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Over a decade ago, Hip-Hop theologians OutKast used their southern-fried flow to send an impassioned plea on their seminal track, “Mainstream:” Don’t let a little bling blind your perspective.
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Everybody has a secret weapon. The soul sonic forces FATS employs “just to get by” are mixed by in demand designer and music historian Rodney Clancy. This joint is for the ever evasive lover in U.
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Like kool aid on a hot summer day, our play cousins dead prez provide a new summer time “chill with the fams and break out the red cups” cookout jam. Peep this exclusive dead prez video “Summertime” produced by our homie Shannon McCollum with lens master Tao Ruspoli serving as director.
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Ledisi gets down with our play cousin Anthony David in ATL. This event gets a red kool aid stamp of approval. Tell’em From Afros To Shelltoes sent ya!!
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Soul man Athony David has a gift for fans of the From Afros To Shelltoes Blog. Damn Good music. Peep this exclusive joint, “4evermore” feat our play cousin Phonte( Little Brother/Foreign Exchange) and Algebra, from his upcoming album As Above So Below. The song is a “summer time get down with a cutey at Rae Rae’s cookout sho nuff jam.”
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Here in lies the “Halle Berry Factor” of the modern day female artist: push the boundaries artistically and risk meager sales or SEX up your image in KING magazine in hopes of greater exposure (no pun intended) and killer album sales.
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Internationally acclaimed artist/activist stic.man of dead prez has always put his art where his heart is; the community. Standing on the shoulders of Curtis Mayfield, The Last Poets, Gil Scott Heron, and Public Enemy, stic.man and dead prez continue to make true love and freedom accessible to the masses.
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It makes since that Reid’s son, Aaron, a student at Morehouse College, would settle his burgeoning empire, YEEC (Young Entrepreneurs Empowerment Coalition), on fertile red clay. Being the proud son of Def Jam Chairman Reid and singer/songwriter Pebbles gives you the kind of access of folks twice your age.
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Ed Garnes , Raphael Saadiq, & Tboz Talk, Going Solo, September 11, Tony! Toni! Tone!, And Why Soul Music Will Never Die (Another Excerpt from Ed’s Book Other Side Of The Game)
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The stories of both Bobby Fischer and D’Angelo read like a major network soap opera – twins separated at birth living similar lives. And because a part of their evolution is hidden somewhere in the mystery of solitude, they’ve done nothing less than prove the theory that great minds ride the same wavelength.
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If we’ve learned anything from the Chris Brown-Rihanna situation, it is important to not be judgmental of Mr. Winans. The situation is unfortunate and all we can do is pray for him, keep him in our thoughts and hope he gets some professional help or intervention…not come out with a duet or a book.
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