06/01/2010
Doooo youuuu knoooow what todaaay is? It’s my anniversary. Yeaaah. Anniversary.
Lemme tell y’all a lil’ about me. If there’s one thing I love talkin’ about, it’s old music, movies, and TV. Actually that’s three things, but no need to be technical. I’m an admitted nostalgia addict. It’s almost a prerequisite that any future wife and/or ex-wife of mine will have to have this same quality, or shit prob’ly ain’t gonna work. There’ll be no Waka Flocka played at my our reception. Due to this addiction of sorts, and rediscovering my interest in writing over the last two years, I started DanjLovesThe90s one year ago today.
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04/14/2010
Aiight, so… maybe I’m a bigger New Jack City fan than y’all, eh? HA! In other news, New Jack Week keeps it movin’. Most of the time on this site, I throw in my own opinions along with some facts about the subjects of my entries. In other cases, I just try to stick to the history and leave it there. That said, this is how it went down with a label that played a big part in the New Jack era, Uptown Records.
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02/12/2010
O-Kay… so we’ve passed the halfway mark of the Winter Six series, and it continues on this week with the year of 1995. For the record, there’s a LOT of songs that coulda made this but didn’t. Breaking it down to the main six, these are the ones I came away with. But before we get to that…
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