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Thursday, December 16, 2010
soul food: i love you more
as i eagerly await john forte's upcoming album, water, light, sound, he continues to drop little morsels of awesome. here's his latest, 'i love you more':
Friday, December 3, 2010
flashback friday: sample goodness
it's friday!
track: loungin' by ll cool j feat. total
sample: who do you love by bernard wright
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Friday, September 24, 2010
soul food: shad + von pea and donwill: rose garden (remix)
this is turning into an all-shad-all-the-time blog but, uh, this is too good not to share. check out shad's 'rose garden' remix, featuring tanya morgan's von pea and donwill. and it's the hotness.
download here
download here
Monday, September 20, 2010
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Saturday, August 7, 2010
soul food: k'naan 'take a minute'
...and any man who knows a thing knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all...
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
a thousand [and one] hills
a few weeks ago, i was listening to zoe chace interview ms. lauryn hill on NPR. it appeared as though ms. hill was back: performing again, talking about recording again. i took to twitter and facebook and tentatively shouted it from the various virtual mountaintops. my prayers to the gods of music had been answered: ms. hill is back. i had no idea, at the time, that on her journey back, she would show up in my proverbial back yard. a little over a week ago, i was standing backstage at a concert that i had dreamed of attending since i was about 17. as the announcer began his introduction, i stood next to ms. hill as she climbed the steps to take the stage at the pan african dance festival in kigali, rwanda and i had myself a moment, y'all. i suddenly snapped out of professional organizational mode and fully realized what was happening. ms. hill was back. and she was here. in the land of a thousand hills. if you had told me 15 years ago that this was even possible, there is no way i would've been able to fathom it. but a few brilliant people with a vision and relentless determination made it happen! and i bore witness.
this is the exact time negrita's brain realized what she was witnessing.
...read more here...
this is the exact time negrita's brain realized what she was witnessing.
soul food: k'naan's bang bang
K'Naan & Adam Levine : Bang bang (2010)
yeah, i know a lot of hardcore dustyfoot philosopher fans that this video is going to give pause.
but i'm digging the imagery and the execution. dopeness.
Friday, July 16, 2010
linkitude
friday = awesome. it usually means i do some writing as well, but...well...my back is raging against me for God knows what, so i'm going to posts links to some food for thought that i've come across over the past week and then go lie flat in a darkened room. (shout out to the fug girls for the friday link idea)
- jina moore takes on the white reporter's burden in africa. i just started following her on twitter and then realized she had emailed me ages ago inquiring about a flat for rent. ah, small world. (jina moore)
- this is africa is looking for bloggers, vloggers, and coolhunters! where do i sign up? (this is africa)
- was just explaining black hair politics to a friend the other day, then came across this great article in clutch about the politics of hair in south africa. (clutchmagazine.com)
- and, lawd...bassey ikpi, like, TOTALLY GETS ME. i love her recent piece on the constant struggle of learning to let go and stop missing: emotional hoarding. (bassey's world)
- okayplayer (my first interweb home...ah, 1999) has launched the hugely impressive okayafrica! (okayafrica.com)
- the pan african dance festival in rwanda is on the world wide webs: official site, twitter, facebook, and blog.
- and, finally, a little bit of canadiana awesome: k-os interviewed by my SHAE sister, tastykeish on societyHAE & shad k profiled in the globe and mail.
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