When you hear the name Colin Farrell, and you’re like, Hmm, wow—seems like that guy hasn’t dated anyone in about four years? That’s because it’s on purpose, okay?

Toni Morrison is releasing a new novel entitled God Help the Child this month and it’s guaranteed to be a continuation of her revolutionary position in literature; a writer who pens black stories about black people without regard for the mainstream.

Kendrick Lamar, rap’s wunderkid, is engaged to his longtime girlfriend Whitney Alford. I assume they are going to play UGK’s “Int’l Players Anthem,” America’s unofficial official wedding song, to proclaim their baeness to the world because, who doesn’t?

The fact that Kendrick Lamar premiered the video for "King Kunta" on a Times Square billboard for a headphone company that Dr. Dre sold to Apple for $3 billion should not be lost: Compton officially came up, and Kendrick is here to floss the irrefutable Comptonness of it all. It's a "mama we made it" moment, his…

Rapsody, a North Carolina MC who guests on Kendrick Lamar's critically acclaimed To Pimp a Butterfly, released a new video for her single "The Man," highlighting police brutality, poverty and parental abandonment. The clip is from her 2014 project Beauty and the Beast, which dropped in October, and while that…

At UC Berkeley, a tenured mental health policy professor named Steven Segal has found himself in a bit of trouble, thanks to his conflation of black-on-black crime with the Black Lives Matter movement, and his eagerness to blame victims of oppression for their oppression—which is probably easy when you're not…

Kendrick Lamar just released the blackest rap song of the year so far, "The Blacker the Berry." It's produced by Boi-1Da, has a hook sung by dancehall star Assassin and a tough beat that's the perfect accomplice for the nonstop gut punch of his lyrics. On the heels of his now Grammy-winning self-love anthem "i," this…

Billboard interviewed Kendrick Lamar in the lead-up to his highly anticipated album I and, unsurprisingly, he was nothing short of interesting. Among the many topics touched upon by the West Coast rapper was creative process (he works through the night with a tight-knit group of musicians he's dubbed "vampires"),…

Last night, Woody Harrelson hosted SNL with Kendrick Lamar as the musical act, and man there were a lot of cameos going on, starting with the cast of the Hunger Games crashing Harrelson's monologue. Aaaand that's about when the countless references to Harrelson's drug use took off. Oh boy!

Now that you've found the strength to admit you might actually like Taylor Swift, the next step is to make her an even more inescapable part of your existence. Here's something to help—"Backseat Shakeoff." The Hood Internet fused Swift's "Shake It Off" with Kendrick Lamar's "Backseat Freestyle," an electric track…

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On Tuesday night, Dej Loaf took the stage in a mink. Or fox, or sable—whatever it was, it was fluffy fur, the age-old symbol, especially in hip-hop, that you're finally rich. The 23-year-old wore it with a flair that was unmistakably of Detroit, the flashy style of her hometown, accessorized with her omnipresent…

Who didn't see this coming? Despite the mixed reviews of Kendrick Lamar's latest single, "i," there are benefits to making a universal anthem about self-love. Like having that song become a promotional soundtrack for the National Basketball Association.