Avery Sunshine’s unmitigated soul music is part working class memoir, spiritual know-how and the universal fancy with love. The Chester, Pennsylvania native who makes Atlanta her home base quickly draws up comparisons to Jill Scott because of their use of jazzy R&B formations and mundane language poetically elevated by the emotional nuances of their voices. [...]
Sa-Ra’s world of trippy and transcendental R&B seduces the brain with pages from funk’s historical past footnoted with global audio-memories. Om Mas Keith, Taz Arnold and Shafiq Husayn are a singular voice fixated on an axis of cosmic funk, jazz and R&B that makes them mavericks among the scene of dogmatic soulsters. Disparate experiences with [...]
Jean Grae’s terse expressions supplemented by 9th Wonder’s narcotizing beats is the blissfully compatible pairing that is Jeanius. After vexed threats of retirement, previous leaks of the album on the net and obstacles getting samples cleared Jeanius finally received an official release. Grae’s Blacksmith label owner Talib Kweli did what the west coast has done [...]
Generation gaps and genre misunderstandings among baby boomers up to generation Y get cured and cooled out on Unwrapped Vol. 5 The Collipark Cafe Sessions. Sixteen southern hip-hop hits redone as smooth jazz tunes presume a diluting of the style but the contemporary crunk tunes are tapped for their primordial grooves that have elastic appeal.
Once a member of the St.Louis R&B group Soul Tyde Black Spade’s dissonant keyboard pieces from Worrell world, doleful belting and earnest rapping has pulsed since the ’90s. To Serve With Love is his first proper album hip-hop version 3.0 for a prominent triage of soul, R&B and funk that take sonic favor. Rapping in [...]
The west coast king’s 9th album of g-funk is flavored with trips to the ’80′s, vocoders and country music. Snoop has been able to stay in the rap game longer than most by consistent recording and his nonstop execution of the Snoop brand. Snoop’s Crip pride and cavalier drawl has been used to sell everything [...]
