I Still Love New York on VH1 - Pt. 2
Despite being passed over twice by Flavor Flav on the hit VH1 show Flavor of Love, everyone could see Tiffany Pollard, aka 'New York,' was a star. The self-proclaimed "HBIC" went on to have a slew of ...
11 Mai 202228min
D-listers Find Love on VH1 - Pt. 1
In 2004 rapper Flavor Flav and actress Brigitte Nielsen confused everyone when they fell in love in front of cameras on VH1's absurd reality show, The Surreal Life. The romance gave rise to the spinof...
11 Mai 202234min
Chopped and Screwed: The Houston Rap Takeover
In the 80s and 90s the rap music scene was dominated by the East and West Coast. But in the early 2000s the Dirty South began to gain national attention, and in Houston, Texas, rappers created a uniqu...
4 Mai 202238min
Tyra Banks: America’s Next Problematic Fave
For a long time supermodel Tyra Banks was known as the first Black woman to grace the cover of Sports Illustrated. She was a trailblazer in the modeling world. But Tyra had television aspirations and ...
27 Apr 202239min
TRL and 106 & Park Were the Only Places to Be after School
In the 2000s a hit music video could make you a star. And for a time, the shows TRL and 106 & Park were THE places to see the most popular videos. Sydnee Washington, Marie Faustin, and co-host of NPR'...
20 Apr 202233min
Perez Hilton and the Rise of the Blogarazzi
In the early 2000s blogs were brand new, and one celebrity-obsessed troll combined the intrusiveness of the paparazzi with the nastiness of a burn book to create one of the most infamous gossip blogs ...
13 Apr 202233min
Stealing or Sharing? Napster Kicks Off the Online Music Boom
At the turn of the millennium, if you wanted an artist’s newest album, you almost certainly had to buy it from a physical record store. But by the early 2000s, two guys in their twenties upended the m...
6 Apr 202237min
The Janet & Justin Super Bowl Halftime Whoa!
In 2004 during the halftime show of Super Bowl XXXVIII Justin Timberlake proclaimed he’d have you “naked by the end of this song,” and he wasn’t lying. No one remembers the outcome of the game because...
30 Mar 202230min
