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  • "Trap Queen" And Other Black Songs White People Love Waaaaaaay More Than We Do

    Essentially, everything about Fetty Wap is an anomaly; his name sounds like a colloquialism for masturbation or a Great Value brand version of a “Money Dance.” He’s from New Jersey yet sounds like an Atlanta artist, and while he reps Haiti to the fullest, he isn’t remotely West Indian. For real, he had some griot…

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    June 8, 2015
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