ivan qusay 45vx

power to the people

[ivan qusay 45vx @ciggymane]

are the artist & the lineup for coachella just picked out of a hat?

[highlydustedmusic @80sBank]

Yeah, you can smell the competition on this one. Always wondered who wrote what first because maaaaan both these titans came out firing 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Roc & Sean P

Snow (Remix)

[Steez⁴⁷ @Steez_47]

The Alchemist performing an unreleased MF DOOM verse over the “Terry” beat

[I’m named after El Debarge @hydrothemc]

“All I Do” is my favorite Stevie Wonder song on many days.
He wrote it when he was 16 for Tammi Terrell.
She recorded it but Motown didn’t release it.
He put it on Hotter Than July with updated instrumentation.
Motown released the original in 2002 and… it’s the better version.

[Yvan Montgury, The Gravedigger @YvanMontgury]

When Arthur Ashe, Jackie Robinson, Bill Russell, Johnny Sample and Harry Edwards pull back the curtain on what fans never see unequal contracts, token progress, corporate power, and the pressure placed on Black athletes to stay silent.

📽️ : Black Journal

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

Miles Davis called Ahmad Jamal his biggest influence as a pianist, praising his use of space, dynamics, and restraint over flashy technique.

Ahmad Jamal believed the notes you don’t play are just as important as the ones you do.

[Jesus Chrysler @JesusChryslerII]

He was the first contestant and it's already over

[highlydustedmusic @80sBank]

"I teach the truth to youth. I say "hey youth, here's the truth, ya better start wearing bullet proof "

There truly wasn't a father to his style.

🙏🏾 Ason

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

Womack & Womack’s “Teardrops” is an all-time absolute banger.

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

Awesome footage of Al Green and Chicago performing “I’m So Tired of Being Alone.

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

On this day in 1963, Little” Stevie Wonder, aged 13, released his first single, “Fingertips”

The song made history as the first live (non-studio) recording to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

Remembering the great Wes Montgomery, who passed away on this day in 1968.

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

A tribute to John Coltrane:

I combined family footage and performance clips into a music video for one of my favorite songs of his, “Equinox”.

Hope you enjoy watching it as much as I enjoyed making it.

[highlydustedmusic @80sBank]

Have I ever told y'all that
LL Cool J's"To the Break of Dawn" is one of the greatest diss tracks ever? Yeah, I'm sure I have 😂.
Rare live version of him catching wreck over Keni Burke's classic "Keep Rising to the top" joint.

Audio courtesy of DJ Lord Sear
🙏🏾🕊️

[BR4NDYM @Br4ndym]

wayne wonder & spragga benz teaching me about the history of dubplates 🙏🏽

[Nina vs. the World @ninamonei]

Anyway, here’s my favorite clip from Joy James talking about the class divide between the Black middle class and poor.

[underwood. @PoeticScotland]

education of sonny carson.

[SEE THAT GURLLAH 🖤 @glynderella_]

Black anthropology 😭

[The Art of Sampling @Art_of_Sampling]

Little Brother - “Say It Again”

Before 9th Wonder’s departure in 2007, Little Brother had already seemingly achieved the impossible. They’d bullied their way into the discussion of other classic hip hop/rap trios like A Tribe Called Quest, Main Source, and De La Soul.

And Little Brother — straight outta Durham, North Carolina, not New York, not LA, not Atlanta — did it their own way.

Deliberately down to earth and eschewing the “back packer” aesthetic and refusing to be bottlenecked musically, Little Brother represented one of the most allusive things in hip hop/rap music: *realness*.

The magnum opus of the original three-man group was ‘The Minstrel Show.’ And for me, the standout song off the album, the song I ran back (still run back) the most was “Say It Again.”

9th Wonder is decidedly soulful.
And like DJ Premier, Pete Rock, J Dilla before him, 9th Wonder was (is) a master of chopping and drumwork.

Producer Minnesota once said to me, “producers have always been the ones who have had a burning passion to keep a certain frequency alive.”

This applies perfectly to the way that the 9th interprets soul samples.

On “Say It Again,” 9th opens and closes the vocal samples in such a way that they not only act as both chorus and refrain, but also call and response.

This is nowhere near as easy to do as it seems. And to pair such a sample arrangement with the perfect drum arrangement, all way keeping the groove in the pocket and the frequency balanced for Big Pooh and Phonte to rhyme over?! Listen, people this is master work…

[Cinsere @CinsereBeats]

Thankfully, we were in fact able to get one authentic Biggie x Dilla collab, along with Busta Rhymes. And dissed Pac on it! What's crazier, it was supposed to have Nas and Meth on it too 🤯 (story below). There would later be a version with Roc Marci on it, but it stayed shelved.