[Review] The Quad – 02×01 ‘#INLOVEANDTROUBLE’

The Quad is an hour-long, HBCU-themed television drama series created by Felicia D. Henderson and Charles D. Holland and developed by Rob Hardy. It airs Tuesdays at 10:00 P.M. EST/9:00 P.M CST on BET. You can also check out episodes on BET’s website if you can’t watch it on television or missed it. The show features a diverse cast of mostly black actors from a variety of ages, experience, and appearances including Anika Noni Rose, Zoe Renee Thomas, Jazz Raycole, Jake Allyn, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Michelle DeFraites, Peyton Alex Smith, Sean Blakemore, and E. Roger Mitchell. The series premiere was produced by David Grace, written by Henderson, and directed by Michael Allowitz. Guest performances included RonReaco Lee, Redaric Williams, Seth Kuhlmann, Aeja Lee, Katlynn Simone, Miles Stroter, and Larry Rhem. The show follows nine characters in their lives surrounding the HBCU that is Georgia A&M University, abbreviated as GAMU. It features intense situations and scenes such as (physical and sexual) assault, relationship drama, death and grief, drug dealing, street violence, power dynamics, hazing, toxic masculinity, police brutality, family drama, abuse, structural and institutional antiblack racism, poverty, and social pressures.

[Review] Black Lightning 01×01 ‘Pilot’

I wrote a review on my Tumblr blog already, but I will fluff it out and add some other comments. It will all be under the cut, but first of all, I want to say that Black Lightning is a much needed show, and it was about time that there was a show dedicated to black superhero family that didn’t focus on light skin or high yellow black women with brown skin or dark skin black male counterparts. Also, that included a wlw character in the family because, guess what, black queer people exist, and we are everywhere. We are the ones creating and maintaining black culture. We’re the ones dying for existing. We’re the ones putting in work. We’re the ones bettering ourselves. Anyway, once again, I’m not a professional reviewer, and I’m still new to reviewing, so this isn’t the best, but here we go.

X4 – 声にしたなら English translation lyricso

歌詞 かし 英訳 えいやく えいご 英語 日本語
ロマン字 ひらがな ふりがな 松下優也 まつしたゆうや
X4 Matsushita Yuya Lyrics Japanese Hiragana English Lyrics

[ALBUM REVIEW] Mhysa – fantasii

I am not good at reviews. This is my first ever review, and I specifically did this album because I was supposed to listen to Mhysa for the longest, but I kept putting her off because of executive dysfunction. I’m glad that I finally got to it.

List of upcoming albums of 2018

I wanted to have a list of artists to remember to check out for 2018, both artists I love and artists whom are new to me. I forget about all the great artists out there worth checking out, so I wanted to have a concise article that included all of them, and I wanted to share my interest with my readers. Some of these albums and pre-releases I’ve heard already while others are new to me and expectant. I wanted to make clear that this is an album-only list. Singles, mini-albums, and extended plays are only mention if they are pre-releases. I’ll update this article periodically. The format is (YYYY.MM.DD)

Films to Anticipate in 2018

I read BGN’s list of films that will present at Sundance 2018, and I wanted to keep track of which films I found most interest for later releases.