{"id":2048,"date":"2018-08-15T11:53:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T11:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noizzy.edge-themes.com\/?p=2048"},"modified":"2022-03-04T04:15:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T03:15:06","slug":"if-the-king-loves-music-it-is-well-with-the-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mocaliproductions.com\/ng\/if-the-king-loves-music-it-is-well-with-the-land\/","title":{"rendered":"If the King loves the people, it is well with the land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Male friendship is often mocked, in the many \u201cbro culture\u201d memes and the jokey way we invoke the word \u201cbromance.\u201d For both men and women, it\u2019s easier to laugh and ridicule than to accept that genuine love between male friends is real, and can be wholesome and completely devoid of toxic masculinity.<\/p>\n<p>My male friends are some of the most supportive and loving people I know. They have given me jobs, told me when my fly was down, checked in on me when I ghosted them, let me know when I put too much Vaseline on my face, given me space when I\u2019m wyling out, texted me when I\u2019m anxious, talked me out of dumb decisions and held me when I cried.\u201d.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;20px&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\">But more than anything else, they have loved me and appreciated me. Which is why my male friends and I have been following the newish trend among black men to call one another \u201cking.<\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;18px&#8221;][vc_column_text]Male friendships are appreciated in some areas of pop culture. Judd Apatow has made an entire career out of movies about them. If you were a white man in the mid-2000s and wanted to be an actor, you could go audition for one of his movies that featured Seth Rogen and hope you were cast opposite him as his white best friend.Jay-Z and Kanye West are on-and-off best friends who made a monumental joint album in 2011 about their brotherhood and being successful, famous black men at the top of their game. The biggest rap group in the world right now is Migos, made up of Quavo, Takeoff and Offset, a trio of best friends who also are related to one another, rap together, make money together and love each other.https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/soloish\/wp\/2018\/05\/11\/why-i-call-my-male-friends-king\/[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alienum phaedrum torquatos nec eu, vis detraxit ertssa periculiser ex, nihil lab etendis in mei. Meis an pericula es euripidis, hinces partem eit est eos ei nisl eu graecis, ixenss strud exercitation ullamco aperiri. 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