NigerianDonDada
FFOE
This thread got me 
we had it good in the 90s
we had it good in the 90s
WTF happened to our shows?? Soul Train, Showtime at the Apollo, Comicview, Def Comedy Jam, etc
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bigbadbossup2012
Biggest baddest boss
But they are boring and lame
Revisionist history
The 2000s are infinitely better than the 90s. It's just nostalgia speaking for you guys. I'm pretty sure when I'm old and flabby I'll be whining about how the 2020s and 2030s sucked and the 00s and 10s were better too.
It's always gotta be one nikka tryin' real real hard...
But there is some shyt that's kinda like
in hindsight. I can't reminisce on Kenan & Kel or Homeboys In Outer Space... that's when shyt started gettin' kinda cheeseball. Still, the 2000s is when we pretty much got phased out on TV. People don't realize just how de-emphasized our presence has been on TV, when compared to the 90s or even the 80s for that matter. I just read Questlove's book about Soul Train, and the company reveals at the end of the book that they are relaunching the show. But I can't even be that hype about it cause to me, ST died off in the 90s. As heavy into hip-hop as I was, I really feel like when hip-hop overflowed the show, it took the Soul Train feel out of it... it prob woulda been smarter for Don to create a separate, younger show that was strictly hip-hop and kept Soul Train tied to the R&B. I can't see how a show like that could rock these days, but it'd be interesting to see if it could.
RhymesWell
All Star
Look at y'all... Y'all probably was the same ones clowning UPN and The WB back in the day and now y'all want it back. Most them shows was wack aside from a few elite ones like Martin, Fresh Prince, Sister Sister, Waynes Bros, Kenan & Kel, and Smart Guy was on the verge.
It's always gotta be one nikka tryin' real real hard...
But there is some shyt that's kinda like
I just read Questlove's book about Soul Train, and the company reveals at the end of the book that they are relaunching the show. But I can't even be that hype about it cause to me, ST died off in the 90s. As heavy into hip-hop as I was, I really feel like when hip-hop overflowed the show, it took the Soul Train feel out of it... it prob woulda been smarter for Don to create a separate, younger show that was strictly hip-hop and kept Soul Train tied to the R&B. I can't see how a show like that could rock these days, but it'd be interesting to see if it could.
Black shows were dropped because the networks gotten a rep from white america thinking that "Its one of them networks with those people on it
"106 was mature and soulful when Free & AJ were there? All I recall is Bow Wow and B2K and screaming teenage girls... lol
filial_piety
Banned
I'm not the least bit upset over the crap on these past two decades (2000's and 2010's) 
I gave up on sitcoms really around 2001...but I think I officially gave up on just about everything except sports and the History channel, when Malcolm in the Middle went off in 2006, and the King of Queens went off the air in 2007. I don't remember exactly, but...I haven't recovered since the Writers strike. It was that year when shyt just got horride and everything seemed to switch over to reality TV.
Nowadays I either Netflix all the old stuff or I've bought the entire series of shows that I use to watch. Heck I just finished watching the entire series of the Wonder Years, Frasier, and Cheers... and I'm happy...
My entire DVD collection is something ridiculous now...I have all of the seasons of things like Martin, Married with CHildren, X Files, Sanford and Son What's Happening, All in the Family, The Jeffersons etc etc..I think I paid no more than 40 bucks for each series...my parents think I'm crazy outdated, but hey, they keep me happy as well...
Overall, It works for me.... I watch them how often as I want and when I want.
I gave up on sitcoms really around 2001...but I think I officially gave up on just about everything except sports and the History channel, when Malcolm in the Middle went off in 2006, and the King of Queens went off the air in 2007. I don't remember exactly, but...I haven't recovered since the Writers strike. It was that year when shyt just got horride and everything seemed to switch over to reality TV.
Nowadays I either Netflix all the old stuff or I've bought the entire series of shows that I use to watch. Heck I just finished watching the entire series of the Wonder Years, Frasier, and Cheers...
and I'm happy...My entire DVD collection is something ridiculous now...I have all of the seasons of things like Martin, Married with CHildren, X Files, Sanford and Son What's Happening, All in the Family, The Jeffersons etc etc..I think I paid no more than 40 bucks for each series...my parents think I'm crazy outdated, but hey, they keep me happy as well...
Overall, It works for me....
I watch them how often as I want and when I want.
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filial_piety
Banned
Oh and BTW...I think black sitcoms fell off sometime around the late 90s...like someone said--you'll never have another era of the Cosby Show, A Different World, Martin, and Living SIngle those days are over...it is what it is man...
But some of yall are naming those crap WB sitcoms
the writing and acting in alot of those was pure garbage (minus The Waynes Bros Show...that was actually pretty hilarious)
But some of yall are naming those crap WB sitcoms
the writing and acting in alot of those was pure garbage (minus The Waynes Bros Show...that was actually pretty hilarious)
Oh and BTW...I think black sitcoms fell off sometime around the late 90s...like someone said--you'll never have another era of the Cosby Show, A Different World, Martin, and Living SIngle are over...it is what it is man...
But some of yall are name those crap WB sitcoms
I blame the fact that our format started to get stale with white America and they moved on to reality TV
bigbadbossup2012
Biggest baddest boss
Slow the fukk down my friend. I wouldnt put it amingst fresh prince cosby's etc but you're going too hard.
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Malik
Superstar
Omar Gooding doing alot of straight to dvd movies
Cuba Gooding is doing Straight to Dvd movies and they are actually nice
Alot of train black actors i notice are staying in the underground and doing DVD movies. it's not the millions of dollars but they are still feeding there families.
Hollywood is done with regular programming and staying in that reality tv shyt so they can under pay these nikkas and white trash crumbs
Cuba Gooding is doing Straight to Dvd movies and they are actually nice
Alot of train black actors i notice are staying in the underground and doing DVD movies. it's not the millions of dollars but they are still feeding there families.
Hollywood is done with regular programming and staying in that reality tv shyt so they can under pay these nikkas and white trash crumbs
These Hollywood execs are eating like never before with technology making costs cheaper and the prices the same or even more. I've noticed that straight to DVDs has all the *other* films that Hollywood no longer wants to distribute.
yup. unless your name is deniro, leonardo, denzel or hanks the budget for your films will be cheaper than straight to dvd films.
Wesley Snipes was making a killing with straight to dvd movies before he went to jail.
Plus when was the last time u saw a all black cast, latino cast on NBC, ABC AND FOX with there own show?? blacks and latinos are force to go to tbs or the cw and have small ass budgets where the show is just film in 2 rooms
like the dining room or the workplace