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Chris Brown, Pharrell Williams and Beyonce Win Big at SOUL TRAIN AWARDS 2014
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Black pride
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‘The Eddy’ explores jazz via multiracial Paris on Netflix
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Unlike anything else in the Denver scene, the BLKHRTS make dark, raw hip-hop inspired by goth, punk and industrial rock. But it’s far from any type of rock rap. It’s too street for that label. The trio, consisting of Denver emcees Yonnas, King FOE and Karma tha Voice, have been consistently pushing
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Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr. (born March 13, 1972), better known by his stage name Common (formerly Common Sense), is an American hip hop recording artist, actor, poet and film producer from Chicago, Illinois. Common debuted in 1992 with the album Can I Borrow a Dollar? and maintained a significant
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1972
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1979
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