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Our Black Gir Magic Moment of the Week goes to Chance The Rapper for his explanation of what #blackgirlmagic means to him.
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00:00you're watching essence live I'm your host Dana Blair and it's now time for our black girl magic
00:10moment of the week which goes to a guy yes we have our shout out our brothers who recognize
00:15a good black woman when they see one and this week that honor goes to chance the rapper we
00:18caught up with him on the red carpet for MTV's video music awards to find out what black girl
00:23magic means to him to me it means tough and resourceful and understanding and integral and
00:36and yeah it's cool cuz to me it's kind of like the antithesis of like you know like in movies
00:44there's like that fantastical super magical Negro by green and this is like the real world version of
00:52it so I think it's real life the real version of of just like women that have existed forever and
00:57you know get the job done that's an amazing answer but can I ask you about what what is this I've been
01:03squeaking this on the mic the whole time what is that a rubber ducky that I got from Ellen's white
01:08girl magic don't put that in there yes we're putting it on here thank you so much chance we
01:14definitely love you and your rubber ducky and because you love us remember you can watch Essence's
01:18original black girl magic documentaries at essence.com backslash black girl magic
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