Kelly Rowland was just a teenager when she and the rest of Destiny’s Child came to New York to audition for record labels. Over 20 years later, she’s been all over the world, met her idols (including Whitney Houston), lived out so many of her musical dreams—but the stuff she heard in those early years still makes her weak in the knees. In this episode, Kelly talks us through her ultimate playlist and the music that made her, from A Tribe Called Quest to Sade to Pebbles to Salt-N-Pepa.

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