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Kimberly Joyner

May 30, 2021

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Screenshot from the music video for Papa Roach’s 2000 hit “Last Resort.” Credit: YouTube.com

Rap-Rock in the Aughts and the Black Woman It Left Behind

In the early 2000s, genre-bending in music was all the rage, as artists like Kid Rock and Linkin Park contributed to a record number of chart-topping singles for the rap-rock genre. So why wasn’t Black fusion rock artist Res a part of the…

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Rap-Rock in the Aughts and the Black Woman It Left Behind

In the early 2000s, genre-bending in music was all the rage, as artists like Kid Rock and Linkin Park contributed to a record number of chart-topping singles for the rap-rock genre. So why wasn’t Black fusion rock artist Res a part of the…

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