Features classic Sade songs (incl. ‘Your Love Is King’, ‘Smooth Operator’, ‘Hang On To Your Love’, ‘The Sweetest Taboo’, ‘Soldier Of Love’ and more) plus three never-before-heard tracks including ‘Moon & The Sky featuring Jay-Z, ‘By Your Side’ remixed by The Neptunes and more CD1: 1. Your Love Is...
Boston’s legendary Barrence Whitfield & The Savages’ new album Dig Thy Savage Soul is a wealth of atomic-powered, sock-it-to-me R&B and rock & roll hoodoo. Review Some folks can’t be tamed…the Beefy baritone and his Boston vets continue their wild ways, roaring through bare-knuckle nuggets that...
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As front man for the A$AP Mob, A$AP Rocky has led his mob to be one of the most respected emcee crews over the last year. Although hailing from Harlem, their sound and flow is different from Harlem rappers we're used to hearing. A$AP Rocky's style is not only unique but has started to be copied...
One of New Zealands most exciting up and coming R&B artists, with influences from Ne-Yo, MJ, Craig David.
Anybody who loves R&B Music loves Trey Songz. The American singer, rapper, record producer, song-writer amazed the world when first dropped back in 2008 winning the BET Award for best male R&B act. Since then hes been busy picking up even more BET Awards now totalling a staggering eight awards, as...
Jay-Z doesnt really need an introduction, try this for size… he is a rapper estimated net worth is over 500 million dollars and is married to Beyonce! The greatest rapper alive Jay-Z is a rapper together with Biggie was instrumental in putting Brooklyn firmly on the Hip-Hop map. Here we pay homage...
In 2004, the first volume of Wheedle’s Groove shone a light on the formerly unheralded soul scene in 1960s and ‘70s Seattle, followed by a new album in 2008, and then an award winning feature-length documentary film. The on-going Wheedle’s Groove series continues to present a vast chapter of the...
Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. (born September 27, 1982), known by his stage name Lil Wayne, is an American hip hop recording artist from New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1991, at the age of nine, Lil Wayne joined Cash Money Records as the youngest member of the label, and half of the duo The B. G.‘z,...
Christopher Maurice “Chris” Brown (born May 5, 1989) is an American recording artist, dancer, and actor. Born in Tappahannock, Virginia, he taught himself to sing and dance at a young age and was involved in his church choir and several local talent shows. Having signed with Jive Records in 2004,...
Exorcising his demons with grinding guitars, uncontrolled beats, and a wicked late-‘80s, early-’90s reference (“They were standing on the shoulders of a giant, so defiant, but their feet are stuck/Jesus Jones!”), indie rapper Sage Francis frees himself during the frantic, rock-hard “Pressure...
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“The White Man Made Me Do It” is Swamp Dogg’s new album, and his first soul record in decades. Over the course of 14 songs, and with the help of a cast of veteran soul greats, the idiosyncratic performer re-captures the spirit of his 70’s cult recordings. “The White Man Made Me Do It” mixes classic...
Watch the Throne is a collaborative studio album by American rappers Jay-Z and Kanye West, released on August 8, 2011, by Roc-A-Fella Records, Roc Nation, and Def Jam Recordings. Before the album, Jay-Z and West had collaborated on their respective singles and with West as a producer on Jay-Z's...
Hailed as an instance classic, its impact reverberated throughout the underground and mainstream. The Washington D. C. City Paper called it the city’s best album in many years. During an era when lyricism was deemed too intellectual and samples too dated, Diamond District overturned conventional...
If the soul of hip-hop belongs to the culture, the skeleton belongs to the independent label. From Sugar Hill to Def Jam, Tommy Boy to Rawkus, Fondle Em to Def Jux, the genre’s best music has been birthed by imprints that brazenly defy the status quo, those who champion fearless artists and always...
Georgia Anne Muldrow is a seeker and truth-teller. The words on her first rap album – produced entirely by Chris Keys – balance a beautiful delivery with brutal honesty. These are the honest confessions of a mother who refuses to turn a blind eye to immediate and ancestral misdeeds. Her rhymes are...
“L’Orange is a conceptually driven thinker. He sees a plot in his mind and transfers that narrative to his production.” – Impose Magazine Enter those bloody alleys blocked off with yellow tape and chalk outlines. Secret backrooms riddled with sly crooks and blunt smoke. Slink into the underworld,...
“Detroit’s own Red Pill has been perfecting his craft”- Urb Look What This World Did To Us.” The command is rhetorical. You’re already aware of the echo, the generational discontent and alienation, the whispered and denied calls for absolution. No need to look around, just check your bank account...
“I was trying to be you” J DIlla The evidence of Pete Rock’s legacy bangs in his latest opus, Petestrumentals 2, the sequel to the 2001 classic that helped define the hip^hop instrumental record. It marks the legend’s first album on Mello Music Group, a fitting union between the author of the...