say my name²
Latifah + Dionne and Diana before her
square one.
It’s lovely to be quoted in this beautiful new profile of Queen Latifah in New York Times Style Magazine.
“To be a Black girl from Jersey who decides that Dana Owens is no longer big or accurate enough to describe who she is,” says the journalist Danyel Smith, “and to change her name to Queen Latifah — it was just bold.”
…more from the amazing Emily Lordi, here.
As a fan, I go back with Queen to the Tommy Boy Records days, to the glorious Queen Latifah & the Safari Sisters — on tour with Public Enemy — days. The Daisy Age.
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