Everybody has a J. Cole in the friend group — the one you love regardless but gets on your last nerve. Never shuts up, thinks they’re a lot smarter than they really are, often offensive. If you can’t immediately name this person in your friend group you are the J. Cole.

We were so unserious!

Imagine trying to explain “If the glove don’t quit, you must acquit” to a young person today.

There are a lot of people who would say that poetry isn’t for them. But poet laureate @AdaLimon isn’t buying that.

On #VibeCheckPod , she tells @SamSanders, Saeed Jones and Zach Stafford the best way to get started with poetry.
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Jumanji is a series of jungle emergencies.

*that part*

Being provocative just to be provocative — for no greater reveal, for no larger point — it’s just a waste of viewers’ time! Especially if you aren’t even making them laugh in the process.

At first I thought the problem with Jerrod’s reality show was that he was sharing way too much stuff publicly that he hadn’t privately made peace with yet. But now I realized that the real problem with Jerrod’s show is that he is not funny

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Miracles still happen

This email reply-all apocalypse could have been an HBO limited series

Need this eclipse to come on and get it over with tired of hearing about her

“As serious scholarship has shown, the right-wing rage we need to worry about is not coming from deep-red rural areas,” Tyler Austin Harper writes. “It is coming from cities and suburbs.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Reached the point of my Internet day where I am googling “government cheese caves.”

I wrote about Beyoncé's 'Cowboy Carter' vulture.com/article/beyonc…

BIG NEWS. VIBE CHECK IS NOW ON PATREON

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Someone just told me that every Easter Sunday they spend a lot of time thinking about how Jesus’ resurrection story kinda of makes him… the original zombie
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AND NOW I CAN NOT STOP THINKING ABOUT THAT

has a man released an album this year like at all

Opera on a country album!

A lot of you are missing this: Beyoncé released a pretty long artist’s statement about the new album, and it’s quite revelatory!!!

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