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ARETHA FRANKLIN – “Young, Gifted, & Black” (Music Video) RIP #QueenOfSoul
Aretha Franklin’s rendition of Nina Simone’s “Young Gifted and Black” is a mighty, important, and swinging song by the queen of soul herself. I’m posting it as a tribute to the Queen who passed away today and was called home to heaven. On Twitter, President Obama said it perfectly, “Aretha helped define the American experience. In her voice, we could feel our history, all of it and in every shade—our power and our pain, our darkness and our light, our quest for redemption and our…
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RA The Rugged Man – “The Dangerous Three” ft. Brother Ali, Masta Ace (Video) #TBT via @lisafordblog
RA The Rugged Man - "The Dangerous Three" is off of his 'Legends Never Die' album released in 2013. In 'The Dangerous Three', I love the contrast of Ali's alternative style, R.A.'s underground delivery, and Ace's old-school flow. Ali came with the aggression and energy, RA was sick with the multis and wordplay but Master Ace's verse just stood out to me. After all these years the guy is just a damn Legend. The way he strung together every word in that verse has so…
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ICE BERG’s “Vice Versa Freestyle” -Remix of the PASTOR TROY Hit (Download) #TBT via @lisafordblog
ICE BERG paid homage to PASTOR TROY's iconic, "Vice Versa" with a nasty flow worthy enough to be mentioned on this blog for Throwback Thursdays. You have to have balls of steal to even attempt to freestyle on one of Hip Hop's hardest tracks and Ice Berg pulled it off with grace. Pastor Troy released "Vice Versa" in 2002 on his 'Universal Soldier' album. Ice Berg released "Vice Versa Freestyle" in 2012 on his 'Strictly 4 The Streets 3' mixtape.
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COMMON – “War” (Audio) #ThrowbackThursday via @lisafordblog
One of the best songs Common created, "War", for some strange reason isn't featured on his latest album, "Nobody's Smiling"... which is why it was a must that I posted it on this blog. The production sounds like something wicked from a 60's or 70's horror flick laced with Common's diabolical lyricism. It's just an all around great record that zooms in on the crisis and violence we are witnessing in Chicago and in America's inner cities. In the Outro of "War", Common states, "The…
