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Janet Jackson feat. Khia – So Excited (full) – download
I don’t think we ever posted the full CD quality version of this song, but I decided to. I really actually dig this song after listening to in it’s high quality form. It’s a nice dance track. It doesn’t sound distorted like that so-called “high quality” rip that was floating around. I hope that this is slated to be Janet’s next single, regardless of how disgusting I think Khia is. I think it’ll knock in the club.
Beyonce – Creole (full) – download
This is a Rich Harrison cut that didn’t make “B’Day.” The song kind of reminds me a bit of “Get Right” the Jennifer Lopez/Usher song that came out last year because the the brassy horns behind her voice. This song basically just shouts out to all the “red bone,” “yellow bone” and “brown bone” honeys. I totally can see why it didn’t make the album, however. Of course, it’s classic Rich Harrison, with the gogo, hard drums and horns. I wonder why he doesn’t switch up his style sometimes. I know he’s capable of it (see: “Soldier” by Destiny’s Child and “Come With Me” by Amerie).
Omarion – Fool Wit U (web rip) – download
This is a nice sample that Omarion used – I think whoever produced this definitely didn’t a good job of sampling this Isley Brother’s classic. I’m actually liking some of the material that I’ve peeped from Omarion’s second solo set. It sounds like his material has matured (“Entourage” was a GREAT track), I just wish he would mature vocally. I guess we’ll find out when the album comes out.
Nelson – My Space (full) – download
In the same league with Cassie, Nelson is one of Ryan Leslie’s artists that has signed to Bad Boy and is accumulating a large fanbase over MySpace. How appropriate that the name of this song is titled such. I’m not really digging this song at all, and I really wanted to like Nelson because I think he has an okay voice, at least, on his first Ryan Leslie-producer and written song, “Choose Us” (which I posted a while back). Hopefully, he comes a little harder than this. Check out Nelson on MySpace to hear “Choose Us.”
The music is wasted on these lyrics. I think Beyonce should stop throwing out songs just because she can. Even so I don’t think she means to offend anyone with this song, she obviously hasn’t listened to it properly herself to know how bad the lyrics are.
I never been down with Team Beyonce and I’m definitely not after listening to that Creole song. Its colorism and separatism at its best. I can only hope that all the “real” little Black girls that look up to her and admire her never hear this song b/c these “real” Black girls definitely don’t need another pop media hit to their self esteem. Especially, when that hit is coming from one of their “supposed” own. True, the white man may have started this caste system back in the day but we Black people have taken this sh*t to another level. I mean come on–most of the blogs on this site always come down to the same thing – light skin vs. dark skin.
All I can is goodness for artist like Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Lauryn Hill and India.Arie, otherwise there would be hardly any music out there for enlighted Black females to listen to. I mean let’s get real: the pop culture that dominates this society is not in the business of showcasing positive and uplifting images of real Black women.
to # 55 brown skins in b’s creole song was not reppin the darker sistas it was reppin those caramel sistas, you know the ones that look like redbones with a tan. The song is clearly secluding all darker skined females.
“Me myself and I” was a classic. But after hearing about this song I will never look at Beyonce the same. I have lost respect for her.
I don’t see what’s the matter with Beyoncé’s song. All those years she’s been repping black sistas in general regradless of their complexion. Now that she has only was song talking about her mixed heritage everybody goes mad.
The fact that she is mixed and proud of her background doesn’t mean she doesn’t care about 100% negros. She is representing black peope with another background. Sometimes your heritage can have an influence on your life. Hate it, love it, it’s the way it is. You are made of what you are made of.
Ok here’s what I think Beyonce’s song was very insensitive. When she sat down to write this song, when she rehearsed it in her head, whe she sang it out loud, did she think about her chocolate fans, what about her white girls fans? Her song is not inclusive to everyone, but a bigger problem is that it is not inclusive to what she claims to be, a black girl. Beyonce’s song leaves me out, because I’m not yellow, red or brown. I’m black and I’m not included. Now again I ask the question, when beyonce sat down to write the song, listen to the song, and rehearse it how could she continue on with the song leaving out a whole group of girls who are no doubt just as deeply woven into the woman that she is as Creole. She forgot the darkest portion of her roots and the darkest portion of her offspring in this one.
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