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Ed Piskor is far from shy when it comes to discussing his love of comics, hip hop and Pro Wrestling. His first major body...
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Ed Piskor is far from shy when it comes to discussing his love of comics, hip hop and Pro Wrestling. His first major body...
Words and Photographs by Sophie Bramly Published by Soul Jazz Books Hip-Hop is king. For all the mainstream music dominance convincingly chronicled during this...
A few years ago, while I was the 2012 San Diego Comic Con, I picked up a book from the Top Shelf Books Booth...
It seems that since its arrival into mainstream culture in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, hip-hop music has embraced the world of comics....
It is safe to say at this point that Marvel’s Luke Cage is a force of nature. It’s already took down the streaming service...
A few years ago, in the wake of Trayvon Martin’s death and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, my nerd-pop culture mind...
Review by Joshua Gravel Produced by Yoshinori Chiba, Nobuhiro Iizuka Based on the Manga by Santa Inoue Written and Directed by Shion Sono Starring...
Last week, I waxed poetic about the beloved era in which every big-budget summer movie had an accompanying rap song to help promote the...
With Labor Day behind us, the summer movie season has come to a close and the studios are either counting their coins or licking...
Today, I want to talk a bit about pop culture irony. Not irony in pop culture, which we’ve long had enough of. But ironic...
As I come up on a year since my father died of cancer last August, I have been reflecting on what this past year...
Money, power, glory, sex, sin, family, secrets, intrigue, melodrama and music. Mix them together, with a dash of messy black realness, and Empire has...
Two talented artists have some campaigning ending really soon so I grabbed them to tell us about their projects. One is more familiar to...
I can’t get that dang Iggy Azalea song out of my head. You know the one – “Fancy” – in which I-G-G-Y tells how,...
Just a little over 30 years ago, hip-hop and rap started to make a true cultural impact on movies. Wild Style, Krush Groove, and...
If there’s one thing about my black nerd life that typically means I don’t fit in with mainstream ideas of what it means to...
The promos may well proclaim Quentin Tarantino Presents The Man With the Iron Fists, and I’m sure Tarantino’s name has helped raise awareness in...
It’s pretty refreshing to check out something so pure of awesomeness that is Book of Rhymes, a new animated project from Distrakt. The renaissance...
“Do it ‘cause you love it or for cash, that’s your decision.” In the last ten years, rap music has taken over an increasingly...
While he touches on several subjects, Atlanta’s Killer Mike is mostly known for the sociopolitical commentary in his lyrics and is often referred...
I used to think that Pitbull didn’t know how to rap. I didn’t really start listening to Pitbull until the release of his 2011...
I heard the news late last Friday afternoon: Adam Yauch, The Beastie Boys’ venerable, beloved MCA, had died at age 47. I was floored. The...
Yauch, aka MCA of the Beastie Boys has passed away following a lengthy battle with cancer. Read more here. Condolences to his family and...
Billy Joel & Hip-Hop are like gin and tonic (or “tonic and gin”)… great together! Digest that for a moment. Now, I’m not saying...