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.

American outdoor recreation company, The North Face is switching things up when it comes to its global retail strategy. With the opening of its SoHo retail location last week (August 9), the company is now “transforming” existing stores into “basecamps for exploration” the company revealed in a press release.  In doing so, the iconic brand […]

When it comes to responding to haters or as he describes them, clowns, Dwayne The Rock Johnson prefers to kill them with success. The action star took to Twitter to highlight the film’s encouraging box office numbers Hobbs & Shaw — which also stars Jason Statham — pulled in and we can pretty much guess […]

In even more Coming To America sequel news, Shari Headley will be reprising her role as Lisa McDowell in the forthcoming film. The news comes after John Amos was also announced to be coming to back to play Cleo McDowell, owner of the fictional fast-food restaurant McDowell’s. When Deadline reported Amos’ return, fans of the […]

Subscription services are all the rage, and now Nike is taking that leap into the subscription market. The sneaker and apparel giant announced its new Nike Adventure Club just for kids ages two and 10. When it launches, parents will have three options to continually supply sneakers for their growing children.  For $20 a month […]

Things got extremely chippy during a WNBA game between the Dallas Wings and Phoenix Mercury last night (August 10). A fight broke out midway through the fourth quarter of Dallas’  80-77 victory over Phoenix. With 6:23 left in the fourth quarter, Mercury center Brittney Griner and Wings forward/center Kristine Anigwe got tangled up in the […]

The Antonio Brown experiment with the Oakland Raiders is off to a rocky start. Reports surfaced that Brown’s foot injury that has kept out of training camp was due to suffering from extreme frostbite. Now, ESPN NFL Insider, Adam Schefter is reporting that the wideout is threatening not to play if he can’t use his […]

Looks like Walmart has figured out how to stop mass gaming but not mass shootings. The company’s CEO Doug McMillon announced earlier in the week following the tragic incident in El Paso there would be a “thoughtful and deliberate” response. We now know what is, when the chain of “hypermarkets” announced its stores will remove […]

Kevin Durant recently broke his silence since joining the Brooklyn Nets in free agency speaking with Yahoo Sports, Chris Haynes. Durant revealed that he doesn’t blame the Warriors for the severe Achilles injury he suffered during the NBA Finals. During a recent taping of The Herd With Colin Cowherd, Haynes reveals that KD stopped talking […]

Fall is quickly approaching, and Jordan Brand wants to make sure your drip is on point. Yesterday, the Jumpman unveiled its new collection that will focus on his play overseas. Labeled the Greater China Collection, it will feature hoodies, a tee, as well as Air Jordan sneakers. On August 8, Jordan fans can get their […]

Oakland Raiders wide receiver Antonio Brown is currently sidelined for his first training camp with the Raiders with a foot injury. ESPN is reporting that it was caused by “extreme frostbite,” a source close to the team revealed to the sports network. Brown apparently suffered the injury while using a cryotherapy machine. It happened during […]

Season 3 of Atlanta hasn’t even begun production yet, but we now know there will be indeed a fourth season. FX announced Tuesday (August 6) during the Television Critics Association summer press tour that production for both the show’s third and fourth seasons will begin in spring. Both will consist of eight episodes. The brainchild […]

NBC News is reporting that Portland State University basketball player Deante Strickland,22, was shot and killed by his own sister Friday (August 2) allegedly. According to authorities Tamena Strickland, 30, shot her brother as well as her aunt and grandmother. They both sustained non-life threatening injuries. She was arrested on Saturday (August 3) and charged […]