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Run It Back to 2004

Janet Jackson performs onstage on Day 1 of 2023 ONE MusicFest at Piedmont Park on October 28, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Janet Jackson performs onstage on Day 1 of 2023 ONE MusicFest at Piedmont Park on October 28, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia.Paras Griffin/Getty Images for ONE Musicfest
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May 30, 2024

Run it back to 2004 with me this week on The Message!


Looking back on music history can be fun especially if we’re talking about 2004! I was pregnant and had no idea life would turn out like this, you know what else I didn’t know? How that Super Bowl performance would affect Janet Jackson’s career. Or how Fantasia’s music would become hood classics. Or that Andre 3000 would make good on his statement about ‘the south having something to say!’ 

It’s been 20 years of hip-hop and R&B greatness and we’re going over all of it this week on The Message!

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