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Title: Sky's The Limit (Yam Who's Spiritual Rework) Artist: Raphael Saadiq 20 plays

Song: Sky’s The Limit (Yam Who? Spiritual Rework)
Artist: Raphael Saadiq (Feat. Rosie Kaye)
Album: Sky’s The Limit (Yam Who? Spiritual Rework)

…after a bomb ass first day at the new gig
this felt real appropriate.

mhm.

addendum: after reading @negrosunshine’s latest piece, i realise how fortune
i am to be doing the work i am doing, and in the environment and
with the people that i am doing it.

#raphael saadiq #rosie kaye #yam who? #soul #sounds #2003 #booger #downtempo

2 months ago on 03/19/12 at 09:08pm

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I’ve learned to live with rage. In some ways, it’s my rage that keeps me going. Without it, I would have been whipped long ago. With it, I got a lot more songs to sing.

Etta James, in her autobiography, Rage To Survive. (via shana—e)

(via shana--e)

#Etta James #Singers #R.I.P Etta James #Blues #Soul #Quotes #Rage

4 months ago on 01/20/12 at 02:00pm

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Title: Agitation Artist: Erykah Badu 70 plays

Song: Agitation
Artist: Erykah Badu
Album: New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh)

“what a day…”

#Erykah Badu #Sounds #Soul #Experimental #Hip-Hop #New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh) #2010

4 months ago on 01/14/12 at 12:15am

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Title: Love Me Down Easy Artist: Teena Marie 30 plays

Song: Love Me Down Easy
Artist: Teena Marie
Album: Emerald City

#1986 #2010 #Emerald City #Funk #Lady T #R.I.P Teena Marie #Soul #Teena Marie #Sounds

5 months ago on 12/26/11 at 08:44pm

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Robert Glasper Discusses Black Radio ›

Glasper’s new opus is an admirable pastiche of original material and imaginative interpretations of tunes by David Bowie and Sade, a vocoder-laced version of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” and guest features from and impressive line up of soul stars (Lalah Hathaway, Erykah Badu, Meshell Ndegeocello), heavy spitters (Mos Def, Lupe Fiasco), and rookies (KING). Can’t wait till February? Here’s the track-by-track lowdown on this spectacular new album that should keep you till 2012: