Another “Baduizm” gem, “Otherside of the Game,” found her drawing attention to certain key passages (”It ain’t that he don’t have education, ’cause I was right there at his graduation”) and really wailing on the end. Like “On & On,” “Otherside of the Game” was followed by a sequel, the deadlier “Danger.”
And the show peaked when she followed that one with the soulful sass of “Tyrone,” inviting her no-good fool of a man to call his deadbeat friends to help him get his “(expletive)” out of her house.
She took off her jacket and twirled it over her head as the band switched into old-time stripper music mode behind her to underscore the opportunities he’d blown. And then, when she got to the part about how he can’t use her phone, a backup singer handed her a towel and after dabbing off her sweat, she used it as a prop to tell her man, “Get a towel and some smoke” to call those friends because he still can’t use her phone. It was brilliant.

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