Yesterday on Breakdown FM heard weekly on All Day Play (ADP), we took it there with a nice soul mix.. Many of y’all like to call the music we rocked, Neo-soul, but I’m gonna honor the wishes of artists like Erykah Badu who insists that we not separate what she and others do from the cannon of soul..
So what was rocked yesterday was a retro mix with everyone from Rapahel Saadiq to Q-Tip and Janet Jackson to Mary J Blige w/ Smif & Wessun.. all coming across my turntables.
Do U Wanna Soul-Clap?.. That’s the theme of the mix.. How can you not when what we drop is so funky.. Enjoy
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http://www.alldayplay.fm/episodes/episode-87-12
01-Rakim ‘Remember That’
02-Alicia Keyes ‘ If I Was Your Woman’
03-Malcolm X America Doesn’t Love Us’
04-Janet Jackson w/ Q-Tip Till Its Gone”
05-Davina ‘You and Me’
06-Sunshine Anderson ‘Lunch and Dinner’
07-Mary J Blige ‘I Love You w/ Smif and Wesson’
08- Akrobatik ‘Remind My Soul ‘ Jesse Jackson remix
09-Erykah Badu ‘Otherside of the Game’
10-Eric B & Rakim I Got Soul ‘Neo soul remix’
11-Rashann Patterson ‘I’m Trying to Get Into You’
12-Mantronix ‘Gotta Lotta Love’
13-Rebirth The Movement’
14-Blackalicious First in Flight’ Eldrigfe Clever Mix)
15- Rapahel Saadiq ‘Never felt this Way’
16-Joi I’m Not Gonna Be Weak’
01-Raphael Saadiq ‘Tic Toc
02- If I let You take Me Home
03-Sunshine Anderson ‘I Heard It all Before’
04-Clipse ‘Everyday Made It’
05-Raphael Saadiq w/ Q-Tip
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Dear LA Laker Haters
Look at Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King.. History shows that there was a point in time when everyone was against him. They didn’t think he could get the Civil Rights Bill passed.. Many of you if, you was alive when MLK was trying to make it happen, would’ve been skeptical and straight up naysayers as you are with the Lakers..
Lastly, all of y’all know the story of Detroit Red.. a former petty thief, a hustler, a pimp.. Through the grace of God, some hard work and a willingness to make you believe when all doubted, Detroit Red went on to become Malcolm X aka El Haj Malik Shabazz.. A leader for his people..Malcolm made you proud.. The Lakers my friend is the Detroit Red of today.. The Lakers will rise up like and help the people see another way.. They will make you proud..As Malcolm explained. There’s a worldwide revolution going on.. everyone is coming together.. for the Lakers..In the words of Chuck D.. ‘Make way for the Bumrush’!
We did our thing the other day on 
Today is International Women’s Day and so we went digging to pull out a few Hip Hop videos that speak to empowerment and social justice.. Many of them are all but forgotten so we thought we’d revise some fond memories.. First up is Queen Latifah and Monie Love their classic song Ladies First…
Many forgot that author / activist Sista Souljah teamed up with Public Enemy and the Bomb Squad to do an album.. Her first single Slavery is Back in Effect warned us to be careful with the way society was moving in terms of harsh legilsation being passed. If we’re not careful we may wake up and find that slavery had returned. In this song The Hate That hate Produced, Souljah’s flows over a slamming beat and reminds us that she is not here to make white folks feel comfortable. She’s here to challenge the system. I wish they had a video of the song she did with ice Cube..
Many of us know X-Clan via Brother J, Paradise and the late Sugar Shaft and Professor X. We forget that they had two dope female emcees who did full length albums.. Isis now known as Linque and Queen Mother Rage were absolutely dope and sadly overshadowed by label politics which led to lousy promotion. The imagery X-Clan put forth was always uplifting, reminding us we are descendents of Kings and Queens.
Poetic Pilgrimage is a group everyone needs to know.. talk about having dope flows.. My favorite song from them is Freedom.. definition of a Pilgrim is also nice.. I went with this video because of the subject matter, oppression in Palestine, but to be honest damn near anything by them hits..
Can you really go wrong with Lauryn Hill, especially when she dropped the landmark album Mis Education of Lauryn Hill? This is a classic jam
As we celebrate International Women’s Day we should note that the war on women continues in a very real way…Whether its one out of three women globally being sexually assaulted, an uptick in human trafficking, or sitting senators and congressmen resolute in their opposition to the Violence Against Women Act or locally where we see a brutish private security guard tossing an 82 year old Black woman off a train because she was singing gospel hymns ‘too loud’..
This is a pretty good interview w/ Snoop Dogg done by the homie DJ Skee.. Here snoop talks about his transition from Snoop Dogg to Snoop Lion.. He talks about the life circumstances that led to him digging reggae. Snoop explains he’s long wanted to express himself in a variety of ways including wanting to sing..He also notes that he’s become more spiritually grounded..He now puts family first and music second.. It took a while for him to evolve to that mindset..