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Otis Redding I’m Coming Home
Yonas Michael-Lead The Way(feat. Polyester & Phil Ade)
Two months in 2012 and there is little that I have heard so far personally warranting me to post on it. So I’ll take a trip back to 2011 and this track off of Yonas Michael’s late year release, Lost In Hollywood.
You might remember him from the now disbanded group out of Los Angeles U-N-I(sad to groups continue to go this route). This song though goes pretty hard, and has a certain swag(hate using that term) to it.
Since being back from Europe songs like this have taken a little more liking to me since I once again spend a good amount of time in Cars again. This song is a perfect companion to a night drive somewhere, or nowhere. Just has that kind of energy to it.
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De La Soul- I Am, I Be
Upon returning from my 10 month adventure through Europe something that strikes me as odd about America is how little people actually think(period) about life. Maybe it’s a product of me growing older, and a little more jaded in society, or it could it be that I stand correct?
This song is everything that I love about great music. It connects with the human at our very core. The opening and closing drops with people saying who they are, and who they be as the horn blows is classic. It’s a metaphorical Walls of Jericho almost. As the people of Isreal identify themselves to the city over as they march around the walls that will eventually come down. This music parades itself in honesty, and the walls of perception fully crumble as a sense of true self is identified, proclaimed and stated loud and clear.
This is beautiful music.
Jack White - Love Interruption (by JackWhiteVEVO)
I tried to post this a few days ago and for some reason or another it didn’t happen. This is not my usual hip-hop post, but I have been a fan of this guys music ever since I first heard Fell In Love With A Girl. Nothing wrong with a nice duet either. Nice way to begin the weekend.
Whitney Houston - My Love Is Your Love
I remember in high school actually going to the local record shop and purchasing this single the day of it’s release. One of the few female singer that I felt I could listen to and no have to worry about looking soft, or getting teased about.
Another thing I enjoyed about her music, was it was really a positive projection of women. It wasn’t overly sexual, nor damsel in distress, I always felt that the music she sang was classe. The personal issues in her life, didn’t detour this image one bit as well. In my mind I would rather be around a girl like Whitney than a Gaga(no shots at her either).
Confidence was projected in her music, and though some might say she was gone to soon, I am always one of the ones who will differentiate with the that opinion with whose to say? Death comes, when we never know, and life is filled with beauty, but hardships as well.
At the end of the day though I thought Mrs Houston made some great contributions to the world of music, and a positive image of women in general in my mind.
Much love to her for sharing this with me.
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Whitney Houston - One of those days
Can’t remember a bad moment in life when one of Houston’s songs were playing. Especially being raised by a single mom, her new songs were always getting played around the house, in the car, at a party, and so on.
She possessed such a beautiful yet powerful voice that always stood out, when she sang, she sang(as they say in the church). This song came out when I was during that weird time when you are ending the teenager years, and beginning adulthood. Though the video project a kind of ”girls night out” vibe, the song itself always brought a smile to my face regardless of the hyper-masculinity I was trying to project during that time in life.
Thank you Whitney Houston for the joy that you were able to bring in my life through your music.
Rest In Peace.
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De La Soul…some of the best to ever do it. This snippet video appeared on my radar yesterday, and though it’s only a little over a minute, I haven’t stopped repeating it. Listen to this, get excited, recognize that Life is Great and long live the Plugs!
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Blu-Jesus
I have a love hate affair with the platform of music videos(I’ll save that for another day), but this new video from one of my favorite artist today Blu is something that would fall under the love.
Reasons being:
- For one you can’t go wrong with a Madlib beat
- Some serious lyricism is on display
- the grittiness of the photography fits the mood of the song so well
- Blu creates some of the best art today
Props to Arronisnotcool on the direction for this video, dopeness indeed.
Outkast-Morris Brown
This song right here I will never understand how it didn’t make a bigger splash. It had all the ingridients of a Outkast classic, minus a verse from Andre 3K(though he was on the production). It was like a modern day Earth Wind & Fire jam, The horns?!?! Ridiculous! And lets not forget that the movie Drumline starring Nick Ca(non)ery was mildly successful at the box office not to far between this. So the whole marching band sound was in the minds of the consumer. What else do you need? Also the video featured a then then relatively unknown yet still beautiful Janelle Monae. If that isn’t the recipe for a hit, I don’t know what is?
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The Dream-ROC
Seems like no one will let the 80’s die. Whether it’s Drake and his Cosby-like sweaters(which I was rocking way before), Avaitor glasses, Marty Mcfly sneakers, Hot Tub Time Machine, or anything florescent, there is something, or someone today that will heavily rely on that decade for influence. The Dream is the latest to draw some inspiration from this time with his latest single that would feel just as home in a 1980’s style Camero or Pontiac Firebird, just as much as your bedroom. The keyboard stabs are the same slinky ones that used to get regular play when Hall & Oats and DeBarge had it poppin. I would love to direct a video for this song that starring Eddie Murphey(more Axel Foley than Dr Doolittle), sports cars of the decade, smoke machines, and maybe a few Members Only jackets as well. Aside from my Hype Willaims aspirations aside though, the song is definitely something that should be in your life.
Seems like no one will let the 80’s die. Whether it’s Drake and his Cosby-like sweaters(which I was rocking way before), Avaitor glasses, Marty Mcfly sneakers, Hot Tub Time Machine, or anything florescent, there is something, or someone today that will heavily rely on that decade for influence. The Dream is the latest to draw some inspiration from this time with his latest single that would feel just as home in a 1980’s style Camero or Pontiac Firebird, just as much as your bedroom. The keyboard stabs are the same slinky ones that used to get regular play when Hall & Oats and DeBarge had it poppin. I would love to direct a video for this song that starring Eddie Murphey(more Axel Foley than Dr Doolittle), sports cars of the decade, smoke machines, and maybe a few Members Only jackets as well. Aside from my Hype Willaims aspirations aside though, the song is definitely something that should be in your life.
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