Soulful Sunday

I'm finally back with another Soulful Sunday after a long hiatus from doing this and I have to say I miss doing it so I decided to up a mini-mixture of songs I've been listening to lately. Anytime I put together a collection of songs I have to first ask myself, would I download this and the answer this time at least a resounding yes. These are quality songs from quality artists and it's the best 30 MB that you could possibly take up from your computer's free space. Trust me.

Musiq Soulchild - Millionaire
Eric Roberson - Def Ears
Bahamadia Ft. Dwele - Philadelphia
N'Dea Davenport - Whatever You Want
Crustation - Purple(Jay Dee Remix)
Erykah Badu - Times A Wastin
Blackstreet - Before I Let Yo
R.Kelly - When A Womans Fed Up

Download HERE

Aural Pleasure

I'm switching up things a little bit today and uploading some of my favorite Alternative songs. I mostly only drop R&B around these parts but this is good music too and I'd be remiss in my duties if I didn't show my versatility here.
Once again, if you trust my judgment than take the trip with me on these and download and enjoy, if not, come back later and I'm going to post something funny that we can all enjoy.

*Angela McCluskey - Don't Look Back
*Cat Power - I've Been Thinking
Portishead - Sour Times
Deborah Anderson - Stop Running Away
*Massive Attack - Black Milk

* denotes that I guarantee you'll like them if you like Hip-Hop

Soulful Sunday

I absolutely love this picture and it's underlying symbols

• There's Barack draped in black driving the establishment back on it's heels as represented by the white guy, lol. *
• The white guy's awkward facial expression conveying the unease deeply seeded within the establishment as Barack moves towards his goal.
• There's the basketball itself, red, white and blue in the momentary possession of Obama as he literally has it in the palm of his hands.

Powerful.

Just as the picture doesn't necessarily lead on the outcome of this play, we're left to ponder the impending resolution like Tony Soprano looking up as the screen cuts to black abruptly.

I'm proud either way.


Anyway....It's Easter. Dinner calls and I don't plan to leave him on hold for long.

Jill Scott - Crown Royal (Bonus Track)
Jill Scott - Come See Me
Roy Ayers - Gotta Find a Lover
New Birth - It's Been Such a Long Time

Enjoy.

*Note: I'm not characterizing the white guy as evil at all, just saying he fits the demographic of "the establishment". I know it's like picking low hanging fruit "to go there" but I'm gonna go ahead and run with that*

{How awesome is it that the next president of the United States of America wears Jordans?}

Every word of this is for you

In the history of the story of mankind, you may not be a sentence, a word, even a letter but in the history of my life you're probably a third of the book if not more; you're several discontinuing chapters but pieces of a much larger narrative for which my life story couldn't be possible in the absence of...

D'angelo - When We Get By
Erykah Badu Live - Searching
Pharrell f/ Snoop & Charlie Wilson (Questlove Remix) - That Girl
Pharrell - Take It Off (Questlove Remix)
Floetry Live - Say Yes

What Does Winning Look Like?

Simple question.

Would winning quantify as having her up under your arm piece?

LOL, cheap way of injecting more Amanda Diva into a post. I know. But I promised more a while back and you'll find I keep my word when I can. And to answer my own question, this is most definitely winning. If you're at a BlackJack table and you look down at a hand that even somewhat resembles an Amanda Diva, you push all your chips to the middle of the table. It's a No-Brainer.

Can winning be born out of bringing great music to people who might otherwise have missed it?

Azur ft. D'angelo - Love Is So Cold
Lauryn Hill - Just Like Water
Blulight - Sex Is On My Mind
V- Pretty Baby

I'd like to think so or else I've been wasting my damn time. LOL



Perhaps these points are contentious but what isn't contentious is what winning is not. Winning is not fracturing the party in a year where losing shouldn't even be a considerable option for the Democrats just for the sake of winning the party nomination only to ultimately lose the battle versus John McCain in November. Winning is not conceding the black vote to Obama and then allowing surrogates to plant the seed of an imaginary racial choice to the remaining 70% white vote and appeal to the tribal divides of people to cut into Obama's vote because all other measure's have failed. Winning is not allowing for this kind of divisive tool to be waged by people who represent you and then not publicly disavowing this kind of talk until you've garnished full advantage of it's racial benefits after two days and the news tide is now calling you out on it. No that is not winning, it's not even gamesmanship. It's something more sinister that can't even be recognized as within the rulebook of any sport. While it's indiscernible that the Clintons are not racists it's clear that they'll use whatever combination they can use to open Obama's safe and subtract from his flock, even if this includes imploring racial quotients.

This is not winning. This is losing and not having the decency or honor to concede the contest before the score chimes in with the buzzer at the end of the game. This is looking up and realizing the deficit is too large to overcome and the opponent is moving to the next round of the playoffs but you're deadset on a few dirty plays here and there, venting your frustration. This is maybe injuring a player or two from the team in a way of saying if I'm going down I'm taking you with me.

This is not what winning looks like. John McCain is winning and if John McCain is losing, what is undeniable is we're losing.

In the meantime, in between time....

Some good music to get you through your mid-weeks.

Erik Robertson feat. Algebra Blessett - Iluv2much
(Please please don't sleep because you don't recognize the name. The song is crazy! Give it a listen)
Raheem DeVaughn - You
Jon B. - What In The World
Gil Scott Heron - We Almost Lost Detroit
Gil Scott Heron - Peace Go With You Brother
Jack Herrera - For You
(Jon B's Group, him on the main vocals. Good shit)
As always these are just samples and here at HAWO we ask that you look into supporting these artists and buy the accompanying albums.