We go back a step with this classic and thought provoke by reggae artist Capleton's "Jah Jah City" off "More Fire" released in 2000. Have a butcher's at this roots reggae riddim with lyrics and video and as per usual let it be known.
January 30, 2010
This Electronic Press Kit [EPK] of UK poet/emcee TY, he talks about the pending 4th album “Special Kind Of Fool” obviously [laughing out loud], again a brother speaks on his trials & tribulations in the past, being signed from Big Dada to another quality music stable BBE Music rethinking music, what we can expect [...]
January 29, 2010
Haven’t done an In the Mix in minutes, but here we are with this near 30 minutes mix. Newness, jazzy-electro from Swiss producer Chief Beatmaker, Damien Marley & Nasir Jones [two singles from Distant Relatives] through to Mello Music Group artist Sareem Poems [a track from Black & Read All Over], playing and placing it jazzily [...]
January 28, 2010
Howard Zinn [RIP] an American historian and social activist whose take on history “People’s History” was going against the grain [what is taught, studied in school and beyond] , past and current state of affairs. People always have differing opinions whether they agree with Howard Zinn and others or not, he who wrote the “A Peoples [...]
January 27, 2010
Take a jug of Jazz, two teaspoons of Soul and a twist of R & B… then add a cup full of Gospel, a sprinkle of Reggae and a pinch of Latin, served with Raw Emotion ~There you have the YolanDa Brown sound. [source: Myspace Bio] YolanDa Brown is on the whole multi instrumentalist throne, but [...]
January 26, 2010
A music video entitled “Hold On” by Wyclef Jean featuring Mavado [Jamaican Dancehall artist] in tribute to Haiti with heads up by This Is Real Music. Song is a good number with a clear uplifting message to the Haitians. Have a butchers and let it be known. For more on Haiti [films, music, poetry]. Wyclef Jean – [...]
January 25, 2010
Yes I know… late on this, a brother Jay Electronica, first heard of the emcee and producer on the Gilles Peterson show two years ago and the aftermath, mind shut.. on Jay for awhile… Huh? Recently, slicing and dicing the putmeonit blog, saw the snippet video for Jay Electronica’s “Exhibit A” prior, I was murking [London [...]
January 24, 2010
Our thoughts and prayers with our brothers and sisters in Haiti may they overcome and be stronger for a better future. Don’t forget our brother & sisters worldwide, for whom on a daily it is a struggle to survive whether/be it lack of amenities, tribal and civil wars aftermath, occupation, lack of human rights, oppressed etc, [...]
January 23, 2010
On a quiet and tranquil day in 1976 at the 10th Montreux Jazz Festival, a very attentive audience in anticipation of one talented individual to grace the stage, the legendary singer, pianist and civil rights activist, Eunice Kathleen Waymon. Legend Eunice Kathleen Waymon passed in 2003, her physical body has departed us but her immortal [...]
January 22, 2010
A brother Oddisee is at it again with freshness and quality in his seasonal installments of free EP’s,”Odd Summer” and “Odd Autumn” come to mind. And obviously many like someone here ahem! where biting nails in frustration, well not literally [calm down dear, laughing out loud] for the winter episode and here we are with Oddisee’s [...]
January 21, 2010
Diana King aka KingSinga, yes you remember her, a sister from the 90’s in Toni Braxton, Total pool of R & B and them.. of course that big chuune “Shy Guy“, ah.. memories! Diana King and her piano singing for Haiti with this moving and soulful track entitled “Black Bodies“. This is what she says to Haiti, [...]
January 20, 2010
Courtesy DJ Gone got this quality simplistic thought provoking laid back jam and video by UK emcee Ramson Badbonez on the ascendancy and garnering acclaim. A brother Ramson Badbonez waxing lyrical social commentary is a tell tale of the “Hood” and if one pays attention to the words, poignant lines on a beat infectious! Its amazing how [...]
January 19, 2010
This is a poem written by Norway based and Cameroonian poet Stephen Neba-Fuh, a political, social critic and human rights activist. Here is a brother’s take on Haiti, Have a butchers and let it be known. For more on Haiti [films, music, poetry] Horror In Haiti We weep with thee from far away. Cursing nature’s fury on a people [...]
January 18, 2010
We continue the soulfulness ala Seal with this nice soulful EP entitled Peace, Love and Music by Jeanette Berry & The Soul Nerds, an independent New York soul collective on the come up and another in Alisa Ohri and a sister Frank Franklin from California. A sister Jeanette Berry album is worth the purchase at $5 [...]
January 17, 2010
As we do from time to time on this blog channel present a hit of romance in the form of music or poetry [ahem]. This is how you do the soul, R & B pop-ti-tude gig to all the aspirants out there {laughing out loud} and live from the legendary British born soul singer Seal recorded [...]
January 31, 2010