(ThySistas.com) Every family has that one auntie who starts asking about a ring the second you bring somebody around twice. Doesn’t matter how happy you are. Until a man gets down on one knee, the relationship reads to everybody else like a tryout. Church mothers start whispering. Your group chat ...
(ThySistas.com) There is a particular kind of whiplash that comes from watching an artist you once knew cold turn into somebody you barely recognize. For a lot of us, that artist is Nicki Minaj. The woman born Onika Tanya Maraj, the one who soundtracked more cookouts and car rides than ...
(ThySistas.com) There is a particular kind of patience that gets mistaken for failure. You see it in the one who keeps showing up to the thing everybody swore would never pay off, while folks whisper that maybe, bless her heart, it just was not meant to be. Then one day ...
(ThySistas.com) There is a tired script pressed into the hands of Sistas the moment a pregnancy test turns positive. The story goes that your own name now belongs in a drawer somewhere, folded up next to the career you used to have, and that the highest praise a grown woman ...
(ThySistas.com) Every now and then someone walks in and the whole room has to shift to make space. A girl out of Portsmouth, Virginia did that to rap. Ignored near about every rule the place tried to press into her hands, and kept on walking. Back before Missy, a female ...
(ThySistas.com) Let me take you back to 2016. A music video dropped and the internet damn near short-circuited over one thing: a body glistening under gym lights, moving like water across a boxing ring. That was Kanye West’s “Fade” clip. For a long stretch afterward, plenty of folks filed Teyana ...
(ThySistas.com) There comes a season in a great artist’s life when the songs, as glorious as they are, stop being the whole story. You feel it long before anyone puts it into words. The voice that scored a generation becomes the smallest room in a much larger house. Alicia Keys ...
(ThySistas.com) There is a particular tired that Black women know without anybody having to spell it out. Not from working long hours. This is the tired of shrinking yourself down, of bending into somebody you were never meant to be, until you wake up one day and hardly know the ...
(ThySistas.com) Something unfolded in Arlington last weekend that plenty of us are still turning over in our minds. Rep. Jasmine Crockett walked onto the stage at AT&T Stadium during the R&B tour stop, stood beside Chris Brown, Texas state Rep. Venton Jones and producer RoccStar, and announced a Congressional Record ...
(ThySistas.com) There was Lizzo again, gliding through New York during fashion week this past Friday, wrapped in a Kim Shui number with a cutout that dared you to look and a slit that climbed clear up one thigh. The singer didn’t tiptoe onto anybody’s radar. She arrived. Cameras swarmed, the ...