With today being Stevie Wonder’s 61st birthday I figured that was excuse enough to post one of my throwbacks without it being Thursday. Lol. Above is my fav Stevie Wonder song, that I pretend is about me even though I wasn’t yet born when the track was released. That girl knows every single man Would [...]
Almost 20 years have passed since the release of R. Kelly’s epic debut 12 play. With single’s like Your body’s calling, children will continue to be made to this album for decades to come. **psssst** After the jump I have a lil bonus for you…take a listen to the B-Side “Your Body’s Calling His N [...]
May 12, 2011
Devi
THROWBACK THURSDAY
Circa ’96, If your girl only knew was written by Missy Elliott- Produced by Timbo and appeared on Aaliyah’s 2nd studio album One in a million. “If your girl could only see, how you be callin me…gettin fresh wit me” Bonus Aaliyah throwback vid after the jump! [...]
Monday marked 9 years since the passing of Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes. In honor of her, this weeks Throwback Thursday is the Grammy winning TLC single Creep. Staying at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 charts for 4 weeks straight, Creep was released in 1994 on the group’s sophmore album CrazySexyCool (LaFaceRecords) [...]
April 28, 2011
Devi
BLOG, THROWBACK THURSDAY
All Yall Ft. Tweet & Sebastian was a single on Timberland & Magoo’s 2001 album Indecent Proposal. Mannn, this track used to GO! #RandomDeviFact… speaking of Throwback Thursday…I copped their 1st album Welcome to our world for $6 bucks at Fedco’s going out of business sale. You will always be in our hearts Fedco! [...]
April 21, 2011
Devi
THROWBACK THURSDAY
Is Jermaine Dupri an incredible rapper? No. BUT… was Life in 1472 jammin when it dropped? YES! Life in 1472 was the debut solo album from JD which he dropped on So So Def record’s in ’98. Money Aint a Thang Ft. Jay-Z was the 1st single (above) but truth be told, track 11-All That’s [...]
April 14, 2011
Devi
THROWBACK THURSDAY
So I was up the other night watching VH1′s “Greatest 1 hit wonder’s of the 90′s” and this song came up. This song was originally recorded in ’92 by spanish group Los Del Rio and was pretty popular in Puerto Rico…. Then the “Bayside Boys Mix” version popped up in the US and from ’95 [...]
April 7, 2011
Devi Dev
THROWBACK THURSDAY
Don’t ask me what on earth made this song pop in my head, but for some reason I woke up humming this Parliament sampled beat. Ice Cube’s former protege’s dropped What you wanna do in ’95 on Lench Mob Records. (check out a throwback pic when you click for more) *sings* What should I do? [...]
March 31, 2011
Devi Dev
THROWBACK THURSDAY
J Dilla dropped The Shinning in ’06, and although 5 years may not be that long ago, I had to include this as a throwback thursday post. Featuring Common and D’Angelo, this instantly became one of my favorite songs. Since Common decided to re-do this track with new verses for his ’07 album Finding Forever, [...]
March 10, 2011
Devi Dev
THROWBACK THURSDAY
Sure, I’m a day late for throwback Thursday. But a nostalgic tweet share with Murs, had me singing Dial my heart (circa ’88) all day. Side note, one of the first live performances i’d ever witnessed was of them at a show in Carson. *Swoon* [...]
March 4, 2011
Devi Dev
THROWBACK THURSDAY