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web quotables · by Rafi Kam
Black people celebrate like THIS. Half-black people celebrate like THIS.
Today I bring you a few nuggets from my recent panning for web gold. You can pretty much skip these long articles now that you’ve read the best parts.
You post-literate bastards have no reason to skip the J-Smooth video though.
Progressive Boink looks back at Brewster’s Millions
Quotable:
In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, Richard Pryor, in addition to being adept at opening things, perfected not only the “black man out of his element” formula, but the nearly-as-popular “black man and white man begrudgingly getting into shenanigans together” with the stalwart Gene Wilder at his side. He even gave us the template for all “black man fish out of water” movies to follow with his 1982 movie “The Toy”, which could also have been called “Slavery=LOL”.
Status Ain’t Hood’s BET Awards recap
Quotable:
At the end of the song, all three Destiny’s Child members pose next to each other on elevated columns, and for some reason Solange Knowles joins all of them. This is all some pretty great spectacle, but Beyonce can’t just retroactively make Solange a member of Destiny’s Child, can she? Can she?
Ill Doctrine: Truth, Poets and Money
Quotable:
When you see Young Jeezy and Jim Jones, they’re not some innocent paupers who are reporting their reality. They’re sophisticated businessmen who are selling you reality-flavored cheeseburgers.
Comments for "web quotables"
ha, Solange is gonna be the Benzino of Destiny’s Child, 6 months from now their press releases will list her as “co-founder”
That brewster’s post is off the hook.
— jay smooth Jun 28, 08:23 PM
jay is the Christopher Hitchens of hip hop
— DEFRAMON Jun 29, 03:37 AM
jay is the investigative reporter for Hip Hop…good video.
— Mark Twain Fame Jun 29, 12:16 PM