Why won’t this coffee wake me up?! why won’t this liquor get me drunk?! I thought this living was enough and now, it isn’t what it was….
— Jarell Perry (9 2 5)
Rihanna “Skillets”
Get hot like a skillet
Get hot like a skilletMakin dinner for you and me
What do you want to eat?
The grease is cold, but we don’t know.
We got skillets on the stove.Fried fish in the pan up front
Smell like it’s almost done
Grab the white bread, the whole loaf.
We got skillets on the stove.
Catchy tune with an adventurous nautical-themed video from South African quirky pop duo Lacey May.
Thanks to Africa Channel, I now know about Jay Ghartey. He’s biracial and grew up in Ghana; he sings, raps, and is ridiculously attractive. I love this song because it’s a dark melody and he wrote it based on the experiences of friends who were refugees from Liberia in Ghana. Also check out his upbeat video for “My Lady.”
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Successful music artists have entire teams working them - writers (even if they claim to write all their material), producers, stylists, video directors, coaches, choreographers, publicists, lawyers, etc. There are a bunch of people working behind the scenes and we only see the finished product. I always keep this in mind when I’m praising someone’s work.
Kano, Wretch 32, scorcher. from the Top Boy mixtape.
Skepta. again.
skepta
Tinie ft Emeli Let Go.
skyfall // adele
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“Reincarnated” traces Snoop Lion’s Rastafarian Awakening
The documentary screens at Toronto International Film Festival and Karen Bliss has reviewed it for Rolling Stone. Here is her review. Follow the link below for more. The marijuana smoke-filled opening of Reincarnated, the documentary chronicling the personal and spiritual evolution of rapper and one-time gangbanger Snoop Dogg to reggae artist and Rasta Snoop Lion quickly cuts to shots of a bonfire and singing. The context isn’t revealed until near the end of the film, which screened Friday at the Toronto International Film Festival. As Snoop’s journey to find…….
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Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate upon it in order to get the most of it. You must absorb most of it. The harmonies within the music can relax, soothe and uplift the mind when you concentrate upon and absorb it. Jazz music stimulates the minds and uplifts the souls of those who play it was well as of those who listen to immerse themselves in it. As the mind is stimulated and the soul uplifted, this is eventually reflected in the body.
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Horace Silver
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This is so cute