{"id":505,"date":"2018-06-06T20:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T20:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hewayasin.com\/buckstop\/?p=505"},"modified":"2018-06-06T23:05:29","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T23:05:29","slug":"smoke-mirrors-june-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hewayasin.com\/buckstop\/2018\/06\/06\/smoke-mirrors-june-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoke &#038; Mirrors, June: I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s crazy to think that we&#8217;re almost half way through the year! I don&#8217;t know about you but it&#8217;s been a good journey for me so far, and with a little bit more resilience and luck (!) we can make it great. If you&#8217;re like me, you need good energy and vibes to carry out the mission. And that brings us to another &#8216;<i>Smoke &#038; Mirrors<\/i>&#8216;. I can&#8217;t thank you enough for your love and support since we started this series and I&#8217;m confident I won&#8217;t disappoint with this latest edition. Go on and press play; if you get a chance, do check the new A$AP Rocky album (<u>TESTING<\/u>); and I got four artists for you to Google: Adekunle Gold, Kuvie, Magnom and Mozzy.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re new to this, every week, I try to put together songs that push the envelope, that are dope and that have lots of replay value. Let these joints make your commute smooth and rock you into reflection and meditation. As always, I&#8217;ll be back next week.<\/p>\n<p>[tabby title=&#8221;The Playlist&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Pick your preferred platform:<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-style: none; width: 100%;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\" border-style: none;\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/ng\/playlist\/smoke-x-mirrors-june-i\/pl.u-06oxvLguW08N09N\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"648\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.hewayasin.com\/buckstop\/2018\/01\/04\/teintee-africaine-3-soiree\/apple-music\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hewayasin.com\/buckstop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/apple-music.png?fit=256%2C256&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"256,256\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/dj5fold\/playlist\/5fTayVkK1Psb8IPipEvr83\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"654\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.hewayasin.com\/buckstop\/2018\/01\/04\/teintee-africaine-3-soiree\/spotify\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hewayasin.com\/buckstop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/spotify.png?fit=256%2C256&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"256,256\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"spotify\" data-image-description=\"\" 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below:<\/u><\/b><br \/>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/play.soundsgood.co\/embed\/5b185ceaa39066594f85b5bc?color=082c3c&amp;hideTitle=1&amp;hideCurator=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[tabby title=&#8221;The Tracklist&#8221;]<br \/>\n01. Kuvie ::: Groovy (Celebrate) (feat. KwakuBs)<br \/>\n02. J Hus ::: Dancing Man<br \/>\n03. Anderson .Paak ::: &#8216;Til It&#8217;s Over<br \/>\n04. Wale ::: Cassius (Excellency) (feat. DJ Money)<br \/>\n05. Magnom ::: Dont Worry (feat. Charly Na Nina &#038; B4Bonah)<br \/>\n06. CeeLo Green ::: Brick Road<br \/>\n07. Kanye West ::: Violent Crimes (feat. Dej Loaf, Nicki Minaj &#038; Willow Smith)<br \/>\n08. A$AP Rocky :::: A$AP Forever (feat. Moby, T.I. &#038; Kid Cudi)<br \/>\n09. Mozzy ::: Tomorrow Ain&#8217;t Promised (feat. Rexx Life Raj, Boosie Badazz &#038; E Mozzy)<br \/>\n10. WavyTheCreator ::: H.I.G.H. (Her In Greater Heights)<br \/>\n11. Adekunle Gold ::: Down With You (feat. Dyo)<br \/>\n12. DJ Megan Ryte ::: On &#038; On (feat. Tory Lanez &#038; HoodCelebrityy)<br \/>\n13. Magnom ::: Spoil Der<br \/>\n14. Kanye West ::: All Mine (feat. Ty Dolla $ign &#038; Valee)<br \/>\n[tabbyending]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s crazy to think that we&#8217;re almost half way through the year! I don&#8217;t know about you but it&#8217;s been a good journey for me so far, and with a little bit more resilience and luck (!) we can make it great. If you&#8217;re like me, you need good energy and vibes to carry out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[193],"tags":[205,1322,764,209,2273,1553,2270,344,2271,2269,2272,2274,1140,1111,588,571,2268,1385,210,1722,1387,270,710,561,446,634,1381,590,1853,2275],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smoke-x-mirrors","tag-aap-rocky","tag-adekunle-gold","tag-anderson-paak","tag-b4bonah","tag-boosie-badazz","tag-ceelo-green","tag-charly-na-nina","tag-dej-loaf","tag-dj-megan-ryte","tag-dj-money","tag-dyo","tag-e-mozzy","tag-hoodcelebrityy","tag-j-hus","tag-kanye-west","tag-kid-cudi","tag-kuvie","tag-kwakubs","tag-magnom","tag-moby","tag-mozzy","tag-nicki-minaj","tag-rexx-life-raj","tag-t-i","tag-tory-lanez","tag-ty-dolla-ign","tag-valee","tag-wale","tag-wavythecreator","tag-willow-smith"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Smoke &amp; Mirrors, June: I - The Buck Stop<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hewayasin.com\/buckstop\/2018\/06\/06\/smoke-mirrors-june-i\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Smoke &amp; Mirrors, June: I - The Buck Stop\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It&#8217;s crazy to think that we&#8217;re almost half way through the year! 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