Imagine how different that simultaneous truth — the unquestionable affirmation of his inherent beauty — might’ve sounded to our ears back in ’94. I imagine he wrote these brilliant lines to protest a society that isn’t always kind to Black boys, especially those who are like him. Even if Biggie had written the “Black and ugly as ever” line in the affirmative, the probable prot…
Bridgette L. Hylton