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Gregory Engel is a Software Engineer at The Root.

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Could the New Pope Be Black?

Ninjasonik, New York City-based musicians and performance artists, take care to call themselves “a band, not a rapper.” The band’s enthusiastic claims to blipsterhood are manifest in its underground hit: “Tight Pants.”

Now I’ve come home to finish

finish my Brooklyn Blues

—Barry Manilow

Straight From The Root

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