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Enjoy this song, it's starting to become one of my favs!

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Mt. Vernon, New Yorkers Pete Rock (a producer/DJ) and rapper C.L. Smooth emerged in 1992 as both a powerhouse performance duo and as prolific producers. Their 1992 album Mecca and the Soul Brother was a hip-hop classic with great cuts including "They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)" and "Straighten It Out."

Their signature hit was “They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)”, a dirge for fallen friends--namely Troy "Trouble T-Roy" Dixon, a member of Heavy D & The Boyz, who died in 1990. Separating in 1995 (shortly after a well-received Sprite TV commercial), they eventually reunited on a handful of cuts from Pete Rock’s solo recordings: Soul Survivor (1998), PeteStrumentals (2001) and Soul Survivor II (2004). They also went on a brief reunion tour as a warm up for their then-anticipated new album, which ended with a show at London's famous Jazz Cafe. Despite these intermittent collaborations, the pair has exchanged dismissive comments toward each other in separate interviews, disavowing plans for a full-fledged reunion.

Source: Yahoo/Wikipedia

Enjoy this flashback video of one of my favorite songs free image hosting

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Finally! Here's another new LTL with Monica! For those of you that don't know, LTL is provided by the one and only Jermaine Dupri & the rest of the Ocean's. I'm a loyal lifer so to see Monica on there was pretty cool! I loves some Mo...

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Liked:

How she really got into the dancing in chorus parts and was that a Michael Jackson kick towards the end?

Disliked:

Just about the whole video. I really think she could have done something big with this song and made it into a mini-story to create some effect. The dance moves weren't all that great to me only because Beyonce and Ciara have been doing so many similar things this past year.

Rating:

It's really simple and has the same concept as far as keeping Beyonce with 2 dancers as the main focus of the video. Overall, since I'm a huge Beyonce fan and this is my favorite song off her album...besides Radio...she did okay with this video. This album seems somewhat off when it comes to videos because B'Day really had some great ones compared to the crap we've been getting (see Ego, SMH).

3 out of 5

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My thoughts:

I'm am a passionate fan of Maxwell so this review will definitely be heartfelt and straight to the truth. I must say that listening to a sample of the songs a few weeks ago and seeing him perform on the BET Awards, left me eagerly anticipating his album release.

This entire album is worthy of listening through its entirety and I'm told it's part of a trilogy so we've got more coming. The 10 piece band has a tremendous effect on the emotion that comes from the lyrics. I've read some reviews and disagree for the most part that this album is not as good as his debut. I still think that BLACKsummer's night holds its own in a time where soulful music is becoming irrelevant & non-existent next to souped up studio effects & voices. Maxwell is one of few that can sing live and deliver the same as on his album.

My Favorites:

"Pretty Wing's" was the first single released off the album and is such as a pretty and touching song. It speaks on letting someone go because it's the wrong time. The commanding instruments in "Help Somebody" is as expressive as the lyrics of the song to help and reach out to someone next to you. The music is riveting and connects with your mind, body, and soul all at the same time so I can't imagine what it would be to hear this one live. "Cold" starts off with the bass guitar and intro of other instruments in a melodic blend with Maxwell's crooning....yes it's a winner...enough said!

Conclude:

Overall, this CD should be Number 1 in my opinion. This is one man that is still singing music from the heart that's worth putting on replay. All the while- still giving you an album to satisfy our craving of his music since being from the scene for nearly 8 years. I'm so ecstatic to have been able to add this to my collection. I didn't realize how tired I had grown of hearing studio beats coupled with autotunes to drag out the song. This is real music and this is what we should be demanding...timeless music that every age, every person can enjoy! My goal is to see him live and trust I will one day so I will see you soon Maxwell. Enjoy

5 out of 5

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WE LOVE YOU MICHAEL JACKSON!

We're paying tribute to the greatest of all time, Michael Joseph Jackson, today as the memorial service is going on right now as I type in L.A. His death has had an mpact on people around the world and it's brings to light what type of effect he had on people and how truly talented he was.

I'll be posting a link later today with some highlights as soon as they are available.

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Here's Drake's new video for his hit song (without an album out is amazing)"Best I Ever Had". This was directed by no other than Kanye West so I'm interested to see what he did. My commentary will be underneath. Let me know what you think also.



--The excessive T&A (tits & azz for those that don't know!) bouncing throughout the video is exactly why I don't let my son watch music videos, well unless I've seen them and gave the okay.

--The video didn't really match with the song. I think the concept was funny so I'll give Ye' some credit for that but I was hoping for more.

--Obviously, there weren't any darker skinned women of color on there which was a point brought up by someone else who watched the video. I'll touch on the video models subject later though.

Overall, I think the video could have been better. I'm so tired of seeing half naked women, of any color, plastered all over music videos. What happened to being creative? I really thought Kanye would have brought it with this one since he's usually pretty out of the box with his own. I did think that towards the end the video was funny and had me laughing a little.

Rating: 2.5 out of 5