Xmas time is here again...

One of my friends (Pradigy) has made a great Christmas song to help bring in the Holiday spirit...Check, check it out...



5 days and counting...


Get more music and info on Pradigy and Pradigy GT HERE. SUPPORT GOOD MUSIC PEOPLE!!!!

Circulate like a Sunday paper...

Friends, Romans, countrymen lend me you eardrums
it was a beautiful day off in the neighborhood
Yellows and greens and blues and browns
and greys and hues that ooze beneath dilapidated wood
Ain't a thing could explain but what pertains
to cocaine & sustaining rain
See summer roll around niggas all about change
then they steady move them keys like bob james
Coz old man winter's arrived
the temperature dives
November just died
December's alive
thus it ain't no typical ride
just individuals way to bring home the bacon when bacon was all gone
making it our own taking me all wrong
We've all indulged in the bulge of those no-nos
no you ain't solo, there's even lower levels you can go
take sun people put them in Atlanta snow
~Dre 3 stacks

Creep

patiently waiting for the rest of those concert dates to be announce...

Hey operator...

Not sure why I'm in such a Sam Cooke mood but i've been listening to him all day...maybe its b/c I'm thinking about my lady?



This song was also beautifully executed/covered in the opening scene of Ali

Just as I Am...

Clip of Bill Withers performing one of his many classics. This performance is from Zaire 74 music festival which accompanied the Rumble in the Jungle heavyweight boxing championship match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in October 1974.

This clip and others can be seen in the music documentary: Soul Power. If you haven't seen this movie then you need to check it out asap!



His performance of this song at Carnegie Hall is my favorite live version...click HERE to listen

Speaking of Hip Hop...

Thanks Reggie for introducing me too Hip Hop...



"Uh, DP got that crazy sh!t we keep it crunk up
John blazed and sh!t what.."

visible horizons

Dusty Sunset by Philipp Klinger

"Acres
Visible horizon
Right where it starts and ends
When did we start the end ?

Acres
Visible illusion
Where it starts it ends
Love like a sunset"

Love Like a Sunset by Phoenix

Life is better...

Bold Sounds By Ian Johnson

for niki

For more click HERE
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Flashback to the Class of 96'

Big Pun killed it...


via Complex

There is time...

Video By Spike Jonze
Music By M83 - "Lower Your Eyelids and Die with the Sun"

Respect the Architect: Story of the Air Max 1

A look into the genius of Tinker Hatfield and how he created the revolutionary Nike Air Max 1

Respect the Architect from VILLA on Vimeo.

It Might Get Loud

Niki add this movie to your list...

I got Soul...

Auction of the century.

I'm sure you heard of the upcoming Michael Jackson Auction on April 24th and the rumored 200+ things being auction...i think they underestimated a little...b/c The auction company, Julien's, just released the auction catalog and its 240+ pgs worth of stuff...below are a few pics from this catalog...













His arcade collection (50+ pgs) could have rivaled some arcades in japan (10 yrs ago)...

He also had thing for life sized dolls...the Red Power Ranger, Batman, Superman, Spiderman, and Bruce Lee are just a few...

Stuff that is missing from this auction: 

-Sly Stone and the Family catalog (Publishing Rights)

-Beatles Catalog (Publishing Rights)

-Elephant Man remains

-Bubbles

-hyperbaric oxygen chamber

-a bottle of Jesus Juice

-and the real E.T. (I know MJ has him)...

To see the rest of his MJ's auction Catalog click HERE.

Welcome to Heartbreaks Vid

One of the few tracks that I like from 808's

Is it just me or does this song sounds better w/ the video...

Welcome to Heartbreaks Vid ft. Kid Cudi


Speaking of Kid Cudi...I'm ready for your album to drop homes...

nice vid although it looks like this one

Raphael Saadiq in Concert

Raphael Saadiq is on tour promoting his latest album, The Way I See It, and he is coming to Atlanta on March 28th!!! Get your tickets now...

see you there...

Mix Tape Guide/Rules

Just thoughts...

This post orginated from another unpublished post I wrote a while back...It was a post about music and how I discovered certain songs. Within this post I mentioned how I would wait by the radio (FM 92.3, Tha Beat) to tape 2pac's Do For Love when it first came out. It was nineteen nighty seven yall and it was my intro to the art of making a mix tape...

When I say mix tape, I mean the processing of combining together various songs to create some form of cohesive emotion and/or feeling on an Cassette Tape and not on a playlist and/or cd...

The art of making a mixtape required the mastery of the play, record, and pause button. Nowadays it is a lost art form...but w/ the advancement of technology that is understandable...

Let me stress the use of a Cassette Tape. Unlike a CD and/or Playlist, a cassette tape lacks the ability to skip from song to song, the mix tape needs to be considered in its entirety. This requires the mix tape creator to consider the transitions between songs, the effects caused by juxtaposing a soft song with a loud song, and the overall "narrative arc" of the entire tape.

"To me, making a tape is like writing a letter — there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again. A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You've got to kick it off with a corker, to hold the attention (I started with "Got to Get You Off My Mind", but then realized that she might not get any further than track one, side one if I delivered what she wanted straightaway, so I buried it in the middle of side two), and then you've got to up it a notch, or cool it a notch, and you can't have white music and black music together, unless the white music sounds like black music, and you can't have two tracks by the same artist side by side, unless you've done the whole thing in pairs and...oh, there are loads of rules..."
~excerpt from High Fidelity by Nick Hornsby

Voodoo

I found a pretty good mini documentary on one of my favorite albums...D'angelo's magnum opus...Voodoo.

"The term R&B doesn't mean what it used to mean. R&B is pop, that's the new word for R&B...(Contemporary R&B)'s a joke, and the funny thing about it is that the people making this shit are dead serious about the stuff they're making. It's sad—they've turned black music into a club thing."
~D'angelo circa 2000

Ironically this album...more specifically this video caused D'angelo to lose his mind and possibly is explains his 9 yr absence from the music scene...

I heard he was making a comeback...possibly this year???

The high-tops are better...

imo i think they look better...

Kanye X LV highs...


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