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Breland has a reputation for dropping bangers like "My Truck" and "Throw It Back," but for his latest release, he wanted to ...

A civil rights champion and musical pariah, Nina Simone wrote some of the greatest songs of an entire generation, tackling subjects like racism and entrapment.