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Nas and Damian Marley’s Distant Relatives and Janelle Monae’s The Archandroid Drop Today

Miss Mikelah — Tue, 18 May 2010 06:00:03 +0000

Super excited for today’s album release (both I’ll be downloading from iTunes, please support good music). The highly anticipated Distant Relatives from Nas an Damian Marley. I’ve been ignoring all the pre-leaks so that I can enjoy the full album in its entirety.

Janelle Monae’s The Arch Android also drop, I love her eclectic sound and “Tightrope” is one of my favorite songs right now, so I’m excited to hear more material from her this time around.

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S&V Video Round Up

Miss Mikelah — Fri, 14 May 2010 04:22:11 +0000

Drake’s “Find Your Love” premiered on radio just a few weeks after, but now we know what he was doing in Jamaica. Mavado makes a cameo as “the badman”. Pretty sure you can figure how it ends.

Gyptian is steady climbing up the Billboard charts with “Hold Yuh”. Nothing special about the video, but love the song none the less.

Alicia Keys delivers a great video concept with “Unthinkable” featuring Chad Michael Murray as her love interest. I love that the message of interracial relationships crossing various time periods.

Diddy & ‘em Dirty Money release a video for “Hello, Goodmorning”, but it’s a huge yawn.

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S&V: New Music

Miss Mikelah — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 02:10:28 +0000

New music is in overdrive. Here’s a sneak peak of some of the S&V favorites this week.

The “Hold You” phenomenon continues! Check out the remix from rapper Lou$tar featuring Shalea.

Cosa Nostra Riddim, simply hot! Produced by Ward 21 featuring Assassin, Timbeerlee and much more.

Sade can do no wrong, and neither can Tarrus Riley, great remix to “Soldier of Love”.

Sade feat Tarrus Riley & Duane Stephenson (Soldier Of Love Remix) by jamaicandancehall

The Distant Relatives album from Damian Marley and Nas is coming along quite nicely, the latest leak is a remake of the late Dennis Brown’s Promise Land

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Gyptian Feat Nicki Minaj – Hold Yuh (Remix)

Miss Mikelah — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 03:28:08 +0000

Heard this remix of Gyptian’s “Hold Yuh” (So many people are jumping on this riddim, but I love this remix). So maybe Nicki Minaj will be at Hot 97’s Summer Jam and bring out Gyptian… high hopes for wicked performance moments!

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Distant Relatives Album

Miss Mikelah — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 03:31:02 +0000

Damian Marley and Nas have been talking about their album Distant Relatives for some time now (See video here). I am a huge fan of both these artists and can’t wait to hear what it sounds like. If you remember Nas and Damian collaborated on Damian Marley’s Welcome to Jamrock on Road to Zion. I think it’s going to more of the same and then some. Musically, I have high expectations for this album. It’s definitely on my list for most anticipated albums of 2010. Here’s the album cover and track listing.

(Thanks to H.E.R for the info.)

1. Intro (Something New) (prod. Damian Marley)
2. As We Enter (prod. Damian Marley)
3. Revolutionary (prod. Damian Marley)
4. Count Your Blessings (prod. Damian & Stephen Marley)
5. Belief is Key (prod. Damian Marley)
6. Africa Must Wake Up f. K’naan (prod. Nas, Damian & Stephen Marley)
7. Black Horizon f. K’naan (prod. Damian Marley)
8. Only the Strong (prod. Damian & Stephen Marley)
9. Our Generation f. Joss Stone & Stevie Wonder (prod. Damian Marley)
10. Empowerment (prod. Stephen Marley)
11. AID (prod. K’naan & Nas)
12. Let’s End It (Poverty) f. K’naan (prod. 9th Wonder & Damian Marley)
13. The Earth f. Bob Marley (prod. Salaam Remix, Damian & Stephen Marley)
14. Black Man’s Paper f. Erykah Badu (prod. Afry) [UK Bonus]
15. Weed On f. Snoop Dogg (prod. Damian Marley) (iTunes Bonus)

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It’s That Dirty Money

Miss Mikelah — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:36:02 +0000

So Dirty Money (aka Diddy, Dawn and that other chick Kalenna Harper) released the video Love Come Down. I must admit I love the video. This song sound amazing in the club due to the bangin’ bassline and the annoyingly catchy hook.

Diddy is making his money so I’m sure he could care less about what I think, but I’m going to go ahead and state my observation about Dirty Money.

1.) Dirty Money is Diddy’s pet project of the moment, which means there will be no second album, so I hope Dawn and the Kalenna have back up plans.

2.) Dawn was my favorite and most talented in the Danity Kane group … this is the best you could do with her?

3.) Is it just me or does this remind you a remixed version of Total? (Nice beats, but displaying little talent, not that these ladies don’t have talent, but it’s not really being displayed, they just seem like Diddy’s backup singers)

Diddy-Dirty Money – New Music – More Music Videos

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Nas & Damian Marley in the Studio

Miss Mikelah — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:16:51 +0000

Nas & Damian Marley’s project makes the top pick for my most anticipated album. I think it’s going to be so different, yet phenomenal! Check out this preview of more to come.

NAS & DAMIAN “JR GONG” MARLEY DISTANT RELATIVES preview from nabil elderkin on Vimeo.

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New Music: Machel, Damian & Nas, Sean Paul

Miss Mikelah — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:41:45 +0000

It’s steaming up to be a hot musical summer! Machel Montano hooks up with Collie Buddz, another hot collab from the Soca King. We’re finally starting to see some action from Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley and Nas, as we have been hearing about Nas’ next album for a while now, and Sean Paul is about to squeeze off the Imperial Blaze with a lady So Fine.

Machel Montano has been creeping his way into the cross over market for some time now (selling out shows at MSG and Radio City, very few artists…not just Caribbean, can do that.) He’s hook up with Reggae artist Collie Buddz on summer sizzler Fly Away

The buzz around Damian Marley producing Nas’ album has been out for a while now. Real Talk NY has a snippet of As We Are, no word on the release date or title of the album, but it probably will makes it way to the shelves late this year, early next year. But let’s reminisce about the first collaboration they did.

Sean Paul debuted his new video So Fine via MTV Buzzworthy Blog today. Not too crazy about the song, but the video is hot. Anytime I see a pitch black background with neon lights I think Michael Jackson “Rock with You” vibe. Cool nonetheless. Sean Paul’s 4th album Imperial Blaze is set to be released in the U.S. in August.

Sean Paul – New Music – More Music Videos

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