Can't Get Enough!!!

So, on Friday, the 13th at exactly midnight, Beyonce' decided to drop an entire visual album. 14 tracks, 17 videos, without any promotion, announcements, hoopla - nothing. I watched as my Twitter timeline went into an absolute FRENZY. Then, I decided to preview the album on Itunes. So, at about 12:23, I was clicking the BUY button on Itunes and watching impatiently as each item downloaded on my iPad.

THIS BITCH RIGHT HERE...

She makes you say things like that, but for this post, I won't get into how much of a masterpiece this body of work is, instead I will focus on her and Jay's ode to their love "Drunk in Love"!

So, this video is set on a beach, at night, it's dark and the beginning with the weird almost creepy intro, makes you think this is going to be some tragic op-art piece. Then that bass line kicks and you realize soon thereafter, that this is almost a ghetto love song. We watch as Beyonce' does every street dance that most hoodrats coast to coast are more than familiar with. However, not to get too caught up in Jay and Bey's PDA, it's the lyrics that make this song a star!

"Can't keep your eyes off my fatty, daddy...I want you"

"We woke up in the kitchen saying how the hell did this shit happen, oh baby"

"Graining on that wood, graining, graining on that wood. I'm swerving on that, swerving, swerving on that big body. Been serving all this...surfing all up in this good, good."

"We be all night...LOOOOOOVE!!!"

"Talking bout you be repping that 3rd. I want to see all of the shit that I heard. No, I clink clink Eastwood, hope you can handle this curve."

"Fourplay in the foyer. Fucked up my Warhol. Slid your panties right to the side, I ain't got the time to take draws off."

"On sight, catch a charge I might, beat the box up like Mike! In 97 I bite. I'm Ike Turner, Turner, baby I don't play. Now eat the cake Anna Mae, said eat the cake Anna Mae!"

Okay, so some of these lyrics may come off as being a bit confusing. But really, Bey and Jay are bragging about their great sex life. After more than ten years together and 5 years married, I can't really hate on that. You really get that sense, when the camera catches the light shining off Jay's Rocafella necklace. Jay rapped: "I got the hottest chick in the game wearing my chain!" The Black Album was released 10 YEARS AGO!!! My how time flies.

They really tried to be subtle. (hee hee) There are plenty of metaphors and double entendre's in this song, but at the end of the day, they are still in love and love expressing how much they still are in love with each other. I can't help but laugh at all of the people who just knew this relationship/marriage/baby was all fake. Let them love. Meanwhile, this mess is on repeat!

HOTNESS: Le Francaise Edition

So here I was just talking to my brother about how I wanted to pick up French again before I completely lose any fluency I had before, and I creep up on this Asian, French, R&B artist: Monsieur Nov! Yes, you heard that right. He's Asian, He's French and sings R&B. This would be real trippy if it weren't for the fact that his songs are completely relatable. You may not be able to understand exactly what he's saying, but this gets a nod in the R&B department from moi, and I don't listen to everybody. Especially when it comes to R&B/Soul.

As if the American R&B market couldn't get any more non-existent, this guy comes along in another country and basically kills it in the language of LOVE!



C'est Magnifique!

Another way you know you've come across something HOT, is when it could be intrepreted in a bad way and you are too busy jamming to it to notice. The name of this song is called: My Hoe, but I was too busy chair dancing at my desk to notice. LOL!

Eargasm: The Stuyvesants!

I've been meaning to post some new music, new producers for a while now, but as usual, duty calls and I haven't had the time. But, The Stuyvesants have been getting HEAVY rotation in my car for months now. I don't usually just listen to beats, but they are so worth several listens. Their sound is very reminiscent of early to mid-90's hip-hop when artists could become big off the beat alone, because it was just that dope!



Right now, my favorite track is without a doubt, "Talking Hears" off of the Finer Things, Vol. 2 mixtape. Their tracks are often featured on YouTube's Black & Sexy TV shows, and it is undisputable why they've chosen them. Honestly, they could save some rap careers. Check it out!

The Old Me is Better than the New Me...

That line was echoed from Drake on his groundbreaking mixtape, "So Far Gone". I believe the facetiousness of that line was to say, he hoped people wouldn't change on him as fame continued to claim him.

Well I'm calling Aubrey out. We didn't change, but you sure did! I somewhat gave him a pass on Thank Me Later, because it's his first album. Now, new tracks are leaking and it's all this 40-produced, melancholy, EMO, girl-why-can't-I-trust-you bullshit! Now let me be honest, Drake was asking that question on his mixtapes, but he did it with (forgive me for using this over-used word) swag! He had a hunger, a killer instinct on a track. He was a rapper, not this constantly emotional lava lounge singer he's turning into now!

I feel like he's turned into the "Can't Buy Me Love" dude, where he's the geek that gets a peek into the cool kids world, but now he can't handle it. He can't keep up the act. If all of those glorious mixtapes were an act, then he's a better actor than I gave him credit for. The best 16 he's done since So Far Gone, were the bars he laid on Kanye's "All of the Lights Remix"! Next thing I know, pictures of he and Rihanna kicking it in T Dot are popping up all over the place, and I realized that Drake is still at that age where he is attracted to destructive chicks. I like Rihanna's style, but it's no secret she's a maneater! Thus, we get songs like "Marvin's Room," and "Trust Issue's". How funny both have to do with the desperation of getting over/past the demons of a woman. He better take a page out of Chris Brown's book (Umm, not the violent one), and chuck up the deuces!

This is a slippery slope for me. I like that he doesn't come off completely misogynistic and whorish like most rappers. Yet, at the same time, he doesn't have to play the crying game either. He needs to find a happy medium. Balance. Hip-hop is already on shaky ground. Too many garbage rappers, with these okey doke, stereotypical raps. I feel like when Drake came along, people put hope in him that he would change the tide. However, there is still a lot of bad music out there, I just don't want him to be a contributor to it.

Listen to Trust Issues here.

New Music - Beyonce!

"IF I WERE A BOY"




"SINGLE LADIES (Put a Ring On It)"



I have to be honest, I wasn't wowed by either track. "If I Were A Boy," is a pop ballad. It has that Irreplaceable feel to it. I imagine, she will blow this live, but I am not sure how urban radio friendly this song will be. "Single Ladies," sounds a lot like Get Me Bodied, but a little more futuristic. It will have to grow on me, but both songs are solid. I guess I am waiting on that "oh yes this is it" track. Haven't heard it yet.

Needless to say, media blogs have had a field day with these singles leaking on the day that Michelle Williams' album came out. Don't know if there is some correlation there, but it makes sense. Her album does come out next month.