EVP, Content @complex Music writer and editor 📠📠📠 Previously: @genius @xxl @massappeal
Joined June 2008
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4 Sep 2022
New SUNDAY REVIEW 📝
Read my deep dive into Guy's classic debut album from 1988 and the birth of new jack swing ➡️ pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…
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20 Apr 2023
Congratulations to Jeff and Eric on the launch of @theblogera!
I just listened to the first two episodes, and it really took me back. Such an important story, and I’m so happy that it’s finally being told.
Please listen…you might even hear my voice pop up in episode 2 🤓
20 Apr 2023
We spent the last three years researching, reporting and recording our biggest project to date, @theblogera
We spoke with 150 people and accumulated 500 hours of original audio.
Episodes 1 & 2 of this ten-part series are available now!
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2 Feb 2023
.@the_rnb_archive 👊🏽
24 Jan 2023
🌓 Cassette Single / Al B. Sure! “Nite and Day”
🔎 On February 22, 1988, Uptown Records released the debut single from teen heartthrob Al B. Sure, a rapper-turned-singer who also happened to be the quarterback on Uptown star Heavy D’s high school football team.
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11 Jan 2023
PSA: I am no longer working at Genius...here's a little note I just posted on Linkedin 📌
Keep in touch at brendanfrederick.com🖇
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31 Dec 2022
The 25 best albums & songs of 2022, according to me 📩
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31 Dec 2022
Check out this "best of 2022" playlist I made with 420 quality songs from the past year 🔀
open.spotify.com/playlist/2K…
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7 Oct 2022
This question just came back to light bc of Rock The Bells asking about what artists have recorded with Pac, Biggie, and Eazy, outside of Bone. (They said Treach is the answer).
I didn’t realize it was Stevie J, but I def never ever thought it was actually Roger on it.
7 Nov 2017
Who sang with the vocoder on Biggie's "Going Back To Cali"? I don't think it was Roger Troutman as everyone seems to assume...
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My dad’s memoir is out today! My sister and I wrote something about the experience of helping him sift through his life and finish this story.
nytimes.com/2022/09/13/opini…
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This was a good essay, with a lot of laying the land and just enough judgment and opinion. Two things I wanna note about Guythat are related but singular in a way that would be too trivial to isolate in this essay BUT I LOVE ANYWAY...first, Piece of My Love...
4 Sep 2022
New SUNDAY REVIEW 📝
Read my deep dive into Guy's classic debut album from 1988 and the birth of new jack swing ➡️ pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…
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4 Sep 2022
Man "Groove Me" was recorded in a bathroom?!? 😳
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4 Sep 2022
New SUNDAY REVIEW 📝
Read my deep dive into Guy's classic debut album from 1988 and the birth of new jack swing ➡️ pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…
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4 Sep 2022
Another crucial piece from my research was Teddy Riley’s interview with @chairmanmaonyc for RBMA. Lots of great info about Teddy’s creative process and history: youtu.be/u_ZoJ6lkKAE
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4 Sep 2022
While researching this piece, I basically read and watched every Guy-related interview. Thank you to all the journalists who have covered Guy and new jack swing over the years—your work is so important in our understanding of music history. Here’s a few gems from the archive:
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17 Jul 2022
100k on our first Genius distro record is not bad at all. Shout out @mynameisntjmack 🙌🏽
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16 Jun 2022
New @bfred playlist 🔊 🔊 🔊
"A NEW JACK SWING THING (1987 - 1992)": open.spotify.com/playlist/3N…
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15 Jul 2022
New @bfred playlist 🔊🔊🔊
"THE LYDIA DEETZ MIXTAPE (1988)": open.spotify.com/playlist/63…
Strange and unusual music to play in the dark room that is your life 🖤
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