Azalea Banks keeps it 100% in her interview with the team over at Hot97 and discusses the re-appropriation of Black Music
Month: December 2014
Music: Wiz Khalifa – Smoke Chambers
Gunplay jumps on a Timbaland produced track and wastes the beat, not even assistance from Rick Ross can save this track. It is rare that the artwork for the single surpasses the actual content. Listen to the track in full below. Perhaps it takes a few listens to get into, hopefully this is a buzz record and will not appear on Gunplay’s debut album expected to be released in 2015.
For Throwback Thursday I have chosen one of Jay-Z’s most underrated song’s featuring Jaguar Wright on the vocals, Song Cry serves as a song proving that Jay Z is not just a party rapper, he kept it real soulful , a tune with content, flow, verses, punch lines and most of all it is a consistent track lifted from the 2002 album project “The Blueprint.” which is one of Jay-Z’s most timeless albums.
D’Angelo is back with a secret album, and he is back in shape. Itunes describes D’Angelo as “D’Angelo was one of the founders and leading lights of the neo-soul movement of the mid- to late ’90s, which aimed to bring the organic flavor of classic R&B back to the hip-hop age. Modeling himself on the likes of Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Curtis Mayfield, and Al Green, D’Angelo’s influences didn’t just come across in his vocal style — like most of those artists, he wrote his own material, and frequently produced it as well, helping to revive the concept of the R&B auteur. His debut album, Brown Sugar, gradually earned him an audience so devoted that the follow-up, Voodoo, debuted at number one despite a five-year wait in between. The wait for his third album — at one point tentatively titled James River — was much longer.” Listen to “Really Love 2014.” Lifted from the new album project titled “Black Messiah.” in full below.