best of

Ranking the Best Jagged Edge albums

• January 17, 2017

Give Jagged Edge their props – they may be the ...

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Big Bub

Flashback Friday: Today and Big Bub

• January 13, 2017

It's Friday the 13th! 2016 was scary enough, I'd rather ...

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Can You Dig It? 20 Greatest Songs From Blaxploitation Soundtracks

• January 7, 2017

Times have changed. A year from now, Chadwick Boseman and ...

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Flashback Friday

Flashback Friday: Styles P and Solange

• January 6, 2017

It's the first Friday of 2017 but the game hasn't ...

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Ranking Best SWV Albums

• January 4, 2017

On Wednesday night, TV One's heralded UnSung series finally showed ...

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Cherokee

Flashback Friday: Run the Jewels and Cherokee

• December 30, 2016

You didn't think I'd let 2016 wrap up without one ...

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The Playa Please Awards: The Worst Celebrity News and Nonsense of 2016

• December 28, 2016

So about 2016 – the year kinda sucked, huh? Now ...

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Christmas albums 2016

Our Favorite Christmas Albums: Kirk Franklin and the Family, Christmas

• December 24, 2016

What’s Christmas without the music? All month we’re celebrating out ...

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Christmas albums 2016

Our Favorite Christmas Albums: Patti LaBelle, This Christmas

• December 23, 2016

What’s Christmas without the music? All month we’re celebrating out ...

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Aaron Neville

Our Favorite Christmas Albums: Aaron Neville, Aaron Neville’s Soulful Christmas

• December 22, 2016

What’s Christmas without the music? All month we’re celebrating out ...

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