Bill Withers is so relatively unsung.
He moved to L.A. to start a music career in his 30s, and it worked. LISTEN…
Here are the lyrics…
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Category: Writtens
Lovely Music
This week, you get lovely sounds of Andrae Van Buren,
Porsche Smith and more…
Ephesians 6:12
“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.”
The struggle continues (dap)
Still Standing
Music by Grimy Styles, lyrics by Chalie Boy and such
[ The Backroom, South by Southwest Music Conference, Austin, TX 2006 ]
Embrace my versatility, to face what the world instills in me
Try not to lose my identity in the process, while it’s not yet killing me
Got knocked unconscious
But I somehow just revived with revised, like, strength in my Levi’s…
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Da’Shade Moonbeam
One of the most talented men on Earth, no exaggeration.
Poet, Emcee, Capoierista, Leader, Minister, Social Worker, Real Guy…
I was honored to have him do the intro for our MLK Fest set, where he performed “Let This Be the Beginning”. That is only one of many moving spoken word pieces and songs Da’Shade has offered to the world, with astounding response as usual.
So here’s another one, a new snippet of a song I used to play on “Bavu’s Revue” in 2009. Da’Shade has gone multimedia, and is obviously warming up his camera… I presume this is, y’know, The Beginning!
We featured his group, Blacklisted Individuals, and another one of their songs, “Dance Sucka“, on the Blogs last year. Expect more to come (dap).
Plain English
For Your Information… Love Is…
My Bday gift to you
As sure as my mama is laying on my couch right now (and my baby sis), and as sure as I had a refreshing week in the Bahamas and Miami… here comes my gift to the world.
I want to give you these 13 tunes for Labor Day. It’s the day mama went in to labor, and I showed up. So with no further typing about it, I present to you the Channel One LP on the house, plairs.
Download it, jam it, lemme know what you think. I will not be on Facebook, Twitter, etc., after another 26 hours. I won’t be there; I’ll be here. Rest assured that I’ve got everything I need. I got that. Peace.
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