"Candy" is a song by American rapper Foxy Brown (pictured) featuring
Kelis, released by Def Jam on August 21, 2001, as the third single from
her third studio album Broken Silence (2001). A dance-pop and R&B;
track, it was produced by the Neptunes duo Chad Hugo and Pharrell
Williams, who co-wrote the song alongside Brown and Juan Manuel Cordova.
Brown raps on the verses while Kelis, a frequent collaborator with the
Neptunes, performs the hook. The lyrics are about cunnilingus. "Candy"
received a positive response from critics upon release and in
retrospective reviews. Music critics compared it to music by other
artists, including Lil' Kim, while scholars analyzed its representation
of black female sexuality. In the US, the song appeared on Billboard
charts, reaching the top ten on the Hot Rap Songs chart. "Candy"
appeared on several soundtracks in the early 2000s; it featured in the
television series Dark Angel and the films Friday After Next and The 40
-Year-Old Virgin.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_%28Foxy_Brown_song%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1808:
Peninsular War: British–Portuguese forces put an end to the
first French invasion of Portugal at the Battle of Vimeiro.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vimeiro>
1911:
Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre by
museum employee Vincenzo Peruggia and was not recovered until two years
later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa>
1971:
Six people were killed during an escape attempt and riot at
California's San Quentin State Prison; the subsequent trial of six
inmates was the longest in state history at the time.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Quentin_Six>
1986:
A limnic eruption of Lake Nyos in Cameroon released a cloud of
carbon dioxide, suffocating 1,746 people and 3,500 livestock.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nyos_disaster>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
anhedonic:
(psychiatry, also figuratively) Showing anhedonia; having no capacity to
feel pleasure.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anhedonic>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Friend, I haven't a dollar in the world, but if thee knows a
fugitive who needs a breakfast, send him to me.
--Thomas Garrett
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Garrett>
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