Wednesday, December 3, 2008 |
Keyshia Cole’s 2nd single “You Complete Me” off her upcoming album A Different Me, which is in stores on December 16th.
All of the songs for A Different Me were written or co-written by Keyshia with production from award-winning producers such as Ron Fair, Polow Da Don, the Trackmasters, The Runners, Kwame and Neffu. Stand out guest appearances include Nas and a duet with Monica.
In the meantime, make sure you watch Keyshia and the fam on her hit BET series, “The Way It Is” every Tuesday night at 10 pm EST.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 |
This new Jay-Z track featuring one of my favorite artists, Santi “Santogold” White was leaked on the web earlier this week. All the Santogold fans might remember the chorus loop from her song “Shove It,” off of her debut self-titled album. Nevertheless, the song is still hot. Not to mention, it was produced by the always eclectic Kanye West.
This is the official first single off the upcoming ‘Notorious’ movie soundtrack and word is a video is coming soon…
Sunday, November 23, 2008 |
Check out “Bed” singer J. Holiday’s first single from his forthcoming sophomore album, due out in the spring of 2009. The track was produced by Big Reese and Jasper Cameron, who also had a hand in one of my favorites, “Promise” by Ciara.
I actually really like this song, but like I’ve always said about J. Holiday. I’m hoping that this single is representative of the rest of the material on his album. On Back of My ‘Lac, I wasn’t really impressed with the majority of his songs, aside from the singles, and one of my other favorites, “Fatal.”
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Sunday, November 23, 2008 |
You can preview snippets of Brandy’s upcoming release, Human which is due to hit stores in just a couple of weeks on December 9th. So far, Brandy has released two singles, the Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins-produced, “Right Here (Departed),” and is starting promo for the new single, “Long Distance.”
While promoting her album, Brandy also appears on John Legend’s third single, “Quickly,” from his latest release, Evolver. As usually, Brandy sounds amazing. Her voice is the clearest and most open that I’ve ever heard her. I’m really glad that she flexed her vocal muscles here. I’m a little disappointed, however, that most of the album seems to be mid-tempo. I was hoping to get some more up-tempo tracks from Brandy this time around.
Check out Brandy on MySpace for more updates, and be sure to pick up a copy of Human, in stores and online December 9th!
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 |
Lil’ Kim joins forces with T-Pain, who recently released his new album, Thr33 Ringz. The production finds T-Pain sampling one of my favorite oldies, “Computer Love.” So it automatically gets my vote… It seems as though she’s jumping on this technology bandwagon that people have been following as of late.
I’m actually kinda glad to be hearing this, considering that I was a little disappointed by that last song we got from Kim, “Respirator,” in which she was singing through the whole song in auto-tune. No word on Kim’s new project, except for hearing that she will be releasing independently, which I think will be a really good look for her. It’s been working well for Fat Joe, and Kim has been around long enough to pull in sales from her fans.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 |
Seven years into a gold-and-platinum-honored career, top R&B singer/ songwriter/ producer, AVANT is back with another single from his upcoming album entitled, Break Ya Back (In A Good Way). Take a listen above and quit sleeping on my boy Avant!
Avant’s first Capitol Records album, AVANT, will be released on December 9th.
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Monday, November 17, 2008 |
While being on the promo trail for her new album, Human, due out December 9th, Brandy has released a second single, “Long Distance,” the follow-up to the Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins-produced “Right Here (Departed).” In addition to her second single, she will appear on the third single from John Legend’s new album, “Quickly.”
Here are two new tracks from Brandy: “Torn Down,” produced by Midi Mafia (they are also responsible for “Quickly”), which is one of the more uptempo songs which will appear on Human, as well as as the bonus track, “Gonna Find My Love.” Both of these songs are pretty good. I’m a little disappointed that Brandy isn’t including “Gonna Find My Love” on the album, because so far, it seems as though the tempo of Human will be pretty mid-to-slow.
