Rewind: Idle Warship

For some reason, I cannot stop listening to the mixtape Party Robots from Idle Warship. I might be a little obsessed. The alternative, futuristic group at the time consisted of rapper Talib Kweli and singers Res and Graph Nobel from Canada. By the way, Idle Warship released their latest album, sans Ms. Nobel, called Habits […]

Rewind: Isaac Hayes’ Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic

Released in 1969, Hayes gives a love anatomy lesson. I think this may have been the soul version of “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” and a precursor to Outkast’s “Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik.”

Rewind: “Bridging the Gap”

Nas feat. Olu Dara- Bridging the Gap I remember seeing this video a few years ago and I remember liking it, but it did not fully connect with me until recently when I started my research on jazz, blues and hip-hop for my senior projects. My appreciation of Nas increased knowing that his father is […]