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One Love!

Happy Friday, y’all!

While normally heard over the likes of the human beatmachine 9th Wonder, the ever-so-talented Phonte’s kills it while teaming up with producer, Nicolay.

a bit of background for those that care…
These 2 artists got started working together through message boards on Okayplayer.com and began sending music back and forth to each other to collaborate.  They soon formed their duo without ever actually meeting in person, hence the name The Foreign Exchange.  How crazy has the internet made things nowadays?

The Foreign Exchange - All That You Are

Some of Mr. Marley’s finest…

I don’t wanna wait in vain for your love
I don’t wanna wait in vain for your love
From the very first time I rest my eyes on you, girl
My heart says follow through

But I know now that I’m way down on your line,
But the waitin’ feel is fine.
So, don’t treat me like a puppet on a string
‘Cause I know I have to do my thing.
Don’t talk to me as if you think I’m dumb,
I wanna know when you’re gonna come

I don’t wanna wait in vain for your love
I don’t wanna wait in vain for your love
I don’t wanna wait in vain for your love
‘Cause if summer is here, I’m still waitin’ here
Winter is here, and I’m still waiting there.

Like I said:
It’s been three years since I’m knockin’ on your door,
And I still can knock some more
Ooh girl, ooh girl, is it feasible?
I wanna know now, for I to knock some more.

Ya see, in life I know there’s lot’s of grief,
But your love is my relief.
Tears in my eyes burn, tears in my eyes burn
While I’m waiting, while I’m waiting for my turn
See!

I don’t wanna wait in vain for your love 

Pepper - Bring Me Along performed somewhere live.

Dude what a trippy video! Not to spoil it, but Kanye would be hangin’ out all gayly in this! In 2D cmon! hahaha.  Does anyone know who put this video together thougH? Cause this shit is awesome

simply-wonderful:

The FRAY – Heartless from IE HAGY
suh-weet videoo =] me like.

Tribute to the Classics:

Common - The 6th Sense from Like Water for Chocolate (2000)

produced by DJ Premier

So, as I have continued to dig through more of Common’s catalogue, I came across this gem.  I find it interesting to listen to older songs and try to remember how different or indifferent things were at the time they were made.  Last time I already touched base on how I have always appreciated Common’s ability to provoke thought and feeling through his music.  This track is already 10 years old!  It’s especially intriguing to me how relevant this song’s lyrics are despite its age.  The intro “The revolution will not be televised” is in reference to Gil-Scot Heron’s song “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”.  Like Water for Chocolate was an incredible album (The Light is on it as well) and I’m a sucker for lyrics so here they are if you care for them too.

The perseverance of a rebel, I drop heavier levels
It’s unseen or heard, a king with words
Can’t knock the hustle, but I’ve seen street dreams deferred
Dark spots in my mind where the scene occurred

Some say I’m too deep, I’m in too deep to sleep
Through me, Muhammad will forever speak
Greet brothers with handshakes on ghetto landscapes
Where a man is determined by how much a man make

Cop cognacs and spit old raps with young cats
With cigarettes in they ear, niggerish they appear
Under the Fubu is a guru that’s untapped
Want to be in the rat race but ain’t ran one lap

Ran so far from the streets that you can’t come back
You trippin’ with nowhere to unpack, forgot that…

Chorus: (DJ Premier scratching samples from “Memories Are Here to Stay” by The Intruders, and “Allustrious” by Mobb Deep)

In front of two-inch glass and Arabs I order fries
Insipration when i write; I see my daughter’s eyes
I’m the truth, across the table from corporate lies
Immortalized by the realness I bring to it

If Revolution had a movie, I’d be theme music
My music you either: fight, fuck or dream to it
My life is one big rhyme, I try to scheme through it
Through my shell, never knew what the divine would bring through it

I’d be lyin’ if I said I didn’t want millions
More than money saved, I wanna save children
Dealing with alcoholism and afrocentricity
A complex man drawn off of simplicity

Reality is frskin’ me
This industry will make you lose intensity
The Common Sense in me remembers the basement
I’m Morpheus in this hip-hop Matrix, exposing fake shit

Chorus

Somedays I take the L to gel with the real world
Got on at 87th, stopped by this little girl
She recited raps, I forgot where they was from
In em, she was sayin’ how she makes brothers cum

I start thinking, how many souls hip-hop has affected
How many dead folks this art resurrected
How many nations this culture connected
Who am I to judge one’s perspective?

Though some of that shit that y’all pop to it, I ain’t relating
If I don’t like it, I don’t like it, that don’t mean that I’m hating
I just want to innovate, and stimulate minds
Travel the world, and penetrate the times

Escape through rhythms in search of peace and wisdom
Raps and smoke signals let the streets know I’m with em
For now, I appreciate the moment in time
Ball players and actors be knowin’ my rhymes, it’s like…

and you knowww, yes you knowww

2Pac - God Bless the Dead

Israel Kamakawiwo’Ole ‘IZ’ - Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Beautiful World

For anyone who’s lost a friend or family member close to them.

Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)

Live (1984) from “Stop Making Sense” directed by Jonathan Demme

I know the weathers pretty crummy, we had a tornado in Irvine! but hopefully this will cheer somebody up

Tribute to the Classics:

Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel - White Lines (Don’t Do It)

It’s been a while since I heard this one…Perhaps this song would have been better on Friday than Monday…