To say that i am excited about this week’s featured mixtape on Okayafrica may just be a bit of an understatement. In fact, i’m ecstatic!!! In case you’re not familiar with Okayafrica, it is a sister website to Okayplayer. They have a lot of the same focus on great music and innovative culture, but Okayafrica [...]
Archive for November, 2011
22 Nov
Tru Skool Tuesday: Fitness Beyond Verbal Dexterity
Simple question: why are so many emcees & deejays dying and being hospitalized for food-related illness? In 2010, one of the people who first “taught” me to DJ, Kool DJ Law, died of a heart attack at the “old” age of 40. I was blown. Earlier this year, Nate Dogg died after multiple strokes — [...]
21 Nov
Mixtape Monday: Essentials of Afro Deep
So, i’ve been on a lot of House mixes recently. I’ve been searching for some good Reggae, hip hop, and (nu/neo) soul mixes, and hope to have some in the near future. But for now, more House! This week’s selection is some deep & soulful goodness mixed by DJ V-King who’s holding it down in [...]
20 Nov
Ol’ Skool Sunday: 1988
So the first question you may have — and this is something that i’m wondering too — is, how did 1988 become today’s theme? I don’t know. What i do know is that 1988 was a great year for R&B and Soul! Bobby Brown released Don’t Be Cruel, a record i still play! Anita Baker‘s, [...]
18 Nov
Get Familiar Episode 5: Emcee Nemesis
There’s been a rumor circulating claiming that hip hop is dead. Regardless of where one stands on that one, there are people who embrace the culture and use it as a vehicle to express themselves and the potential for humane being. They force me, personally, to re-check hip hop’s pulse before i say definitively whether [...]
15 Nov
Tru Skool Tuesday: Blessed by Some Women in Hip Hop
I recently heard this term “femcee” used in conversation and saw it written in a few articles. At first (like for the 1st ten seconds), i liked the sound of it. Then my critical self asserted that the term “femcee” upholds the notion that “emcee” is inherently male or masculine. That’s a problem. I find [...]
13 Nov
Ol’ Skool Sunday
Sunday has returned (as it does every week)! That means that i’m listening togreat Ol’ Skool songs that never get played out. Check them out and enjoy your day. Much Love. – Brotha Onaci Michael Jackson, “Heartbreak Hotel” Bobby Womack, “If You Think You’re Lovely Now” Gladys Knight & the Pips, “If Were Your Woman”
10 Nov
Remembering Miriam Makeba
This post is dedicated to Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 – 10 November 2008). She was more than just a talented musician; she was an activist who used her music as a weapon in the fight against South African apartheid. Because of her refusal to submit to her country’s oppressive government, she was exiled from her [...]
