Mr. Scarface Is Back: What We Can Learn From A Legend’s Late-Career Resurgence

The Roots Picnic — the once Philly-centric Black music festival, which over 16 years has become a perennial soft launch for the summer concert season here in the Northeast — can now safely be thought of as a national event. Atlanta’s Gunna graces the same stage as North Carolina’s Fantasia Barrino. St. Louis natives Smino and current sex-rap queen Sexyy Red follow each other as gospel is performed on a stage within earshot. Redman and Method Man, Ghostface and Nas, all New Yorkers an...

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