By Miles Marshall Lewis As an occasional fiction editor, I’ve seen my share of short stories starring female protagonists variously described as black versions of the Icelandic avant-garde singer, Björk. In the real world outside the land of literature, the closest thing we have to that ideal in R&B is Dallas’s own Erykah Badu, as evidenced most recently by [...]

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by Miles Marshall Lewis The world has a little while longer to wait for the end of Lupe Fiasco. The twenty-six-year-old Chicago MC—born Wasulu Muhammad Jaco—has declared way in advance that his delayed third album, LUPN, will most likely be his last. Hiphop has heard this kind of talk before. But Lupe pulling the plug [...]

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