Mick Jagger wrote “Miss You” with Billy Preston but like all original songs by The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards received credit as the co-writer. The beat was influenced by the band’s trips to clubs blaring disco which was very popular at the time. Sugar Blue’s harmonica played a soulful melodyContinue Reading
[youtube]vjIwmJMqrco[/youtube] will.i.am is “The Hardest Ever” with Mick Jagger and Jennifer Lopez. I guess Jagger has given up his criticisms of rap and decided to join the fold. willpower comes out sometime next year. Related posts: Ghostface Killah & Raheem Devaughn-Baby (Live On Jimmy Fallon) Boldy James-Go Fish Dre Murray-PharaohContinue Reading
[youtube]MTF7T1Nw5OU[/youtube] What do Mick Jagger, Joss Stone, Damian Marley, Dave Stewart and A.R. Rahman have in common? SuperHeavy. The eclectic band released their debut album today and you can go to their Facebook page and use a cool application to make a portrait of yourself like their album cover. RelatedContinue Reading
Last week Talib Kweli announced on Twitter that he’d done a song with bling-happy rapper Gucci Mane. A blogger who follows him declared the collaboration to be “the end of conscious rap.” Well I believe that Gucci and his audience need to hear from Kweli. Sometimes unlikely collaborations predictably flopContinue Reading