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13 Songs For A Lit Cookout

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Jun 06, 2016

Spelman College

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13 Songs For A Lit Cookout

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Cookout season has arrived! Everybody knows that in order to have a successful cookout, you must have a bald man working the grill with a white towel hanging off of his shoulder while wearing those official brown sandals, you must have the right auntie to bring her potato salad, and you must have a popping playlist. The playlist can honestly make or break the cookout. You have to please your favorite bougie auntie and those children who always ask if you have games on your phone. If the playlist is not live, the function is dead. Check out some of my favorite cookout jams below and use my list as inspiration to make your own cookout playlist.

1. The Gap Band - Outstanding

2. Teena Marie - Square Biz

3. Junkyard Band - Sardines

4. Total - Can't You See

5. E.U. - Da' Butt

6. Phony Ppl - Why iii Love the Moon.

7. Chris Brown - Back to Sleep

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8. Mariah Carey - Fantasy

9. Janet Jackson - That's the Way Love Goes

10. Brandy (feat. Queen Latifah, Yoyo & MC Lyte) - I Wanna Be Down [Remix]

11. Faith Evans - Love Like This

12. Boyz II Men - Motownphilly

13. Solange - Losing You

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