Aldous Huxtable

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MADE A VIDEO. MADE A MIXTAPE.

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Famous Dex - "Get Ya Geek On"

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Everything on P4K's top 50 albums list for the year except for like, Compton.

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"Got a dark skin friend that look like Rachel Dolezal/Got a light skin friend that look like Rachel Dolezal" If you have time, seek out Lady Leshurr's entire Queen's Speech series, it's a lot on fun and she raps her LITERAL ASS OFF. Like, she no longer has a butt because of her ability to rap well.

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VIOLA DAVIS X HISTORY 

“In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line. But I can’t seem to get there no how. I can’t seem to get over that line.” That was Harriet Tubman in the 1800s. And let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.” Her speech is Peak-worthy alone.

But to me, the pop culture moment that exemplifies Peak Blackness to me more than any other moment this year so far is what happened before Viola even made it to the stage. 

I had a long ass post keyed up because I got emotional watching this hug earlier this morning, but It doesn’t matter what I think, as long that it’s known, stated and officially recorded on this Tumblr that Black women are magical in their support and love and strength and goddamn this is so Peak look at that hug you can’t defeat what’s meant to be damn I’m emotional again Peak Peak Peak Peak

Ernest 

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Today marks 4 years of my Aldous Huxtable playlist. It would take you 16 days to listen to every song. Just hit shuffle.

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This is a very important video. 

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The Aldous Huxtable Music List 2014©

I have a sinking feeling that Nicki's album is going to be butt, so I'm doing this now.

"Songs that made me want to commit a felony in 2014"

"Old English" - Young Thug feat. Freddie Gibbs and A$AP Ferg

"Friendly" - Beatking feat. Kirko Bangz

"My Nigga" - YG feat. RIch Homie Quan and Young Jeezy

"IDFWU" Big Sean feat. E-40 

"You Guessed It" - OG Maco

"Fight Night" - Migos

"Real" - Freddie Gibbs & Madlib

"We Dem Boyz" - Wiz Khalifa

"Meet The Flockers" - YG feat. Teecee

"Songs that made me feel like I was rich even though I have student loan debt so massive it makes me cry at times"

"Givenchy" - Rich Gang

"No Type" - Rae Sremmurd

"Busy Earnin'" - Jungle

"Preben Goes To Acapulco" - Todd Terje

"We Made It (Freestyle)" - Drake feat. Soulja Boy

"Tuesday" - ILoveMakonnen

"Songs that I'm probably dancing to in my underwear at home as you read this"

"Uptown Funk" - Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars

"Everyone" - Duck Sauce

"Yasss Bitch" - Nicki Minaj feat. Soulja Boy

"Loyal" - Chris Brown feat. Lil' Wayne and Tyga

"Paralyzed" - Mystery Skulls

"Problem" - Ariana Grande feat. The Australian 

"2 On" - Tinashe feat. Schoolboy Q

"This Is How We Do" - Katy Perry 

Best song that includes the lyric, "Turn your face into a pizza"

"Try Me" - Dej Loaf

"Chicago ain't dead, these hoes just scared" 

"Irie Trill Vibes' - Joey Purp

"Dead or In Prison" - Lil' Bibby

"Pimp On" - White Gzus feat. Mano

"On The Corner" - Lil' Herb

"B.O.N." - King Louie

"Vibration" - Alex Wiley

"Bussin" - Sir Michael Rocks feat. Iamsu! and Casey Veggies

"Lonely" - Speaker Knockerz

"I'm an Opp" - Bo Deal (This came out in 2013, but it's important and should have gotten more attention.) 

"Songs that I would play the next time you're making love unless you have subpar stroke game" 

"How Many Times" - Tinashe

"A Place To Start (Jamie Lidell remix)" - White Denim

"Studio" - Schoolboy Q feat. BJ The Chicago Kid

"Drown In It" - Chris Brown feat. R. Kelly (I know, I know.)

The entire fka Twigs "LP1" album (Remember to stretch and hydrate.)

"Songs that I would play the next time you're making love if the person you're making love to has a couple priors" 

"Smile" - Beatking 

"Ten Freaky Hoes" - 100s

"Songs that reminded me that not matter how much I try and hide it, I used to live in the suburbs"

Killer Be Killed - Wings of Feather and Wax

Death From Above 1979 - Government Trash 

State Champs - Elevated

My Mouth Is The Speaker - Your New Apartment

Lgbt - Lowell

Girl In A Country Song - Maddie & Tay

"Three fire ass songs that only exist on Vine"

2014 music moment that my mother and I were both hyped about

THE MOTHERFUCKING S.O.S. BAND DROPPED A NEW SONG!

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[thenocoast-deactivated20210403]

Ernest Wilkins.

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Alan and I did a photo shoot for #NoDN. I tried to replicate as many rapper poses as humanly possible. 

Hat: Leaders 1354

Bomber: Fat Tiger Works

Sweatshirt: Hovet Menswear

Joggers: Nike

Shoes: Nike

Coffee: Intelligentsia 

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#beyonce

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Kudos to This Guy (Really)

Earlier this week, we posted about this guy, a British scientist named Matt Taylor. Why? Well, it’s probably pretty obvious. The picture above is Taylor answering press questions at Philae landing event, and he (for some reason) chose to honor what’s probably the high point of his career by wearing a bowling shirt covered in scantily-clad women.

Why’s that a problem? Well, there are basic sartorial reasons, the kind of thing we might write about on our blog if it were targeted at guys who land spacecraft on comets. Like it’s a horribly ugly shirt, and it’s completely unsuited for such a momentous occasion. The real reason, though, is that engineering is a field that’s historically been hostile to women, and to wear a sexy ladies-themed shirt on so public a day as that one sends exactly the wrong message. A message that crosses from distasteful into nasty.

But this is a post about what he did right.

Yesterday, Taylor apologized. Sincerely.

He said: “I made a big mistake and I offended many people, and I’m very sorry about this.” And he even cried, which there’s no reason to believe was a show.

That’s a really decent thing to do. 

I’m reminded of my friend Jay Smooth’s video How To Tell Someone They Sound Racist. When you’re accused of bias, it’s easy to assume your humanity is under indictment, and not your actions. The kneejerk reply is to say, “I didn’t do something sexist, because I’m not a sexist.” In other words: to have done something wrong, you have to have been malicious. Not just have had malicious intent, but to be fundamentally evil. And since none of us think we’re evil, we can’t have done something wrong.

Much harder is to say, “I don’t believe in sexism, and for that reason, I apologize for my mistake.” To recognize an error and to accept responsibility for behaving differently in the future is a brave thing to do. That’s what Taylor did, sincerely, and I tip my cap to him.

Here’s the thing: when you have the upper hand in society, it’s easy to leave your decisions unexamined. It’s easy to assume something is neutral that’s actually hurtful to others. If Taylor were one of two or three men on a team with fifteen women, those circumstances would have made him to think about what effect wearing that shirt would have. Odds are, though, that the numbers were reversed, that there were many more men than women. That circumstance never asked him to examine his assumptions. And that any woman who was bothered by it figured it was easier to just not say anything.

We write this over and over at Put This On: your clothes communicate. They talk to the world before you open your mouth. Think about what they say.

And if you make a mistake? Cop to it, and apologize. Like Matt Taylor did. That’s being a grown-up.

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Why I'm leaving New York

Later today, I'll be leaving New York City. After spending the last three days here, the city has changed so much that it's nearly unrecognizable to long-time natives like myself. While eating an egg sandwich in bed yesterday morning after a booze-filled romp with the luxurious daughter of a Prime Minister from a former USSR nation, I kept lamenting to her on what a strange and luxurious world I was now in. When did everything start being about the money? Where did the heart of this city go, and was it gone forever? Where were the fun people I danced with two nights ago? Why was there arugula on my egg sandwich? Mostly, I wondered: What happened to the New York I remembered? Over steak frites at Balthazar, I expressed my frustration to my dining companions: Cage, a cagey heroin dealer to the stars, Glenn O'Brien's cousin Tyjuan, Ernest Baker, a friendly pile of old towels that we thought was Cat Marnell and a extradited Senegalese warlord that I befriended in a dice game after he tried to cut my finger off when I tried to pay in Bitcoin. They assured me, the only constant in this city was change itself. Is that truth? Could it be that the city that made me who I am over the last 72 hours couldn't ever love me the way I grew to love it? I'm leaving tonight at 5 p.m. Flying to Chicago, a cheese-stuffed, bacon-wrapped monolith where I'll attempt to ply my trade as a writer. Seeing as I'm doing my new city a favor by living in New York then moving, I'll be sure to loudly compare the two cities in every possible way, even when it doesn't make sense to do so. I owe it to the bathroom in Baby's All Right I threw up in. I owe it to that long line I waited in down in Chinatown that I thought was for a secret show but just ended up being a fruit market. I owe it to the guy on the Soho House roof deck who asked me if I had the time. I owe it to my New York. Ernest Wilkins is a writer who's leaving New York. Mostly because his flight leaves at 5.

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[cordjefferson]

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Dating with the RZA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEMXpZxXdNY

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All songs mixed by masted by Michael Kolar @ Soundscape Studios, Chicago, IL Track 1 mixed by LboogieTHEM Tracks 4 & 5 mixed by Hippie Sabotage Booking: [email protected] Press: [email protected] @Alex_Wiley @ClosedSessions (c) Closed Sessions 2014. But sounds like 2045