Dustin J. Seibert
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Petaluma, CA, United States
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Past articles by Dustin:
Drake Was Right. Maybe All Black Artists Should Boycott The Grammys
Black artists deserve Grammys, but do the Grammys deserve Black artists? → Read More
The 10 Best Hip-Hop Tracks of 2020
The need to stay the hell apart from humans this year resulted in a sweeping halt on the production of movies, television shows and the like. It also means no festivals, concerts or trips to the silver screen. Fortunately, making music doesn’t require a mess of people congregating—especially if you have skills with instruments and your own accouterments-laden studio—so we still got a steady… → Read More
I Used to Reject Therapy. Now I Embrace It Wholeheartedly
My relationship with therapy is, to say the least, old and complicated. → Read More
The Unbearable Blackness of Being
Shortly after I entered the world via Detroit’s now-shuttered Grace Hospital one summer day in 1981, I set upon what was an unmistakably black-ass upbringing in one of America’s chocolatiest cities. → Read More
The 10 Best Hip-Hop Tracks of 2018
Just about every hip-hop critic and cognoscenti has had the same response about the amount of new music released in 2018: Too damn much. → Read More
We Need a New Category for Today’s Rap Music Because This Shit Ain’t Hip-Hop
Eleven years ago this month, I made the decision to get my first tattoo below my elbow—a piece covering my entire forearm that could never be hidden without clothing. → Read More
The Wire, The Best Show in TV History, Ended 10 Years Ago and Changed TV Forever
HBO’s The Wire signed off a decade ago this coming March. Eclipsed in popularity by mainstream shows Sex and the City and The Sopranos on the same network, the Baltimore-set crime drama never received any major television awards and the show runners struggled at times to actually complete its five seasons. (If you haven’t yet watched it and you plan to, read no further) → Read More
Mudbound and Other Films That Get Black Folks Pissed Off at White People
Over the holiday break, I finally got around to watching Netflix’s Mudbound, last year’s period drama by director Dee Rees (who also wrote and directed 2011’s magnificent Pariah). The film was adapted from the 2008 Hillary Jordan novel about two families—one black and one white—attempting to keep their respective families afloat by sharecropping the same patch of hard Mississippi acreage during… → Read More
The Otis Effect: 7 Things That Were Never the Same After the Star Left
When Joe Budden didn’t report for his duties as co-host of Complex’s Everyday Struggle webcast this week, folks assumed that he was fulfilling his paternal duties since he had a son with fellow Love & Hip-Hop alum Cyn Santana this past weekend. It turns out, however, that Budden has left the show for good after almost nine months. → Read More
All of Kanye West’s GOOD Fridays Tracks, Ranked
Seven years ago this month, we were all giddy with the hype and secrecy behind Kanye West’s upcoming fifth studio album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Many consider that album to be Kanye’s magnum opus (not me … that honor belongs to Graduation) and the last vestige of the “Old Kanye” before he completely succumbed to whatever peyote he was smoking to create a clothing line for which he… → Read More
Tame Impala’s Currents Is the Soundtrack to My Post-Divorce Life
This week at VSB, we’re running a series called Albums That Changed My Life where different writers let you in on the music that helped shape and mold them into the people they are now. Today we hear from Dustin Seibert as he tells us how Tame Impala helped him move on from a difficult part of life. → Read More
When Should Rappers Hang Up the Microphone?
When perusing the list of new-release albums from this past Oct. 13, it dawned on me after some time that three of the artists—Wu-Tang, Camp Lo and Krayzie Bone (with his group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony)—all released albums that I absolutely loved exactly 20 years ago. → Read More
Is Infidelity Inevitable?
In 2009 a family friend I hadn’t seen since I was a kid came into Chicago for a work conference and took me out for drinks. I wasn’t sure what to expect from the conversation of a woman who was a little under twice my age at the time, but certainly not what I received: an oftentimes graphic recounting of her sexual exploits—many of which were with married men—and all while in an open marriage… → Read More
Rapsody and 8 Other Rap Cats You Should Be Listening To
North Carolina rapper Rapsody dropped her second full-length album, Laila’s Wisdom, on Sept. 22. It’s her first album under the Roc Nation imprint, and the first to feature a suite of top-tier guest stars, including Kendrick Lamar, Black Thought and Anderson .Paak. → Read More
Online Dating Apps, Rated for Your Black Ass
When I broke up with my college sweetheart in 2005, I was living and working as a newspaper reporter in God’s crustiest dingleberry, Rockford, Ill. Rockford is one of those cities where people get married and start families at an age when they still need a co-signer to rent an Enterprise vehicle—not exactly fertile dating ground for a 20-something black professional. So immediately following… → Read More
8 Hip-Hop 1-Hit Wonders You Flat-Out Forgot About
I’m calling it right now: “Bodak Yellow” will make Cardi B a one-hit wonder (Editor’s note: I disagree with this wholeheartedly—P.J.). → Read More
The ‘Best Rapper Alive’ Title Is Some Overused Bullshit
As a writer and English teacher, I’m forced to come to grips with the ever-(d)evolving way we approach our language. We’ve managed to squeeze zeitgeist-y words like “LOL” and “YOLO” into the dictionary and our vernacular. Words and phrases like “I could care less” and “irregardless” are no longer as subject to deserving scrutiny as they once were. When I graded papers, I was forced to put my big… → Read More
I Want Kids, but I’m Absolutely Terrified of Having Them
When I look in the mirror or at pictures of myself these days, the first thing that catches my eye is the patch of gray hair taking residence on my chin in my beard. The patch is like the White Walker army—slowly growing in follicle count until it surrounds the dark hairs in my beard—serving as an ominous portent of middle age (I turned 36 earlier this month). → Read More
The Best Rap Beefs of All Time
These old-school battles would never be settled by Twitter fingers. → Read More
‘Mafia III’ Is Probably the Blackest Video Game Ever Made
So far the game is like watching Rosewood or Django Unchained: All the racism makes you wanna bite your knuckles and keep playing just to see how many cracka-ass crackas you can take out. → Read More