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11.08.03 02:45 AM

currently banging in the headphones

Mos Def - Beef
Alicia Keys - You Don't Know My Name
Roy Hargrove (featuring D'Angelo) - I'll Stay
Novel (featuring Lloyd Banks) - Peach (Remix)
Ja Rule - Clap Back
Jay - Z - What More Can I Say
Obie Trice (featuring Nate Dogg) - The Set Up
Bassment Jaxx (featuring Meshell N'degeocello) - Right Here's The Spot
The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army

I was going to name another song from Andre 3000, but I think I'll save that for another post. Nah, I'll name two of his songs here and then give you a few hints that might just tell you what a post from me about him would entail. Let's just say that I like "Prototype." Of course I do, because I can name a slew of Ohio Players songs that sound very similar. And I couldn't figure out why I kept playing "She's Alive," over and over again. Then it dawned on me. It reminds me of Prince's "Under the Cherry Moon." In fact, a lot of The Love Below sounds like I heard it before, but as I said, I'll save that for another post.

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The Novel cut is the butta. I dig Meshell too (about the same time you posted exponent was when you posted. We think alike, huh?).

Prototype: I Wanna Be Free? And of course She's Alive also sounds like Prince cuts, but then again, we've got 'She Lives In My Lap' sounding like 'She's Always In My Hair'...and I could go on and on...but hey, we dig it right?

posted by ej flavors | November 8, 2003 2:15 PM #

My brother passed off "The Love Below" to me. I haven't listened to it like I want to. He wasn't diggin it very much. When I have time to fully critique it, it I will listen.

I love Mos Def. Doesn't he look like the black Abe Lincoln? Anyway...I was just watching a movie entitled "God Bless The Child." The movie features a young Mos Def. He looks to be around 12 or 13.

Alicia Keys new joint is off the hook. I have to give her props even though I wasnt diggin her last CD nor all the Grammys she won for it.

posted by Timi | November 8, 2003 6:29 PM #

Yo, don't that new Jay-Z "What More Can I Say" sound like the old Biggie and Tray Lee?

posted by nOvito | November 9, 2003 12:30 AM #

cool to know that someone else enjoys basement jaxx and white stripes as i do.....

i'm going to wait on your thoughts about The Love Below.....

interested mind awaits

posted by Nekaybaaw | November 9, 2003 12:31 AM #

Mos Def is cool. I just saw The Italian Job and I saw him on Broadway...he's been at this acting thing for a minute now.

It's funny, I wasn't into the Alicia Keys hype engine the first time around...so I barely paid attention to her. But I really do love this single off her latest.

EJ kind of hit the nail on the head with my thoughts on Andre's Love Below...but I will post it later...and someone sent me a link to an article that kind of makes my opinion a certifiable fact. But you'll see.

posted by lynne | November 9, 2003 2:56 AM #

Still haven't listened to Outkast yet (thx ej!), but I am actually liking Alicia's latest joint. I'll give her a couple of listens before I critique her latest once it's out.

posted by ronn | November 9, 2003 3:10 AM #

nice list. what about the strokes?

posted by pexdiggy | November 10, 2003 12:52 AM #

hmmmm......whoa now....don't be so quick to paint my boy 3000 as some biter. i think his influences are very prominent, and the Prince influence is undeniable. However, musically, James Brown is the resounding influence on that album, not Prince. And the Prince qualities have more to do with his attempt at a falsetto. With that said, if Prince were a smart man, he'd have 3000 producing his next album. The apprentice studies the master so long, that at some point, the master has to refer to the apprentice to know how to be himself. One to grow on.

posted by hardCore | November 10, 2003 4:55 PM #

I've held off giving my opinion of 3000 because frankly, I don't know what I think about it. On one level it's amusing and left-of-center. But I listen to so much left-of-center that when I hold it in comparison, The Love Below looks like a faded carbon copy.

What I can say is that I grew weary of it by the fourth spin. I'm interested in what you have to say aout it.

posted by j. brotherlove | November 10, 2003 6:50 PM #

corey, i didn't say a biter just that he is not becoming himself inside of a vacuum.

also pexdiggy...i'm listening to interpol.

posted by lynne | November 11, 2003 11:10 PM #

I finally listened to "The Love Below" and I don't know what to say about it. It's one of those albums that I define as "Uhhh"...I can't say anothing but "Uhhh." I actually enjoyed having "She's Alive" on repeat 3 times (thats all I could stand). For some reason the joint "Roses" disturbed me a bit. It was just really really out of place on this album. Dang on it...I miss Prince!

posted by Timi | November 12, 2003 3:17 AM #

WHAT?!!!!!! Andre 3000 is mos def on point with "The Love Below"... it's a classic and will mos def be on heavy rotation in my speaker boxx ;)

posted by Yinka | November 12, 2003 4:15 AM #

I like the new Obie Trice with Nate Dogg. That one is my favorite from your list.

posted by Miki | November 16, 2003 6:51 PM #

Did you hear the new Prince track he put up on his site? "What Do You Want me To Do".. it's tight, the drums are very Dorothy Parker-ish. And none of the muddled religiosity that so often plagues his lyrics these days.

Not sure whether I'm sold on Love Below, yet.

posted by Jay Smooth | November 21, 2003 5:06 AM #

yanno, this was the first time i felt the need to really comment, don't know why...

anyway, love below, i enjoy it, i really, really do, it was actually on the fourth or fifth spin, i was like this is kinda sounding like prince, i understand where u tryna go with the jamesbrown comparison hardCore

i wasn't feeling alicia keys the first time around much either, i have not heard that new single...

hargrove and dangelo? whew!

back to dre and big boi
i have to admit, that i had to listen to the love below for a coupla weeks, before i gave big boi some shine, and i think it was actually because i left love below home ;o)

its all good.

posted by pear | November 21, 2003 7:26 PM #