Digable Planets // Time & Space (A New Refutation Of)
Beats are played on friday to get monday off your chest
Rupee - Tempted to Touch (by Jose Lopez)
I damn near lost my virginity to this song
I don’t understand this song
But this was my jam
I love how the dudes in the background dancing like they had 8 years of theater arts or something…lol… and will smith is so smooth with it.
(Source: bored-im, via country-matters)
Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine are giving $70 million to USC in Los Angeles to establish a four-year undergraduate program for students interested in a mix of the arts, visual design, entrepreneurship, computer science and marketing. The gift will create the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation, with the intention of attracting students “who challenge conventional views of art and industry.”
(via patrickandmarcus)
Janet Jackson
Free Xone
The Velvet Rope
Ina Carter was standing in her kitchen when she first heard the voice. Deep but feminine, it spilled down from the second floor of her Bronzeville house in a rough, powerful wave. It was a grown-up kind of voice, a voice to make you clap your hands and throw back your head. It belonged to her eight-year-old daughter, Mae Ya Ta’Nell Carter Ryan. She was singing a child’s nonsense tune—just a little song she’d made up about how her family loved her. And she was singing the hell out of it.
Carter called her daughter downstairs. “I said, ‘Mae Ya, you can sing!’ And the way she answered me was like, ‘Uh, yes.’”
Mae Ya had asked for voice lessons a year before, but Carter, a busy single mother, hadn’t paid any attention. She was paying it now: “I said, ‘I’ve got to do something about that.’”
Three years later, Mae Ya (whose name rhymes with “hey-uh”) has racked up appearances on WGN, CBS 2 Chicago, and WCIU, as well as on the stages of the Chicago Theatre and the DuSable Museum. The sixth grader belts out, tears into, and soars through the music of the classic performers to whom she’s constantly compared: Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Nina Simone.
(via wrcsolace)
