This article explores connections between girls’ musical game-songs and commercial songs recorded by male artists over several decades in United States. Basing on analysis of game songs’ and interviews of African American women (collected during fieldworks conducted from 1994 to 2002), it describes how black girls, through their dance and singing games, experience a musical socialization and inhabit an African American musical aesthetics and a gendered blackness. Kyra Gaunt highlights the oral and kinetic veiled intertextuality existing between girls' musical games and black songs, to question the role of gender in the social construction of musical taste. Those insights into the social and distinctly gendered construction of taste in black songs (Rhythm n blues as well as hip-hop) shows how girls' musical play, in handclapping games, cheers, and double-dutch, are a local formation of a popular culture that is in constant dialogue with the mass-mediation of black male performances, engendering and sustaining certain musical and social relationships between the sexes, and between children and adults in African American communities.