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    RIP Leon Haywood!

    one of my favorites for a longtime now. i think the first track that caught my attention was "Daydream". or might've been "Don't Push It..." he had this sound that i love that i associate with southern soul singers who transitioned well to the funk/dancefloor game in the late 70s/early 80s. (i...
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    best six album run? (f&b-r)

    EWF
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    best six album run? (f&b-r)

    there's no jazz in there, which seems to have the easiest time stringing together killer six-album runs. what would be Miles' run of good albums, in the teens? 20s? depending on your opinion of certain herbie albums, that can get into the 20s also... two off the dome from new orleans with...
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    February Finds

    that Henri Pierre Noel is so damn good. hoping to come across an original when the money's right at some point...
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    male singer on Patrice Rushen's "never gonna give you up"?

    such a stellar lineup of studio aces. one of those $3 albums that's better than half the records 10x its price...
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    male singer on Patrice Rushen's "never gonna give you up"?

    according to Discogs, it's Wali Ali https://www.discogs.com/Patrice-Rushen-Posh/release/625049
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    Soul Strut Super Bowl Game

    y'all see the taco bell commercial though???
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    Earth, Wind, and Fire Appreciation

    i thought this was really good on Maurice White & EWF's positivity: http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2016/02/05/465703176/maurice-white-the-audacity-of-uplift
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    EDM bubble bursted finally?

    MDMA ain't goin nowhere!
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    Earth, Wind, and Fire Appreciation

    batmon said: Argueably the Greatest Band in any genre. EWF is still light years ahead of cats today. THIS!
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    EDM bubble bursted finally?

    finelikewine said: willie_fugal said: RAJ said: Do people actually listen to this garbage sober? just remember that this has been said about literally every generation's pop music since rock n roll you are right. BUT EDM isn't something new, that yielded the now...
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    EDM bubble bursted finally?

    RAJ said: Do people actually listen to this garbage sober? just remember that this has been said about literally every generation's pop music since rock n roll
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    EDM bubble bursted finally?

    the biggest thing for Skrillex in 2015 was producing (along with Diplo) for Justin Bieber.
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    Clarence Reid aka BLOWFLY

    RIP! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekSa0GvivbQ
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    2016 - The great Boomer Die Off ?

    on a local level: sometimes it feels like folks in new orleans are still reeling from Soulja Slim's death (d. 2003). i was too young when biggie & pac died so can't really compare well what it was like at the time, but Slim seems to get remembered here a lot more than either of them.