Classic R+B, Soul, Hip-Hop, etc

[Tofali]

I never get tired of this

[ed2962]

Guilty pleasure track...

[ed2962]

Sly was a lot more revolutionary than a lot of people give him credit for. In a lot of ways he was a game changer. The sound of his music, the look of his group, the fact that it was an interracial band...



Prince doesn't exist without Sly

[Iron_Legion87]

I never get tired of this

Same here! It's one of the songs that is constantly played in my iTunes playlist lol.

[Surf]

This is a James Brown performance my father told me about when I was a boy. I was stunned to find it lo these many years later, but it shows so much of what made James JAMES.

+1 to Dad, thank you for this.
Without question James Brown is my favorite entertainer of all time.

[ed2962]

Martin Scorsese directed this video. Yes that Scorsese...Mean Streets, Goodfellas, Taxi Driver etc. What I didn't know until a couple years ago was that the little mini film that precedes the music was scripted by Richard Price who wrote the novel "Clockers" which was turned into a film directed by Spike Lee.

[ed2962]

New Edition is pretty much ground zero for a generation of boy bands. The Jackson five are like E=mc2 and NW is Oppenheimer.



From what I understand is that NW fired their manager and he deliberately said, "I'll show you, I'll start a white group!" And that's how we got New Kids On the Block.

[ed2962]

I know I can't be the only person on this thread that likes "old" Alicia Keys...

[jeanvaljean]

[Mormel]

New Edition is pretty much ground zero for a generation of boy bands. The Jackson five are like E=mc2 and NW is Oppenheimer.

>snip<

From what I understand is that NW fired their manager and he deliberately said, "I'll show you, I'll start a white group!" And that's how we got New Kids On the Block.

I really like their 1996 album 'Home Again', especially this song:

[jeanvaljean]

Now playing:

[jeanvaljean]

[Surf]

Part 1 of the New Edition story came on last night. It's pretty good so far, anything with Wood Harris I'm usually into. Part 2 comes on tonight. This is probably my favorite BBD song. 9th grade baby!

I APOLOGIIIZE!!

[Surf]

[From The Shadows]

It Takes Two - Rob Base, DJ EZ Rock