Redman at the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey on Aug. 26, 2019. Getty Images. I’d like to be optimistic about 2024. I really would. Since the bad stuff started accelerating and spreading in 2015, and even since the plague hit in 2020,…

VMA winner for best suited dancing in a music video, probably. Ah, 2000. The first year of the 21st century or, if you’re a friendless pedant, the last year of the 20th. That storied year where we all asked who let the dogs out, then why we were still…