The brown/black folk thread #DSF

[Himu]

It's one of those things where I know I shouldn't care for all the reasons Toku said that still russles me up when I see it. Can't explain it.

[Mr. Nobody]

Toku summed it up perfectly but I'd be lying if I said I still don't feel some type of way about it.

[Himu]

Like, I'm down with people like EricP. People who respect the culture, genuinely like it, and show actual attempt for understanding towards it. I'm not down with the traditional wigger who calls people nicca on fb.

There's a line, and more often than not it feels crossed, unfortunately? Am I articulating myself right here?

[toku]

Like, I'm down with people like EricP. People who respect the culture, genuinely like it, and show actual attempt for understanding towards it. I'm not down with the traditional wigger who calls people nicca on fb.

There's a line, and more often than not it feels crossed, unfortunately? Am I articulating myself right here?

No you're on point. For me it's all about balance. Not a great example but say I was a DJ. It's okay to like and play an Iggy track but I might follow it up with Tink or Sasha Go Hard etc. PoC just below the surface who might be futher had they been shades lighter or born somewhere else:

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She is being mentored/picked up by Timbaland though so I'm hoping she ends up winning but we'll see.

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[nudemacusers]

this is why whenever i buy some expensive euro streetwear clothing, I buy a pair of nikes too.

[Himu]

speaking of more black/brown people shit

can we talk about how badly this guy fell off



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[toku]

When I first moved to the US I learned quick to not tell people I was from Jamaica because the weed and bob marley questions were endless.

[Phoenix Dark]

More often than not "cultural appropriation" is a misused term when it comes to hip hop. It has become a catch-all complaint about white people in hip hop, and I think that's corny. Personally I don't like Macklemore's music...but I'm not going to say he's "stealing" anything. He grew up listening to rap and sounds like an aughts backpacker, all the way down to the awkward flow. Iggy Azaliea...meh. From what I understand she was a model/pop singer who turned into a rapper. That's more egregious but then again, rap is full of shit like that, plus "fake" people. Look at Tyga yall. Should he get a pass because he's black? What about Drake?

The majority of the biggest rappers in the world (ie Drake, Hov, Wayne, Kanye, Kendrick, etc) remain black. What we're seeing recently is a demand for pop rap beyond "do molly/smoke weed" anthems. The most successful young rappers all talk about a variety of shit, identify with their fanbases, and understand how to make crossover rap. All we're seeing now is a wave of white artists doing what Kendrick, Drake, and Cole have been successfully doing over the last 4-5 years. That's it. Whether any of them have the staying power of those artists remains to be seen. I'd bet money Iggy will be thrown in the bushes very soon considering her album hasn't sold well and she's horrible live.

It's funny how white money has propped up hip hop since day one, yet now people are mad labels are pushing white rappers beyond just Eminem. Go see any rapper live and tell me what the audience looks like. White women dominate record purchases. If black people want to "take things back" they can start by buying some fucking music, or going to concerts. I've seen Robert Glasper and Esperanza Spalding live and was one of the only black people there. SMH.

[Mr. Nobody]

It's funny how white money has propped up hip hop since day one, yet now people are mad labels are pushing white rappers beyond just Eminem. Go see any rapper live and tell me what the audience looks like. White women dominate record purchases. If black people want to "take things back" they can start by buying some fucking music, or going to concerts. I've seen Robert Glasper and Esperanza Spalding live and was was one of the only black people there. SMH.

It's really baffling how folks claim hiphop is on a decline and how the majority of it is subpar now, but absolutely will not support what they do like. Will rant and rave about the leak but come release date? "I aint got it breh...it's real out here "

Now I'm no saint, I download albums too, but I make it a point to support artists I genuinely like and want to see succeed (even if I just keep the CDs in their shrinkwrap and just play the mp3s)

[Himu]

I like Macklemore. Not in the sense that I like his music, but in the sense that he brings diversity to rap. And diversity is good, right?

[Mr. Nobody]

I like Macklemore. Not in the sense that I like his music, but in the sense that he brings diversity to rap. And diversity is good, right?

 

[Stoney Mason]

It's really baffling how folks claim hiphop is on a decline and how the majority of it is subpar now, but absolutely will not support what they do like. Will rant and rave about the leak but come release date? "I aint got it breh...it's real out here (Image removed from quote.)"

Now I'm no saint, I download albums too, but I make it a point to support artists I genuinely like and want to see succeed (even if I just keep the CDs in their shrinkwrap and just play the mp3s)

While the same could be said for lots of genres when people say hip-hop is in decline or they don't like modern hip-hop, they mean the mainstream stuff that people listen to or seems to be popular.
Yes there was also bad stuff that was popular in the "good ol days" but it really was easier to navigate and find the good stuff.

I think it is much much harder to do that today. The popular stuff is mostly shit. And its much harder to just kick on the TV and listen to really good hip hop like in the past. So the impression the average person gets is that most of it is shit.

just my opinion.


There is also just a generation gap. There are a lot of older people who grew up liking hip hop but who don't have the time to spend looking for the good stuff and who really really detest the mainstream stuff now.

[toku]

Those tink tracks are tight toku, she got a quality project i should check out?

Winter's Diary 2 is her only real quality release but be warned, it's very much made in some chicago producers basement. Good news is because of it she got to do tracks with Jeremih, made that track with DJ Dahi and Timbaland scooped her up off it.

http://www.livemixtapes.com/mixtapes/25852/tink-winters-diary-2.html

Best way to describe it is imagine if One In A Million era Aaliyah rapped every now and then/willing to get a little grimey. It does have a Lil Herb feature though.

Stuff she dropped this year:
https://soundcloud.com/tink_g/dont-tell-nobody-ft-jeremih-prod-da-internz (probably the biggest one she dropped this year)
https://soundcloud.com/tink_g/abc-fantasies-tink
https://soundcloud.com/tink_g/try-me-tink-remix

[Himu]

I like Macklemore. Not in the sense that I like his music, but in the sense that he brings diversity to rap. And diversity is good, right?

 

I mean, not so much as what he looks like, but the content of his songs. He has his niche and it tends to be positive/quirky. This diversifies the genre. He's certainly not the only one doing it, but I feel like that can't be a bad thing in itself. It's why I also "like" Drake. I don't like his music much, but I like that he diversifies the genre by catering to a different demographic than standard rappers. A lot of hip hop heads have a problem with Drake, and cite that "he's not hip hop", but the problem is that hip hop, since the 00's, has become a homogeneous genre plagued with very little variety in subject matter. There have been plenty of rappers who cater to women in the past, and there will be some who cater to women in the future. This doesn't mean Drake isn't hip hop. I feel like a lot of hip hop fans are threatened by anything that goes against the status quo, which is partly why I abandoned the genre a long time ago. It is among the least progressive and most conservative of genres. Probably THE least progressive. But as an outside observer who mostly just listens to hip hop on the radio during my commute, they serve their niche, and there's no problem with that.

Now Iggy...for some reason she just rustles my shit.

[Mr. Nobody]

It's really baffling how folks claim hiphop is on a decline and how the majority of it is subpar now, but absolutely will not support what they do like. Will rant and rave about the leak but come release date? "I aint got it breh...it's real out here (Image removed from quote.)"

Now I'm no saint, I download albums too, but I make it a point to support artists I genuinely like and want to see succeed (even if I just keep the CDs in their shrinkwrap and just play the mp3s)

While the same could be said for lots of genres when people say hip-hop is in decline or they don't like modern hip-hop, they mean the mainstream stuff that people listen to either on the radio, or the stuff that was popular on the enthusiast shows like yo mtv raps/ rapcity, etc.

Yes there was also bad stuff that was popular but it really was easier to navigate and find the good stuff.

I think it is much much harder to do that today. The popular stuff is shit. And its much harder to just kick on the TV and listen to really good hip hop. So the impression the average person gets is that most of it is shit.

just my opinion.


There is also just a generation gap. There are a lot of older people who grew up liking hip hop but who don't have the time to spend looking for the good stuff and who are really really detest the mainstream stuff now.

I see what you're saying and you're not wrong, but I can't agree with folks not having the time to search for the good stuff. Yes, it's not as abundant as it was way back when as far as the radio or TV (though I can't think of anything now that would show videos on the regular on non-premium cable other than 106 and Park on BET and that's practically a fossil at this point), but it couldn't be easier to look for it today. All it takes is a quick Google search to find a treasure trove of good music, be it legally or illegally. Hell, if you have time to register on a forum and complain about the state of hiphop, you've got time to look for stuff that's more to your taste. 

[toku]

I think the biggest problem people have with Iggy is to see her cake off of rap so well, while being relatively new yet rap history is littered with black women who kinda squeeked by only to switch lanes or fade into obscurity. No one remembers Latifah for her rap career. No one under 30 remembers MC Lyte. Lil Kim and Foxy Brown are punchlines now etc. Meanwhile Iggy is outselling dudes and getting radio play. Nicki Minaj had to go twice as hard as most of her peers half sellout making trashy dubstep-lite hits to solidify her name.

[Mr. Nobody]

If only Flipmode didn't implode and Rah Digga dropped a sophomore effort closer to Dirty Harriet 

[Himu]

Most r&b doesn't sound like r&b to me anymore. Even the top r&b artists like Chris Brown mostly have a rap emphasis. R&B now sounds far too hip hop-ish to me. I like the traditional sound of Janelle Monae because it sounds like rhythm and blues to me. There's a line between r&b and pop. Just because you are a black singer does not make you r&b. For example, John Legend's latest stuff even has this electronic emphasis and it sounds like it's going along with trends rather than staying true to the genres roots. Even in the 80's/90's and New Jack Swing took off, it added a more contemporary element to it, but it was still identifably r&b. With horns, and piaanos, certain instruments at work. There was a line between r&b, pop, and rap.

So I like Janelle because she brings her own thing with a nice traditional r&b sound. Tbh, though I know you're trolling, you calling Janelle a black highlight reel just shows how much you don't know about r&b. Saying live instruments and the production is a black highlight reel is like calling playing an acoustic for a country song or an electric guitar for a rock song a white highlight reel. It's not. It's sticking to the genre bread and butter. It's like saying using samples in hip hop is being a black highlight reel. I know you want to troll, but it sounds mighty ignorant, dude. Janelle is not pop.

[Himu]

It's really baffling how folks claim hiphop is on a decline and how the majority of it is subpar now, but absolutely will not support what they do like. Will rant and rave about the leak but come release date? "I aint got it breh...it's real out here (Image removed from quote.)"

Now I'm no saint, I download albums too, but I make it a point to support artists I genuinely like and want to see succeed (even if I just keep the CDs in their shrinkwrap and just play the mp3s)

While the same could be said for lots of genres when people say hip-hop is in decline or they don't like modern hip-hop, they mean the mainstream stuff that people listen to either on the radio, or the stuff that was popular on the enthusiast shows like yo mtv raps/ rapcity, etc.

Yes there was also bad stuff that was popular but it really was easier to navigate and find the good stuff.

I think it is much much harder to do that today. The popular stuff is shit. And its much harder to just kick on the TV and listen to really good hip hop. So the impression the average person gets is that most of it is shit.

just my opinion.


There is also just a generation gap. There are a lot of older people who grew up liking hip hop but who don't have the time to spend looking for the good stuff and who are really really detest the mainstream stuff now.

I see what you're saying and you're not wrong, but I can't agree with folks not having the time to search for the good stuff. Yes, it's not as abundant as it was way back when as far as the radio or TV (though I can't think of anything now that would show videos on the regular on non-premium cable other than 106 and Park on BET and that's practically a fossil at this point), but it couldn't be easier to look for it today. All it takes is a quick Google search to find a treasure trove of good music, be it legally or illegally. Hell, if you have time to register on a forum and complain about the state of hiphop, you've got time to look for stuff that's more to your taste. 

For what it's worth, I think the genre is in a much better state than it was 10 years ago. Those days were terrible. I think it's the best its been since the late 90's. It's just that I outgrew it. Still can jam though.

[Mr. Nobody]

It's really baffling how folks claim hiphop is on a decline and how the majority of it is subpar now, but absolutely will not support what they do like. Will rant and rave about the leak but come release date? "I aint got it breh...it's real out here (Image removed from quote.)"

Now I'm no saint, I download albums too, but I make it a point to support artists I genuinely like and want to see succeed (even if I just keep the CDs in their shrinkwrap and just play the mp3s)

While the same could be said for lots of genres when people say hip-hop is in decline or they don't like modern hip-hop, they mean the mainstream stuff that people listen to either on the radio, or the stuff that was popular on the enthusiast shows like yo mtv raps/ rapcity, etc.

Yes there was also bad stuff that was popular but it really was easier to navigate and find the good stuff.

I think it is much much harder to do that today. The popular stuff is shit. And its much harder to just kick on the TV and listen to really good hip hop. So the impression the average person gets is that most of it is shit.

just my opinion.


There is also just a generation gap. There are a lot of older people who grew up liking hip hop but who don't have the time to spend looking for the good stuff and who are really really detest the mainstream stuff now.

I see what you're saying and you're not wrong, but I can't agree with folks not having the time to search for the good stuff. Yes, it's not as abundant as it was way back when as far as the radio or TV (though I can't think of anything now that would show videos on the regular on non-premium cable other than 106 and Park on BET and that's practically a fossil at this point), but it couldn't be easier to look for it today. All it takes is a quick Google search to find a treasure trove of good music, be it legally or illegally. Hell, if you have time to register on a forum and complain about the state of hiphop, you've got time to look for stuff that's more to your taste. 

For what it's worth, I think the genre is in a much better state than it was 10 years ago. Those days were terrible. I think it's the best its been since the late 90's. It's just that I outgrew it. Still can jam though.

Yeah, 2004 was rough mainstream-wise, but it was also the year we were blessed with Madvillainy, MM Food and UN or U Out 

[toku]

I like Cornel West mainly because I appreciate having a black intellectual in pop culture but I haven't really followed his career since late high school/early college.

Also, I like the way he talks.

[toku]

haha I think I unfollowed him on twitter because of that obama shit.

[Phoenix Dark]

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/10/charles-barkley-and-the-plague-of-unintelligent-blacks/382022/

[toku]

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/viral-walking-new-york-catcalling-video-edited-out-white-people-1472453

expect white liberals to automatically be your ally, brehs

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*loud cackle*

[toku]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/okla-man-decapitates-son-state-trooper-grisly-murder-cops-article-1.1993242

almost remove the son of a cop's head (still killing him) but get apprehended alive brehs

#whitesonly

[toku]

Man that shit still bugging me. Edited a harassment video to make men of color seem more sexually aggressive , how can you do something like that?

Just feels like such a blow to feminism to me.  Or something. I don't know

It is, but white feminism is the only feminism that matters so this will disappear in a day or two while the video gets millions and millions of views. Meanwhile women of color continue to be invisible.

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Until they say something that rubs some white girl the wrong way and the infighting flares up and woc get painted as villains...and you get the point

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[Phoenix Dark]

19mil views. They won already.

oh well. I got to see Kate Upton nude, I'll call it a draw and move on.

[PlayDat]

I'm kind of glad to hear this thread wasn't too hot on Dear White People.  A bunch of people invited me to see this, but I declined since the trailers made it seem way too pandering to be enjoyable.  I couldn't tell if the mostly positive response was just coming from people who were desperate to prove how progressive they were or if it's actually a good movie.   

I'm taking a sociology class right now (Could have been my minor, but I freaked out about my major last year, dropped a course, lost credit and still haven't made it all back up yet).  A couple weeks ago we watched the first hour of the Spike Lee movie Get on the Bus.  The professor kept gushing about how great it was and most of my classmates loved it.  I thought the movie (at least the first hour of it) was trash.  It was extremely heavy handed and didn't really provide much insight into the lives of the participants in the Million Man March or how the rest of the country reacted to it.  The central characters were fairly diverse, but you know everything about them within the first few minutes of meeting them.  No one grew out of the obvious archetypes they appeared to be.  Overall, the film made lots of surface level observations, but there wasn't much depth or subtlety which left me disappointed.  Again this was only the first hour so maybe things turn around after that. 

My reaction to the Spike Lee movie, plus disinterest in Dear White People had me legit getting worried that it was some sign of self-hatred that was preventing me from enjoying stories about black people.  When I was younger I'd say I definitely held more negative views on blackness that I still haven't completely unlearned.  It's the reason I find comfort in knowing I'm not the only one who thinks those movies kind of sucked.

[toku]

https://medium.com/@ericajoy/the-other-side-of-diversity-1bb3de2f053e

[toku]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/11/06/i-taught-my-black-kids-that-their-elite-upbringing-would-protect-them-from-discrimination-i-was-wrong/

bit of a classic story if you come from a middle class home and your parents pushed you to excel but yeah.

[ZephyrFate]

going to see Dear White People on Friday probably. Any of you guys see it yet?

[dkdk]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/11/06/i-taught-my-black-kids-that-their-elite-upbringing-would-protect-them-from-discrimination-i-was-wrong/

bit of a classic story if you come from a middle class home and your parents pushed you to excel but yeah.

meh that's his wack ass parenting. he should know better if he's so smart.

[Verdigris Murder]

going to see Dear White People on Friday probably. Any of you guys see it yet?

No, it looks shit and unfunny. You should watch VHS viral instead? As I think you'd probably dig that quite hard.

[Brehvolution]

Since you live there, was it a cop? 

[Brehvolution]

I'd say to say something back, but that wouldn't be worth your time. Someone that mentally unstable would probably attack.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

I wish a cac would

But when they're in a car going 30mph and you're jogging

Ha ha I had some fraternity cacs from Easter Michigan say some shit like "run nicca run" and "what did you steal" when I was training and running down the main stretch between Ypsi and Ann Arbor.

They got a flat about 2 miles up the road and I was still running, you should have seen them dudes when I got closer

 

But all I did was run right by them and give them one of these

 

Oh wait, I got a better one for you bro.

My buddy Mark was about 6'5 and roughly 4000000000 pounds, I mean dude was as big as a fridge. We were at this little club in Ann Arbor once and these dicks starting fucking with our little buddy who was like 130 pounds tops. They were all like "sup BRO, you want to get beat on BRO?" Mark seen that shit and grabbed one of the dudes around his shoulders and picked him up and this dude literally wet himself.

Mark just dropped him on the floor and said leave James alone. He really was a gentle giant. But the pissing, ha, dude had to be shook.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

I'm not picking a fight with a white guy (I know better) but if i was about to get attacked by one of these guys like brehvolution said gonna take care of my business  is all. I've never been out and out physically attacked for my color I think, barring some suspect behavior on the football team when I was getting started maybe.

I live in a white hood and when we first moved in I took my cousin and my father in law out to a little dive bar for some beers. It was the worst I've ever been offended in my life. I mean....we show up and all this uppity cacs were giving us dirty looks and saying shit under their breath and the bartender would not even come to our table. Thank god mamma CAC (there is always one female CAC who rules the roost in the small town) came over and introduced herself and determined we were not there to rob/fuck white women/perform gangster activities or whatever small town people think we do when we were out. Once she was cool, everybody was cool and it's been that way since. But I was heated, if I was ever to go crazy that would have been the time. 

It helps that I played sports, once they know you played in college/etc they generally go nuts asking questions then buy you a beer. Good way to drink for free is to have my friend or cousin talk about me playing football and the beers start coming. 12 dollar nights out brehs.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Funny you say that. The most bizarre racial experience of my young life was at a McDonalds in Alabama on the way to Gulf Shores. We got our food, sat down and then realized that the restaurant was full but dead quiet. And that we were in the middle of it. Surrounded  one half by black oeople and white people on the other half, both giving us glances and muttering shit. Had a young Esch pretty creeped out. My dad and mom ended up picking all our food up and we drove off in the car.

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Yeah it's hard to describe exactly how that situation feels if you've never been a part of it.

[toku]

http://vimeo.com/97971791

[Phoenix Dark]

I'm so tired of successful black people lecturing people sinking in poverty on how they should act. Looting is wrong, sure. But I wouldn't aim my anger at the looter anymore than I'd aim my anger at a mother forced to steal in order to feed her children because she can't find a job and her husband/boyfriend/whatever left her. Now, looters who went to Ferguson solely to loot can get fucked, I have no sympathy for them. But those from the community who expressed their anger in the only way they felt they could? I'm not going to shit on those people.

If you want to call names and lecture and stamp your foot, do so at a socioeconomic structure that systematically burdens the poor - whether they be black in Watts or white in Appalachians.

[toku]

Respectability politics don't work. full stop. You'd still be getting shot with your pants up and hood down. Black youths are literally demonized and it's not because of the type of clothes they're wearing. Victim blaming solves nothing, it just passes the buck.

[Himu]

I'm tired of blacks being above looting and rioting when looting and rioting is a big reason we got the civil rights act to begin with, and whites have historically gotten they what wanted (labor laws for instance) through that same very thing. So when you have blacks who say not to riot or loot because it makes us look bad, they ignore the fact that doing so, on top of protest gets things done and makes the powers that be pay attention.

I have no clue how black Americans and Americans in general have become so soft but I definitely attribute a complete misunderstanding and ignorance of history on top of government propaganda/fear that violence doesn't solve things.

We have a country that tells people not to riot or loot while idolizing events like the Boston Tea Party.

Lesson learned: Americans are fucking stupid.

[Himu]

Also the whole "if we acted differently maybe bububu" is some Stockholm syndrome white supremacist claptrap. We have anime cosplayers being shot at by police and rich black men being arrested for breaking into his own home.

Guess what middle class blacks! You're BLACK. Your money WON'T save you.

middle and upper middle class blacks

[Himu]

reading a book about my great great great grandfather called More Than A Slave: The Biography of Rev. A.J. Hurdle

http://portlandtribune.com/component/content/article?id=35616



I've never met Hannah. Haven't been to a Hurdle family reunion in years.

[Himu]

For maurice who asked me for hair tips earlier.

[toku]

Everytime i start to grow my hair out I just can't be bothered and get it cut again. Don't know if thats me internalizing bullshit or just having a preference which stems from having my hair low all the when I was younger which might just be internalized shit from my mother that was passed on to me. I love my sister with her hair out though and I let her know everytime I see her.

[PlayDat]

What's the longest you've gotten it to grow?  Mine is really curly/nappy so it's always short.  I didn't get a cut from September-early December and it was still less than an inch off of my head when I combed it.  I've gone much longer without shaving it in the past and it always stops growing at about the same point.

And yeah my mom always made me go to the barber about once a month too.  She would tell me I could keep it if I brushed and combed regularly but I never felt like doing that.  Still don't really.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

What's the longest you've gotten it to grow?  Mine is really curly/nappy so it's always short.  I didn't get a cut from September-early December and it was still less than an inch off of my head when I combed it.  I've gone much longer without shaving it in the past and it always stops growing at about the same point.

And yeah my mom always made me go to the barber about once a month too.  She would tell me I could keep it if I brushed and combed regularly but I never felt like doing that.  Still don't really.

[Phoenix Dark]

Thanks Himu. I've been following your advice and definitely think I'm making progress. My hair is less dry and I've had fewer flakes. For those that don't know, my hair is naturally curly and somewhat straight-ish; it would take me forever to grow an afro because my hair tends to lay down moreso than grow upward. It's been dry for the last few years, and flaky. My barber says it's not dandruff because there isn't a smell.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Still have all your hair brehs...

  resembles me now

[Himu]

Technically, you don't need to go to the barber. Unless you want your fro reshaped or trimmed. Going to the barber often takes away growth because barbers fuck things up. If you want growth, barbers can be a detriment unless you want REALLY need a trim.

Split ends? You can take care of those yourself.



Detangle on a weekly basis while you condition (literally have the conditioner in your hair for moisturizer while you detangle).

Products I use:

For growth/sealant



For growth:



body wash (my skin is flawless now)



Shea butter for skin healing and extra sealed moisture, also use it in my hair every now and then:

[Phoenix Dark]

Nah girl I gotta get my caeser w/sides tapered. I'll get my next cut after the new years holiday. A cut once a month or so; last cut was right before Thanksgiving. I can tell using coconut oil cream will allow me to increase the span of time between cuts - I look pretty good right now, I just prefer how I look with a fresh cut nahmean.

My barber is a 50+ yo guy, been cutting my hair for nearly a decade.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Somebody fix those pic sizes. I don't really require a 2000x1500 pic to show me what shae butter is.

[Himu]

What's the longest you've gotten it to grow?  Mine is really curly/nappy so it's always short.  I didn't get a cut from September-early December and it was still less than an inch off of my head when I combed it.  I've gone much longer without shaving it in the past and it always stops growing at about the same point.

And yeah my mom always made me go to the barber about once a month too.  She would tell me I could keep it if I brushed and combed regularly but I never felt like doing that.  Still don't really.

Your hair sounds like mine unless that's because you're not combing/brushing.

My hair looks really short but goes down to my chin if I stretch it. I got that nappiness.

Daily brushing/combing can actually be a detriment for growth if you're like me and have sensitive hair.

Try detangling your hair weekly during your conditioning regimen. If you do it right, your hair may be manageable with just some oils. Like this.



Assuming this isn't too girly a hair style for you.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

My girl has these, I remember seeing them. I'm gonna steal some

[Himu]

they're delicious ;_; If you're going to eat em don't eat more than two at a time because of the high biotin

[toku]

http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2014/12/don-lemon-fuccboi-of-the-year

[Himu]

[Phoenix Dark]

"There are ways to not perform oral sex" has to be up there with "there are ways to get a toe before 3PM" in terms of sheer absurdity.

[Mr. Nobody]

Should the term "struggle" be retired?