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Entertainment, Music

Before We Let Go: Black Media Celebrates Frankie Beverly

The beloved musical and cultural icon passed away at age 77.

By

Shanelle Genai

Published

September 14, 2024
Entertainment, Music

30 Days of Musical Blackness With VSB, Day 30: MAZE featuring Frankie Beverly 'Before I Let Go'

I’m not even sure I need to explain why “Before I Let Go” would be the final song of the 30 Days of Musical Blackness With VSB series. If you’re black and have congregated with other black folks and this song comes on you know it signals one of two things: 1) It’s time to…

By

Panama Jackson

Published

June 30, 2019
Entertainment, Music

6 Ways Beyoncé's Cover of 'Before I Let Go' From Homecoming: The Live Album Just Changed the Game

Last night, Beyoncé did what Beyoncé does and dropped a whole ass 40-track album, Homecoming: The Live Album, out of nowhere that we didn’t know was coming but we’re all better off for having. Beyoncé, ever since that first secret drop back in 2013, just comes through whenever she wants and takes over the entire…

By

Panama Jackson

Published

April 17, 2019
Entertainment

This Video of Jay-Z, Beyoncé and Ms. Tina Doing the Electric Slide Is Everything

There are a few fundamental truths that we all know as black people. You don’t eat at work potlucks. You always ask who made the potato salad. And when “Before I Let Go” by Frankie Beverly & Maze comes on, you get up out of your seat and join the rest of the party as…

By

Monique Judge

Published

December 21, 2017
Very Smart Brothas

The 10 Blackest Songs Of All-Time

On Monday, we learned that Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly and D’Angelo’s Black Messiah — two albums so Black they should have come with a barbershop poster and a pic of Margaretta Forten — were nominated for Grammys. The recognition of this unambiguously Black art in such an unambiguously non-Black space should not have been a surprise.…

By

Damon Young

Published

December 9, 2015