What are you listening to? [YT Clips]

[JonnyFantastico]

With the forced delay of her highly anticipated album called, "All I Want Is Everything" (which has since been retitled, "Jumping Trains"), JoJo decided to release a mix tape for her fans entitled, "Can't Take That Away From Me". On it, she decided to try a bunch of different music styles that she personally enjoyed, but had never really worked with considering her pop star status.

This was released as the lead single from that mixtape; a very sultry, sensual and sexual side that she had never experimented before. The result: an a-freaking-mazing (!) track that showed her personal growth not only as an artist, but as a woman.

"This ain’t the first or last time
We’ll meet up this late at night
To let our fates intertwine
Casually I’d rather be
Detached from all tragedy
This don’t need to be defined

And I know that it’s wrong; I do, I do
Baby keep holding on
I do, I do
Yeah, I know that it’s wrong; I do
When the sun comes up, I’ll be gone

I only know him in the dark..."​

 

[ax9871]

 

[Daedalus]

 

[Daedalus]

 

[serlud]

Special for Lou.....and my close friend Serlud.


This makes me really quiet.

Thank foe best video it's very nice. This clip is for you

 

[Bixel]

 

[shareyou]

Born this way

 

[Bixel]

 

[jeansGuyOZ]

Brian Wilson - Smile

The world had to wait 38 years for this album, but wow, it was worth the wait.

 

[Daedalus]

 

[Bixel]

 

[wonton930]

In tribute to the start of another round of Beyonce publicity touring, Major Lazer's Pon de Floor.

 

[Shadow]

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This is not the original Ink Spots, but an off shoot. The lead singer is Jimmy Holmes, fantastic voice. Love the guy playing the cello like a double bass.

When I was a kid I found a 78rpm record of Whispering Grass and have loved their music ever since. Now a new generation of young kids have found the songs thanks to some being used in Computer games. ie Fallout = I don't want to set the World on fire.

 

[JonnyFantastico]

Now, if you've ever followed my posts here, you know that I'm not the biggest fan of hip-hop; it's not really my cup of musical tea. Considering most of the songs seem to celebrate a life I would never have any interest of living, I tend to stay away from it.

Even worse, this particular artist really seems to annoy the holy Hell out of me. He's actually someone who doesn't usually record songs about gang banging, banging "hos" or anything of that nature, his attitude tends to bother me and quite a few others.

But with that being said, when he first came out, he had a couple of songs that really sort of touched my spirit and made me think... and in some truth, brought tears to my eyes. There's a lot of honesty in his work; I will give him that. Some of it is a very harsh truth, especially living here in NYC and many other urban places. But even with those realities, there's a bit of hope in these words. I'm actually going to post two of his videos and the complete lyrics to these songs... maybe it will give you a better view of who I am (as if most of you didn't know who I was already. :rofl.

[Chorus - 4x]

Oh when it all, it all falls down
I'm telling you ohh, it all falls down

[Verse - Kanye West]

Man I promise, she's so self conscious
She has no idea what she's doing in college
That major that she majored in don't make no money
But she won't drop out, her parents will look at her funny

Now, tell me that ain't insecure
The concept of school seems so secure
Sophmore three years; ain't picked a career
She like "fuck it, I'll just stay down here and do hair"

Cause that's enough money to buy her a few pairs of new Airs
Cause her baby daddy don't really care
She's so precious with the peer pressure
Couldn't afford a car, so she named her daughter Alexis

She had hair so long that it looked like weave
Then she cut it all off; now, she look like Eve
And she be dealing with some issues that you can't believe
Single black female addicted to retail and well

[Chorus - repeat 2x (w/ Kanye ad-libs)]

[Verse - Kanye West]

Man I promise, I'm so self conscious
That's why you always see me with at least one of my watches
Rollies and Pasha's done drove me crazy
I can't even pronounce nothing, "Pass that Versa-ce!"

Then I spent 400 bucks on this
Just to be like "Nigga, you ain't up on this!"
And I can't even go to the grocery store
Without some Ones that's clean and a shirt with a team

It seems we living the American dream
But the people highest up got the lowest self esteem
The prettiest people do the ugliest things
For the road to riches and diamond rings

We shine because they hate us, floss cause they degrade us
We trying to buy back our 40 acres
And for that paper, look how low we'll stoop
Even if you in a Benz, you still a nigga in a coop/coupe

[Chorus - repeat 2x (w/ Kanye ad-libs)]

[Verse - Kanye West]

I say "fuck the police", that's how I treat 'em
We buy our way out of jail, but we can't buy freedom
We'll buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need 'em
Things we buy to cover up what's inside

Cause they make us hate our self and love they wealth
That's why shorties hollering "where the ballas' at?"
Drug dealer buy Jordans, crackhead buy crack
And a white man get paid off of all of that

But I ain't even gon' act holier than thou
Cause fuck it, I went to Jacob with 25 thou
Before I had a house and I'd do it again
Cause I wanna be on 106 and Park pushing a Benz

I wanna act ballerific like it's all terrific
I got a couple past due bills, I won't get specific
I got a problem with spending before I get it
We all self conscious I'm just the first to admit it

[Chorus - to fade (w/ Kanye ad-libs)]​

 

[JonnyFantastico]

And now, for the second video... which was actually Kanye's first single. There's a couple of reasons why this song actually makes me teary...

1. Kanye was originally a producer and writer for some very popular artists (Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, etc.) before finally being noticed and given a record contract. While recording this album ("The College Dropout"), Kanye was in a very serious car crash that nearly killed him. He explains it in this song. The reason why his words sounds a bit mumbled are because his jaw was wired shut (it's also the reason for his very noticeable jaw).

2. The song he samples, "Through The Fire" by Chaka Khan, was the song he played through out his healing process. He says the song helped him to get through the hardest moments.

3. The very simple, yet emotionally jarring video features pictures and videos of his recovery.

4. Although a bit sad, the song is probably one of the most hopeful and raw; lyrically speaking. It makes me a bit teary (as it's doing right now).

(The lyrics in parenthesis are of Chaka's "Through The Wire" which Kanye speaks over.)

Yo G they can't stop me from rapping can they?
Can they, huh?

[Chorus:]
(Through the fire, to the limit, to the wall
For a chance to be with you, I'd gladly risk it all
Through the fire, through whatever come what may
For a chance at loving you, I'd take it all away
Right down through the wire, even through the fire)

I spit it through the wire man
To much stuff on my heart right now, man
I'll gladly risk it all right now
It's a life or death situation, man
Y'all don't really understand how I feel right now, man
It's your boy Kanye to the....
Chi-Town, what's going on

[Verse 1:]
I drink a Boost for breakfast; an Ensure for desert
Somebody ordered pancakes, I just sip the sizzurp
That right there could drive a sane man berserk
Not to worry ya'll; Mr. H 2 the Izzo's back to wizzerk

How do you console my mom or give her light support
When you telling her your son's on life support
And just imagine how my girl feel
On the plane scared as hell that her guy look like Emmett Till

She was with me before the deal; she been trying to be mine
She a Delta, so she been throwing them Dynasty signs
No use me tryin' to be lyin'; I been trying to be signed
Trying to be a millionaire; how I use two lifelines

In the same hospital where Biggie Smalls died
The doctor said I had blood clots
But I ain't Jamaican, man
Story on MTV and I ain't trying to make the band
I swear this right here is history in the making, man

[Chorus]

I really apologize how I sound right now, man
If it's unclear at all, man
They got my mouth wired shut for like I don't know; the doctor said for like six weeks
You know we had reconstru....
I had reconstructive surgery on my jaw
I looked in the mirror; half my jaw was in the back of my mouth man
I couldn't believe it
But I'm still here for you all right now for ya'll, man
This is what I gotta say; right here, yo
Yeah, turn me up yeah

[Verse 2:]
What if somebody from the Chi that was ill got a deal on the hottest rap label around
But he wasn't talking bout coke and birds; it was more like spoken word
Except he really putting it down

And he explained the story about how blacks came from glory
And what we need to do in the game
Good dude, bad night; right place, wrong time
In the blink of an eye, his whole life changed

If you could feel how my face felt you would know how mace felt
Thank God I ain't too cool for the safe belt
I swear to God; driver two on the sue
I got lawyer for the case to keep whats in my safe... safe

My dawgs couldn't tell if I
I look Tom Cruise on "Vanilla Sky", it was televised
There's been an accident like GEICO
They thought I was burnt up like Pepsi did Michael

I must got a angel
Cause look how death missed his ass
Unbreakable, would you thought they called me; Mr. Glass?
Look back on my life like the ghost of Christmas past
"Toys 'R Us" where I used to spend that Christmas cash

And I still wont grow up, I'm a grown ass kid
Swear I should be locked up for stupid shit that I did
But I'm a champion, so I turned tragedy to triumph
Make music that's fire; spit my soul through the wire

[Chorus]

Know what I'm saying
When the doctor told me I had a um.. I was going to have a plate on my chin
I said "Dawg, don't you realize I'll never make it on the plane now
Its bad enough I got all this jewelry on!"
She can't be serious, man...

Through the fire
To the limit
Through the fire
Through the fire...​

 

[ardan]

 

[ardan]

 

[kikinka]

 

[prinz4ming]

I am so in love with the guy with the shaved sides and back who is mostly just behind her on her right P

 

[lou]

K-OS Hip Hop from Toronto