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The Renaissance Rundown: Heat 90 — We Cry Running In the 90s

A festival with old school music acts, rappers hit with RICO charges, and mass violence in America previews the summer.

What’s good y’all?

Once again, Juwan is here subbing in for Paul and bringing another Rundown to you this week. We’re running into the 90s with this edition of the newsletter, and we’re always excited to reach new milestones.

JUST A MOMENT…

There’s plenty of music news to focus on this week, and we will get to it, but trying to focus on anything other than racism, terrorism, and violence this weekend is just wrong. Media writ-large has already done enough to avoid focusing on it for a long time, and that didn’t stop with the murder of at least 10 people in Buffalo, New York, by someone who bought into racism based on memes and carrying a AR with a racial slur written on it. Mentioning it here won’t stop any of that either, but it is more important to do so to exemplify what many others are not: this is not normal.

It may seem like we’re powerless to change any of this, and in the immediacy our abilities are of course limited, but we do not have to accept this at all. Each and every one of us can, and will, be next if we don’t recognize that these murders aren’t random or crazed occurrences.

As researcher and editor Mark Follman said previously, “This is planned violence. There is, in every one of these cases, always a trail of behavioral warning signs… The general public views mass shooters as people who are totally crazy, insane. It fits with the idea of snapping, as if these people are totally detached from reality. But there is actually a very rational thought process in a lot of these cases that goes into developing the idea of planning violence and preparing for it and then carrying it out.”

I won’t preach further, but I’ll put this — dated, yes, but absolutely still relevant — song here to encourage everyone to take a moment and imagine a place, a world without this happening. It is possible.

“Just A Moment” — Nas feat. Quan — Street’s Disciple

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_49iKyoQcfs

ANNOUNCEMENTS

In case you missed it… Paul is on the mend following a surgery earlier this month to address a non-life threatening injury he had. He’s okay, but let him know you’re thinking about him and hope he recovers well on his Instagram, Twitter, or website! I (Juwan J. Holmes) am helming The Renaissance Rundown newsletter in the meantime.

HAVE YOU HEARD…

This weekend featured the top premiere offering of hip-hop that music listeners will get before the summer: Kendrick Lamar’s Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers double album arrived to much-expected fanfare, and there’s plenty people are already unpacking from it. If you haven’t listened or seen Twitter already, prepare for the use (and subsequent denial) of anti-gay slurs, bemoaning of cancel culture, and rejection of celebrity culture. The guest appearances you can expect include Taylour Paige on “We Cry Together,”

Beyond that, most of the week’s news focused on the slew of indictments against several prominent Atlanta rappers and rap figures that were announced on May 9 (right after our last newsletter), which led to the arrest of Young Thug and Gunna. Essentially, authorities accuse the Atlanta-based YSL collective/record label as also doubling as a gang that has not only practiced gang activity for much of the last few years, but is responsible for about 50 shootings — including the attempted murder of YFN Lucci, a rapper currently incarcerated and most prominent member of the “rival” YFN group, as part of an alleged street war.

56 charges were filed against 28 alleged members of YSL in Fulton County, Georgia under the state’s version of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, which allows authorities to charge individuals involved or associated with an operation committing criminal acts, even if they did not commit all the alleged criminal actions undertaken throughout the operation. Prosecutors specifically used lyrics by Thug and Gunna as evidence to support their allegations before a grand jury. (You can read the full 88-page indictment via this link.)

Moving on — remember that perfect music festival lineup that came out two years ago that sounded too good to be true because it had nearly every single 90s and 2000s act ever worth knowing? Yeah, it — it being the “Lovers & Friends Festival” — finally happened. After the pandemic and a slew of other issues, the two-day show went ahead in its new host town of Las Vegas —except for a near-stampede on Saturday that left multiple people injured after an alleged active shooter situation (which this weekend also had plenty of) turned into a false alarm. That was just some of the chaos, but most of the rest of it was what you’d expect from a giant open-field fest.

Then, there were the Billboard Music Awards (BBMAs) last night, hosted by the one and only Diddy. It may not shock you, but the billionaire music mogul used the opportunity to “un-canceling the canceled,” because that’s what society needs right now. So viewers were made to ‘welcome back’ the supposedly-cancelled Travis Scott in his first TV appearance post-Astroworld disaster TV appearance, and supposedly-redeemed Morgan Wallen in his first, post-racial slur use scandal.

Amongst the actual, y’know, awards to be given out: Drake took home “Top Artist,” “Top Male Artist,” and “Top Rap Artist,” and “Top Male Rap Artist” honors, among others — and his album Certified Lover Boy received “Top Rap Album.” Doja Cat took home multiple R&B BBMAs, and Kanye West won “Best Gospel Artist” and “Top Gospel Song” honors as ‘Ye.’ Janet Jackson presented Mary J. Blige with the Billboard Music Icon Award, only the eleventh artist to receive the honor. See the night’s full awards results in HipHopDX.

In other news:

Whilst most of the Young Slime Life/YSL life is still reeling from being the target of a federal RICO investigation, they lost one of their music and family members. Lil Keed, the brother of rapper Lil GotIt, died sometime in the last week at the age of 24. The XXL Freshman Class of 2020 alum’s cause of death has not been publicly announced (note: he was not named in the RICO investigation either, although speculation that the two events were related are abound.)

A 20th year anniversary celebration was held at the Apollo Theatre in honor of Cam’ron’s 2002 album Come Home With Me.

If you loved (or hated) the notion of the Roc Nation Brunch, you’ll love (or hate) JAY Z’s newest politically-slanted version of it.

Remy Ma was inducted into the Bronx Hall of Fame on Saturday. She also celebrated 14 years of marriage to Papoose on Friday.

Roddy Ricch appeared with Post Malone during his stint as musical guest on this weekend’s Saturday Night Live, hosted by Selena Gomez. Ricch was supposed to be a musical guest earlier this year, a stint he missed due to testing positive for coronavirus.

Apparently R. Kelly has a friend in at least one mass murderer. For now.

Apple officially killed off the iPod. Sync your devices while you still can.

Ukraine won the Eurovision 2022 Song Contest with their entry “Stefania,” crafted by the “folk-rap collective” Kalush Orchestra.

MUSIC RELEASES

This past week: In addition to Lamar’s Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers, Leikeli47’s Shape Up, and Lil Eazzyy’s Too Eazzyy also came out on May 13. Blac Youngsta’s 4Life and A$AP Ant’s Lil Black Jean Jacket 3 dropped on May 12.

Coming up, Dreezy & Hit-Boy’s Hit-Girl is now expected to drop this weekend on May 20, along with M Huncho’s debut album Chasing Euphoria, lil Gnar’s die bout it, Ravyn Lenae’s Hypnos, and YNW BSlime’s Goat. Sean Paul’s Scorcha is still expected on May 27, while Trippie Redd‘s album is still slated for a May release, according to HipHopDX.

RELAY

Here, we relay from a portion of an article written recently regarding hip hop.

This week, we’re relaying from Rolling Stone contributing editor Rob Sheffield’s article “RIP, iPod: A Tribute to the Device That Revolutionized the Art of Music Fandom”:

People talk about this device in terms of how it started the digital-music era, or even how it paved the way for the smartphone. But in retrospect, now it looks like the last format designed for old-school pre-streaming trends, where music is something you “have,” rather than something you lease.

Listening to the iPod, you’re off the grid. You are not being tracked, measured, counted, rated, studied, data-mined, or researched. It’s nobody’s business, just you and the tunes. It keeps track of play counts, but that’s just for your personal stat-crunching amusement — it doesn’t judge you.

RECOMMENDED SONGS …for some reason, all the reasons, no reasons

“Running in the 90s” — Max Coveri — Golden Age (If you somehow didn’t understand the title reference.)

“Just A Moment” — Nas feat. Quan — Street’s Disciple (see above)

Thanks for reading, for somewhere between the first and ninetieth time, The Renaissance Rundown. If you didn’t know, you can find me on every social at @/JuwantheCurator (in addition to @JuwantheWriter on Twitter), my latest work and links at linktr.ee/JuwantheCurator, and my own site, juwanthecurator.wordpress.com.

As always, follow The Renaissance Project (@TheRenProj) via Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Tumblr.

See y’all next week.

The Renaissance Rundown: Heat 90 — We Cry Running In the 90s was originally published in The Renaissance Project on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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The Renaissance Rundown: Heat 89 — Getting Real Fake Deep

Several music videos, a ton of social media antics, and a supposed sovereign caught in jail is just some of the deep fake stuff going on this week.

What’s good y’all?

This is still Juwan, subbing in for your usual newsletter presenter Paul once again this week. It’s time for another Rundown!

TL;dr — Paul’s sitting out on newsletter duties for the next few weeks (he’s alright, but feel free to let him know you’re thinking about him!), so it’s gonna be… May (corny beginning-of-May joke made: check…) telling you about Megan the Stallion’s latest honor, Sean Paul’s latest temperature check, and… (checks notes) who the kids are apparently missing?

ANNOUNCEMENTS

As a personal aside, I’m hosting my first audio chat on Twitter Spaces TODAY discussing my latest article regarding the rise and fall of the Black News Channel. Read more and tune in on my Twitter, @juwanthewriter.

ARTICLES

Here’s some recent articles from us that may be of interest:

Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show: A Recap — Paul K. Barnes

While Paul’s out of writing commission for a little, there’s still plenty of words of his to read around here. Take his recap on the Super Bowl Halftime Show, for example.

Jacob Ezra Walks the Dividing Line — Paul K. Barnes

Paul’s profile of music artist and journalist Jacob Ezra is a complete banger: “Walking the line between music journalist and artist is a very rare position. For Jacob, he started as a music artist before he was a music journalist, so naturally, his perspective is both unique and considerate… The conversation over who has the right to review music, and what type of music they review, has reached a new level of polarization. It’s all very interesting, to say the least.”

Reentering the World of Underground Rap — Paul K. Barnes

Paul’s thinking exercise on what constitutes “underground” will make you think, if you like doing that sometimes.

HAVE YOU HEARD…

Last week’s Met Gala had a decent crew of hip-hop figures, including Cardi B, Kid Cudi, Future, Jack Harlow, Nicki Minaj, Megan Thee Stallion, and Questlove. The headline performer of the night, though, was veteran rocker Lenny Kravitz — who followed country hitmaker Kacey Musgraves on the stage.

It was a big week for music videos, too. Out of the releases from this weekend (more on that below), Friday’s single/surprise video from Kendrick Lamar easily stood out amongst the rest. The rapper’s first single from his upcoming album is “The Heart Part 5,” and the (Dave Free co-directed) video for it features the rapper performing the song while his face is digitally morphed into “deepfakes” of six different Black entertainers with well-known public scandals: OJ Simpson, Will Smith, Jussie Smollett, Kobe Bryant, Kanye West, and Nipsey Hussle. We’ll leave speculative interpretation of its meaning or intended message to the halls of music Twitter.

In the meantime, Drake spent the week making an ordinary couple instantly viral after he followed the wife of a man who made comments on Instagram about Drake’s son Adonis… then drunkingly giggling with Jack Harlow at the Kentucky Derby as the two filmed a new music video… whilst a music video featuring him as a medieval knight on a horse was making the rounds online.

This weekend also saw a Kanye West release as well — the mogul released a music video for his 2021 song “Life of the Party,” part of which was turned into a television advertisement for his “Yeezy Gap” Balenciaga collection which debuted on FOX last night.

Lastly, but not least of all, A$AP Rocky includes his beau Rihanna as his love interest in the music video for his new single “D.M.B. (Dat’s My Bitch).” The nostalgic-like visual features the former proposing to the latter… through his teeth, at least.

In other news:

Post Malone will be the musical guest for next week’s episode of Saturday Night Live, hosted by current star of the Hulu series Only Murders In the Building (and successful musician in her own right), Selena Gomez.

ABC cancelled the network musical drama Queens — which starred Eve, Brandy, and Naturi Naughton as members of a popular 90s girl group — after one season.

Kidd Creole, an original member of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, was sent to prison for fatally stabbing a homeless man in 2017. He’s slated to serve 16 years behind bars on first-degree manslaughter.

As if there’s totally not better uses of money right now, a GoFundMe offering to pay for Asian Doll to leave New York and return to Texas raised over $10,000 before being apparently shut down.

42Dugg was arrested by ATF agents while getting off a private airplane in Detroit, after failing to surrender himself in April after violating his parole agreement stemming from gun charges. Apparently, the rapper’s claims he’s a sovereign immune from the laws of the United States didn’t fly with the TSA agents.

Ludacris received an honorary degree in music management from Georgia State University, a school he used to attend before propelling to rap stardom, on May 4.

On Mother’s Day, Stevie J became the latest hip hop “real man” figure pleading for his wife (Faith Evans) to take him back.

Missed last week: A Rolling Stone report exclusively publishes “never-before-seen footage [that] raises doubts” about DaBaby’s claims that his shooting of 19 year-old Jaylin Craig in 2018 was done in self-defense. Craig’s family have maintained that the shooting only occurred because DaBaby was uncomfortable with being recognized by Craig and a friend of his who were both early fans of the embattled rapper. “Nobody ever asked us what was Jaylin like. Nobody,” his mother LaWanda Horsley told the magazine.

Jewell Caples, a popular R&B artist formerly signed to Death Row Records, passed away from undisclosed causes, but following multiple hospital stays in recent years. She was 53.

MUSIC RELEASES

This past week: Doja Cat’s song “Vegas,” the lead single from the Elvis Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, dropped via RCA Records. Future released his album I Never Liked You last week, followed by a music video for “Wait for U,” a song with Drake included in the album. If you’ve ever fantasized about Drake donned in armor riding in on horseback, your dreams are fulfilled in the Director X-directed video.

IDK’s Simple, YNW BSlime’s Goat and Jack Harlow’s Come Home The Kids Miss You were other albums released as scheduled this weekend. Bad Bunny’s album Un Verano Sin Ti was also released, along with the single and accompanying video “Moscow Mule.”

Coming up this weekend, Kendrick Lamar’s Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers Leikeli47’s Shape Up and Dreezy & Hit-Boy’s Hit-Girl are slated to come out on May 13. Sean Paul’s new album Scorcha is slated for May 27, while Blackstar (the moniker for duo Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey) and Trippie Redd both have releases expected this month, according to HipHopDX.

RELAY

Here, we relay from a portion of an article written recently regarding hip hop.

This week, we’re relaying from Complex staff writer Jessica McKinney’s article “‘Fake’ Rappers Are Taking Over the Internet (and Making Lots of Money)”:

Although the attention these rap clones have received from social media and interviews brings them notoriety (and potential clients), it seems money is the top priority. When Complex reached out to Lil Durk’s doppelganger Perkioo and asked about an interview for this story, he responded, “Will Complex be compensating for the interview?”

RECOMMENDED SONGS …for some reason, all the reasons, no reasons

“Moscow Mule” — Bad Bunny — Un Verano Sin Ti

“Memories” — YUNGBLUD and Willow Smith — (Something new with double the dose of queerness, for the price of one.)

“Don’t Wait Up” — Taylor Bennett feat. Mr Hudson — Coming of Age (Mr Hudson hasn’t appeared on a bad song yet, and this is not an exception.)

Thanks for reading, for somewhere between the first and eighty-ninth time, The Renaissance Rundown. If you didn’t know, you can find me on every social at @/JuwantheCurator (in addition to @JuwantheWriter on Twitter), my latest work and links at linktr.ee/JuwantheCurator, and my own site, juwanthecurator.wordpress.com.

As always, follow The Renaissance Project (@TheRenProj) via Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Tumblr.

See y’all next week.

The Renaissance Rundown: Heat 89 — Getting Real Fake Deep was originally published in The Renaissance Project on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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The Renaissance Rundown: Heat 88 — Coming Off the Bench

We’re one man down, a couple of crypto cringe croons in, and a few MLK comparisons closer to hell — but we’re never gonna give you up. Happy Megan the Stallion Day!

What’s good y’all?

We‘re doing a little remix on the programming here at The Renaissance for the next few weeks. Paul is out on injured reserve, so I (Juwan J. Holmes) am hopping in to bring you your regularly scheduled newsletter.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Renaissance Rundown Newsletter is being helmed by Juwan while Paul is on the mend from a surgery last week to address a non-life threatening injury he had. He’s okay, but let him know you’re thinking about him and hope he recovers well on his Instagram, Twitter, or website!

With everything going on… *gestures at humanity* things have slowed down around here as of late, but don’t worry, we are still cooking things up. We may have brainstormed for some campaigns in the immediate future… 👀

ARTICLES

Here’s some recent articles from us that may be of interest:

Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show: A Recap — Paul K. Barnes

While Paul’s out of writing commission for a little, there’s still plenty of words of his to read around here. Take his recap on the Super Bowl Halftime Show, for example.

Jacob Ezra Walks the Dividing Line — Paul K. Barnes

Reentering the World of Underground Rap — Paul K. Barnes

Paul’s thinking exercise on what constitutes “underground” will make you think, if you like doing that sometimes.

HAVE YOU HEARD…

Today, May 2nd, has been declared Megan Thee Stallion Day in her hometown of Houston, Texas. Mayor Sylvester Turner issued the proclamation, and presented Megan with a key to the city at a ceremony held yesterday.

Later today, fashion’s premiere event — the Met Gala — is being held for the 38th time at the Metropolitan Museum of New York. This will be the first Met Gala held in May since 2019–2020’s was cancelled (pandemic) and 2021’s was held in September (just eight months ago — which is probably why it feels like it already happened.) This year’s theme, based on an exhibit of the same title, is “In America: An Anthology of Fashion.” I can’t wait to see how badly that goes.

The Met Gala chair’s this year are Regina King (this would mark one of her first public appearances since her son’s death), Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, and Lin-Manuel Miranda. Performers have not been formerly announced, but you can still expect a heavy crew of musicians to show up. Vogue’s livestream coverage, which is co-hosted by Vanessa Hudgens and La La Anthony, will start at 6pm EST.

In other news:

Music journalist Ivie Ani launched a new live radio show “In Full Effect” on Amazon Music’s AMP application this week. Download the AMP app and use the code “IVIE” to access the show and several other talk radio and licensed songs.

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In an interview on Twitch for Rolling Stone, Sean Paul liked comedian Jay Pharoah’s impression of him so much that he committed to signing the SNL alum. During the interview, Paul also shared what’s the right temperature for your girl and (once again) what he says at the beginning of the song.

The Rolling Stone Twitch also interviewed the rapper IDK last week, his first sit-down since announcing his upcoming KAYTRANADA-produced album, Simple. They broadcast on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 4pm EST at www.twitch.tv/rollingstone.

Drake is (allegedly) a fan (or more?) of Abby Shapiro, the influencer sister to right-wing conspiracist Ben Shapiro.

Joe Budden is holding a grudge against Earl Sweatshirt over a sketch mocking him from a 2014 episode of Loiter Squad, the former Odd Future rapper said as a guest on the Showtime show Desus & Mero.

In the second season premiere of her self-titled, weekly variety Showtime series Ziwe, Ziwe asked Breakfast Club host Charlamagne da God why he always “beefs” with Black women, as well as inquiring further about his self-comparisons to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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— @ziwe

MUSIC RELEASES

This past week: Kehlani’s BLUE WATER ROAD and Future’s I Never Liked You came out. Additionally, Wale’s More About Nothing, the Seinfeld-inspired mixtape sequel to The Mixtape About Nothing (2008) and prequel to the album The Album About Nothing (2015), is now available on streaming services 12 years after its release. Amongst singles released: Tink and 2 Chainz have a single called “Cater” and Jvck James released the EP ON THE ROCKS featuring the song “Hennessy Tears.”

This upcoming week: there’s not a heavy amount of hip-hop drops as of now slated for the month of May, but IDK’s album Simple, YNW BSlime’s Goat and Jack Harlow’s album Come Home The Kids Miss You (further comment on the title withheld… for now) are set to come out on Friday, May 6. (Non-rap artists releasing music also include Simple Plan and Arcade Fire — this weekend’s musical guest for Saturday Night Live.) Before that, Lil Gotit’s album The Cheater, which leaked in January according to Genius.com, gets officially dropped on May 4 (may the four-ce of record sales be on his side.)

Later in the month, though: there will be plenty of new hip-hop for fans to ingest. Of course, Kendrick Lamar’s Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers comes out May 13, as does Leikeli47’s album Shape Up and Dreezy & Hit-Boy’s Hit-Girl. Sean Paul’s new album Scorcha is slated for May 27, while Blackstar (the moniker for duo Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey) and Trippie Redd both have releases expected this month, according to HipHopDX.

Randomly, Rick Astley’s Whenever You Need Somebody (featuring the viral sensation “Never Gonna Give You Up”) is getting a remastered release this week too, in case you were wondering.

RELAY

Here, we relay from a portion of an article written recently regarding hip hop.

This week, we’re relaying from Pitchfork staff writer & rap columnist Alphonse Pierre, and their column “Crypto Is the Most Uncool Thing You Could Possibly Rap About”:

The track, by Rich the Kid and Takeoff, is called “Crypto,” and it’s the most embarrassing rap song I’ve come across in a minute.

Just look at this chorus: “She want the info/I want to talk about crypto.” Is anyone even sure what that means?! Either it’s about Takeoff being so singularly business-minded that he just wants to talk to his girlfriend about investing, or it has absolutely no meaning and is the sort of line that will get him paid a shit ton of money to perform at an angel investor’s birthday party.

RECOMMENDED SONGS …for some reason, all the reasons, no reasons

“Hit My Phone” — Megan Thee Stallion feat. Kehlani — SUGA (Happy Meg Day!)

“Maybach Music” — Rick Ross feat. Jay-Z — Trilla (A good throwback to start May with, minus that same old Justin Timberlake meme.)

“Get TF Out My Face” — Saucy Santana [prod. by Bankroll Got It & Diego Ave] (Familiarize yourself with RCA Records’ newest talent.)

Thanks for reading, for somewhere between the first and eighty-eighth time, The Renaissance Rundown. If you didn’t know, you can find me on every social at @/JuwantheCurator (in addition to @JuwantheWriter on Twitter), my latest work and links at linktr.ee/JuwantheCurator, and my own site, juwanthecurator.wordpress.com.

As always, follow The Renaissance Project (@TheRenProj) via Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Tumblr.

See y’all next week.

The Renaissance Rundown: Heat 88 — Coming Off the Bench was originally published in The Renaissance Project on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Watch Out for the Wild, Wild West

People who are like (or want to be like) Kanye West are willing to take this wild, out of control ride, no matter how dangerous it is.

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After video of a Black woman being dragged out of a gay bar by her hair went viral last week, @lgbtqnation looked into the incident. Keisha Young was another patron at Nellie’s in Washington, DC when she was dragged by her hair and forcibly thrown out, for the entire internet to see. She believes the security misidentified her. Yet, the bar (which did not return comment) and its owner has refused to apologize to her directly, just those who “witnessed” it. As @preston.mitchum & @harrietsdreams explain to @lgbtqnation, Nellie’s has treated too many Black people like this. So a boycott begins. Learn more at lgbtqnation.com /link in my bio. #NoPride4Nellies #ProtestNellies #lgbtq #pridemonth #dcpride #nellies #misogynoir #boycott #keishayoung — view on Instagram https://scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/203100710_787871358543055_1721401218330413032_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=hMDq03jkolIAX8SmEOa&_nc_oc=AQkyCNkouHgXILEsqgFb2-PL_KFudjBD24MWuWmjY6DhTR9nUG4Kjwxv9Jced-qCfE4&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com&oh=04fca230416fa747fce98638ce538196&oe=60D50A0B

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I’d say this pretty accurately describes the stages of my life… and also, playing Overwatch. • “PSQ[ueer]” 👨🏾‍🎤: @juwanthecurator 📸: @blissfulstills 🎞: @scfocuspoint 🩳/🕹: @playstation 🎽: @hottopic 🌈: #thegayagenda — view on Instagram https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/202120120_976761276445820_4171610795616304848_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=6EvUxvoolCAAX8z8jzH&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&oh=0cd383cf55bc1617244c45b063e2bcae&oe=60D150AA

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As a reminder. #QueerAllYear #pride2021 🌈 — view on Instagram https://scontent-iad3-2.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/200598160_487958102484030_1687706047008651839_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=twWbv_oGR2YAX_Yv7zo&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-2.cdninstagram.com&oh=94769b3b594a576586ecf20229dd4404&oe=60CDE538

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juwanthecurator · 3 years

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juwanthecurator · 3 years

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Playlist 2: Love In the (Social) Distance

Our second playlist, recognizing how “the world continues to adapt to this warped reality,” features Anderson .Paak, The Internet, J. Cole…

Continue reading on The Renaissance Project »

from Stories by Juwan J. Holmes on Medium https://medium.com/the-renaissance/playlist-2-love-in-the-social-distance-b3cb9056c416?source=rss-3afaef324bdd------2

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juwanthecurator · 3 years

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juwanthecurator · 4 years

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We need a hip-hop Super Bowl halftime, and the performer should be…

One of the most-watched concerts of the year is in need of a serious reboot. We have just the names for people to consider.

Continue reading on The Renaissance Project »

from Stories by Juwan J. Holmes on Medium https://medium.com/the-renaissance/we-need-a-hip-hop-super-bowl-halftime-and-the-performer-should-be-596c46b1361e?source=rss-3afaef324bdd------2

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juwanthecurator · 4 years

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Flavor Waves: Playlist 4

The freshest urban and soul-based tracks out now, including songs by Eric Bellinger, Ty Dolla $ign & ZAYN.

Flavor Waves is here to bring the freshest urban and soul-based tracks of today. Every week, check in to come float in a wave of magic.

Flavor Waves is created and managed by R&B artist & playlist curator Taylor Gray, and is a separately managed, R&B-centric list that will have periodical updates (as of now, weekly) co-published by The Renaissance Project.

You can find them on Instagram, Twitter, Spotify, Apple Music, and now on The Renaissance. All previous and future updates can be found here.

In Flavor Waves’ latest update, music from Brent Faiyaz, Eric Bellinger, and Healy is added. Amorphous, Fat Joe, Ty Dolla $ign, and ZAYN are also featured.

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— @flavwaves

Amorphous was recently profiled by The Renaissance article, “Amorphous was the winner of 2020 — and he wasn’t even trying” in addition to an extended interview published as “More from Amorphous: Our interview & track-by-track review with the winner of 2020.”

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— @flavwaves

Below, find the transcribed tracklist, plus access to the playlist on Apple Music and Spotify.

More from The Renaissance: Playlist 1: Music For The Revolution

[* indicates new addition.]

1. Fat Joe, DJ Khaled, Amorphous — “Sunshine (The Light)” *2. Brelia Renee — “Don’t Bother Me” 3. Gallant — “Comeback.” *4. Brent Faiyaz, DJ Dahi, Tyler, the Creator — “Gravity” 5. Jazmine Sullivan — “The Other Side” 6. SZA — “Good Days” 7. Asiahn — “Get Away” *8. Eric Bellinger, Hitmaka — “Only You” *9. Jessica Ruffolo — “rain” 10. Marc E. Bassy, Buddy — “Cold” 11. Chloe x Halle — “Sending My Love” [Spotify Exclusive] *12. Jessie Ware, Bibi Zhou, Sihan — “Adore You (Endless Remix)” 13. Ambré — “alone” 14. Romen —“ nah.” 15. Mac Ayres — “Every Time” 16. ZAYN — “Vibez” 17. CVIRO, GXNXVS — “Candy” *18. Healy — “Part of Me” 19. dvsn — “Use Somebody” 20. MiC LOWRY — “Tell Me Now” *21. Ginette Claudette, Mia Ariannaa — “Guess Who” 22. Yung Baby Tate, 6LACK — “Let It Rain” 23. VanJess, Jimi Tents, Garren — “Curious” 24. Shanaz Dorsett, E.O.M., We Plug Good Music — “Imagination (Remaster)” [Apple Music Exclusive] 25. Eric Bellinger — “Genius” 26. Tone Stith — “Devotion” 27. Queen Naija, Kiana Ledé — “I’m Her” 28. NAO, Adekunle Gold — “Antidote” 29. Jazmine Sullivan — “Put It Down” 30. Dryx — “What U Want” 31. Emanuel — “PTH” *32. Masego, Don Toliver — “Mystery Lady” 33. Levandé, Taylor Gray — “Need to Know” 34. Shah — “Involved” 35. Ariana Grande, The Weeknd — “off the table” 36. Justin Nozuka, Mahalia — “No One But You” 37. Adam Ness — “Harlem Knight” 38. Omar Apollo, Ruel — “Want U Around” 39. H.E.R. — “Damage” 40. tobi lou, Dreezy — “OKAY” 41. Gemaine — “What’s Your Name?” 42. Ty Dolla $ign, 6LACK, Musiq Soulchild — “Your Turn” 43. Maurice Moore, JYDN — “it’s on you” 44. Ariana Grande — “just like magic” 45. Ginette Claudette — “Lookin’ Up Ya Ex” 46. Saweetie, Doja Cat — “Best Friend” 47. Bree Runway, Yung Baby Tate — “DAMN DANIEL” 48. Bryson Tiller — “Things Change” 49. Xavier Omär, Jae Stephens — “All Our Time” 50. Giveon, Snoh Aalegra — “Last Time” 51. Phony Ppl, Joey Bada$$ — “On My Shit” 52. Jazmine Sullivan, Anderson .Paak — “Price Tags” 53. Huckleberry Funk — “Broke Times” 54. Rejjie Snow, Snoh Aalegra, Cam O’bi — “Mirrors” 55. Durand Bernarr — “Relocate” 56. SZA, The Neptunes, Pharrell Williams, Ty Dolla $ign — “Hit Different” 57. Brelia Renee, Furillostar — “Vibe With You” 58. Queen Naija, Mulatto — “Bitter” 59. Lucky Daye, Babyface — “Shoulda” 60. Q — “Take Me Where Your Heart Is” 61. L.A. VanGogh — “Rendezvous” 62. Bryson Tiller — “Inhale” 63. Usher — “Bad Habits” 64. VanJess — “Come Over” 65. Disclosure, Kehlani, Syd — “Birthday” 66. Mac Ayres — “Where U Goin’ Tonight?” 67. Gallant — “Only One” 68. Brandy, Ty Dolla $ign — “No Tomorrow, Pt. 2” 69. Toni Braxton — “Fallin’” 70. Samoht — “BE OK” 71. Tré Melvin — “higher” 72. MiC LOWRY — “Brand New” 73. Elliott Trent — “Luv Lyfe” 74. Eric Bellinger — “One Thing Missing” 75. Keke Palmer — “New Nxgga” 76. Gemaine — “What’s Goin’ On?” 77. Victoria Monét — “Jaguar” 78. Jenevieve — “Baby Powder” 79. Xavier Omär, Masego — “SURF” 80. Devvon Terrell — “You Trippin” 81. Furillostar, Brelia Renee, This Life. We Lead. — “Northside” 82. Leon Bridges, Lucky Daye — “All About You” 83. Latif — “Before and After” 84. Jacob Latimore — “It’s My Birthday” 85. Eric Bellinger — “Weak All Week” 86. JoJo — “Kiss” 87. Kiana Ledé — “Feel A Way.” 88. Queen Naija — “Pack Lite” 89. Lyfe Harris, Ye Ali, DCMBR, JAHKOY — “Too Many Ways” 90. Ryan Trey, Bryson Tiller — “Nowhere To Run” 91. Zach Said, MiC LOWRY — “Therapy” 92. Brandy — “Rather Be” 93. JoJo — “Think About You” 94. dvsn, Shantel May — “…Again” 95. Paula DeAnda — “Call It Quits” 96. Justine Skye — “No Options” 97. 6LACK — “Long Nights” 98. Snoh Aalegra — “DYING 4 YOUR LOVE” 99. Giveon — “FAVORITE MISTAKE” 100. Lianne La Havas — “Can’t Fight” 101. Yebba — “Distance”

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— @flavwaves

https://medium.com/media/3c8a7cb1f37e2ca1f65f29b85ae58da4/href

Flavor Waves by Taylor Gray

Flavor Waves: Playlist 4 was originally published in The Renaissance Project on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

from Stories by Juwan J. Holmes on Medium https://medium.com/the-renaissance/flavor-waves-playlist-4-ab6e47a6abdf?source=rss-3afaef324bdd------2

#Juwan The Curator #Medium #Articles

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juwanthecurator · 4 years

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Flavor Waves: Playlist 3

The freshest urban and soul-based tracks in this week’s update includes Ambré, Amorphous, JoJo & Queen Naija.

The single cover art to “Sunshine (The Light)” by Fat Joe feat. Amorphous

Welcome back — Flavor Waves is here to bring the freshest urban and soul-based tracks of today. Come float in a wave of magic.

Created and managed by R&B artist & playlist curator Taylor Gray, this is a separately managed, R&B-centric list that will have periodical updates (as of now, weekly) co-published by The Renaissance Project. You can find them on Instagram, Twitter, Spotify, Apple Music, and now on The Renaissance. All previous and future updates can be found here.

So far, it seems we’re helping get the word out — Flavor Waves has now reached over 100 likes on Spotify!

Last week, artist Romen also took notice of Flavor Waves’ inclusion of his song “nah.”

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— @MeetRomen

In Flavor Waves’ latest update, music from Ambré, Amorphous, Fat Joe, and Marc E. Bassy is added. JoJo, Queen Naija, Toni Braxton, and Ty Dolla $ign are also featured.

Below, find the transcribed tracklist, plus access to the playlist on Apple Music and Spotify.

More from The Renaissance: Playlist 1: Music For The Revolution

[* indicates new addition.]

*1. Fat Joe, Amorphous — “Sunshine (The Light)” 2. Gallant — “Comeback” 3. Jazmine Sullivan — “The Other Side” *4. Marc E. Bassy, Buddy — “Cold” *5. Asiahn — “Get Away” 6. SZA — “Good Days” 7. Chloe x Halle — “Sending My Love ”[Spotify Exclusive] *8. Ambré — “Alone” 9. Romen — “nah.” 10. Mac Ayres — “Every Time” 11. ZAYN — “Vibez” 12. CVIRO, GXNXVS — “Candy” 13. dvsn — “Use Somebody” 14. MiC LOWRY — “Tell Me Now” 15. Yung Baby Tate, 6LACK — “Let It Rain” 16. VanJess, Jimi Tents, Garren — “Curious” *17. Shanaz Dorsett, E.O.M. & We Plug Good Music — “Imagination” (Remaster) [Apple Music Exclusive] 18. Eric Bellinger — “Genius” 19. Tone Stith — “Devotion” 20. Queen Naija, Kiana Ledé — “I’m Her” 21. NAO, Adekunle Gold — “Antidote” 22. Jazmine Sullivan — “Put It Down” 23. DRYX — “What U Want” 24. Emanuel — “PTH” 25. Levandé, Taylor Gray — “Need To Know” 26. Shah — “Involved” 27. Ariana Grande, The Weeknd — “off the table” 28. Justin Nozuka, Mahalia — “No One But You” 29. Adam Ness — “Harlem Knight” *30. Omar Apollo, Ruel — “Want U Around” 31. H.E.R. — “Damage” 32. tobi lou, Dreezy — “OKAY” 33. Gemaine —“What’s Your Name?” 34. Ty Dolla $ign, 6LACK, Musiq Soulchild — “Your Turn” 35. Maurice Moore, JYDN — “it’s on you” 36. Ariana Grande — “just like magic” 37. Ginette Claudette — “Lookin’ Up Ya Ex” 38. Saweetie, Doja Cat — “Best Friend” 39. Bree Runway, Yung Baby Tate — “DAMN DANIEL” 40. Quiet Child, Tinashe — “Ride Da Wav” 41. Bryson Tiller — “Things Change” 42. Xavier Omär, Jae Stephens — “All Our Time” 43. Giveon, Snoh Aalegra — “Last Time” 44. Phony Ppl, Joey Bada$$ — “On My Shit” 45. Jazmine Sullivan, Anderson .Paak — “Price Tags” 46. Huckleberry Funk — “Broke Times” 47. Rejjie Snow, Snoh Aalegra, Cam O’bi — “Mirrors” 48. Jovan E’Sean — “love you, always.” 49. Durand Bernarr — “Relocate” 50. SZA, The Neptunes, Pharrell Williams, Ty Dolla $ign — “Hit Different” 51. Brelia Renee, Furillostar — “Vibe With You” 52. Queen Naija, Mulatto — “Bitter” 53. Lucky Daye, Babyface — “Shoulda” *54. Q — “Take Me Where Your Heart Is” 55. L.A. VanGogh — “Rendezvous” 56. Bryson Tiller — “Inhale” 57. Usher — “Bad Habits” 58. VanJess — “Come Over” 59. Disclosure, Kehlani, Syd — “Birthday” 60. Mac Ayres — “Where U Goin’ Tonight?” 61. Gallant — “Only One” 62. Brandy, Ty Dolla $ign — “No Tomorrow, Pt. 2” 63. Toni Braxton — “Fallin’” 64. Samoht — “BE OK” 65. Tré Melvin — “higher” 66. MiC LOWRY — “Brand New” 67. Elliott Trent — “Luv Lyfe” 68. Eric Bellinger — “One Thing Missing” 69. Keke Palmer — “New Nxgga” 70. Gemaine — “What’s Goin’ On?” 71. Victoria Monét — “Jaguar” 72. Jenevieve — “Baby Powder” 73. Xavier Omär, Masego — “SURF” 74. Devvon Terrell — “You Trippin” 75. Furillostar, Brelia Renee, This Life. We Lead. — “Northside” 76. Leon Bridges, Lucky Daye — “All About You” 77. Latif — “Before and After” 78. Jacob Latimore — “It’s My Birthday” 79. Eric Bellinger — “Weak All Week” 80. JoJo — “Kiss” 81. Kiana Ledé — “Feel A Way.” 82. Queen Naija — “Pack Lite” 83. Lyfe Harris, Ye Ali, DCMBR, JAHKOY — “Too Many Ways” 84. Ryan Trey, Bryson Tiller — “Nowhere To Run” 85. Zach Said, MiC LOWRY — “Therapy” 86. Brandy — “Rather Be” 87. JoJo — “Think About You” 88. dvsn, Shantel May — “… Again” 89. Paula DeAnda — “Call It Quits” 90. Justine Skye — “No Options” 91. 6LACK — “Long Nights” 92. Snoh Aalegra — “DYING 4 YOUR LOVE” 93. Giveon — “FAVORITE MISTAKE” 94. Lianne La Havas — “Can’t Fight” 95. Yebba — “Distance”

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— @flavwaves

https://medium.com/media/3c8a7cb1f37e2ca1f65f29b85ae58da4/href

Flavor Waves by Taylor Gray

Flavor Waves: Playlist 3 was originally published in The Renaissance Project on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

from Stories by Juwan J. Holmes on Medium https://medium.com/the-renaissance/flavor-waves-playlist-3-67b235b3875c?source=rss-3afaef324bdd------2

#Juwan The Curator #Medium #Articles

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