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The 20/20 Experience, Timberlake’s first album since 2006’s FutureSex/LoveSounds, is due out March 19. I LIVE. He has released the track list. The countdown starts now.
Track List:
Pusher Love Girl
Suit & Tie
Don’t Hold the Wall
Strawberry Bubblegum
Tunnel Vision
Spaceship Coupe
That Girl
Let the Groove Get In
Mirrors
Blue Ocean Floor
Music Monday: Santigold’s “GIRLS”
Santigold debuted a new music video for her track entitled “Girls” for the massively popular HBO series, “Girls”. The album entitled, ”Girls - Volume 1: Music from the Original HBO Series”.
The video is POWERFUL. It includes a series of women of all sizes, shapes and forms, dancing and singing to the female empowered track.
Happy Monday!
Music Monday: “Coolie High” Camp Lo
There is something about the music of the 90s. The hip hop said something. The music was a true reflection of the 90s: the anger, the politics, the growth of the black community, the successes, and the failures. No matter what the subject of the song, each track had a purpose.
I miss that. Enjoy one of my favorite Camp Lo tracks and I hope you start your Monday with peace and blessings.
Music Monday: Azealia Banks‘ Atlantis
I am spending the day unpacking my recently arrived household shipment of my personal belongings. They have been sitting in storage for alost a year!
Happy Monday and enjoy this new track by Azealia Banks.
Music Monday: Frank Sinatra “The Good Life”
I have a wide array of my favorite music artists but Frankie S. ranks as one of the highest! Frank was a jack of all trades but he Francis Albert “Frank” Sinatra, was best known as an American singer and film actor.
Enjoy his music and I will leave you with one of my favorite Frank Sinatra quotes:
“People often remark that I’m pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you’ve got to have talent and know how to use it.” —Frank Sinatra
Picture via Wikipedia
Listen and learn to love. Happy Monday.
Kevin Nottingham share a great set of Common remixes for fans of his work.
Volume 1
01. Come Close (Blackbeard’s Broken Dub)
02. Ghetto Heaven (9th Wonder Remix)
03. Love of My Life (Soul Supreme Remix)
04. GO (Lawrence Wiggins Remix)
05. Come Close (DJ Hazime Remix)
06. Punch Drunk Love (Remix)
07. Gladiator (Von Pea’s Midnight on Myrtle Remix)
08. I Used To Love H.E.R (Tall Black Guy Remix)
09. Testify (88-Keys Hand On The Bible Remix)
10. Come Close (Boozoo Bajou Remix)
11. I Will Survive (J Finesse Remix) (Bonus)
Volume 2
01. Common; Erykah Badu – All Night Long (Feel The Vibes Remix)
02. Common – Go (The Boomjacks Remix)
03. Common – I Used To Love H.E.R. (Noel Zancanella Remix)
04. Common – The Corner (Petschino Remix)
05. Common; Mark the 45 King – Car Horn (Madlib Remix)
06. Common – Go! (Vex Remix)
07. Common – The Light (Tarik Sabar’s Shine Down Remix)
08. Common; Dice Raw; Flo Brown; Jazzyfatnastees; Mos Def; The Roots – Hurricane (Insight Remix)
09. Common – I Used To Love H.E.R. (@quatic Son Remix)
10. Davina; Common – Come Over To My Place (Remix)
11. Common – So Cool (prod by Sa-Ra) Bonus
Volume 3
Common – I Used To Love HER (DJ Robinson Remix)
Common – The 6th Sense (Nodzilla Remix)
Common – Dooinit (Guzl Remix)
Common – Resurrection (Zo! Remix)
Common – I Used To Love HER (Skipless Remix)
Common; The Last Poets – The Corner (Ninety Degrees Mix)
Common – The Light (DJ Robinson Remix)
Common – Dooinit (Sauce Fonda Remix)
Common – 1999 (I’m Ready SoFoReal Remix)
Common; The Last Poets – The Corner (Dru Carter Remix)
Bonus: Freddie Joachim Common Remixes
Pusha T and Tylerm the Creator worked together, to create the track, “Trouble on my Mind.” The track by this unlikely duo is featured on Pusha’s Fear Of God 2: Let Us Pray
Click here to listen and download. I think its hot.
Music Monday: SBTRKT - “Wildfire”
I love this track! This is the official video for the SBTRKT track “Wildfire”. The amazing vocals are by Yukimi Nagano of Little Dragon.
I am really feeling the new music that is being released this summer. Also, music is also better when it brings together interesting cross genre collaborations. Here is The Cool Kids’ newest song “Swimsuits” featuring Mayer Hawthorne. The Cool Kids album, When Fish Ride Bicycles, drops on July 12th.
Click here to download the track.
Music Monday: Bob Marley “Crazy Baldhead”
“Bald is the new black! Shaving my head feels like a new beginning to me.” —Gail Porter
The 35-year-old TV presenter decided to shave off her hair after losing large clumps from stress-related alopecia. After the birth of her daughter Honey in 2002 she suffered severe post-natal depression, which was followed by the breakup of her marriage. She refuses to wear wigs.
This Music Monday is going to be a little bit deeper than normal. As I was cutting my hair last night, I got to thinking. Why do I have so many reactions (both positive and negative) regarding my closely cropped hairdo? When I had my head full of weave and on par with society’s standard of hair beauty, I never even had a head turn to look at me when I cross the street. But now with my haircut every where I turn I have people taking extra time to look at me. Some people mistake me for a guy (if I am not wearing a dress, makeup, earrings, or heels), some people turn all the way round in their car to stare at me as a I cross the street, some people even come up to me and just ask, “WHY?!”
Sometimes I am frustrated, sometimes I feel liberated and special because I don’t spend hours at a salon, and sometimes I want to wear a wig (for variety). But really, I just don’t get society’s obsession with hair.
I tried to look for an article that that about why society is so freaked out when women cut their hair as low as men. I found a a 2007 Guardian UK article that tries to discusses the debate with Britney Spear’s 2007 breakdown and low ‘do as the lead in story. I enjoyed the article but it does leave out that black/African women have been cutting their hair very low for years. The Afrobella blog does a great job giving readers a broad understanding of the bald head black women phenomenon in the United States and in a recent international pageant. There is even a facebook group!
I just re-cut my hair last night by myself (my hometown barber would be so proud!). Keeping my hair is so liberating! Would you ever cut your hair low?
Solange after her big chop in 2009.
Young Money president let XXL Magazine know that Weezy’s follow up hits shelves on June 21. Check out the official cover art for the disc.
I am finally back from my abstinance from social media. Since today is GOOD FRIDAY and I wanted to come back bearing gifts for all my readers (especially the readers who are fond of Ghanaian music). Chicago’s own DJ Bonsu put together a hip-life mix containing the latestest and hottest tunes circulating around Ghana right now.
To listen and download to the mixtape click here.
My verdict? The tape starts out a bit slow, but it is still a great Friday pick me up! Listening to the music makes me even more excited for my upcoming trip to Ghana this summer! Thanks to Adinkra and DJ Bonsu for sharing!
ENJOY!
For Your Entertainment: Frank Ocean’s “Novacane”
The beat is so melodic. To download the whole album, Nostalgia, Ultra click here.
He wants you to know he DOES NOT make straight up R&B.
Music Mondays: “You” Q-Tip _The Renaissance
“You” has been on repeat since Sunday morning keeping me company while I bang out the last of my graduate school finals. The Renaissance is one of the most underrated albums ever. If you would like to preview the whole album click here. Enjoy and Take Care!
Released in November 2008, “the album mixes soul beats, piano, guitars, and Q-Tip’s usual thoughtprovoking lyricism, which takes you on a trip from relationships and summer songs to social issues of late, and has a kind of ’90s feel to it. “The Renaissance” features Raphael Saadiq, Norah Jones, D’Angelo and Amanda Diva…The Renaissance marks the return of one of the most recognizable voices and individualist figures in all of hip-hop. At this moment for change in the hip-hop nation and the nation at large, The Renaissance could not have come at a more appropriate moment. Leave it to Q-Tip to be right on time. —Amazon
Can you believe The Renaissance Q-Tip’s 2nd studio album? When asked about this he stated, “When I recorded my first album, I was 19,” Q-Tip says. “So I was very much in the moment and did not think about my career past the following year. I knew I loved what I did and had big fun, but I never imagined this.”
