The courtroom is BACK in session, cousins! ⚖️🎤

Detective Lightskinn is putting five more R&B classics on trial, and BABY, these lyrics have some EXPLAINING to do! 😂

We sang these songs, danced to them, and dedicated them to people without realizing just how much foolishness was happening in the lyrics!

This week's defendants:
🎤 Kelly Price | As We Lay
🎤 Shaggy | It Wasn't Me
🎤 Next | Too Close
🎤 Usher | Confessions Part II
🎤 Guy | Piece of My Love

From cheating and questionable advice to bedroom confessions and love being distributed in PORTIONS, nobody is safe from Detective Lightskinn's investigation!

🚨 IMPORTANT NOTE: Due to music licensing restrictions, we were unable to include audio excerpts from Kelly Price's As We Lay and Shaggy's It Wasn't Me in this episode. Both songs are still fully investigated and discussed! If you want to hear the musical evidence for yourself, feel free to listen to those two songs separately.

The other musical evidence? You'll have to tune in to hear what Detective Lightskinn uncovers! 👀

So grab your headphones, call your cousins, and prepare to revisit some R&B classics with a WHOLE new perspective.

Because just because the beat was good doesn't mean the behavior was! 😂⚖️

🎧 Melanin Mysteries Presents: Love, Lies & Alibis

Disclaimer: This episode is a humorous, satirical examination of fictional song narratives and lyrics. The commentary is not an allegation about the artists' personal lives.

ONE BAD NIGHT: PULL UP THEN | MELANIN MYSTERIES

Seven hours of Facebook arguing. Two young women. One man who wasn't worth any of this.

On November 3, 2018, 19-year-old college student Tre-Ana “Tree Tree” Tarver showed up at a home in Xenia, Ohio, expecting a fight with 21-year-old Tova Wallace-Lee.

But what was supposed to be a fistfight turned deadly when Tova brought a knife into the confrontation.

Four stab wounds. One young woman dead. Another facing a murder charge.

And when the case reached the courtroom, conflicting stories and a claim of self-defense left a jury to decide what really happened in that backyard.

Was this self-defense, or did an argument over somebody's son turn into murder?

Detective Lightskinn is breaking it ALL down with the facts, the foolishness, and the commentary you've come to expect from Melanin Mysteries.

Because sometimes the smartest response to “PULL UP” is to log the hell off.

🎙️ Melanin Mysteries: Black True Crime With Attitude & Seasoning

Rest in peace, Tre-Ana Lachelle Tanae Tarver. 🕊️

Fourteen-year-old Shaniesha Forbes left home for school in Brooklyn on January 4, 2013, and never came back.

Two days later, the body of a young girl was found near Gerritsen Beach, badly burned and left near the shoreline. What followed was a months-long investigation filled with dead-end leads, Facebook messages, phone records, cell towers, a mystery man in Maine, and one raggedy suspect who eventually talked himself straight into a murder conviction.

This week on Melanin Mysteries, we’re getting into the heartbreaking case of Shaniesha Forbes, the investigation that led police to Christian Ferdinand, the friends who became part of the aftermath, and the absolutely unbelievable question Christian reportedly asked after confessing.

Because yes…

This man really asked about community service.

Black true crime with attitude, commentary, and plenty of dragging where deserved.