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The Afropop Girls Making This Summer Sexy

On Friday, July 26, the day of the week new music drops regularly, three of the hottest pop stars out of Africa doled out the steamiest trifecta of releases this year. Nigerian singer Ayra Starr’s latest song is literally about being hot. South African star Tyla came with a four-pack …

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Why Beyoncé's 'Cowboy Carter' Should Get Album of the Year at the Grammys — and Kendrick Lamar Should Get Song of the Year 

Beyoncé‘s Cowboy Carter is much more than a country album — it’s actually a tour through the Black roots of American music that manages to be both thematically rich and stuffed with indelible pop songs, in multiple genres. Kendrick Lamar‘s virtuosic “Not Like Us,” meanwhile, completely transcends its status as …

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