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Finding the new in the familiar
can be really weird. It happened to me twice this weekend. I was sitting around, listening to Spotify, when one of my many Erykah Badu jams came on. The song is called Umm Hmm, and though I’ve listened...
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Eric Benet’s falsetto gives me life.
And by life, I clearly mean breast-clutching, arms-flailing, oreargasms. #menwhoareolderthanmymotherandcouldstillgetitupdownandsideways I have never before understood why it is (or maybe was and people...
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Thursday Tunage
I find this song to be so calming. If I ever get to the point where I start to do yoga in my house, this will be on my soundtrack.
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I saw this band tonight
And they were incredible. They were like, Panic! at the Disco meets The Roots, or something, and they were amazing lyrically, vocally, instrumentally, and their energy, their swag, their entire vibe...
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The closing lyr…
The closing lyric of “The Only Black Guy at the Indie-Rock Show” goes, “I wonder if white folks who like Jay-Z often feel as alienated as me,” which opens a conundrum. Somewhere between the Beastie...
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So here I am, working, minding my own business,
when Next’s “Too Close” comes on on my MP3 player, and I realize that this was actually my life on Saturday night. “Baby yes, dancin so close ain’t a good idea Cuz I’ma want you now and here The way...
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Q.U.E.E.N. — Janelle Monae ft. Erykah Badu
Are we a lost generation of our people? Add us to equations but they’ll never make us equal. She who writes the movie owns the script and the sequel. So why ain’t the stealing of my rights made...
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“All my niggas …
“All my niggas from the Chi, that’s my family, yall. And my niggas ain’t my “guys,” they my family, yall. I feel like one day you’ll understand me, yall. You can still love your man and be manly,...
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Monday Music: Gregory Porter, “Liquid Spirit”
Gregory Porter has a new video out, y’all. Do you see why I love this man? You must see why I love this man. He’s just like that in concert, too.
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