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Keyshia Cole: Hell's Angel

November 9, 2007

It's 1998. Keyshia Cole is 16 and on her own. She should be in the 10th grade.

Brandy and Monica are big with "The Boy Is Mine." Janet Jackson has "I Get So Lonely." It's been more than a decade since the start of the crack tsunami, and the Oakland Unified School District has experienced triple-digit increases of assaults, sex offenses, and drug and alcohol offenses. Clinton cops to Lewinsky. The hot new show is HBO's Sex and the City.

Keyshia walks in to a West Oakland recording studio at about two in the morning. Alicia Keys is at work in one of the rooms, as is D'wayne Wiggins of the recently disbanded East Oakland R&B group Tony! Toni! Tone!... (read more)

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