Renegade Scholars

Ways to Win Your Dinner Party (SATIRE)

Summer’s right around the corner and you know what that means, right? Going out with friends and seeing all of your favorite people who have been hibernating for the past 4 months. And what better way to do it than to go for dinner. However, since life is a competition,...

Summer Madness

Can you feel it? The leaves are blooming, the weather’s getting hotter and we’re about to start shedding layers of clothes like we’re stripping for them dalla bills. An indescribable feeling overwhelms us all, making us restless. It’s kind of like how we felt on the last day of school...

Taking Advice from the Wrong People

The world is full of crazy people and crazier shitutations (shitty situation – if you like that, quote me).  And in the midst of all this craziness, we try to live our lives and make sense of it all. We don’t have all the answers so we often call on...

Vince Staples Has My Heart – A ‘RAMONA PARK BROKE MY HEART’ Review

I became a fan of Vince Staples the minute I heard “Hands Up,” his throbbing cut from his Hell Can Wait EP. The context is important since I first heard the song after Darren Wilson’s murder of Michael Brown. Staples didn’t write the song as a response to the shooting...

The First Crusade: A Review of “The Batman”

In this Facebook movie group I’m in, a fellow group-member — along with many others — had just finished seeing an early screening of Matt Reeves’ highly-anticipated take on the Caped Crusader, The Batman.  Some people dug it, and others didn’t. I took everything they said with a grain of...

Kendrick Lamar is Worth the Wait

Every now and then over the last few years, you’ll see people online share posts or comment underneath them about Kendrick Lamar’s absence and how his new work is long overdue. It’s sensical since his greatest peers — Drake and J. Cole, just to name a couple — have released...