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Funky Bitz
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To Pimp a Butterfly
Carries a strong pull into film through power and after-hours.
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The Chronic
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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50/50
Carries a strong pull into music through power and after-hours.
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Funny Games
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Prep
2000s
Curtis Sittenfeld's debut novel, Prep, is an insightful, achingly funny coming-of-age story as well as a brilliant dissection of class, race, and gender in a hothouse of adolescent angst and ambition.Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant fourteen-year-old when her father drops her off in front of her dorm at the pr...
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Aquemini
1990s
Atlanta hip-hop's most ambitious album. Southern funk, space, and lyrical virtuosity.
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Funny Games
1990s
Funny Games is a 1997 film from Austria, associated with Michael Haneke. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.
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Sign o' the Times
1980s
Prince at his most eclectic and brilliant across two discs. Funk, pop, rock, and gospel.
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50/50
A 27-year-old is diagnosed with spinal cancer and tries to keep living normally. Levine's comedy-drama based on a true story — funny and devastating.
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Music 2010s
To Pimp a Butterfly
Jazz, funk, spoken word, and hip-hop as a meditation on Black American identity and survival.
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Music 1990s
The Chronic
G-funk's foundation. West Coast hip-hop redefined by production genius.