R&Cs: Why You Always Hatin?
I hope this summer has been as great for you as it has been for me. Then again, I always think summers are great because that’s when I celebrate my…
With Africa on My Sleeve
I hope this summer has been as great for you as it has been for me. Then again, I always think summers are great because that’s when I celebrate my…
Don’t sleep on Chromeo. The guys have been bringing on the funk and good vibes for what seems like an eternity and this is no different. Other people you shouldn’t…
Ever since its release, Nipsey’s Victory Lap has been a mainstay in my speakers and headphones. So when one of its standout tracks (“Double Up”) got a video, it was…
Cardi B’s debut album, Invasion of Privacy, has been the gift that has kept on giving hit singles. “Ring”, the fifth one, is a midtempo ballad-ish number with Kehlani that…
Once again, I’ve loaded this ‘Smoke & Mirrors‘ and I did so for several reasons. First of all, it was important for me to close July with a strong showing.…
Once you cross the half century mark, it becomes easier to pull a Danny Glover and disparage the newer crop of artists you didn’t grow up listening to. With Hip-Hop…
We were celebrating Mother’s Day over the past weekend and several apropos songs came out. I find it worth celebrating them and start this with “Woman”, a Juliana Kanyomozi classic…
This playlist has the feel and content of ‘Teintée Africaine‘. (You might remember that we’ve had one of those before.) Maybe the crew conversations unconsciously steered me, maybe it was…
Ycee and Eugy were a couple of the artists that impressed with their debut EPs last year. (As long promised, we’ll be getting into that in the next few days.)…
It gives me great joy and pride to share this new edition of “Teintée Africaine“. As I hinted in the previous run, I went about this differently: I didn’t go…