Tag: R&B
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Love, Sex, Magic – Vacancy, Ari Lennox
Whoever’s putting it down on Ari Lennox, needs to start giving lessons. Lennox saunters into the new year with her third full length album, Vacancy after a 4-year break. Produced by big names Jermaine Dupri, Bryan-Michael Cox, BoogzDaBeast, Elite, J White Did It, and Tommy “TBHits” Brown. We are again graced with her silky vocals…
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Protest Songs – P2 Spirituals
Roots in Resistance When enslavers stole African people from their homeland and brought them to America, they forbade them from speaking their native languages or practising their religions. However, this didn’t stop them. They organised secret meetings, where they sometimes performed Ring Shouts. In these gatherings, they formed a circle and moved counterclockwise while singing,…
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SZA; Ctrl – Audible Growing Pains.
When Ctrl dropped in 2017, I was 19—but I didn’t find it until years later, stuck in a genre rut. It came at the perfect time. I was in my twenties, learning to enjoy my own company and redefine my self-worth outside of relationships. It turned out I wasn’t alone in those feelings. I was…