Gregory Engel is a Software Engineer at The Root.
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Here’s 100 years of the Best Black Dandyism Heading Into Met Gala 2025
Ninjasonik, New York City-based musicians and performance artists, take care to call themselves “a band, not a rapper.” The band’s enthusiastic claims to blipsterhood are manifest in its underground hit: “Tight Pants.”
Now I’ve come home to finish
finish my Brooklyn Blues
—Barry Manilow
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