First Friday Freshness

Here it is the first Friday in February. Man do I love searching around for the newest music, listening to it and posting it forward. I usually finish my work for the day on Friday around 5:30 or so, And the first thing I do is listen to new music. I have a ritual of main stay- RELAX on Friday nights. When I was little, my pops and I would watch TGIF, which was like four TV shows that were on Friday night every week. After He would pick me up from school, We rode home in his Monty Carlo, It had white wall tires. I remember growing up thinking it was so cool if cars had white wall tires. White wall tires do not work out on our cars, in hindsight I was just Showing how much I believed in my father back then, not much has changed. Anyway back to the story, We would stop at the grocery on the way home get some Friday night snacks, Doritos or maybe some nerds, I love Twizers too. Pops always had a thing for Heath bars, he likes Zero bars a lot too, We would either have Wonder Hut or Wonder Bell. I’m sure that you can pick up what we were trying to put down without explanation, he firmly believed that we should cook at home rather than stop and get fast food. He still cooks at home all the time today.

We had such a good time, making whatever we made together. I look back on those times today and see how lucky I am that he was able to spend as much time with me as he did, him and my grandmother.

I truly believe because if those people I was able to transfer serenity from the calamity. The matriarch , my grandmother is, well she was the person who really turned me on to a lot of the music I listeNed to when I was little. Music like Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline, Billy Joel, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, she also loved Ray Charles and Little Richard, and was obsessed with Tina Turner. My grandmother was born in Scottsburg Indiana in 1938, Far from what society as it is today. Even with our present injustices. It’s really ool though, all of my Gram’s sisters and Brother will tell you that she didn’t see color, and still does not see it till this day. She introduced me to so much music over the years. I remember her jamming to Aerosmith when I was in grade school. she never told me what I should or shouldn’t listen to. I may not have blasted it loud, but she slow me too learn without bias. I love hip hop, and I think that of her doing. She loves soul, and real musi. She was one of the people that drove me to and from school on a regular basis as well, we always listen to the coolest music. Maybe that’s why am the way I am about music today, it wasn’t just my grandmother, pops is still a assive influence on what I choose to listen To as well. xxThanks Poppa xox

When I take my time with music I read up on the artists. It impresses me when the artists and producers are not only talented but tell a good story. Everybody loves a good story, I don’t think I would be as good of a writer as I am if I didn’t like reading stories, not that I’m a great writer, Wishful thinking.I know, I know… However, this Particular artist impressed the hell out of me. SABA (Tahj Malik Chandler), American rapper and music producer, who started playing piano when he was the age of seven, seven …DUDE…Impressive yes. He later on learned how to make beats, I wish I would learn how to make beats in high school, or grade school. I’m pretty sure his record reads that he graduated from high school when he was 16, and started when he was 12. I would think that’s some kind of savant status. What really blew my mind was how he became popular, by passing out his mixtapes in high school. That’s some drive, dedication and perseverance right there. I’ll probably get ostracized for saying this but I wish that my faighters’ generation acted anything like that, however being on the computers 24 seven because of the pandemic has rightfully wrecked that type of work initiative presense. He took the scene in Chicago in the late 2010’s. He dedicated his 2018 album to his late cousin and close friend Walter Long Jr. aka John Walt. The state of circumstances brings tested to my eyes, he was fatally stabbed because of issueson a train in Chicago, in February 2017. Album after album he put out highlighted his talents as well as involved many up and coming artists from the Chicago area. The tune that I picked for this week is >>>

“Still”. featuring 6LACK, Who I have affinity for for many other reasons. The introspective nature of the lyrics speak to my inner soul and the hip-hop tempo I don’t think I’ll ever get sick of, The fact that they put baba ghanouj in the lyrics is enough to make me smile. I will be listening to the album tonight, It came out today. This new album, *Few Good Things*, destroys the anticipation of drama that was created with the release of his previous composition .

Check it out, the ingriedients start by tossing giddy collaboration of creative measures, which contain no less than the best (in my eye), funk, and various Hip Hop drop downs.. I really appreciate the neo-soul vibes as well. Transparency and honesty bleeds through his lyrics. Balancing the act between both acclaimed commemoration and ominous grief, this helps to illustrate the mirror like quality of our very humility. Must be a rapper after my own heart, the charismatic likeness and lovable feels that his thought provoking jams supply are as moving, strong while consistently guiding us down a path of his thoughts that ever prove the raw talent before us.

I’ll probably be listening to the album for a while, I get into listening to lyrics especially when they are like the ones I’m talking about.

Next month will be another new song, from the first Friday of March. I look forward to talking about more music then, I love talking about music. I have added the link below, Enjoy the freshness.

SONG: Still

ARTIST: Saba (Featuring 6LACK)

ALBUM: Few Good Things

RELEASE DATE: 2-4-2022

GENRE: Hip-Hop

>>> LINK <<<

Apple:

https://music.apple.com/us/album/still-feat-smino-6lack/1593468244?i=1593468408