I am no gangster but this is my jam! In a previous blog, I noted that hip hop is one of my least favorite genres of music. That is partially true for today’s music. In terms of the old school flavor, that
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Today’s That’s My Jam Thursday goes out to Danielle Lennon, owner of Leola and Simone and also one of my faithful readers. I ran into her last weekend and she completely warmed my heart by saying that she keeps up with my
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“Return of the Mack” is that jam! I barely know any of the words outside of the chorus but it makes you want to dance. Mark Morrison had greater success in the UK before and after the 1996 hit. It peaked at
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The Queen of Soul has received so much disrespect this week for her cover of Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep”. Unacceptable! Without the original Queen, there’d be no Beyonces, Mary J.s or Adeles of the world. Aretha Franklin’s voice just gives me
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This week’s “That’s My Jam Thursday” is way before my time! 1977 to be exact. I think this was my mom’s sophomore year of college and she hadn’t met my dad yet, so you know no one had dreamed of me just
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I remember my first day of kindergarten like it was yesterday. I dramatically fell to my knees when my mother left the classroom because I was well aware that she’d thrown me to the sharks. Unfortunately, I did not have preschool refinement
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Two artists that will never be cast into the shadows of 90’s urban culture are Puff Daddy and R. Kelly. Long before P. Diddy surfaced, Puffy was on the brink of hip hop mogul status while Robert was doing what he does
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Children have deceived their parents since the beginning of time. You remember the growing pains of life when you thought you were slick, but your parents were one step ahead of the game. Here are seven faces that we made growing up
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In honor of Shemar Moore’s return to daytime on the Young & the Restlesss, I chose Toni Braxton’s “How Many Ways” for this week’s That’s My Jam Thursday! He hasn’t aged a bit years after playing Toni’s love interest! I would drop everything and
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Who doesn’t love some old school Toni Braxton? She lit up the charts back in the day and is just as fabulous today! “You Mean the World to me” is one of my all-time fave Toni tracks (“How Could an Angel Break
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