August 10, 2018 1 Is Eric Benet right about the state of rap and R&B? Man, a playa takes a couple of days off from Internet shenanigans and I return to see that Eric Benet has [...]
June 24, 2018 0 20 Questions: 2018 BET Awards Recap Like most of you reading this, I have a love-hate relationship with the BET Awards. I WANT them to win every [...]
May 11, 2018 0 R. Kelly is Terrible. But Is That Enough to Ban His Music On Spotify? Most people have an emotional attachment to music. Those lyrics and notes we love leave us awash with [...]
April 17, 2018 1 Beychella: How Beyonce’s Coachella Performance Became Her Finest Hour So, um, nah, I didn’t watch Beyonce’s Coachella performance live with the rest of y’all in the wee [...]
April 3, 2018 4 Why 1998 Was A Game-Changing Year For Hip-Hop & R&B Here’s an enlightening fact for the senior citizens in the house – 1998 was 20 years ago. Yes, that [...]
January 15, 2018 0 Everything You Need to Know About Marvel’s Black Panther We’re just ONE MONTH out from what Black Twitter has already declared the greatest movie in the history [...]
December 21, 2017 2 The Playa Please Awards: The Worst Celebrity & Pop Culture Nonsense of 2017 Back in 2011 when I wrote the first edition of the Playa Please Awards, I figured it would be a one-off [...]
November 20, 2017 0 Like Talking Music? Join the Soul In Stereo Cypher on Facebook Wanna know my favorite part about social media? Other than trolling deluded music stans, that is. At its [...]
October 11, 2017 0 Eminem’s Trump-Trashing Freestyle – A Three-Point Analysis My bad, y’all, I had planned to do our yearly wrap-up of the BET Hip-Hop Awards but dumb ol’ [...]
September 27, 2017 0 Yonkers Singer Tina Yao Ready to Reload With New Album S.H.O.T.S. Don’t play with her money. Or her emotions. Tina Yao, an emerging singer/songwriter from [...]