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Here is a list of 10 songs—ranging from older to more current—that helped get me through and might help you in your own heartache.

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Here are six brand new songs you should play until you can’t hear anymore.

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Oh hi, what are you listening to? This stuff obviously.

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I love ‘90s hip-hop. I watch YouTube videos like my computer was a time-machine. And I reference them all the time.

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We SHOULD get it crunk upon, have fun upon, up in this dancery.

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I used to sing this song as if I actually believed its message: I used to love him. But I still did. Love him, that is. So I kept listening to the song in the hopes that it would somehow exorcise the feeling.

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‘Lil Kim and Nicki Minaj aren’t stupid – they’re quite the opposite. But instead of using the attention to bring attention to sexism, they’ve embraced it, singing the age-old, chauvinist song in which “empowerment” means “I’m so confidant, I demand you look at my ass.”