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30 Days of Musical Blackness With VSB, Day 28: SWV 'When U Cry'
I’m a well documented SWV fan. But since I’m feeling generous, allow me to document this again. From a piece I wrote called “An Ode to SWV” in February of 2016: I love SWV. Since 1992, they have been my favorite girl group. For me, all of their songs seem rooted in fun and good…
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Rap and R&B Queens Salt-N-Pepa and SWV Reflect on What Motherhood Means to Them
Our ’90s faves, Salt-N-Pepa and SWV love music but they really love being mothers. For Mother’s Day, the R&B and hip-hop veterans shared their favorite things about motherhood with The Root. Both groups have a new reality show on BET, Ladies Night. Check out the music icons in the short video above.
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Salt-N-Pepa Are Still in Effect and Playing ‘Black Ass Game’
Salt-N-Pepa is the stuff of legend: They’ve got hits. They’ve won a Grammy award. Heck, even the Queen, Beyoncé, paid homage to them for Halloween. But, is their game dominoes or Spades? After 30-plus years in the music industry, trailblazing artists Salt-N-Pepa still have plenty of opinions. Ahead of the premiere of Ladies’ Night on…
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The Ladies of SWV Will Have You 'Weak' With This Black-Ass Interview
There are three types of people in this world: Those who like flats Those who enjoy drums Those who don’t know we’re talking about chicken And one member of the Grammy-nominated group SWV fall into each of these categories. In the latest installment of “Black Ass Game Show,” the R&B legends share their preferences between…
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So It Turns Out ‘Electric Boogie,’ the Song Your Mama ’nem Electric Slide To, Is About a Vibrator. Life Is Different Now
If you’ve been to a black celebration of any sort, you have either done or watched other people do the Electric Slide. It’s a staple in the black community and each generation passes down the routine, ensuring its survival. Where there are black people, there are electric sliders. Real talk, I didn’t even think other…
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10 R&B Slow Jams That Bang in the Whip
I’m a child of the ’90s, which means that I grew up on R&B that wasn’t rappers harmonizing or singers talking with melody from their souls. Not that I don’t enjoy that; to the contrary, I love it all. But there was nothing like an actual solid slow jam. You know what I’m talking about:…
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Unsung: SWV Were the Supremes of the ’90s Who Had It All, Lost It and Got It Back
If any group represented a contemporary version of Diana Ross and the Supremes, SWV (Sisters With Voices) was the girl group of the ’90s for R&B harmonies, ballads and up-tempo, hip-hop soul. And when we saw those three New York City-born girls with their fresh doobies, baseball jerseys and hip-hop style, we saw our own…
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An Ode To SWV
I grew up in Frankfurt, Germany, as a military brat in the mid-’80s and early ’90s. Those of us who grew up overseas had one channel to watch on television: AFN, which stands for the Armed Forces Network. We all watched the same cartoons, the same soap operas (General Hospital was followed by Guiding Light), and the…
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Facts About Blacks: The Concert I Just Attended Edition
Here at VSB, we spend a lot of time discussing Blackness. Today will be no different. I had the pleasure of attending a concert headlined by SWV (easily one of my favorite groups of all time) and undercarded by both Erica Campbell (of Mary Mary fame) and Traci Braxton (of every other Braxton aside from…