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CTL-W-0381 · Work · 2000s

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Combined Graph record U-00782 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-W-0381. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.

Atlanta Magazine / Canopy Atlanta (fetched in full): Bankhead is a west-side Atlanta neighborhood whose music culture the piece documents; it names 'the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards, where Michael Jackson did the Bankhead Bounce' among the markers of Bankhead's influence, and places A-Town Players' 'Wassup, Wassup' in heavy rotation in the Bankhead scene.

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Atlanta Magazine / Canopy Atlanta (fetched in full): Bankhead is a west-side Atlanta neighborhood whose music culture the piece documents; it names 'the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards, where Michael Jackson did the Bankhead Bounce' among the markers of Bankhead's influence, and places A-Town Players' 'Wassup, Wassup' in heavy rotation in the Bankhead scene.

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Atlanta Magazine / Canopy Atlanta (fetched in full): Bankhead is a west-side Atlanta neighborhood whose music culture the piece documents; it names 'the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards, where Michael Jackson did the Bankhead Bounce' among the markers of Bankhead's influence, and places A-Town Players' 'Wassup, Wassup' in heavy rotation in the Bankhead scene.

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