I don’t know what Walkers Extra Crunchy even is, but this commercial?! I absolutely cannot!!
Lionel Richie still is doing his good singing though, but I got to say, I had a certain feeling of satisfaction seeing him get tossed through a window onto his behind ROFL.
I feel like that blind woman from the “Hello” video finally got her justice!
If he had stole that chip from a Black man, Lionel’s lips would have been deflated from that mouth getting popped real quick like! HA!
I know I am going to catch some hate for that title, but seriously. It was sleepy time over here. I know it was an acoustic performance and featured just a piano and John, but I tell you, I fought to make it through these full clips…
Check out his acoustic version of “Wake Up Everybody” and the other two you can see after the jump below:
On Aug. 19 John Legend dropped by The Recording Academy headquarters in Santa Monica, Calif., to perform a few songs, chat with GRAMMY.com and even pick up a surprise replacement GRAMMY Award. Legend is in the midst of a tour with the Roots supporting their new album Wake Up, a collection of classic ’60s and ’70s R&B. During his visit, Legend played a few solo songs at the piano, including the album’s title track, originally a hit for Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes (and their vocalist, Teddy Pendergrass), and “Shine,” the album’s only original song.
“[These] songs evoke an era of activism and a time when musicians were really a part of the social movements that were happening, and their music reflected that,” says Legend on why the concept of the album appealed to him.
He also performed versions of “Shine” which is the other new song on the album and also “Save Room”. I just can’t get into this “Wake Up Everybody” cover. I’m trying, but it just zaps all the zeitgeist that the song exemplified for that moment in time. His version is slightly bland and undercooked. Just my opinion!
Oh, this was when LL Cool J was trying to reclaim his gangsta because his Mr. Smith album was chock full of radio-friendly ladies jams LOL. LL set the bar though with that album. The remix featured a bevy of hip-hop stars, including the incarcerated Prodigy and one fine looking specimen known as Foxy Brown. My my my how things and times change LOL.
Did anyone catch the My Mic Sounds Nice special on BET last night? Twitter suggested this video today for the Classic Flashback joint in reference to that special being shown last night. I missed it, but sound off here if you caught it!
So I was super stupid busy this weekend, and I’m currently working with a handicap in this recession for a few more weeks with my internet being down, but I managed to get enough access to hear that Lauryn Hill’s big comeback at Rock The Bells hip-hop fest in NYC was pretty lackluster and terrible, as some folks were just outright saying. However, I heard that she brought out such luminaries as Mary J. Blige, Jay-Z, Chris Rock, etc. to show love during her set. Much to my chagrin, they just came out and waved. Anyone one of them could have helped this little legend that could.
We love L-Boogie, but I think we might have to let her past be her past and maybe choose whether or not we want to embrace her future. Maybe some new songs would let us let the past go? What ya’ll think?
This performance was all over the place and she replaced “hype” with precision. I see you Lauryn! RITA LOUISE WATSON! Get it together! LOL.
I don’t know why this song popped in my head, but the hook is what popped in my mind. And that run that he does in this song around the middle somewhere LOL.
Montell Jordan had one of those voices you either hated or loved, but of course, EVERYONE knows “This Is How We Do It”. I liked his little solo’s in “The Fighting Temptations” too…
What is he doing these days?! He had a nice little string of semi-jams back in the days though!
“Man of the House” is actually one of my least favorite songs on the record, but leave it up to Fantasia to get the yt folks up out their seats on a song about a no-good man and her having to stand up for the rest of the family to take care of business!
Fantasia appeared on the George Lopez Show to deliver a rousing performance of one of the seemingly many singles from her recent album. “Man of the House” I feel trades in on empty synths and surface lyrics, and really feels a bit like album filler, but I’m sure there’s a Fantasia fan somewhere out there that this song was made for. I highly doubt it was that yt lady on the front row who was throwing her hands up, but she was just probably caught up in the “Fantasia Spirit” that she often brings to her live performances. Hallelujah and pass the divorce papers!
I got to give it up to Katy Perry. Though “California Girls” is irksome, it’s still a catchy slice of pop and she is more than likely going to evade the sophomore slump with her 2nd album of the same name. She even managed to give Snoop Dogg a #1 hit, keeping him in the money despite the fact that his hip-hop records of late are barely registering on the pop culture charts. He’s become a caricature of himself, but he is still making money.
Katy Perry has Dr. Luke in her back pocket and is riding her rhythm-less Soul Train all the way to the top of the charts though. “Teenage Dream” gets STUCK in your head musicwise though, and while Katy Perry may make the songs that we get sick of hearing on the radio, this girl has vocal chops. Her church upbringing can be heard all through her music if you listen. Reminds me of when Christina Aguilera and Pink first came out — I’d always be like…”hmmm, OK! I hear ya’ll!”
Shouts to my girl Elle B. on the backup vocals who is an artist in her own right!
This joint used to go so hard HAHAHA, I remember the Diana Ross sample for “Upside Down” used to really take me out of here though. And I was in love with Missy Elliott back when this came out. MC Lyte’s voice just has a snarl to me that just makes me FEEL like it IS just hip-hop. Is it just me?
Diddy’s little R&B intro at the beginning?! I always hated that though LOL. So unnecessary. Missy has always had the facial antics and what not, but she still spit a decent 16 bars!
Goodness, though this was hip-hop at it’s most radio friendly for Lyte, it was still a decent cut!
This “DJ Got Us Falling In Love” song is just NOT my cup of tea, but I figured out a couple of weeks ago that I was not Usher’s targeted fanbase, so I just gave up caring LOL. However, one thing I can always applaud and give props to Usher on is his staging and live performances. He consistently proves why he has been around for so long. His performances are always usually tight, right, and out of sight LOL.
The staging, the dancers, the routines, and even his live band ALL compliment and accent Usher’s already formidable stage presence and presentation. Even more so, the band ALWAYS kicks his songs into a higher gear, and I walk away feeling like I should feel guilty for liking a song like “DJ Got Us Falling In Love”, but not with a funky backbeat like they gave it on this performance. I actually could have gone to this performance while in NYC last week, but I don’t do crowds! Versus, the release of additional music as a companion to Raymond Vs. Raymond will be out soon, as well as the re-release.
Bilal performed at the UCLA Jazz Fest over the summer and performed one of my favorites, his song “Something To Hold On To”, from his unreleased Love for Sale album. It was a gem that went hard on wax, and I have to enjoy I kind of enjoyed this performance live. I somewhat his frantic style of performing live, full of wails, improvisation, and emotion (and/or drugs some say LOL!).
You can pre-order his new album Airtight’s Revenge here if you are interested — and it drops September 14th. Are you ready for new Bilal Oliver music!? Oh and if you haven’t seen him performing his new song “Think It Over”, you can catch that here!
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