It feels like Spotify has absolutely everything, and that's ALMOST true. But today I'm going to talk about 9 significant albums that AREN'T available on Spotify, and why. Sometimes it's because of ...
2023-11-29 05:27:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Let's talk about why the song "The Light" was so significant for Common, J Dilla, and hip hop in general, recreate the beat myself, and mash it up with another Soulquarians song that sounds suspici...
2023-11-29 05:24:59 +0000 UTC View Post
I mashed these two songs up for the Rock With You video - well here's the full song, with live bass, recorded LIVE during the 100k subscriber livestream.
2023-11-29 05:20:25 +0000 UTC View Post
"Rock With You" is not only - a perfect song, an incredible blend of styles that perfectly ushered in the 80s, the mark of a new direction for Michael Jackson, but it continues to be relevant to mo...
2023-11-29 05:12:01 +0000 UTC View Post
D'Angelo's Chicken Grease is amazing. The song feels so good, and so effortless, but if you take a look under the hood, there are a lot of influences happening, from Classic Soul to Funk, from the ...
2023-11-29 05:07:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Prince's song "Kiss" is an undeniable classic, but did he actually write it? It was his third number one single, released in 1986, and it gave his already substantial career new life. It's got that...
2023-11-29 05:05:18 +0000 UTC View Post
In the late 90s, Questlove helped found a collective of musicians and artists including D'Angelo, James Poyser, J Dilla, Erykah Badu, Common, Bilal, and others like Q Tip, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, and...
2023-11-29 05:02:47 +0000 UTC View Post
James Brown had an influence on early hip hop in many ways, but the most obvious way is how early hip hop DJ's sampled his music. But was this… purely coincidence? Or was this a calculated move b...
2023-11-29 04:57:05 +0000 UTC View PostYouTube wouldn't let me include this side by side of The Beatles and EWF, so it was cut from the final video. Very cool to hear the different approaches to this song side by side. 2 great bass play...
2023-11-08 22:44:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Earth, Wind & Fire's cover of The Beatle's "Got To Get You Into My Life" is unlike any other Beatles cover. What makes it so good? Today I dive into the INSANE story behind it. We'll dive deep ...
2023-11-08 22:36:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Today I'm going to dig into the backstory of Ye's most important single, breaking down the production and sampling of it, recreating the song along the way, and show you why this song is one of the...
2023-11-07 19:54:46 +0000 UTC View Post