Your Daily Dose of Soul

Kick your feet back, close your eyes, and enjoy--that is, after you click play.

Love Was The Egg

My favorite NERD song, featuring one of my favorite video models. Forgot her name, but chick useta be on The Price is Right too. There was a time when I could play this one on the ivories.

The Juice Is Loose

Oran "Juice" Jones - The Rain (1986) -

Please, do yourself a favor. Give yourself a few minutes and reacquaint yourself with this classic video.

Two Pimps

Most of yall don't know this, but I was a Timbaland fanatic all through middle and high school. I would sit in my room and study Timbo's drum patterns like it was my job, breaking my mom's tension rods in the process. The Timbaland/Jay-Z discography is sick in and of itself, but this joint is like the best of both worlds: classic Tim and classic Jigga.

Wet like jheri curl juice

-via macbook.

Throwback of the Week

If only for the two-fisted double-pump, Subway X 702 was the epitome of the 90s. Shouts to Cee for the inappropriate usage of email at work.

It's my diner

Proof That Your Parents (and Grandparents) Were Nasty (Just Like You)

Click the cover.

This album is one of my personal faves. I have a special affinity for live albums because they separate the wheat from the chaff. It exposes a singer for what they really are--good, bad, or anything in between. This album in particular is nothing short of a great party record. Sam Cooke is like Bobby Brown in his heyday to the tenth power. He's soulful, irreverent, and, at times, downright lewd in a 1960's version of the Bobby Brown/Jodeci pull-ur-pants-down-while-onstage riff. You hear chicks get hot and bothered and realize at some point, these women are in their 50's, 60's, and maybe 70's now. Some of the people shaking their behinds at this party prolly shake their head in disgust when they hear Gucci Mane nowadays. And to think, Gucci Mane definitely didn't get his start in church.

I'm not here to judge, just putting it out there. Irregardless (yes, irregardless), this is a classic live album of classic soul songs by a classic soul singer. It's timeless work from someone who's time on Earth was far too short. Enjoy.

And here's a mediafire link.

Cuz Phonte Killed It

A-Ha - "Take On Me"

Dr. King would be proud.

Phonte - Take On Me

I Like Them Scandinavian Girls

Ace of Base - "The Sign"

This song was great because, in addition to its inherent musical greatness, there were countless juvenile versions of it sung on playgrounds everywhere to demean social rivals. Swedes are good for something.

Word to Alexandre Dumas

In the spirit of diversity, signaled by the Obama win, and since Real Niggas Light Candles Vol. 2 drops today, I figured I'd keep it "ethnic" and smooth respectively for the Throwback of the Week.

I ain't forget about you

You get 2 for 1 today since I forgot to throw one up last week.

For all the ppl we lost in 07 (and for some comic relief):


Soon you'll understand:

Am I the only one that wouldn't mind it if KP & Envyi made a comeback? And why is "the object of desire" in this video Polow da Don? (Don't believe me? Watch 1:24-1:36 and 2:04-2:25.) And why does Polow da Don look like a member of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony? And why is Envyi such a bad lil white girl, but not in a white girl way, in a black girl way? And why do I keep on asking you questions?

Throwback of the Week

This is for the City. Spring 03 nuckaaaaaaaaz. Why was this video so friggin great? Old folks dancing, white folks dancing, fat folks dancing, philly folks dancing, even Biggs was gettin it in this video. A true classic.

Throwback of the Week

RIP Pimp C

Throwback of the Week

Who else misses the 90's?

It's a crew song

I'm butter right now.

Just discovered that Wale's "Nike Boots" is the iTunes Single of the Week. What that means (outside of the fact that homey is making waves) is that you can download it for free from iTunes. That is, if you didn't download it for free off the blog two months ago.

But even if you did get it, download it off iTunes just for good measure. It's free, and it will help promote an artist with actual talent. Win. Win.

Fuh realz.