Feel Good Music: Episodes
<img src="http://dwil2750.podOmatic.com/mymedia/thumb/1109489/0x0_1486878.jpg" alt="itunes pic" /><br />It isn't often that you run into a rapper from a foreign land who discusses the pride and perils of his country through music. For those who don't know, Somalia is a northeastern African nation in ...
<img src="http://dwil2750.podOmatic.com/mymedia/thumb/1109489/0x0_1403948.jpg" alt="itunes pic" /><br />It snowed tonight. I'm not sure whether this is a good or a bad thing.
<img src="http://dwil2750.podOmatic.com/mymedia/thumb/1109489/0x0_1398828.jpg" alt="itunes pic" /><br />Common and (autotune-less) Kanye with Neptunes production on the same track = instant classic. Even though I already have half the tracks, I CAN'T WAIT for Invincible Summer/Universal Mind Control.
<img src="http://dwil2750.podOmatic.com/mymedia/thumb/1109489/0x0_1398784.jpg" alt="itunes pic" /><br />I don't know who Fki is, but he's in the same group as Mickey Factz so he must be good. This song is so catchy and combines a couple of beats I'm really into so this gets an emphatic thumbs up. Watch ...
<img src="http://dwil2750.podOmatic.com/mymedia/thumb/1109489/0x0_1398760.png" alt="itunes pic" /><br />Seeing as this is the first election I voted in and the first time I've been reading the politics section in the NYT daily, I must say Obama has invigorated the youth in this country. Here is a selection ...
<img src="http://dwil2750.podOmatic.com/mymedia/thumb/1109489/0x0_1398724.jpg" alt="itunes pic" /><br />What club music should be...but alas.
<img src="http://dwil2750.podOmatic.com/mymedia/thumb/1109489/0x0_1398704.jpg" alt="itunes pic" /><br />This song has this strange combination of indie singing on a hip hop beat, but I like it. It seems fitting then that Koushik's album "Out My Window" was published by Stones Throw, a record company ...
<img src="http://dwil2750.podOmatic.com/mymedia/thumb/1109489/0x0_1358406.png" alt="itunes pic" /><br />Let's take it back to some real hip hop. I wouldn't call this song "feel good" music, but Jay Electronica spits some lyrical prose that I can't pass up. For those of you who don't know about this ...
<img src="http://dwil2750.podOmatic.com/mymedia/thumb/1109489/0x0_1352890.jpg" alt="itunes pic" /><br />The producer mastermind behind a lot of well-known sounds, check out 88-Keys' first LP "The Death of Adam"
<img src="http://dwil2750.podOmatic.com/mymedia/thumb/1109489/0x0_1340147.jpg" alt="itunes pic" /><br />I thought this guy was a rapper but he can sing too. It doesn't hurt to know some Spanish to appreciate this song. Beautiful music is beautiful music.
Who woulda thought the Presidency would be such a hot topic in hip hop. Obama '08
<img src="http://dwil2750.podOmatic.com/mymedia/thumb/1109489/0x0_1331325.jpg" alt="itunes pic" /><br />James Yancey's little brother is coming out with an album on the 4th called Yancey Boys. The album uses Illa J verses over Dilla tracks...not a bad combination if you ask me
<img src="http://dwil2750.podOmatic.com/mymedia/thumb/1109489/0x0_1319189.jpg" alt="itunes pic" /><br />Q-Tip is coming with a new album a week from now called The Renaissance. The former A Tribe Called Quest only has one official released solo album but has quite a resume to back him up. I've heard ...
<img src="http://dwil2750.podOmatic.com/mymedia/thumb/1109489/0x0_1300315.jpg" alt="itunes pic" /><br />2008 MTV Breakout hip hop group U-N-I gives a tribute to hip hop pioneer De La Soul with their own rendition of Stakes is high. De La's original was a classic, a 5-star track on my iPod.
<img src="http://dwil2750.podOmatic.com/mymedia/thumb/1109489/0x0_1300282.jpg" alt="itunes pic" /><br />I'll admit, I haven't heard a damn song Royce Da 5'9" has put out over the years but this one caught my attention. Doesn't hurt to have Primo produce your song, either.
<img src="http://dwil2750.podOmatic.com/mymedia/thumb/1109489/0x0_1293230.jpg" alt="itunes pic" /><br />From their mixtape Red and Purple vol. 1, Proton has a unique blend of hip hop, techno, and various other types of music. I guess you could call it hipster, whatever, enjoy.
<img src="http://dwil2750.podOmatic.com/mymedia/thumb/1109489/0x0_1290891.jpg" alt="itunes pic" /><br />Any song with Phonte featured on the song immediately earns iPod status for me. This song is just beautiful to me.
<img src="http://dwil2750.podOmatic.com/mymedia/thumb/1109489/0x0_1277191.jpg" alt="itunes pic" /><br />Talib rocked the place last night at WashU for WILD. Anyone who was there can attest to that. Here's a new joint with Talib and French producer Dela. Dela came out with the critically-acclaimed mixtape ...
<img src="http://dwil2750.podOmatic.com/mymedia/thumb/1109489/0x0_1272786.jpg" alt="itunes pic" /><br />Here's an unreleased track from MC of the Bay Area's Crown City Rockers. This song is smooth "like the hot butter on the popcorn."
<img src="http://dwil2750.podOmatic.com/mymedia/thumb/1109489/0x0_1272764.jpg" alt="itunes pic" /><br />Phonte and Nicolay are back at it again, this time with a soulful LP called Leave It All Behind. This album is surely different than The Foreign Exchange's first one (most notably with the lack of ...