I’ll see the ask about “best 3 album run” & raise the stakes to a 5 album run. The undisputed greatest run in music history.
I like what someone told me yesterday, it’s unfair to compare another artist to Stevie.
S-Tier stands for Stevie. Everyone else is fighting for # 2
D'Angelo complains that social media spoils concert surprises. His manager Kevin Liles counters by showing him the flood flowers he's receiving on social media 🥹
artists:
i know we feel a bit defeated right now, but trust — the world needs music *now* more than ever.
write. play. sing. arrange. produce.
do it ferociously. with your whole heart.
dive in. now is the time to work.
Lunch is right and that’s the thing that most ppl get wrong. Hip Hop culture comes from those 3 cultural branches. To say otherwise is just plain ahistorical.
what landed for me was realizing jazz gives the listener the freedom to imagine. unlike most pop music, you gotta do a little work for yourself, but it's incredibly rewarding.
Fun fact: Nikki Giovanni penned the moving liner notes for Donny Hathaway's 1973 opus, Extension of a Man.
"I must confess, however, that I did wonder how a man could be extended since men are born and not made. But then I listened to "I Love the Lord; He Heard My Cry" and I knew. Donny, like a python on a sultry day, wraps himself around and crawls all up inside then takes you away "Flying Easy."
"I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure, but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try."
Rest In Peace Nikki Giovanni ❤️