Life in Pink

It is May 2019, almost the halfway mark of the year. Summer is quickly approaching which means that hip-hop and R&B hits will be flowing in, in no time. Look out for the new Megan Thee Stallion and Ari Lennox on the way. Two of my personal favorites ScHoolboy Q and Rico Nasty recently released music as well. I'm looking forward to the DJ Khaled songs that are sure to come too. For right now, I'd like to take a moment (this entire blog is the moment) to look back at one of the best albums of 2018. It received the Grammy Award for Best Urban Contemporary Album at the 61st Annual Grammy awards this past February. That album is Everything is Love by The CARTERS. It was released in June of 2018, almost a whole year later and I probably have not gone a week without listening to at least one song on the album. It’s that good. Every time I listen to it I have a new favorite song. Since its duration is not very long (9 songs, 38 minutes) it remains on my Heavy Rotation list on

       As of late, my favorite phrase to say whether it be in a serious manner or in a playful way is, “Let me tell you something…” it is usually proceeded by a funny joke or anything that i feel needs to be said. The phrase comes as a natural line when having a conversation with someone to inform them of what you want to say. There is a video somewhere on Beyoncé’s Internet, of a young man wearing a fake mustache, running into the camera and pointing saying, “Let me tell you something.”         Well I come not running towards a camera but writing this, saying this to whomever may be reading, “Let me tell you something…” followed by the title of this post, “don’t talk to me today.” Don’t talk to me unless you have something useful to say. Unless you have something meaningful to say. Unless you have something to contribute to today’s conversation. That conversation, is the conversation about how it feels to be alive in this political climate. What today's political climate perpet