Ever since D-Level actor Jussie Smollett falsely claimed that two white men physically assaulted him, doused him in bleach, tied a rope around his neck, all while using racial slurs (it sounds even more ridiculous now than it did back then), there has been an increase in phony racial incidents.

The song, which was uplifted by outstanding production from producer Dot Da Genius, Cudi discusses his battle with depression back in 2016. But who cares about that when Eminem is once again rapping about political issues?

For some strange reason, major Democratic-run metropolises are experiencing huge spikes in violence. Over the Independence Day weekend in Chicago, there were 87 people shot with 17 fatalities. In Atlanta, there were 31 people shot with 5 fatalities.

Another example of that same freedom arose on the night of Independence Day, as Hip-Hop sensation Kanye West announced that he is running for the United States presidency. In many other countries around the world an entertainer, a Black entertainer at that, would not be able to run for that nation’s presidency.

When music icon Pharrell Williams starts pushing the narrative that Juneteenth should be a national paid holiday or starts talking about canceling July 4th, his followers will blindly agree. What if Pharrell’s wishes became a reality?

Cameron Jerrell Newton is a New England Patriot. That still doesn’t sound right. An emotional, inconsistent, aging, fashionably loud, braggadocios, chatty, inaccurate, diva quarterback with a growing list of injuries, who had an MVP season sprinkled among numerous mediocre seasons and who is past his peak was signed by the great Bill Belichick?

There are issues us Blacks are (or should be) fully aware of, but perhaps we cannot see the forest for the trees. Sometimes it takes an outsider to point out the obvious to us. Example number one is Piers Morgan.

They will not stop until the “A” in “USA” stands for Anarchy. Now is the time look that bully square in the eye, speak your piece, and make a stand for what you believe in. Now is the time to be fearless.

Even though it is usually better to keep moving forward, Hip-Hop should dig into the bag of nostalgia once more and bring back Child Rebel Soldier. Sometimes abbreviated to CRS, Child Rebel Soldier was a Hip-Hop supergroup consisting of Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco, and Pharrell Williams.

September 1, 2016 was the date that changed the NFL forever. That night in San Diego was when then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick decided to kneel for the National Anthem.