Spirit In The Dark

Shout out to all the Greeks that check out the site. . . . and not Greek like Papagiorgio Greek, I mean Greek like "Skee-Wee", "Yo-Yo", "Ooo-Oop" type Greek!




Aretha Franklin - Spirit In The Dark




Kanye West - School Spirit

Where's The Dilla!?

I'm surprised nobody's checked me on my lack of J Dilla posts. . . .



Seals and Crofts - Diamond Girl




J Dilla - Diamonds (Unreleased)

Sippin On Some Syrup

. . .he said boy get ya weight up, this is lean, them white folks call it promethazine."





Marvin Gaye - Is That Enough



Three Six Mafia - Sippin On Some Syrup

Good Clothes

Back at the crib, we got a mall called Cheltenham Mall. When I was younger, we would hit the mall, and there was this store called "Scorpio" that sold all the fly shit . . . Rocawear, Akademiks, Guess, Azzure. . . lol, this was the late 90s! Every chick that worked there looked GOOD, and when you came in, then immediately offered to help you . . . . basically, I ain't have no dough, so i felt like a loser, so i avoided Scorpio like the plague! Now I'm a fly ass dude. . . .



Rose Royce - Love Is In The Air




Little Brother - Good Clothes

So Long

Eloise Laws was born in 1949, in Houston, TX and she began her recording career for Holland-Dozier-Holland's Music Merchant label. The famous songwriting trio closed their label in the early seventies, and Laws moved around a bit. She was also an accomplished actress, taking the original lead role in the Tony-nominated "It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues".



Eloise Laws - Ain't It Good Feeling Good



Cassidy feat. Mashonda, Raekwon - So Long

Sunshine

Before Daft Punk, there was Kraftwerk.





Kraftwerk - The Man Machine



Jay-Z - Sunshine

I Love The Dough

René & Angela were an 80's R&B duo consisting of artist/producers René Moore and Angela Winbush. Angela met René in 1980, formed the group, and subsequently married. The relationship dissolved by the mid-80s, with the duo falling part not long after. Both went on to solo careers as performers, songwriters, and producers.



Rene and Angela - I Love You More



Biggie feat. Jay-Z and Angela Winbush - I Love The Dough

Temperature's Rising

Has anybody else been reading Prodigy's blog? I'm not sure the actual address, but I always run into a post that really makes me think. . . .



Patrice Rushen - Where There Is Love



Mobb Deep - Temperature's RIsing

Street Dreams

When is Ron getting out the pokey? I'm pretty sure that if somebody studied it, they'd notice the number of pregnancies has drastically dropped since Ron Isley went into the clink. . .



Isaac Hayes - Choosey Lover



Nas - Street Dreams Remix

Black Moses

I envy Isaac Hayes. More than words could ever express. . . . And shouts out to my man Sy Shack for holdin me down with a few samples while i'm on internet hiatus.



Isaac Hayes - Man's Temptation




GZA - Animal Planet

Back With A Brown Paper Bag

I swear, I wonder how Khaled consistently gets EVERYBODY on his tracks!




Yvonne Elliman - If I Can't Have You




DJ Khaled feat. Young Jeezy, Juelz Santana, Rick Ross, Fat Joe, Lil' Wayne & Dre - Brown Paper Bag

Comcast Is A Bitch!

How DARE they cut off my internet! Imma be out of commission for like a day or two w/ the samples, but I just wanted to give yall a heads up. . . . i'm not abandoning my family!

Hill Street Blues

Real recognize real, and Mike Post is a real legend. My man Mike has written music for TV shows since the 70s and has won five Grammys. Prior to that, he was a session musician for artists such as Sammy Davis, Jr. and Dean Martin, and Sonny and Cher. In fact, Post played guitar on their timeless classic "I Got You Babe".




Mike Post - Hill Street Blues Theme



Cam'ron - Harlem Streets

Best Thing

The irony of this track about love being the "best thing"is that this track started out as a diss track on a Tru Life Mixtape. . .



Curtis Mayfield - We The People Who Are Darker Than Blue



Jay-Z - Tru Life Intro



Usher feat. Jay-Z - Best Thing

Maybach Music

The Friends Of Distinction were a group that was founded during th 60s. Two of the members were members of the Hi-Fi's, Ray Charles' backing band. Although they never had an hit albums, they did enjoy a few top ten hits, such as "Grazing In The Grass", which reached #3 on the charts.




The Friends Of Distinction - And I love Him




Rick Ross feat. Jay-Z - Maybach Music

Kiss Your Ass Goodbye

SMH @ Puff talkin maaaaaaad shit at the end of this joint, but not namin names!




Al Green - The Letter




Biggie Smalls - The Long Kiss Goodnight

Comprehend

What ever happened with Pap's million dollar deal with jive? I'm a pseudo business man myself, and I know I'm not just gonna let somebody walk off with a millie without anything in return!!




10cc - I'm Not In Love




Pete Rock feat. Papoose - Comprehend

Rebirth Of Slick

Damn this was a smooth ass track! What ever happened to Digable Planets. . . . ?





24 Carat Black - Food Stamps



Digable Planets - Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat)

I Want You

I'm not running a gossip site, but after seeing Smokin' Aces and then the video for "I Want You", Common and Alicia Keys would make a fly ass couple. . . Not as fly as an Alicia Keys and Nick Papagiorgio couple, but still. . .



Bob James - Feel Like Making Love




Common feat. Will I. Am - I Want You

Motherless Child

Ok, so I'm geekin right now on my couch because I heard this John Legend track from this live album he did in Philly a looooooong ass time ago, and I could NOT find the original anywhere! I was losin it. . . But I found it, fell in love with it, and now I share both with you.

This is kind of a remake/tweak/special twist/something beautiful that Legend did with this track. . . you'll see what I mean.



O.V. Wright - Motherless Child



John Legend - Motherless Child (Live)

Still Misunderstood

I got a treat for the homies out there. Just a lil gem from Tha Carter III that uses the same Nina Simone track Common got busy on on Finding Forever. Weezy OWNS this track, then just spills his guts about everything for like 5 minutes. . . .

Tha Carter II drops June 10th. Cop it.



Nina Simone - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood




Lil Wayne - Misunderstood

Rosie

Bill Withers is a singer-songwriter who enjoyed a nearly two decade career with hits such as "Ain't No Sunshine", "Lovely Day", and "Just The Two Of Us". Although born is West Virginia in 1938, he moved out west to LA to pursue his music career in the late 60s. He's been the recipient of numerous Grammy's, and is also an inductee into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame.




Bill Withers - Rosie




Kanye West - Roses

Be Happy

They say pain makes for incredible art. That couldn't be any more truer than in the case of Mary J. Blige. When she was drugged up and in that wild ass relationship with K-Ci, she was puttin out that product! Timeless music, man. . . . just timeless.


How can I
Love somebody else
When I can't
Love myself enough to know. . . .



Curtis Mayfield - You're So Good To Me




Mary J. Blige - Be Happy

Daydreaming

This is just an overall beautiful song. Aretha really does her thang in the original, but Cam? Eh. . . his joint was aight. . . .





Aretha Franklin - Daydreaming




Cam'ron - Daydreaming

Us Placers

Thom Yorke is the lead singer of Radiohead, and they are single handedly changing the way music is distributed to the masses. The gave away their last album "In Rainbows" and allowed fans to choose what they paid for it. Although the band did not release sales figures, estimates put the early profits at over $2 million.

Genius.





Thom Yorke - The Eraser




CRS - Us Placers

On That Philly Shit

So what it's Busta's song??? This is my site, and Free went IN on this beat, so I posted his version.

Every major city needs to have one of those "nostalgia songs" that takes you back to like the early to mid 90s. . . . when life was basically perfect.

God I miss the crib. . . .



SSO - Faded Lady




Freeway - On My Philly SHit