter
A couple of recent national trending topics on Twitter, #dmvtaughtme and #Atlantataughtme, showcased residents of the D.C. and Atlanta metro areas describing unique aspects...
Nipsey Hussle, The Air Force, and Why Success Today Requires Illusions of Grandeur
As a millennial, the notion of not achieving IG-worthy “success” with a polished come-up story by some arbitrary age is a difficult thought to bare. However, many of us...
Album-Equivalent Units are not “Cheating”
Music streaming records get broken every full moon these days, which makes the novelty of album-equivalent units (AEUs) hard to judge. And unless you...
YouTube Will Start Charging, You’re Fucked
Have you seen the offers for YouTube Red?
For you, thirsty free-content consumers of the Internet, expectations will have to adjust soon.
The value of content hubs like...
Hyun Jin-young and Black America’s Stake in K-pop
Once upon a time (the 1980s), A man from a faraway place came to America—no, not Prince Akeem, goofy—to study engineering....
Beat Shazam Is Back, Along With The Wonderfully Awkward Racial Overtones
"This is a fucking social experiment," my girlfriend spit out in the midst of cackling at Aaron and Martin, Black sibling educators from Philly...
The Art of Lookin-Ass Jokes and Twitter Roasts
I followed Best Roast on Twitter last week. Bruh.
The diversity of techniques and roast patterns was overwhelming.
There's something about lookin-ass jokes in particular that...
The Purity of Ytiet’s Social Media Presence
Online virality for an entertainer is a double-edged sword. With exposure comes expectation, and expectation has revealed itself to be the sharper...
Madeintyo’s Brand Is Simple, Global, And All His
The synths at the beginning of almost every track on Thank You, Mr. Tokyo sound like how the project's cover art looks: a peaceful young Black...