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Rakim / OutKast / “talking heads” & Big Tech / B.I.G. &
Big Daddy Kane / i tried to exorcise Black pain w/ tragi-
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Jada Renée Allen vs. Drill

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Brittany and Ajanae interviewed Jada Renée Allen on their rabbit holes of research, “Drill” the manuscript and the music, the relationship between Black women and water, and the influences on our poetics. 

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Maybe I was the only friend who would talk to you about him. 
You would call me in the afternoons from…

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Now you are like a god, said the man on the street
after he saw me struggling with three window screens 
and two fans, an open can of still-cold seltzer. In Flat ...
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