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Boyz II Men’s ‘II’ album turns 30 this year – a good time to admit that for decades I thought Nathan and Wanya Morris were brothers

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Yes, 1994 was a crazy year for black music. All the album releases from famous hip-hop and R&B singers and groups happened this year, especially towards the top of the year. Albums like Mary J. Blige’s ‘My Life’, TLC’s ‘CrazySexyCool’, Nas’ ‘Illmatic’ and Warren G’s ‘Regulate…The G Funk Era’, of which there seem to be a billion others, will probably get across the thirtieth anniversary, if not from me, then from countless other music writers on the planet.

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One of those albums of note shall be Boyz II Men’s second album “II”, which featured the Billboard No. 1 songs “I’ll Make Love to You” and “On Bended Knee”, in addition to the hit singles “Water Runs Dry” and “Thank You,” and a song I didn’t know what to do with on the time, “50 Candles.” If you listened to music in 1994, you almost certainly heard “I’ll Make Love to You” ad nauseum. Do you remember the video starring Duane Martin and Tara Hall? You remember wondering why all the music video was a bit blurry, but it surely didn’t matter since the song was such a jam that nothing mattered. You probably also wanted that set of stationery that Duane Martin wrote the letter on since it looked burnt right around the sides. What a time to be alive.

Either way, when this album turns 30 – on August 30, 2024 – there shall be loads of retrospectives. This is one other one in every of those albums that is entirely known for its slow jams (“Forever My Lady” and “Diary of a Mad Band” a la Jodeci); aside from “Thank You”, I had to look up the names of the opposite songs in the highest half of the album. I couldn’t hum a beat of “U Know” or “I Sit Away” if my life relied on it.

In a few months, hopefully, they’ll hear cars honking “I’ll Make Love to You” prefer it’s 1994, so I’ll save my commentary on all the album until then, but now can be a good time to share Blackfession. Black confessions are, you recognize, confessions about your blackness. Something people can be surprised to find out about you… since you’re black.

Here are mine: For almost 30 years I thought Nathan and Wanya Morris were brothers. Just like in real life. Not like that, dude.

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Let me let you know how necessary this discovery was for me: I literally remember where I was. I was driving on I-495 in Maryland, between the St. John’s exits. Barnabas Road and Branch Avenue. I listened 2020 episode of “Questlove Supreme” podcast hosted by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and a rotating solid of mainstays who’re so good in their very own right that it’s almost unfair to have a lot musical knowledge in a single show.

Of course, Boyz II Men were guests and talked about their individual upbringings, so I was very confused when I heard that Nathan and Wanya grew up on different sides of Philadelphia (if memory serves) and seemingly led different lives because, as you recognize, that they were brothers. I thought to myself, “Wow, that’s so crazy that two brothers in the group had such very different experiences. I feel like this should have been a bigger part of the Boyz II Men story!” The more I listened, the more confused I became – how the hell could these two talk so freely about their separate lives? There have to be some trauma from this. I do not know exactly what was said that made me realize they weren’t even related. I think each of them talked about their families and it became clear that despite having the identical last name, they were not related.

I pulled off the highway, fired up my laptop on the gas station, Googled “Nathan Wanya Morris brothers” and saw that even Wikipedia knew they weren’t brothers. I felt like I had been cheated… deceived… led astray… I had run amok. Was it possible that I was the one black one who didn’t know they weren’t brothers? There aren’t even a ton of conspiracy theories about them really being brothers, and the ’90s were a time filled with conspiracy theories.

I went on Facebook with this introduction and shared this thing that could also be embarrassing. Fortunately, I was not alone in this newfound knowledge. From my post, several commenters learned that they’re neither brothers nor related. To be clear, many individuals knew they were not related.

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With a sigh.

Anyway, J. Cole is here and apologizes for stepping into rap arguments, so it’s only right that I’m vulnerable too.

Thank you for listening; I really had to get it out.


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Keke Palmer shares his POV with a breakdown in the shady remix of Usher “Confessions Part II”

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In July 2023, Keke Palmer and her dad and former boyfriend Darius Jackson caused one of many great debates in social media. After Palmer was noticed (great, I can add) at the Usher concert this summer, Jackson began to X to share his contempt for the mother of selecting his child, causing a discourse with the “equivalent” of her outfit.

Although Jackson was very open about this case, Palmer was silent about her feelings at a viral moment – to this point. On Friday, May 9, the Wielfenian star released a recent song entitled “My Confessions”, in which she spills all tea at this moment and her break with Jackson.

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“This is personal.” My confession “is exactly as it sounds – whether giving the feelings I buried”, Palmer he wrote on Instagram About the song. “Sometimes we need a closure, it does not come from a conversation – it results from being honest with each other. This is this song. My room. My brightness. My way to let go.”

The record, which rises from the “Confessions Part Conmissiones”, was written by Palmer and her best friend for 22 years, Tayla Parx, who says that the star “no” saw her through every version of herself. Describing the song as “harsh, emotional and real”, Palmer takes the listeners back to July 2023 and lirially explains every little thing about how Jackson broke up with her at the time, which prompted her to the evening of girls.

“Summer ’23, we were in Vegas, on the right/we broke up with me and jumped to the flight/you were an attempt to find the way to” positive “/so I thought I have a girl’s night”, sings. “48 hours later online/I made me a villain, but you lied, mm/but the truth is that now we now have now already ended in Vegas.

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In the whole song and the lyrical film accompanying her, Palmer refers to Jackson’s controversial tweets, and even reported tensions between her and his family.

“Your family, they don’t like me, that’s good / but when did you come back on the side? / When I met you, you hated them as if you hated me now.”

Similarly, he turns to the response and response to his criticism about her appearance at the Usher concert: “72 hours, now your feelings hurt/my fans were pulling you because you had a nerve/you almost turned me into a banality/thought that your child will make me want to stay.”

As the chorus notes: “F— Your projections / These are my confessions”, Palmer explains how difficult it’s to inform her the truth when she sings: “Telling that it was difficult for me / Telling only for my peace / truth hurts and it is mine.”

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Since the breakup, Palmer has revealed her and Jackson toxicity and the way much she hated the attention of the media surrounding her relationship.

From his memory “Master of Me: The Secret to Controlling Your National”, to the upcoming album “Just Keke”, Palmer says that “not to play perfectly here”, but “honestly,” and tell her story.

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Paul Wall joins forces with Gracie’s Corner to get a fresh remix “Wheels on the Bus” and this is BOP

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As a parent of 4 children and three who’ve 10-i-fund, my favorite music genre at this moment of my life are jams suitable for the age, which I can listen to without the desire to stab my eyeballs. So when “Gracie’s Corner” struck my awareness a few years ago to fill this void (and appreciating parents around the world) I knew that we found gold.

For example, while “Happy Birthday” Stevie Wonder will all the time be a birthday song of the black community, at this point he is commonplace “Gracie’s Corner” version at birthday parties For those of us who went to see “sinners” at the opening weekend.

“Gracie’s Corner” for many who have no idea (or should not have children) is a YouTube channel for youngsters. According to their side, YouTube provides “a combination of educational, funny and encouraging songs for children from various environments. Come and dance with the game when he chooses a funny journey with family and friends!”

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More precisely, they take some rhymed rhymes, which everyone knows and love and put a bit on it. Which leads us to the reason behind the season. If you have not heard the “Gracie’s Corner” version “Wheels on the bus” You cannot have black children. Until now, heavy bass, hi-hat jam trap has 111 million views. Yes, you read the right 111 million views. These wipers are Swisków. Let’s say, Issa Bop.

Well, because people from the headquarters of “Gracie’s Corner” don’t play truthfully, they got here out and got Paul Walla-Tak, he has Houston rap labels, Swithahouse Paul Wall, “Master of the People”-to drop a part of what is dirty south.

Listen to me. I don’t understand how this cooperation was created by Paul Wall and “Gracie’s Corner”, but whoever played this thing must conduct seminars on synergy and creative cooperation for the whole family. I hope that this person is liable for planning a family reunion, because in that case, it is not only city trips and cooking in the city park for this family. The undeniable fact that the whole poem by Paul Walla feels like the one who was sitting, which could fit on the slow rhythm album of Mike Jones, or mainly every song during which Paul Wall has ever appeared – but still works for BOP of this children – is a nasty work of the most beautiful diversity.

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Listen, I do not know if you may have a reason to pull up “Gracie’s Corner”, but in case you do it, move quickly to listen to this “wheel on the H-Town bus-to-remiks” with Paul Wall. And in case you didn’t know that “Gracie’s Corner” exists earlier, consider your life, and now you see how the life of oldsters will look and the way it differs from a lonely life. Because now I hit this remix “wheels on the bus” in a automobile with my children. This, my friends, is for all wines.

Indeed, the wheels are rolling.


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André 3000 wore a piano on his back to the MET gala – here’s why

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André 3000 is currently and has been for the most a part of the last 30 years of one in every of the leaflets dressed at the planet. Since placing the whole generation of young black men to turban in stores with cosmetics supplies to blond wigs and kilos, there may be nothing that Atlien cannot break away.

So when he hit a haunted blue rug during the MET gala in 2025 in the entire piano on the back, even the most lost that they had to cut the thorn on the side of Mrs. Jackson a little bit of slack. By turning a single-piece black outfit with a red hat, which definitely has a specific name, only carrying what I can put on is a designer trash bag-good room one in every of the lithium at a goat level at the level of hip-hop also wore a piano … on the back. Yes. Piano. The entire 88-lake piano. I hope it was hollowed out for ease of movement; André 3000 is just not exactly a spring chicken at the moment. He doesn’t even rap by trading his notators on his famous flute collection.

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Now it is extremely likely that me and your, your mother and your cousin, are wondering what can force anyone, and much more so André 3000, to cultivate the piano. Well, the answer to this query lies on Walking Promothal Exparit that André 3000 was at the MET gala. Just before he appeared in the Vogue channel for Met Gala Dwet Photo OP, group chats were in the news that André 3000 dropped the EP entitled “7 piano sketches”, while the biggest fashion night was half of the spring.

And don’t think that 3000 has returned to the bars, “7 piano sketches” is the most literal title of the album I’ve ever heard in my life; This is literally an album stuffed with piano sketches.

As you may see, the art of the album is comparable to the meta gala of the André 3000 outfit. This boy is coooooooold. This latest EP appears almost a 12 months and a half after André 3000 dropped, “New Blue Sun”, through which he began playing the flute, and never tell us more about Susa Screw and the Sasha Thumper crew. Despite the mixed reviews of “New Blue Sun”, this album was nominated for a lot of Grammy Awards during the 2025 ceremony, including the nomination for “Album of the Year”.

When everyone finally ends up talking about Met Gala costumes and a great discovery of Rihanna, prepare for the attack of dialogue about the André 3000 piano album.

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