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A painful listen to Marvin Gaye’s newly released posthumous album
1972’s ‘You’re the Man‘ project is a reminder of post-civil rights America — and Tupac
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We lost more than a rapper today: Nipsey Hussle, killed at 33
The beloved, Grammy-nominated rapper was the best of us
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Is the Death Row music from ‘Above the Rim’ the last great hip-hop soundtrack?
Even bigger than the film — and from Warren G to The Lady of Rage to Tupac — this West Coast project still rules 25 years later
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Aux Cord Chronicles XVIII: An obsessive, 57-song playlist of Drake’s sports obsession
Aubrey has never been able to stop talking about sports — all of them
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R. Kelly, Michael Jackson — are they being ‘lynched’?
Bringing up lynchings in these cases is profiting off the very real horrors inflicted on black people
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Will Solange’s new album release revive BlackPlanet?
The social networking site catering to African-Americans has seen an uptick
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R. Kelly is canceled: Long live James Ingram and the R&B love ballad
Quiet storm and slow-moving songs about the urgency of love are fading from view, but they’re not gone yet
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Juvenile’s ‘Back That Azz Up,’ 20 years later
An homage to the greatest party anthem ever made
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Hip-hop tells the story of how NBA All-Star became ‘The Black Super Bowl’
From Foxy Brown to Common to J. Cole, the league’s hottest weekend is documented through lyrics