How Black Gay Clubs Saved Eve’s ‘Tambourine’

The single barely cracked the Top 40, but more than a dozen years later continues to ring off—a legacy fueled by the fandom of Black gay men

Craig Seymour
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8 min readAug 7, 2020

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Photo: Al Pereira/WireImage

Eve wanted back on the charts. It had been five years since the Philly rapper’s third album, Eve-Olution, topped Billboard’s R&B/hip-hop category. In the…

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