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The Death of VIBE

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
 

  I first started reading Vibe sometime in middle school when the pages were extra big and it was hard to hold the magazine up without my arms hurting because it was so damn thick and heavy. When Angela and I met over four years ago we bonded over the fact that we both wanted to write for Vibe magazine someday.  So when she texted me this morning to tell me that Read More

The West Shall Rise Again

Friday, December 5th, 2008
All week Vibe.com has been highlighting artists they believe will put the west back on the map since Dr. Dre is taking almost ten years to put out a new CD and Snoop is doing reality TV.  They picked a good bunch (U-N-I, Shawn Jackson, Diz Gibran) but our favorite would have to be Read More

This Song Hurts My Soul

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
I currently live in ATL, which is cool for the most part-- even non-blacks eat grits down here! But one thing that bothers me is the random garbage they let get air time on the radio.  On my drives home I've had to put up with  Vibe's Future of Hip Hop (aka Plies) slurring barely-intelligible nothings in my ear, rappers that sound like chipmunks asking me "what's up with that… Read More