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FANTASTIC NEGRITO

N THE RUN-UP to his latest album, 2018’s game-changing , Fantastic Negrito had a Chuck Berry moment. He wanted to write a song with the same irresistible impact of Berry’s indomitable classic “Johnny B. Goode” and came up with “Plastic Hamburgers.” Ostensibly, the two songs are very different — the latter fuses plantation-era Mississippi and cuttingedge Oakland, California, in a way that would have been

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