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Sep 2020
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From Lagos to DC

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This week, hosts Dope KNife and Linqua Franqa take a break from their historical deep dives to bring you the latest Hip Hop milestones, singles and music videos from this week and discuss their connections to current events and policy, from the late Eazy-E's birthday, early death from AIDS-induced pneumonia and its significance in the current conversation around an expedited coronavirus vaccine to the impact of Nigeria's response to the pandemic on Nigerian-Canadian rapper TOBi's latest visuals to the controversy eddying around Teyana Taylor's new video for "Still" and its depictions of slain Black figures.

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