Terry Huff and Special Delivery’s I Destroyed Your Love is a great cut from his 1976 record The Lonely One. It’s a bit of a Here, My Dear knockoff with its lyrical and melodic straightforwardness but that’s not a bad thing in the slightest, especially when paired with Terry Huff’s powerful falsetto. Just like an [...]
Much love to those checking benzi box after all these years. Here’s some babymaking music for y’all~
Luke & Q – Give It To You
Minnie Riperton – Inside My Love
Maxwell – Sumthin’ Sumthin’
Don Blackman – Holding You, Loving You
Marvin Gaye – I Want You (Vocal)
Roy Ayers Ubiquity – I Don’t Know How to Love Him
Shuggie Otis – Island Letter
Minnie Riperton – I am the Black Gold of the Sun
Bobby Caldwell – What You Won’t Do For Love
Chuck Jackson – Through All Times
The Sylvers – Cry of a Dreamer
Q-Tip – Do U Dig U
A selection from DJ Max Clazziquai tonight for your enjoyment, named after and heavily featuring the South Korean outfit known as Clazziquai Project.
Electronics has grown to become one of my favorite tracks in the entire series. Watch it played Technika-style here and tell me that doesn’t look like fun. Hard to Start is a [...]
Minnie Riperton – Inside My Love (3:10)
A Tribe Called Quest – Lyrics To Go
I can’t pick my favorite between these two songs. Isley Brothers for the headphones, Ice Cube for the car maybe.
Ice Cube – It Was A Good Day
The Isley Brothers – Footsteps in the Dark (Parts 1&2)
Since it’s founding in 1996 by DJ/Producer Peanut Butter Wolf, Stones Throw Records has been a reliable source for druggy underground hip hop and soul that’s worth checking out. And their latest artist who has been getting the big ol’ marketing push, Mayer Hawthorne, does not disappoint. His shimmering brand of highly influenced but highly [...]
This one isn’t really a sample per se, but it’s something I picked up while listening to Donny Hathaway’s classic Everything is Everything LP today. That killer hook from T.I.’s What You Know? It’s tucked away inside Hathaway’s bluesy cover of I Believe to My Soul, originally written by Ray Charles. It’s also the same [...]
Michael Jackson – Up Again
Michael Jackson – Johhny Raven
Michael Jackson – Take Me Back
Michael Jackson – Don’t Stop ‘Till You Get Enough (Demo)
Michael Jackson – Workin’ Day and Night (Demo)
The career of a great artist can be an interesting thing, and it can never be fully appeciated until the book is closed. Special characters pop up from time to time throughout music history, talented and popular people whose dizzying heights and horrifying lows are put on display for public consumption, entertainment, and ridicule. Many [...]
