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“Genius of Love” Gets Its Due

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The first time I heard the Tom Tom Club’s song‘Genius of Love’off their eponymous debut album Ithought ‘Hey, that’s Mariah Carey’s song.’ Turns out I was only half-right. Back in 1995, when I was twelve,Mariah Carey’shit‘Fantasy’was playing on every Top 40 station and I was choreographing dance routinesto it with my friends. The rhythms in […]

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Gil Scott-Heron: Remembering a Musical Innovator and Rap Inspiration

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