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.

If you asked anyone before 2014 that would women sitting on the sidelines of NBA franchises coaching men they probably wouldn’t believe you. Thursday (June 27) ESPN reports that the Boston Celtics have hired former WNBA champion and Olympic Gold Medalist Kara Lawson as an assistant coach. Her addition to the Celtics’ coaching staff makes […]

Who knew? The living legend, Chaka Khan, let the chopper ring on Kanye West and his hit single that propelled him to Hip-Hop stardom “Through The Wire.” The song — which lived on his debut album College Dropout — was one of the album’s main standouts, and heavily sampled Khan’s 1985 classic single “Through The […]

Well, this casting would have made perfect sense. Speaking with Too Fab director Benny Boom revealed that they really wanted to cast Nipsey Hussle to play a young version fo Snoop Dogg in the biopic based on Tupac, All Eyez On Me. The late rapper who drawn many comparisons to west coast hip-hop legend would […]

It took only a few weeks after the NBA season wrapped up, but we finally saw the regular season awards handed out. Last night (June 24) in Los Angeles we saw tears, tons of jokes, as well as some mediocre hosting from Shaq during last night’s 2019 NBA Awards. Of course, thanks to the Twitter […]

NBA free agency is five days away with everyone wondering if injured Warriors Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson will test the market. Andre Iguodala, on the other hand, doesn’t seem worried at all, he revealed as much on CNBC’s show Power Lunch Monday (June 24) giving Knickerbocker fans something to worry about when he said […]

When Kawhi Leonard and the Toronto Raptors took care of the Golden State Warriors — and secured the franchise’s first title —  fans immediately pointed out the team doesn’t have to worry about a visiting the Trump White House. Raptors’ small forward, Danny Green pretty much doubled downed on that hinting himself, and his teammates […]

The “drama” between LaVar Ball and Molly Qerim has been given more life thanks to Ball. Last week Qerim’s employer, ESPN announced that it would be banning the patriarch of the Ball family going forward as a result of his inappropriate comment when he told the First Take host she could  “You can switch gears […]

Retired NBA superstar and future Hall-of-Famer Dwyane Wade is also a great dad. During an interview with Variety, Wade spoke candidly about being shocked at the criticism he received after he showed support for his 12-year-old son Zion who attended Miami’s Pride parade earlier this year with his stepmom Gabrielle Union. Wade, who was at […]

If you want to see LaVar Ball spew his ridiculous hot takes, don’t expect to see him dropping them on ESPN. According to The Athletic, the network will not be giving the patriarch of the Ball family any more airtime going forward. A spokesperson for the Disney-owned entity revealed: “We have no plans moving forward,” […]

Ortiz's friend, Sixto David Fernandez, was revealed to be the target of the hit.

The orange menace occupying the White House doesn’t care about Black people., and he continues to show it. The Central Park Five has been thrust back into the national spotlight thanks to Ava DuVernay‘s powerful and eye-opening Netflix limited series When They See Us. Donald Trump’s connection to the five young Black and Latino kids […]