alex-gerard:

A mashup of National Anthem by Lana Del Rey and Can’t Tell Me Nothing by Kanye West

Can’t Tell Me Nothing (Money is the Anthem) - Kanye West & Lana Del Rey

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phatearrangsnthangs:

souljunkee:

perfect tempo

#floetry #sayyes #MarshiaAmbrosius #neosoul #soul #babymakingmusic

Alright now…. ;0)

Damn sexy song.

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thisisjamaica:

Two more months for Busy Signal

United States-based attorney William Mauzy says Jamaican entertainer Busy Signal was “very happy” with the six-month jail sentence handed to him in the state of Minnesota yesterday. “Given all the circumstances, he is very excited that the exit from jail is in sight and that he will be returning to Jamaica,” said Mauzy, who represented the entertainer, whose real name is Glendale Gordon. According to Mauzy, Busy Signal relayed his feelings during a brief conversation they had after the sentence was announced. Despite the six-month jail term……

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Dem ah free di Plait-head Hothead!

mixedbyziggy:

mixedbyziggy:

BlackMuzik Productions presents…

Ziggy - Home School Valedictorian

1. Super Moon feat. Alvietron
2. Dissertation 
3. Cartoon Interlude/Watch Your Mouth feat. J. Philippe
4. Mirror View 
5. Children of the Sun feat. Bwoiii Bari
6. BGs
7. Soapbox Soliloquy
8. Feelin’ Gooder Dennamug feat. Brotha I.B. & Felix Von Soco 
9. Dear Diary 
10. Recess Reflections

Notes:  
tracks 1, 7, 8 and 9 produced by BlackMuzik
track 2 produced by Illusive
tracks 3, 4 and 5 produced by AJ
track 6 produced by Ace Da Vinci
track 10 produced by AbJo 

Voiceovers provided by Eyan

Download: Soundcloud | Mediafire | Bandcamp

Finally, finally. I have the longest list of people I’d like to thank, but I’ll try to condense it for the sake of this post. Thank you to everyone who contributed to the album. You all definitely gave it the sound I’d been looking for.

Thank you Christina for believing in me, and staying on my ass so I wouldn’t procrastinate. Eyan—NO RANGZ!! Thank you, manega. To all my producer and rappity rapper peers: Allen, Khalil, AJ, Alvietron, IB, Von, Natho, Illusive, Ace da Vinci—there really are so many more of you—thank you for the motivation. 

I’ll stop here because I always feel bad about forgetting someone. If you know me, you know that not shouting you out isn’t intentional. My nerves are bad and I’m anxious for you all to hear the album.

So, here it is. Hope you enjoy.

Thank you.

Hey. You, reading this post.

You need this. Trust me.

Especially you new followers. Clicky the linky.

theblackme:

There is no such thing as black music!

London-based garage DJ/Producer Wookie had an interesting take on the state of black music: It’s a thing of the past.

He explained to The Voice:

“Back in the day I used to get asked to remix a song to get played in the clubs. Now I’m being asked to do remixes for the radio, because our music is no longer underground, it is commercial.”

Like many black artists, Wookie’s gripe is with those who have appropriated black music but still try to profit from its origins.

“We always make up a new style of music and everyone jumps on it, like Skrillex with dubstep,” heexplains. “My gripe with it is it is not dubstep. Where I come from, reggae music is synonymous with those two words, dub and steppers, and I don’t hear anything from those elements in dubstep music.”

Like many musicians who look at today’s crop of artists as less-than-musical because they don’t know much about instrumentation and the mechanics of music, Wookie says today’s producers are why music has lost its way. “A lot of producers actually can’t play (an instrument) or even have a keyboard in their studio. As far as they are concerned, everything can be drawn in on a computer. That’s why music now has a much more rigid mechanical sound.

“Music usually needs melody, but some current music just has a beat and noise. I remember hearing some of the new dubstep stuff and thinking, ‘What the hell is this? How are you supposed to dance to this?’”

What do you think? Does “black music” still exist?

eclecticspectrum:

Then I shrug and go back to watching Star Trek.

We need to be friends.

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thisisjamaica:

More Lee Perry

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lotus-eyes:

dynamicafrica

75-minute ‘Punk In Africa’ Mixtape compilation from DJ Zhao featuring tracks from South Africa, Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique and Tanzania.

This is so great, just downloaded it the other day! Get it here.

I’m putting this here for later.

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I should get flight cases for my 1210s.

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uhfrayedknot:

How full on to watch you grow
Never alone
I can cope

How forlorn to watch you go
How full on to watch you grow

To Care (Like You) - James Blake

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jtotheizzoe:

Shuttles, space stations, moon missions, beeps/bloops/blips … the whole sha-bang!

These are official releases from NASA for use in your own remixes, available in MP3 and M4R format.

Go forth and get creative …

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“Only child, please take care, I wouldn’t like you playing, falling there.”

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