I’ll never forget Jason Weaver saying how Drumline outsold Ice Age in theaters, they just had less screens. Truly was a cultural phenomenon especially when it got to DVD/VHS.
So, today we had an inclusivity training and someone said, "I didn't know there was a Black version of Happy Birthday," and we explained to that person that the song was created by Stevie Wonder, and that person said, "who is Stevie Wonder?"
All the Black folks collectively:
I go to war behind this genre of Black classics. I loveeeeeed Drumline, Roll Bounce, Johnson Family Vacation, Dreamgirls, Remember the Titans, The Preachers Wife!
Nothing beats the family friendly Black Classics.
My favorite thing about this performance was right after it happened, Hotep Twitter was like 'why is Solange promoting Twerking instead of educated women' and the dancer turned out to be a chemical engineer, LOLOLOLOL
What are the odds Dave Chappelle, Kanye West, Talib Kweli, & Common were all together the first time they heard JAY-Z say;
“if skills sold, truth be told, lyrically I’d probably be Talib Kweli,
Truthfully, I wanna rhyme like Common Sense,
But I did 5 Mill, I ain’t been rhyming like Common since,”
Imaginary Players x JAY-Z
The Lore: JAY-Z was rich before music. This song is about rappers who pretend to be rich. Specifically rappers who took shots at Jay, most notably, Ma$e. This was Jay’s response.
Wiz Khalifa’s parenting moment is going viral after his 13-year-old son Bash called him while on livestream about a kid trying to fight him at the mall.
Wiz talked Bash through the situation, giving him advice about de-escalating, protecting himself if needed and staying out of bad situations.
“Nah, don’t do that, bro. Don’t get into no fight... De-escalate the situation, and if you have to, then protect yourself, but don’t put yourself in no situation where you know some sh*t like that is going to go down,” Wiz said.
He later told his chat that he doesn’t care if people clip the moment or criticize his parenting, making it clear that his son is his responsibility. 💯