Nas & Amy Winehouse – Mr. & Mrs. Jones

Terry Urban Presents: Nas x Amy Winehouse – Mr. & Mr. Jones by Okayplayer on Mixcloud

Terry Urban presented this Nas x Amy Winehouse mixtape last week when it premiered on Okayplayer. White House Band rocker David E. Beats produced “Just One Friend” on the 18-track collection.



In 2011 We Said Goodbye

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Gladys Horton founder of Martha & the Vandellas

Marvin Sease X-rated blues singer known for "Candy Licker"

Nate Dogg King of the rap hook


Loleatta Holloway Dance music diva

Jazz poet of the people

Clarence Clemons The Big Man

Amy Winehouse Critically acclaimed and hugely successful Jazz R&B singer

Eugene McDaniels Singer/songwriter famous for writing "Feel Like Makin' Love

Nicholas Ashford One half of famed Singing and songwriting team Ashford and Simpson

Esther Gordy Edwards Mother of Motown

Vesta Williams R&B singer and actress

Sylvia Robinson Co-founder of Sugar Hill Records

Heavy D New Jack Swing pioneer

J. Blackfoot Singer of "Taxi" former member of The Soul Children

Cesaria Evora The Barefoot Diva keeper of Cape Verdan music

Ralph MacDonald Musician and songwriter most famous for co-writing "Where Is The Love"



Kickmag’s 2011 Racist Incidents In Music

Caveat: These incidents are about the institution of whiteness. These are not personal attacks on individuals or so-called “haterade.”

1. All of the accolades heaped on Adele as if Teena Marie never existed. How can it be racist if they both are white? Because Teena Marie's white card was revoked when she refused to sellout and focus on catering to a pop audience. It did not help that she had a personal relationship with Rick James who was a Black man. It is also interesting to know that Adele's music gets played on urban and pop stations where Marie was and is only heard on Black radio. And for that matter why doesn't Jill Scott get played on pop radio if she influenced Adele? But even more telling is the fact that when Blacks like Fishbone do rock music they don't get played on rock stations.

2. Russell Brand comparing Amy Winehouse to Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at the MTV VMA's when both women died after setting new standards in jazz. Winehouse's work is critically acclaimed but to say that she was singing in the tradition of both is to suggest that her work has the same far-reaching influence as Holiday's and Fitzgerald's when enough time has not passed yet for that to be proven. Most jazz vocalists with any sense of their craft are singing in the tradition of Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald.This line of thinking comes from the idea that whites doing Black music is more commendable because it is something that they are not normally expected to do in contrast to the racist idea that "all Blacks are entertainers."

3. Vibe contradicting itself by giving white singer Amy Winehouse the cover after her death thus destroying Kelly Rowland's shine when Winehouse's music did not represent the Vibe brand. But they did not give a cover to white soul singer Teena Marie despite covering her throughout the years.
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4. All of the unconditional praise heaped on Mac Miller’s rhyming skills when he will never even come close to Eminem’s abilities on a bad day. Since when did Donald Trump, who has a history of racist housing practices, and is a birther, care about hip-hop enough to compliment a rapper? And no, this isn’t just about Trump complimenting the success of Miller’s song “Donald Trump” because he obviously listens to Eminem. Don’t agree? Watch the documentary on Jack Johnson called “Unforgivable Blackness” then watch James Earl Jones in “The Great White Hope.”

5. The Rock Hall of Fame inducting The Beastie Boys BEFORE Eric B. & Rakim when they made the true innovations in the artform unless of course this is about the bean-counting perspective of "whatever sells the most must be the best. Twenty-seven years after Run DMC's "King of Rock," The Rock Hall still believes that the rock star is a white male. They finally accepted that he wouldn't hold a guitar but he's still white.

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6. Questlove having to block 3.500 Tea Party members from sending him racist attacks on Twitter because his band The Roots played “Lyin’ A** B*tch” when Michelle Bachmann appeared on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.” Where was this outrage when Bachmann said that “A Black child had more of a chance to live in a two parent household under slavery than the Obama administration? Or how about the absence of vitriol when Michelle Obama got booed at NASCAR? Where was Michelle Bachman’s apology to Black people for saying the founding fathers “worked tirelessly against slavery?”

7. Rihanna being called a "Ni**a B*tch" by Dutch magazine Jackie.



R.I.P. Amy Winehouse

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English singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse was found dead in her home today of causes yet to be determined. Winehouse was the mainstream face of British R&B after her 2006 album Back In Black became an international success both commercially and critically. Her style was seen as having roots in soul music’s past with a contemporary authority that reinvigorated the genre globally. Her last recording was her collaboration with Tony Bennett on “Body and Soul” from a session last March for his duets album out later this year.