Mark Elibert
Mark Elibert is a journalist who hails from Harlem, New York. His areas of expertise include music (hip-hop, R&B), sports (NBA, NFL, MLB, WWE), pop culture (TV and Film), and anime. He got his start in journalism as a contributing writer for several blogs in the early 2010s before finding a home at reputable outlets such as Billboard and VIBE in 2018, where he served as a freelance features writer. He later branched out and contributed to other outlets, including XXL, GQ, HipHopDX, Bleu Magazine, and Edition by Modern Luxury.
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Joe Budden Calls Kanye West's Big Sean Reunion the 'Corniest Sh*t in the World’
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United Nations Votes to Adopt World Map That More Accurately Shows Africa’s True Size
The resolution calls for maps that more accurately represent the relative sizes of continents.