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The Black vanguard in white utopias
Country music speaks to white sentimentality, but Black women pioneer ‘and continue to pioneer’
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Our top musical moments of 2021, from best verse to radio freestyle
Interviews, performances, earworms, songs to get on it — here’s how we’ll remember the past year
Culture
Young Dolph’s memorial service was fit for a Memphis titan
The rapper who spoke for the city and cared for its residents was given his flowers
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Best albums of 2021: ‘Vince Staples’
The California native delivered a brutally honest masterpiece
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Best albums of 2021: ‘An Evening With Silk Sonic’
The Bruno Mars-Anderson .Paak collab lived up to the hype
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Best albums of 2021: Arlo Parks’ ‘Collapsed in Sunbeams’
The album exemplifies the spectrum of emotions in a COVID-19 and grief-stricken world
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Best albums of 2021: Jazmine Sullivan’s ‘Heaux Tales’
The album is the musical equivalent of a therapeutic group chat
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Best albums of 2021: Blackstarkids’ ‘Puppies Forever’
Their album eludes the nostalgia trap
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Minstrel songs like ‘The Eyes of Texas’ were once common on college football Saturdays in the South
Tunes such as ‘Dixie’ and ‘My Old Kentucky Home’ reframed grueling Black physical labor as a subject of light entertainment for white fans