• Steve Winwood – Valerie
• Together [Thomas Bangalter & DJ Falcon] – Call On Me
Too Good Monday
Beef is not what Jay said to Nas,
beef is when working niggas can’t find jobs
so they’re trying to find niggas to rob;
trying to find bigger guns so they can finish the job.
Beef is when the crack kids can’t find moms,
’cause they’re in a pine box or locked behind bars.
Beef ain’t the “summer jam” for Hot-97,
beef is the cocaine and AIDS epidemic.
Beef don’t come with a radio edit, beef is when the judge is calling you “defendant”.
Beef, it comes with a long jail sentence handed down to you in a few short minutes.
Beef is when your girl come through for a visit talking bout “I’m pregnant by some other nigga”.
Beef is high blood pressure and bad credit,
need a loan for your home and you’re too broke to get it.
And all your little kids is doin is getting bigger;
you tryin not to raise them around these wild niggas.
Beef is when a gold digger got your seed in her;
a manicured hand out like “pay me nigga
or I’m telling your wife,
or starting up some foul rumor that’ll ruin your life.”
Beef is when a gangster ain’t doin it right,
and other gangsters done decided what to do with his life.
Beef is not what these famous niggas do on the mic,
beef is what George Bush would do in a fight.
Beef is not what Ja said to 50,
beef is Weldon Irv not bein here with me.
When a soldier ends his life with his own gun,
beef is trying to figure out what to tell his son.
Beef is oil prices and geopolitics;
beef is Iraq, the West Bank, and Gaza Strip
Some beef is big and some beef is small
but what y’all call beef is not beef at all.
Beef is real life happening everyday,
and it’s realer than them songs that you get at Kay Slay.
This has been a Black Star PSA
From Mos Def, Pretty Flaco, Black Dante,
and the Black Star embassy, B to the K
Black Star – What’s Beef?
Remix Friday
• Volume 10 – Pistolgrip Pump
• Rage Against The Machine – Pistol Grip Pump
Future Thursday
This tune isn’t exactly the future of House music, so why is it on Future Thursday? You play it now and you’ll still be hearing it in your head in the future.
“Growing up in Chicago’s Humboldt Park and Logan Square communities, Rafael ‘Lego’ Rodriguez dedicated himself to a career in music at a very early age. He landed himself a DJ residency at the well-known Chicago nightclub ‘Kaboom’ by the age of 19. His notoriety and growing fan base in 1992 led to a now 20 year residency at Chicago’s Legendary ‘Boom Boom Room’. Drawing from a wide spectrum of musical tastes as a DJ, Lego began producing his own music.
In 1999 Lego produced the EP ‘Flava In Ya Ear Vol. 2’ on Afterhours Records, which included ‘El Ritmo De Verdad’ which immediately became an anthem for the highly influential global party scene of Ibiza, which in-turn influenced the global nightclub and dance music communities. Hitting Number 1 on the International Dance Music Charts Lego was catapulted to international stardom. ‘El Ritmo De Verdad’ continues to rock dancefloors the world over to this day … ” — Traxsource
• Lego ‘El Ritmo De Verdad’ (Extended)
Random Wednesday
• Dimitri From Paris – Live DJ set at the Ministry of Sound, London.
Sample Tuesday
Just begging to be made a sample of …
• Dyke & The Blazers – Let A Woman Be A Woman, Let A Man Be A Man
• The Heavy – How You Like Me Now
Too Good Monday
• Morphine – Mary, Won’t You Call My Name?
Remix Friday
At this point, I’m not sure there’s anything wrong with being a boy-band
• Bee Gees – How Deep Is Your Love
• Take That Cover
Future Thursday
“Occasionally Q-Burns Abstract Message pops up in someone’s mix set, or mentioned in a blog post, or perhaps in an odd remix. But, for the most part, he’s a known unknown.[https://qburns.bandcamp.com/]”
Yeah, that “someone’s” mix set where I heard it was Andrew Weatherall’s 1996 BBC Essential Mix …
• Q-Burns Abstract Message – Mess Of Afros (Glenn Underground Mix)
Random Wednesday
• 40 Thieves – Crystal Mountain Thunder
Sample Tuesday
In the beginning, there was jack.
And Jack had a groove, and from this groove came the grooves of all grooves.
And while one day, viciously throwing down on this box, Jack boldly declared:
LET THERE BE HOUSE!
And House music was born.
• Ecstasy – This Is My House (Maxi Version)
• Tyree feat. Kool Rock Steady – Turn Up the Bass
• Rhythm Controll – My House
• John F. Kennedy – Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs – Space (May 25, 1961)
Too Good Monday
So, you think you can sing?
• Al Green – Let’s Stay Together
Remix Friday
“Doesn’t say Produced by Bernard Sumner anywhere. But it screams Bernard Sumner with every brilliantly synched melodic click of the new music machines. So don’t tell him, but the bastard inherited the Hannet mantle. Quietly and oh so successfully.” — Tony Wilson
• Looking From A Hilltop
• Another Hilltop (Stephen Morris Mix)
Future Thursday
Not to sound like a hipster but you need to get this on vinyl, the sound on this doesn’t do it justice.
• Mark Farina – Dans La Voiture
Random Wednesday
“The first mix (Moody Mix) was a bit of a homage to Detroit … The Monster mix took it to a place of a sort of grandeur, wide-screen, epic vibe … It was never meant to be a commercial hit. When we took it to Radio 1 we had radio-pluckers saying ‘It’s got no hook, it’s got no chorus, go away.’”
• Faithless – Insomnia (Moody Mix)
• Monster Mix
The Story Of Faithless’ ‘Insomnia’ – The Making Of A Dance Anthem
Sample Tuesday
“I’m just a product
of Slick Rick and Onyx,
told ’em lick the balls
Had ’em just appalled
at so many things that pissed ’em off, it’s
impossible to list ’em all …”
• Funk, Inc. – Kool Is Back
• Slick Rick – Lick The Balls
Too Good Monday
Why is it that most bands don’t cut it when it comes to playing Funk?
Because they consider the Funk to be a music genre to be learned, copied, packaged and sold. They think that adding all the elements together will equal the desired result—so they get the wah-wah pedal, the slapped bass, and sometimes they even hire old musicians who’ve been there—but there’s something missing. Oh, if I named names this would turn into a political statement …
All I’m going to say is: there is no doing the Funk halfway.
• Kool & The Gang – Be My Lady
Best Of The Year
• The Clash – Train in Vain
• Skater: Rodney Mullen
• Video: Round Three (Almost)
Future Thursday
• Phuture ‘Rise From Your Grave’ (Wake Da F___ Up Mix)
Random Wednesday
If Metal could make Future Thursday, this would be on there.
• Pantera – I’m Broken
Massive Tunes 