For the ladies

Tonight is Ladies Night in Buffalo, folks. And what would Ladies Night be without a little New Jack Swing to get the hips swaying and the hearts pumping? Back in the days before hip-hop became the pre-eminent commercial force in popular music, soul and R&B still had a rather uneasy relationship with rap. Though they were never really oil and water, the soothing, romantic and sensual tones of soul music and the rapid-fire, staccato rhythms of nascent rap hadn't really found a way to merge, until ...

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