Check out the Nas and Damian Marley collaboration album, Distant Relatives, before deciding whether to purchase.
The album, which contains social commentary on the U.S. and Africa, is derived from their close friendship, their shared African ancestry and the shared ancestry of the human race. Marley further explained, “We’re trying to have a sound that’s reminiscent of both of us, but not exactly like either. A lot of charity albums come off corny. We want this to be something you’d play in your car.”
Distant Relatives hits stores May 18.
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Here’s the new video from Mary J. Blige featuring Trey Songz for “We Got Hood Love”, the next single from Mary’s ninth album Stronger withEach Tear.
Mary calls the video “a story. Basically, it’s what hasn’t been done in a long time. People don’t do stories anymore, and I wanted to keep that going.”
Guess who was spotted showing love for Mickey Mouse. Hint: Her fifth album will soon be released.
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Lena Horne, the first black performer to be signed to a long-term contract by a major Hollywood studio, died at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Sunday night. She was 92.
She rose to fame in the 1930s, and within a decade she was one of the first black performers hired to sing with a major white band while also performing in numerous musicals.
“I was unique in that I was a kind of black that white people could accept. I was their daydream. I had the worst kind of acceptance because it was never for how great I was or what I contributed. It was because of the way I looked,” she once commented.
Born into Brooklyn’s black middle class, Horne was so light-skinned that other black children taunted her, accusing her of having a white father.
After making it big, she continued to face racism: “I was always battling the system to try to get to be with my people. Finally, I wouldn’t work for places that kept us out…it was a damn fight everywhere I was, every place I worked, in New York. In Hollywood, all over the world.”
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the Horne family, including her daughter, Gail Lumet Buckley.
