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  • Come Clean: Sometimes, I wish Black singers wouldn’t “sang”.

    Just sing the song, Mother Hattie Mae.

    April 16, 2020
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    Come Clean: 90s Music Videos Had Me Wanting to Go to a Carnival. Or the Shore.

    Jordon Knight gave it to us back in ’99- the baggy cargos, the long sleeve turtle kneck sweater, the racially-mixed back up dancers. Seriously, besides a love of belly shirts, glittery eye…

    November 11, 2017
  • Been Around

    Come Clean: I still cringe at “macaroni with the cheese”.

    My face is literally that of Mase every. single. time. I’ve heard this song over the past two decades. (Video screen capture via YouTube)   Twenty years ago, Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs…

    October 20, 2017
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    Come Clean: I don’t know why Al B. Sure’s face…

    …was so angry in the 1988 video for his hit song, “Nite and Day”. Like Dude snarled through the whole thing… and he probably growled, too, but the track drowned it out.…

    September 27, 2017
  • MoN Thanksgiving

    Come Clean: I thought Indians were Black, too.

    (Master of None, Netflix Screen Grab)   There’s a throwback scene at the very top of Master of None‘s Season 2’ episode, “Thanksgiving”, during which little Denise, BFF of little Dev, over…

    June 6, 2017
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    Come Clean: Glenn Lewis, don’t forget what, exactly?

    Basically my face everytime I actually try to sing the lyrics to this song over the past fifteen years. (Image via Vevo)   Welcome to the first in my new series, “Come…

    May 16, 2017

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