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Aretha Franklin - RIP


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Here's the note she sent to NY Post gossip columnist Liz Smith after she wrote an article saying her dress was too small.  The only thing it's missing is Shao Kahn saying FATALITY at the end:

 

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I'm gonna sum up the Queen of Detroit and Soul really simply here, because I've been struggling to find the right way to explain her for two days.

In 1968 the Grammys introduced the Best Female R&B Vocal Performance award.

In 1976, somebody not named Aretha Franklin won the award for the first time.

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On 8/20/2018 at 8:10 PM, Brian Fowler said:

It put her on par with the Great Lakes, hard to get more honor than that.

If I were going to make a Great Lakes/national resource joke, it would have to be about an Ohio native. 

I was making a Flint joke, is what I'm saying.

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