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One day in 1992, Angélique Kidjo walked into a magazine editor’s office and found herself being introduced over the phone to one of her all-time favorite artists. “Someone said, ‘Mrs. Kidjo, Mr. Brown wants to talk to you,’” she recalls. In stunned disbelief, she replied, “Yeah, and I’m Mother Teresa.” …

While some deeply misplaced Outkast comparisons and overly hyperbolic Rap Twitter praise may have soured some on Earthgang, a Young Thug feature — in this case on the duo’s “Proud Of U” — is always enough to make me relent. Thug is experiencing a long-awaited commercial boom thanks to the …