What do you imagine M.O.P. would sing at karaoke? Aladdin’s ‘A Whole New World’, maybe Lionel Richie ‘Hello’ or possibly ‘Stay’ by Lisa Loeb? Find out when Pharoahe tells of his karaoke experience with the Mash Out Posse, and Jean Grae gives some amazingly sensible relationship advice in part two of our interview with the pair.
Listen: Pharoahe Monch – Haile Salassie Karate ft Mr Porter | iTunes Listen: Pharoahe Monch – The Light | iTunes Listen: Jean Grae – You Don’t Like It (So What) Listen: Jean Grae – Love Song | iTunes
Lovebombs! It started out as a house party that got a little too big for the house, and since then has always been a shindig that is good vibes and a lot of fun. The Lovebombs massive is doing a Pre-Easter party called Lovebuns, so I thought I would finally post the photos by the very awesome Leah Consunji from our Lovebombs Pre-Valentines do (Wedding Waltz Competition and all).
And no, I don’t do parties that don’t involve silly dancing competitions with equally silly prizes. What next though? Maybe a charleston dance off, or a breakdancing miming competition. Anyways, here’s some music…
Fuck yeah! I want more music from Santigold and I want it to be as good as her old music. Please lord, is this too much to ask? Santi dropped this one today on Jay-Z’s Life and Times. It is co-produced by Q-Tip, Switch and Santigold with some vocals from Karen O. So what do you think? Does the future look promising?
More proof that half casts are hotter. This sexy piece of instrument is part french horn, part clarinet and fully amazing. Invented by Adolphe Sax in 1841, the Saxophone was brought into the world to have the projection of a brass instrument with the agility of woodwind, and the ability to overblow at the octave. Oooooohh baby!
Inspired by youtube sensation, Sergio Flores the Sexy Sexophonist Saxogram, we are paying tribute to the Saxophone. This horn has been used to add a bit of sex to military bands, early rock, and jazz, but it wasn’t till the 1980s that the music industry developed a serious sax addiction. Every pop song needed an inappropriate, blaring, over the top sax solo, if only as an after thought during the fade out.
Here is some hot, steamy sax. The hottest and steamiest… perhaps.
Update: It was brought to my attention by one Andrew Quinn, that we missed some of the most seductive sax playing of all time… http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xd518_wreckxneffect-rump-shaker_music
Video vixen and Bobby Brown Baby Mama, Alicia Etheridge – one of the hottest saxophone players since ever. Pay close attention to her finger work. Charlie Parker, who?
MP3: Wreckx-N-Effect – Rumpshaker
MP3: The Lafayette Afro Rock Band – Darkest Light
And when too much sax is barely enough. Here is John Coltrane on the Soprano Saxophone with the jazz equivalent of a tantric sax marathon (Enough with the forced puns already).
The ‘Fat Man’ Billy Stewart! Popular in the ’60s, he was a talented singer, songwriter and piano man discovered by Bo Diddley and signed to Chess Records.
From Washington DC, he started out in a group called The Rainbows (they don’t make band names like that anymore) which included Don Covay amongst it’s members, so you know he had been around the block before hitting the big time with songs like ‘Sitting in the Park’, ‘I Do Love You’ and ‘Summertime’.
In 1970 at the age of 33, he was killed in a car crash with three members of his band, but his music lives on and not just as material for hip hop producers hungry for new samples. For instance, ‘Sitting in my Car’ as been covered by a wide range of artists – 50 of them reggae singers and one of them a rapper (Slick Rick).
Here is ‘Cross My Heart’, released on Chess in 1967, and jacked by Just Blaze to produce Jay Electronica’s ‘Exhibit C’.
One of the greatest bass guitarists of all time. Possibly THE greatest. He worked with James Brown, Parliament and Funkadelic, and according to my flatmate he invented bass rhythms that would later become the basis of 90s hip hop. Ol’ Gregg gives us the back story about how he got the funk, and here are a couple of rappers that tried to sample some of that sweet milky funk juice.
Normally I don’t like rappers that use big words and know what they mean. I’ll take swag over substance any day. Even so, I am really quite partial to Sole’s version of Mac Miller’s ‘Donald Trump’. It had to be said. As much as Mac Miller is semi-okay, and the song is catchy as fuck… Donald Trump?!? Seriously, fuck that dude!
MP3: Mac Miller – Donald Trump | iTunes
Woo! Jaded rap songs that try to say something, I didn’t think they still made those. For more on why Donald Trump is a shithead, read his Dickipedia article.
Brrr! Brrr! Brrr! Put your hands up. Feel those horns. It is the Young Money remix of Kanye’s ‘All Of The Lights’ with Weezy, Drake and Big Sean. The original is so massive, but some how this remix is not nearly as killer as it should be. Please insert Nicki Minaj. Thoughts?
Foreign yet familiar. I love a non-English version of a Western hit. Here is Japan’s answer to the Jackson 5, The Clash via Algeria and Chaka Demus & Pliers gone Bollywood. Get ethnic with it.
Wow I am so late on this one. This really should have been a hit. It took stumbling on to this amazing cosmic video just recently to make me notice and really appreciate this song. Now fifty percent of the views on this video is me listening to it constantly on repeat at work. It was shot by artifact, the same folks who have done Spit Syndicate’s ‘Starry Eyed’ and Astronomy Class’ ‘Where You At?’ Smashing stuff!
Janini Panini
STOLEN RECORDS 