Friday Flashback: Jagged Edge "I Gotta Be"

Red deacon suits, check! Butter yellow leather peacoat, check! Floor length white fur coats, check! That's my definition of gangstah, yessir.

Friday Flashback: Bell Biv Devoe "Something In Your Eyes"

"I'll take you to the peak, I'll make you wanna scream, and like a lion you'll hear my body roar and roar and roar and roar and roooooaaaaaaarrrrrr"   Red and black stripped blazer, yellow t-shirt and a lion cub, what!?!?!? 

Friday Flashback: Zhane "Sending My Love"

Friday Flashback: Jodeci "Stay"

"Tonight we can start our love again, tonight we can be more than just friends. The suuuuuuuuuunnnnnnn is going down, so baby won't you stay for a little while!"




A grown ass woman on a rocking horse?!?!!? *Kanye shrug*

Friday Flashback: Lauryn Hill "Sweetest Thing"

Friday Flashback: Jon B "Don't Talk"

Friday Flashback: The System "Don't Disturb This Groove"

Just felt like taking it back to the 80's today.  Enjoy. 

Friday Flashback: Tony Toni Tone "Slow Wine"

This Friday's Flashback is another Bay Area classic.  Off of their 1993 album Sons of Soul, Tony Toni Tone's "Slow Wine" is a nice mellow track that will help you ease out of the stress of the work week and into your weekend. 

Friday Flashback: Maxwell "Fortunate"

Another work week down and I feel fortunate that the weekend is finally here. Enjoy.

Friday Flashback: Digital Underground "Kiss You Back"

This Friday's Flashback is another Bay Area classic by the group Digital Underground.  The video which was shot at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park features a brief cameo from Tupac Shakur at the 4:09 mark. 

Friday Flashback: Guy "Groove Me"

I bet this one use to get the party started back in the days.  So lets use it to get our weekend started. 

Solange performs Groove Theory's "Tell Me"

While attending the a party at the Ace Hotel, Solange Knowles took the stage to perform with the Dirty Projectors.  They did a cover of Groove Theory's 1995 hit "Tell Me".   The party was for the opening of a new store at the Ace Hotel. 

 

Friday Flashback: Les Nubians "Makeda"

This mellow groove seemed like a good way to end the week. 

Friday Flashback: Doc Box & B Fresh - "Slow Love"

Heres a little "Slow Love" to get your weekend started right.

Apache - R.I.P

After a prolonged illness, Flavor Unit rapper, Apache has passed away today (January 22, 2010).  Apache was most notably known for 1992's "Gangsta Bitch".  A song about only wanting to date streetwise women.  Oddly enough, the song which peaked at #11 on Billboard's Hot Rap Singles chart, was produced by A Tribe Called Quest.  Born Anthony Teaks, the New Jersey emcee was one of the three original rappers in Queen Latifah's Flavor Unit.  Apache's appearaces include collaborations with Naughty by Nature, Fat Joe, Tupac, and A Tribe Called Quest.

Condolences are in order for the rapper's family.  May he forever Rest In Peace.

Apache - Gangsta Bitch

Mr. L0c0 | MySpace Video

I apologize for the grainy video but it was the best quality that I could find at the time.

Yay Area Ol' Skool Classic (Bay Area Stand Up!)

Okay, I’m going to need you to trust me on this one. This song is the ish, for real! Being a native Bay Area resident, I have a certain affinity for anything that relates directly to the Bay.

Journey is a rock band that was formed in San Francisco by former members of the group, Santana. Their song “Lights” is an old school classic about returning home to San Francisco as the night ends and a new day begins. The song was originally written to be about L.A. but singer/songwriter Steve Perry didn’t like the way the song sounded at the time. So the song sat in the corner, it wasn’t until Perry joined the group and moved to San Francisco that he felt the song would work. The singer has been quoted as saying “The bay' fit so nice” and “It was one of those early morning going across the bridge things when the sun was coming up and the lights were going down. It was perfect.” [source]

If you are a night owl, like myself, then you will definitely be able to appreciate this song. You don’t have to be from the Bay Area to develop a liking for this song. You can be from anywhere and still have an appreciation for these lyrics. The next time you are up late because time has slipped past you and you notice the sun rising, take a minute to put this song on and enjoy the sunrise. Trust me; you’ll thank me for it later.


Today also happens to be band member Steve Perry's Birthday.  Happy Birthday from Everything will be Everything.

R.I.P. - Teddy Pendergrass

At the age of 59, soul singer, Teddy Pendergrass has passed away. Affectionately known as "Teddy Bear" to the thousands of female fans who adored him. As one of the leading male sex symbols of his early career, the singer gained a reputation for his forceful, masculine voice and passionate love ballads. Pendergrass became one of the most successful male soul singers of the 70's and early 80's. The five-time Grammy-nominated singer had chart-topping hits in three different decades with 1978’s “Close the Door,” 1988’s “Joy” and 1991’s “It Should’ve Been You,” plus well-known songs like “Love TKO,” “Two Hearts” with Stephanie Mills and “Hold Me,” a duet with Whitney Houston that was featured on Houston’s 1985 debut album. Pendergrass began his career as lead singer of the Philadelphia soul group Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes. He sung the lead on their Number One hit “If You Don’t Know Me By Now”. He would later leave the group to embark on his own solo career. Pendergrass’ rise to international fame was briefly halted after he was involved in a 1982 car crash that left him in the hospital for six months and paralyzed from the waist down, but he didn’t let the accident prevent him from making music.

His music will live on in the hearts and souls of his many fans.


March 26, 1950 – January 13, 2010