Kanye West and Malik Yusef ft. Common & John Legend-Magic Man

I love a good Kanye, Common and John Legend Collaboration.

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Aretha Franklin-Try A Little Tenderness

Now how many of you knew that in 1962 Aretha Franklin previously recorded the 1966 popular Otis Redding song, Try a Little Tenderness? Well it turns out the song was initially recorded on December 8, 1932 by the Ray Noble Orchestra (with vocals by Val Rosing) AND Ruth Etting and Bing Crosby in 1933. Although the song was made famous by Redding and is a classic version, who better to cover the song than the Queen herself? If you've never heard this version you most DEFINITELY need to listen. It's simply beautiful....

MAXWELL- PRETTY WINGS

Today is a very good day in the music world!! Maxwell's first single, Pretty Wings from his much anticipated Black Summer's Night has been released. I've been listening to the snippet of this song off Maxwell's myspace page since 2007. I love the song and love the video even more. The first installment from Maxwell's trilogy Black Summer's Night will be released July 7Th! I can't wait to be able to pop his album into the CD player and be able to listen to the whole thing straight through. From what I'm hearing there will be Three Cd's "Black" released in 2009, "Summer" in 2010 and "Night" released in 2011! All I can say is YES!!!!!!

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HE SAYS IT BEST...

Check out Common's new commercial for the new Diesel cologne, Only For The Brave.

Ryan Leslie-Gonna Let This Luv

New music has surfaced from Ryan Leslie. Still trying to figure out where this song came from but If he's thinking about coming out with another album sometime soon, I would be OK with that. His latest album is great! It feels like a summer album to me. The new song, Gonna Let This Luv is very similar to the feel on his latest self titled album. I'm definitely feelin' this track.

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I'm MOS DEFinitely Hyped about this!

Here's the Promo for Mos Def's new album...

Mos Def - Flowers - The Ecstatic avail 6/9/09

New AMP Energy Drink Commericial

Starring Common...

90's Artist I Miss...PART I- Chico Debarge

On a day like today when I feel "quality music deprived" I cant help but reminisce of a time when good R&B music was dominating the music world...Ahhh the 90's... First person that comes to mind is Chico Debarge (brother to my 80's crush El Debarge).. I've heard some new material floating around the Internet and although I'm hopeful, there will always be a special place in my heart for his 90's albums, the 1997 hit, "Long Time No See"(a classic in my opinion) and the 1999 "Game." And yes I still own both.

Check out several of my favorites...

Teedra Moses Covers Yearning By The Gap Band

Teedra Moses recently performed in DC. During the show she covered one of the Gap Band's Songs, "Yearning." Now this is every exciting for me! One of my favorite artist, Teedra Moses performed a song that my father wrote and produced! ( Here's a little known fact: my father, wrote and produced many of the hits for the Gap Band). I'm speechless!!!

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Here's an untitled song from her upcoming album: