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Introducing Keith Sweat’s SweatFest 2015, the Ultimate Keith Sweat Festival
If you think “Keith Sweat” is simply a stage name, it’s clear you don’t know sweat about living that Sweat life. He was born Keith Douglas Crier in 1961, and it wasn’t long before young Keith realized...
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Going Way Too Deep Down the Rabbit Hole With Nicki Minaj’s Recent Bar Mitzvah...
Age 13: when amazing truly happens. There are few life milestones as mentally bananas for a human male as being a seventh-grader. This is true for a number of physiological reasons, but also because...
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‘Rembert Explains’ Podcast: On the Unrest in Baltimore
On Tuesday, this episode of Rembert Explains was recorded following the previous night’s unrest in Baltimore. A collection of writers — Jamil Smith, Doreen St. Felix, Hillary Crosley Coker, Jamilah...
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R.I.P., Grooveshark: A Tribute to a Great Home for Obscure Music, Illegally...
It was all good just a month ago. #ff @Grooveshark — Rembert Browne (@rembert) March 30, 2015 This day was like many other days. Every few months, the same scenario would present itself. A song would...
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‘Rembert Explains’ Podcast: Shani Hilton on Baltimore, Online Criticism, and...
BuzzFeed News executive editor Shani Hilton joins Rembert Browne to talk Baltimore, what it’s like to never take vacations, and how dealing with criticism online has changed. Listen to the podcast...
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Let Fetty Wap Take You to the Summer
“I’m like, ‘Hey, what’s up, hello.'” That’s how Fetty Wap’s love note begins in his song “Trap Queen,” but that is in no way the beginning of the song. An entire opera happens in the 14 seconds before...
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Welcome Home, Hamburglar. Sorry I Forgot About You. I’ll Never Do It Again.
He’s home. My old friend is home. Wait, is this who we think it is??! https://t.co/rc9xhQrAUi — McDonald's (@McDonalds) May 6, 2015 When I first heard the news, I couldn’t believe it. I never thought...
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Songs of the Week: A$AP Rod Stewart, Billy Joel, and the Progeny of Will Smith
Nick Catchdubs ft. Iamsu! & Jay Ant, “Bizness” Smoke Machine, the new album from Fool’s Gold Records cofounder Nick Catchdubs, sounds like summer. Not exactly in that Sheryl Crow way of sitting on...
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A Hawks Fan and a Wizards Fan Walk Into Verizon Center for Atlanta-D.C. Game 3
The Hawks and the Wizards are in the middle of the Eastern Conference semifinals. What the series may lack in sex appeal, it makes up with scientific intrigue: If two sports cities are doomed by...
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Trailer Breakdown: A Scene-by-Scene Analysis of NBC’s Upcoming ‘People Are...
A most glorious week is upon us: the upfronts, a time for the networks to unveil their programming for the following year, spend a ton of money on the rollout, and occasionally party in the process....
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(A Very Rare Edition of) Trailers of the Week: ‘Crimson Peak,’ ‘Vacation,’...
Rembert Browne: Last we spoke — June 7, 2013 — we were praising what would surely become a hit, the Aubrey Plaza–led The To Do List. How could a film with Plaza, Donald Glover, Connie Britton, and Bill...
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Stem the Tidal: How Jay Z Is Trying to Gain the Trust of Fans (and Old...
It’s not hard to feel indifferent about Jay Z these days. This is not ideal for Jay because the only thing worse than people disliking him is people not caring. Antipathy, while worrisome, at least...
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Thoughts on the ‘Wild Wild West’ Video Movie Awards Performance, for...
Typically, on the Internet, nostalgia is thrown on things from our past when an appropriate, relevant date presents itself. A peg, if you will. But sometimes, it just feels right to discuss something...
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Rembert Explains: What REALLY Happened Behind the Scenes of ‘Designing Women’
Before TMZ, and even before the Internet, there was celebrity drama. But where was it? And who was involved? And how did people find out? Rembert Browne investigates. Dixie didn’t show up. You see, on...
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In Memoriam, in Celebration: The 2014-15 Atlanta Hawks
There was a moment in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals — a brief moment — when I thought the Atlanta Hawks would win the game, and then rattle off three more wins, and then make the NBA Finals,...
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My ‘Desk Rescue’: Jon Taffer of ‘Bar Rescue’ Stages a Cubicle Intervention
The best show on television is Spike’s Bar Rescue. This is not an opinion. This is a fact, one that everyone in the know knows to be true. The basic premise, in case you’ve been living under a Mad...
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15 Important Questions About Baron Davis’s New Jheri Curl
On yesterday’s episode of ESPN’s First Take, retired NBA star Baron Davis gave more than just a refined, measured opinion on the 2015 NBA Finals. He also premiered a high-and-tight, next-level Jheri...
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The Tom Brady Dancing Video Is the Realest Thing You Will See All Day
Before I fell asleep last night, a link made its way onto my phone, as links so often do. It was allegedly a video of Tom Brady dancing. It was accompanied by a blog post from the island of Great...
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Janet. Jackson. Is. Back. You Can Rejoice Now.
Janet Jackson has a new single. It’s the first time we’ve heard her voice since Kendrick Lamar sampled “Any Time, Any Place” for 2012’s “Poetic Justice” and her first new music since the 2008 album...
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Why I Did That: The New Atlanta Hawks Jerseys
Welcome to Why I Did That, a series in which someone explains why they did something — typically a “something” that’s the cause of much debate. The first installation of Why I Did That comes from...
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