K'naan "Waving Flag"

Mad respect for this artist. Classic song redone for Haiti and as a celebration mix for FIFA World Cup 2010. Enjoy.

My Chick Bad

Luda's new song coulda had a better video. What do y'all think? And Nicki Minaj definitely tryin to hard to be Lady Gaga - like. Still like the song tho. N-JOY

Get 'Em Tiger

I could go on for days about how wrong this situation is... but this song made me laugh for a half a second.

Jill Scott "The Fact Is (I Need You)"

"The Fact Is (I Need You)"

I can pay my own light bill baby

Pump my own gas in my own car

I can buy my own shoe collection

I've been blessed thus far

I can kill the spider above my bed

Although it's hard because I'm scared

I can even stain and polyurethane

But some things just don't change

I need you yeah

Sometimes so hard to say oh

I need you

Some things remain

I could buy my own groceries baby

Get my hair tight, my nails right

I can floss my own bling bling

Write the words to the songs I sing

I can even raise the child we'll make

Make sure he's loved and knows what God gave us

I can teach him how to walk and stand

But he needs you to help him be a man

We need you

So hard to say

We need you

Some things don't change

I could be congresswoman

Or a garbage woman or

Police officer, or a carpenter

I could be a doctor and a lawyer and a mother and a good girl

God what you've done to me

Kind of lover I could be

I could be a computer analyst, the Queen with the nappy hair raising her fist

Or I could be much more and a myriad of this

Hot as the summer, sweet as the first kiss

And even though I can do all these things

I need you

And even though I can do all these things

We need you

We need you

We need you

And even though I can do all these things by my damn self

I need you

I do, I do, I do, I do

And even though I can do all these things

I need you

We need you

We do

We need you yeah

We need you

SOciAl bUTteRfLy

Love the lyrics and his voice on this

When Did You First Fall In Love With Hip Hop?

Wanna hear it? Hear it go LOLOLOL  

1. early days r kinda foggy but i loved miss jackson, KRS, NWA... yup had to sneak that one (Boyz n the Hood), and LL (Mama said knock u out)... played super mario brothers listenin to it. hahaha  

2. listening to Hot103 Jamz "hot 8 at 8" and "the quiet storm"... catchin a lot of sh*t for it in jr high n HS when alternative was the "in" thing  

3. again my soph yr of HS when ALL EYES ON ME came out... i remember the moment i first heard it in a hotel room in San Diego  

4. Renee by the Lost Boyz and the whole Legal Drug money album  

5. again when i studied in Italy and watched a whole new game of bboy dancin 

6. Kelis' Caught Out There played all over Europe  

7. at my first MJB concert and when her album No More Drama came out i know many ppl including myself felt her  

8. singing Wyclef and Akons songs with my boys in Haiti  

9. when i heard Rakim's voice once again this yr w his joint Holy Are You  

10. today when i heard Jay's Empire State of Mind n it gave me the chills AGAIN thinkin memories of NYC and when one day i will take my son there  

Hip Hop may be one of the best relationships for me bc i continue to fall in love with it all the time :)

When did YOU first fall in love with Hip Hop???

Ghetto Gospel

this is an old one but i'm feelin it today and wanted to share...

Kseniya Simonova - Sand Animation

while i was out of town in Guatemala my dad sent me this video via fb. i couldn't view it there, but once i got home i watched it in amazement... beginning to end... and my attention span isn't always long ;-) she is truly talented!

JAYs new TVspot & VID

The ad is creative reinacting his old album covers

And these ARTISTS are FIERCE

Rakim... the real deal

really really feelin this joint today... THIS is a lyrical genius.

epic track despite - or rather partly as a result of - its jarring blasphemy... some say he's just using clever wordplay. as far as i know Ra is a 5 percenter. it's not christian doctorine, but the history is intriguing. it's too bad a legend like Ra doesn't have a message that i desire to spread. at best the words will spur us on to think and reflect on the deeper meaning. but at the end of the day let's remember there is only one god.