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Top Five Dating Dealbreakers
In my eyes, a dealbreaker is classified as something that someone says or does on a date that prevents it from ever moving forward. They’re the rules you don’t budge on, the qualities and behavior you...
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An Open Letter To Potential Lovers
Note: Unlike a lot of my writings, this is not autobiographical. Please don’t think I’m this crazy. Will you be my lover? Will you validate me with terrible terms of endearment like “sweetpea” &...
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Ten Flawless Pop Albums
1. The Writing’s On The Wall by Destiny’s Child If it weren’t for the amazing production of Destiny’s Child second record, The Writing’s On The Wall, Beyonce would’ve probably never happened. There...
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R.I.P. Aaliyah!
I have a confession to make. Yesterday marked the tenth anniversary of Aaliyah’s death and I think it’s time for me to finally come clean about something: I never listened to Aaliyah’s music when she...
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Tupac Shakur At Coachella And 14 Other Musicians Who Should Be Hologram-ed
[div:intro-feature] [/div:intro-feature] Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg hired a company to “resurrect” the deceased Tupac Shakur at Coachella 2012. AV Concepts built a realistic “hologram” version of the...
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15 Awesome Songs About Infidelity
There is nothing good about cheating — except for the music it inspires. (And, who are we kidding? The foreign genitals. And the validation. I’m merely speculating.) Here are a few songs that Make...
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10 Great Aaliyah Moments
Aaliyah Aaliyah would have been 34 years old today if not for the tragic 2001 airplane crash that claimed her life while in the Bahamas to film the video for “Rock the Boat.” Tributes and appreciation...
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5 Cool Songs To Make Out To
1. Nataly Dawn, “Dance” Nataly Dawn is a smokey-voiced California-based singer/songwriter and exactly one half of the duo Pomplamoose. Her full-length debut How I Knew Her drops on February 12th, just...
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9 Songs That Always Make You Feel Fabulous
Shutterstock Nobody’s perfect, and sometimes you wake up and you’re feeling down because there’s a new zit on your face or one of your weave tracks fell out or you’re all out of meds or you broke up...
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10 Songs You Should Have Sex To As Soon As Possible
Shutterstock There are people out there who think having sex to music is weird, and it is if you play something really fucking stupid. In my experience, getting down (or, hopefully, UP) to good tunes...
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42 Little-Known Facts About Famous Rappers and Hip Hop
1. The Mercedes Ladies were the first all-female rap group. 2. P. Diddy used to be a back-up dancer for Big Daddy Kane and Heavy D. Featureflash / Shutterstock.com 3. Nas co-wrote Will Smith’s “Gettin’...
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Speculations On The Birth And Rise of Throwback Thursdays
It seems every morning I wake up and it’s another Throwback Thursday (or Flashback Friday). It’s almost a testament to the swift passage of time; pretty soon, we’ll start measuring time, or the weeks...
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10 Crucial Ingredients For An Early-2000s R&B Music Video
Times were much simpler when MTV aired Making The Video. 1. Abs Youtube.com Were we obsessed with exercise back then, or are we just fat and lazy now? Regardless the prevalence of washboard abs in...
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Here Are The Most Hilarious Tweets About The Hot Mess That Is Lifetime’s...
DRAKE BOUTA B OUTSIDE OF LIFETIME STUDIOS LIKE https://t.co/Sz0ZafIBEG — iceolation (@WAVESAGE) November 16, 2014 They can only use the songs that belong to other people LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO —...
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Gone But Not Forgotten: Why Aaliyah Still Matters
YouTube / AaliyahMusicVideo Where music is concerned, the 90s and early 2000s was an especially good time to be a little Black girl. From TLC to Destiny’s Child to Da Brat to Whitney Houston to Lauryn...
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14 Awesome Songs To Boost Your Sexy Time
Shutterstock My roommates make fun of me because every time I bring a guy over I always put music on. One of my roommates joked with me yesterday that he knew when I was having sex with a guy because...
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How To Navigate A Facebook Morality Attack
Alagich Katya So last week I open Facebook and there’s a big picture of Aaliyah. It was pretty clearly a harmless commemoration of the late-singer’s birthday. “That’s nice,” I said, and nodded...
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To All The Little Girls Who Just Want To Be Skinny
Dear Ashley, Aaliyah, Mary, Nicole, Daniela, Cassandra, Victoria, Sam, Elizabeth, Tai, Noelle, Michelle, Rachel, Calise, Natalie, and Simone—Dear All Little Girls Who Just Want To Be Skinny, Baby,...
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25 Songs Perfect For When You Want A Boyfriend But Don’t Have One
In case you haven’t noticed there’s something different in the air and no, I’m not talking about pumpkin spiced lattes, I’m talking about cuffing season! That time of year when La Marina has closed its...
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19 Songs From The ’90s That Will Give You Life Instantly
1. “C’mon N’ Ride It (The Train),” Quad City DJ’s My sister and I used to JAM to this song when it came out in 1996. Mom used to take us skating at a nearby skating rink and while she was out there...
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