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Neneh Cherry Was Ahead of Everybody
That Buffalo Stance video popping up on Video Music Box Fridays, with Neneh Cherry's flow cutting through the synths and those rigid backup dancers cranking the UK hip-ho...
Anita Baker took on her record label, and then gave us Rapture! Auntie won!
Saturday morning, feather duster in hand, that piano intro to "Sweet Love" blasting from the living room stereo while the house gets right—Anita Baker's Rapture was every...
How TLC Got Played… Then Changed the Game for Everybody
Remember flipping past BET and catching "Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg" for the first time—big floppy hats, condom on their eyeglasses, Left Eye cutting through Dallas Austin's wal...
Before Girl Rap Beef: When Black Women United on Posse Cuts
Picture the cookout where the grown cousins crowd around the portable speakers, rewinding the tape to catch every verse on Lil’ Kim’s “Not Tonight (Ladies Night)” remix, ...
Black Line Dances & Atlanta Skating Rinks: How We Protect Our Joy w/ Dr. Marcus Borders
Hear the skates hitting the wood at Cascade on a Sunday night, Southern Soul jamming over the speakers, and folks from 20s to 60s linking up in lines that snake across th...
Michael Jackson’s “Dangerous” at 35: New Jack Swing, “Remember the Time” and 90s TV Nights
Picture a Sunday night in the early 90s, whole house quiet, everybody gathered around the TV waiting on that “Remember the Time” world premiere like it was the family reu...
The Twist Had Us Twisting Across Generations: Black Dance Secrets Revealed!
Picture your cousins at the family cookout, twisting like on those old Soul Train reruns while arguing over Hank Ballard's original cut versus Chubby Checker's Bandstand ...
The Wop Dance Turned 40: The Greatest 80s Hip Hop Move You Still See at Black Parties
The beat drops, that metal shaker hits, and suddenly you can see a whole room of Black folks dipping into The Wop like it never left the basement party. DJ Sir Daniel and...
The History of Black Line Dances: Electric Slide, Cha-Cha Slide & The Wobble
The History of Black Line Dances: Electric Slide, Cha-Cha Slide & The Wobble sits at the center of this conversation about music, memory, and community on the Queue Point...
Rihanna Is Our Last Global Pop Phenomenon | Queue Points Podcast
Rihanna Is Our Last Global Pop Phenomenon sees Queue Points dive into why Robyn Rihanna Fenty stands apart as a global pop figure, shaped by Bajan roots, Black music hist...