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On Traveling
My thoughts on traveling and the phrasing of black male singers.
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Tigger’s 25 Best Albums of the Aughts (00s), Part 2
And here are the final 12 albums I consider to be the best of the first decade of the 21st century. Check out the first 13 here.
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Best of the Rest: Ginuwine’s Glaze in My Eye
Somehow, as successful as Ginuwine has been over the last decade or so, he is arguably the most underrated black pop artist of his generation, constantly forgotten in the mad dash to chronicle the ups and downs of Usher and … Continue reading
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Tagged Back II Da Basics, black male singers, Ginuwine, R. Kelly, R&B, The Life, Usher
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Great Songs in the Black Musical Tradition, 2000-2004
This essay was originally written for Epinions.com on October 6, 2005. This version is slightly different, with some language clarification. The choices are identical to the original list. Like many writers on this site, and writers in mainstream and non-mainstream … Continue reading
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