About Bernard "Beanz" Smalls

Meet Bernard Smalls, better known as Beanz. He is the Men's Lifestyle & Pop Culture writer for Cassius Life plus handles tech and video games for Hip-Hop Wired. Beanz has been with the company since 2019 and has been working as a writer for eight years. His favorite hobbies include video games, of course, and watching a lot of movies, mainly sci-fi. He also moonlights as a photographer in his spare time.

Give him all the roles, please.  Yahya Abdul-Mateen II has been killing all the characters he has portrayed related to pop culture characters that we love. If you need proof of that, see Aquaman and, most recently, his portrayal of the god-like Doctor Manhattan in HBO’s exceptional original series Watchmen. It would seem he will […]

Unemployed embattled wide receiver Antonio Brown might have found himself a home. Brown, of course, broke the news himself that he is visiting the New Orleans Saints today (Dec.27) for a workout.   He posted and deleted several photos from inside the Saints facility, one of them being a picture of his free-agent waiver with […]

Jordan Brand just landed another young superstar. Dallas Mavericks’ phenom, Luka Dončić, is the latest player to join the roster of NBA talent to help market Jordan footwear and apparel. Dončić, who has been a free agent as far as which sneaker brands he would be representing on the court while dazzling crowds and perplexing […]

Former Olympic skier Linsey Vonn put a ring on her king. Vonn announced via her Instagram account that she re-proposed to her fiancè New Jersey Devil star, P.K. Subban on Christmas day revealing, “and he said yes.”   Now before some of you lose your traditional minds, Subban and Vonn have been engaged since August. […]

DaBaby can’t even put on a show for his fans in his hometown of Charlotte, North Carolina, without being harassed by cops. The rapper’s vehicle was swarmed by police, and he was busted and cited for marijuana possession Monday night (Dec.23). The “Bop” crafter just finished performing at the Bojangles’ Coliseum, left the venue, got […]

Saturday (Dec.21) Eddie Murphy made his triumphant return to Saturday Night Live. Taking full advantage of the moment, during his opening monologue, the 58-year-old Dolemite Is My Name star took a dig at 82-year-old disgraced actor Bill Cosby. A spokesperson for Cosby responded the following day calling out Murphy. During the monologue, Murphy joked that […]

We don’t have all the details tet regarding the tragic passing of 21-year-old rapper Juice WRLD, but Boosie BadAzz knows who to blame. Sitting down with “culture vulture” DJ Vlad, Boosie gave his opinion on the whole situation that resulted in the death of one of Hip-Hop’s rising stars. https://twitter.com/HotNewHipHop/status/1207284879882424320?s=20 While Juice’s friends believe the rapper was a victim […]

The beef between The Game and 50 Cent is well known and documented. As for now, the two rappers seemed to have moved past their problems. But at one point, Hip-Hop fans thought they would have taken their issues off wax and into the streets. Fearing we would have another repeat of Biggie and Tupac, […]

Russell Wison just lost one of his targets. For a second consecutive December, Josh Gordon has been suspended for violating the NFL’s performance-enhancing substances and substances of abuse policy. ESPN’s resident NFL insider, Adam Schefter, dropped the bombshell news on Twitter, which comes only a day after Gordon made a miraculous fingertip catch for 59 […]

If you were one of the many Chance the Rapper fans looking forward to his Big Tour, we got some sad news for you. The rapper announced via his Instagram account that the North American leg of the tour has been canceled. The Big Tour has been a big womp womp from the moment it […]

Legendary internet bully and rapper 50 Cent is taking a break from harassing his Power co-stars and ribbing his “best friend” Floyd Mayweather to call out Oprah Winfrey. The G-Unit general blasted Winfrey in two Instagram posts claiming that the business mogul only “goes after Black men” who have been accused of sexual misconduct, turning a […]

Former Washington Washington Football Team running back Clinton Portis, ex-Saints wide receiver Joe Horn are among a group of ex-NFL players in some serious trouble. They have all been charged with defrauding the league’s health program of millions of dollars TMZ Sports reports. According to court docs obtained by the gossip site, Portis, Horn, Robert McCune, […]