by snoadmin | Jan 1, 2017 | End of the Year Awards
This is the opening track to Kanye West’s seventh studio album, The Life of Pablo, and it serves as a sample for what one can expect for the rest of the album ÛÒ a rapper reflecting on life through a God-fearing lens that seems so deeply rooted within him it...
by snoadmin | Dec 30, 2016 | End of the Year Awards
Oh, high school me. How naÌøve you were. I now laugh at the amount of times I turned up my nose at the fantastic music that Kanye put out, while secretly hoping that “ Gold Digger” would come on the school bus radio, or that the DJ at my junior prom would put on “...
by snoadmin | Dec 30, 2016 | End of the Year Awards
I have a problem with the cinematic classic Grease: namely the message sent when Sandy Dee transforms from pastel-clad bobby soxer to cigarette-puffing, rule-breaking sex kitten for the attention of some boy. Clearly, no one sat her down to talk about the importance...
by snoadmin | Dec 29, 2016 | End of the Year Awards
I don’t know what the world did to deserve Solange, but girllllll I’m so thankful for her. We can all admit that 2016 wasn’t the best. In a year full of turmoil, black girls shined. No matter what anyone did or said to keep us down, we sprang back...
by snoadmin | Dec 29, 2016 | End of the Year Awards
It’s impossible to discuss “Shut Up Kiss Me” — the highlight single from Angel Olsen’s My Woman ÛÒ without also discussing “The Waiting,” probably the most accessible track on Olsen’s 2012 release, Half Way Home. A mousy, country...
