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Aaliyah

These days it seems hard to find a singer that can really express a story through lyrics and give such dynamical thrust to any beat better than Aaliyah Dana Haughton. She is hitting you with the elements. Earth, Wind, Fire, Water, Spirit, Notes, Articulation, Rhythm, Tone, Phrasing, Space... Everything.

Like picture a beat moving in time and at any give moment a singer could lay back on the beat or maybe just sing right in the middle of the beat or maybe give the melody a sense of urgency but singing a little ahead. All of these are effective tools to create certain vibes. Some people only hit you with one of those approaches, she hits you with total command of all three. Not many people can do that. Quincy Jones said that's what was special about Sinatra. Hey, greatness is greatness.

One thing that I am really missing from current R & B or pop singers both male and female, is that ability to sing with just the appropriate amount of vibrato and that naturally warm yet brilliant quality of tone. 
Most singers, they always gotta go G.O.A.T. ;(  

Not Aaliyah. Not ever.

Every note she sings is gold. One of favorite moments are 2:24 in "One in a

Million." Just pure hotness for for example. No one can argue that she is anything but pure heaven to one's ears. Listening to her, It's almost like getting an inner ear massage. Just millions of little atomic Aaliyah vibrations singing to your cilia to life.

 Just how she rides the beat is extremely fly. Revisit "Rock the Boat," it's just so sick. Her ad libs on there are what I'm talking about.

It also must be noted that for for all of the light and beauty that she embodied, their was a darkness to her style and aesthetic, that really dovetails nicely with her gorgeous voice and over all prettiness. Just go back and check out "We Need A Resolution,"

With all that being said, I look forward to releasing an EP of remixes taking some of the songs mentioned above and really exploring some new ways of approaching Aaliyah's music. 

I came wanting to breath new life into her music and guess what?

Mostly, it was her breathing new life into mine. 

RIP Aaliyah. You will be missed

- Love 

The eCussionist

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Lupe Got a Hit?

I am a 50/50 fan of Lupe Fiasco honestly. Yet an MC with his skill set should have produced more hits.   Am I wrong? This time around with "Bitch Bad" I think he is hitting on something big.  The song knocks and the lyrics don't make you more stupid after listening to them.  Sometimes you want to dumb it down and throw back the Reckless Drink of Choice of a Fine Rum and a Coke.  This makes me really think about what hip hop has done to our people.  Reck Nation rock with me on this one.


Lupe Fiasco's "Bitch Bad"





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Lolo the 30 Year Old Virgin?

I had to write something about this and share with my people.



What do I think?

I think that is so beautiful! In a perfect world everyone would be content with the thought of waiting until marriage to do "Make Love", "Get ya swerve on", "Smush", "Do the do" "Pump it" or "Take a ride on that disco stick".  Yet we don't live in a perfect world.  Instead our world is full of sexual images, sex is extremely easy to access and is a mouse click away.  To deny the urge to engage in sexual intercourse until the age of 30 I want to applaud Lolo Jones an American Olympian.  I'm sure she had all types of offers from men.  Shit I mean if I weren't in a relationship and happy I would holla quick.  She's very attractive, by not only societies standards, yet in general.  She seems like a keeper.

Yet, back to the topic at hand 30 and still having your virginity.  She is using the reasoning she wants to give that gift to her husband.  That's an amazing, inexperienced, probably extremely sexually awkward gift that her future husband will get.  Good for him.  As a man the thought of a "Pure" woman is very much so a turn on and then there is the reverse not a turn on.  I want a woman that knows what she is doing! Still I don't want her to be a professional because then you wonder "How much mileage is on your lady?" As a man we all know we really cannot handle the answer to that if you really love the woman your with.  The thought of another man having sex with your woman that you love even years prior or even after her is aggravating to fathom.

Lolo Jones' back story is very deep, she is the true Olympic Dream. Made in America.

No sex in her "Champagne Room" not at all! NO NO NO!
Special thanks HBO Sports & to Lolo Jones and her Virginity keep it boo!


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