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DaBaby Pretends Not to Know Who Questlove Is After Being Called Out for His Homophobia
DaBaby dismissed The Roots drummer after backlash to his disgusting remarks, causing folks to wonder: How hip hop are you if you don’t know Questlove?
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Nick Cannon Explains Why He’s Having So Many Children: ‘I Been Having These Kids on Purpose’
The Masked Singer host recently welcomed his fourth child this year just after the Father’s Day weekend, making him a father of seven.
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2021 BBMAs Exclusive: Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis to Present Sounds of Blackness and Ann Nesby Performing 'Optimistic' at Paisley Park [Updated]
“As long as you keep your head to the sky…you will win!” I think Blackness is winning right now because we have some cool news to start your week off right! The Root has exclusively learned that Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis will be presenting Sounds of Blackness and Ann Nesby as they perform Sounds…
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New Edition Verzuz Jodeci? Michael Harriot Joins The Pass The Peas Podcast to Debate What Could Be a Legendary Battle
When I recently wrote that legendary 90s R&B group Jodeci was unbeatable in a Verzuz battle, I truly didn’t think it was controversial or even much of a debate. I thought, like I do with most of my thoughts, that I was just writing down that which was obvious…but not written down. I was getting…
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Charlie Wilson Reveals Connection Between Tulsa Race Massacre, The Gap Band's Smash Hit 'You Dropped the Bomb on Me'
There isn’t a dance floor, wedding, cookout, or Black person alive who isn’t familiar with The Gap Band’s signature hit, “You Dropped the Bomb on Me,” and its contagious bassline. And on the latest episode of ABC Audio’s Soul of a Nation: Tulsa’s Buried Truth balladeer Charlie Wilson reveals whether or not the 1982 song…
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Can We All Agree That SWV's 'You're The One' Is a First Ballot Hall of Fame Cheat Jam?
Ever since the SWV versus Xscape Verzuz was announced, my soul has been awash with joy and good tidings and cheer. I love SWV. I’m an SWV-stan. An SWV-apologist. I’m an SWV-superfan. I love Coko’s singing and will fight with anybody about her place in the pantheon of R&B singers. She’s in my top 10…
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28 Days of Album Cover Blackness With VSB, Day 23: Ohio Players' Honey (1975)
There is no discussion about Black album covers, iconic or otherwise, that doesn’t include the string of album covers the Ohio Players put together in the 1970s. I could have included any album cover from 1972’s Pain to 1981’s Everybody Up and it would be a worthy inclusion to the conversation. But 1975’s Honey is…
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What If: What The Skippies Winners Would Be Wearing If We Could Actually Party
Close your eyes and think back to when afterparties were a thing and we could all go out dressed to impress, looking our best and being the flyest of all the guests. Well, that’s where we would be right now since The Blackest Awards were just released and we’d be partying it up with the…
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Prince Markie Dee of Pioneering Hip-Hop Trio The Fat Boys Dead at 52
Prince Markie Dee, one of the founding members of the hip-hop trio The Fat Boys has died at the age of 52. No cause of death has been officially confirmed at this time. “Forever in my Heart. Prince Markie Dee was more than a rapper; he was one of my very best and closest friends,”…
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America's Oldest Juvenile Lifer Is a Black Man Who Was Released in Philadelphia After 68 Years in Prison
It should surprise absolutely no one that America’s oldest and longest-serving juvenile offender is a Black man. Joe Ligon was 15 years old when he received a life sentence in Philadelphia for his involvement in a series of robberies and assaults that left two people dead—people he has always denied killing while admitting that he…