What they call it? Synergy?
Sometimes things just come together..PERFECTLY?
I am Soca. Bess. Hold your Head Bess. Close your eyes and wine Bess.
Patrice Roberts is Iron wrapped in velvet - Strong and smooth...reminds me of her Savannah days..
Kerwin is cool, effortless melody.
The Mix is a goose pimple raising Synergy.
The lavway is sweet ...but not TOO sweet. then after you get over the voices..go a little deeper. The harmonies are intricate and unexpected ...not the standard.
Then...the lyrics...and Ode to Soca that could just as easy be a love song.
No hand in the air, no instructions, no OVERT sexuality. O_o Side EYE.
Synergy. I love it. I do. The women will love it.."Sometimes I feel like you don't appreciate meh.. I feel you hate meh"
And the men will know the words...:)
Written by Kerwin Dubois. Thank you Kerwin. I'm a fan. I think you're my shining Hope. Don't fail me. I don't care what people say. Yes you know who you are. Soca still has hope.
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Sometimes things just come together..PERFECTLY?
I am Soca. Bess. Hold your Head Bess. Close your eyes and wine Bess.
Patrice Roberts is Iron wrapped in velvet - Strong and smooth...reminds me of her Savannah days..
Kerwin is cool, effortless melody.
The Mix is a goose pimple raising Synergy.
The lavway is sweet ...but not TOO sweet. then after you get over the voices..go a little deeper. The harmonies are intricate and unexpected ...not the standard.
Then...the lyrics...and Ode to Soca that could just as easy be a love song.
No hand in the air, no instructions, no OVERT sexuality. O_o Side EYE.
Synergy. I love it. I do. The women will love it.."Sometimes I feel like you don't appreciate meh.. I feel you hate meh"
And the men will know the words...:)
Written by Kerwin Dubois. Thank you Kerwin. I'm a fan. I think you're my shining Hope. Don't fail me. I don't care what people say. Yes you know who you are. Soca still has hope.
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when I thought that I was strong
like driving on the highway....singing your favorite song out loud...to remind you that...everything is replaceable...nothing is permanent...even your mood...and that thing that seems like the focus of your world...it can all SHIFT!!
thanks Estelle ..:)
thanks Estelle ..:)
Today i feel, weak, and alone, and disconnected from ...well... it doesn't matter.
Its lonely and I try to reach out and I find air and glass.
It's worse because I'm making these huge decisions ...these scary, faith motivated moves based on my heart...and my Head is screaming at me...WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING??
So while I'm trying to run to Love...I see it behind a wall of plastic blocks..muddled and distorted when it was once a mirror, glass, air..
anyway...
things I feel RIGHT THIS MINUTE:
Everyone has an agenda. EVERYONE. The trick is to understand what the motivation is for their agenda as it pertains to you.
Love is not free...it costs...and the currency is SOULS.
Fear is a motivator...but it shouldn't be your director.
The people who you love have the most power to hurt you. Most times the risk is worth it. Some times its not.
Loneliness will not kill you...Being ALONE may crush you...
Hold on to the guy/girl who loves you MORE when you are not at your most amazing, or funny, or strong, or rational or creative. Hold on Forever!
Sometimes you must let everything Go. Let it go. Let it go.
Fantasy can feed you heart.....reality can crush it.
Sometimes they just don't love you...ENOUGH...
Don't listen to Adele's "Lovesong" when you feel weak or disconnected.
Its lonely and I try to reach out and I find air and glass.
It's worse because I'm making these huge decisions ...these scary, faith motivated moves based on my heart...and my Head is screaming at me...WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING??
So while I'm trying to run to Love...I see it behind a wall of plastic blocks..muddled and distorted when it was once a mirror, glass, air..
anyway...
things I feel RIGHT THIS MINUTE:
Everyone has an agenda. EVERYONE. The trick is to understand what the motivation is for their agenda as it pertains to you.
Love is not free...it costs...and the currency is SOULS.
Fear is a motivator...but it shouldn't be your director.
The people who you love have the most power to hurt you. Most times the risk is worth it. Some times its not.
Loneliness will not kill you...Being ALONE may crush you...
Hold on to the guy/girl who loves you MORE when you are not at your most amazing, or funny, or strong, or rational or creative. Hold on Forever!
Sometimes you must let everything Go. Let it go. Let it go.
Fantasy can feed you heart.....reality can crush it.
Sometimes they just don't love you...ENOUGH...
Don't listen to Adele's "Lovesong" when you feel weak or disconnected.
A friend of mine...well someone I thought was my friend, has apparently been saying some maybe truthful, but definitely hurtful things about me to some mutual friends.
That's really nothing new for me...but this person in particular I always believed would tell me the unkind things directly to my face if she felt it needed to be said.
I expected Hard truth from her...but Directly...not a susu.
I think...I KNOW..
.I'm more upset at having to hear these things from someone else, than even the CONTENT of what was said.
I could give a RATS ASS about her or their opinion of me and my life and choices. Shit everyone is entitled to their opinion...and not many people have been allowed to see the true interior of my life.
But I think I just lost a Hero...a personal one.
I expected better!
Steups...anyways...this inspired your music track today.
I think this is one of the most haunting tracks to exist EVER. I don't think you can listen to this and forget it...regardless of the lyrics.
I ran into this today because I was listening to Angie Stone' I wish Didn't Miss You, which is a powerful version too.
(What they do!)
(They smile in your face)
All the time they want to take your place
The back stabbers (back stabbers)
(They smile in your face)
All the time they want to take your place
The back stabbers (back stabbers)
All you fellows who have someone and you really care, yeah, yeah
Then it's all of you fellows who better beware, yeah yeah
Somebody's out to get your lady
A few of your buddies they sure look shady
Blades are long, clenched tight in their fist
Aimin' straight at your back
And I don't think they'll miss
(What they do!)
(They smile in your face)
All the time they want to take your place
The back stabbers (back stabbers)
I keep gettin' all these visits from my friends, yeah, what they doin to me
They come to my house again and again and again and again, yeah
So are they there to see my woman
I don't even be home but they just keep on comin'
What can I do to get on the right track
I wish they'd take some of these knives off my back
(They smile in your face)
All the time they want to take your place
The back stabbers (back stabbers)
Low down... dirty...
(What they do!)
(They smile in your face)
Smiling faces... smiling faces sometimes tell lies (Back stabbers)
(They smile in your face)
I don't need... low down, dirty bastards (Back stabbers)
That's really nothing new for me...but this person in particular I always believed would tell me the unkind things directly to my face if she felt it needed to be said.
I expected Hard truth from her...but Directly...not a susu.
I think...I KNOW..
.I'm more upset at having to hear these things from someone else, than even the CONTENT of what was said.
I could give a RATS ASS about her or their opinion of me and my life and choices. Shit everyone is entitled to their opinion...and not many people have been allowed to see the true interior of my life.
But I think I just lost a Hero...a personal one.
I expected better!
Steups...anyways...this inspired your music track today.
I think this is one of the most haunting tracks to exist EVER. I don't think you can listen to this and forget it...regardless of the lyrics.
I ran into this today because I was listening to Angie Stone' I wish Didn't Miss You, which is a powerful version too.
(What they do!)
(They smile in your face)
All the time they want to take your place
The back stabbers (back stabbers)
(They smile in your face)
All the time they want to take your place
The back stabbers (back stabbers)
All you fellows who have someone and you really care, yeah, yeah
Then it's all of you fellows who better beware, yeah yeah
Somebody's out to get your lady
A few of your buddies they sure look shady
Blades are long, clenched tight in their fist
Aimin' straight at your back
And I don't think they'll miss
(What they do!)
(They smile in your face)
All the time they want to take your place
The back stabbers (back stabbers)
I keep gettin' all these visits from my friends, yeah, what they doin to me
They come to my house again and again and again and again, yeah
So are they there to see my woman
I don't even be home but they just keep on comin'
What can I do to get on the right track
I wish they'd take some of these knives off my back
(They smile in your face)
All the time they want to take your place
The back stabbers (back stabbers)
Low down... dirty...
(What they do!)
(They smile in your face)
Smiling faces... smiling faces sometimes tell lies (Back stabbers)
(They smile in your face)
I don't need... low down, dirty bastards (Back stabbers)
So ..outside of her outrageous outfits and her surprisingly amazing insightful interview, Lady Gaga has kinda stayed off My personal radar. Partly because she reminds me of Marilyn Manson...as a woman...which somehow is scarier..
This SONG IS HARD!!!!!
Anyways..Pandora threw her into my playlist this morning...Specifically...Paper Gangsta....
My head was down and I was working and listening....but paying attention to the lyrics..
This SONG IS HARD!!!!!
oh my god...its not scary metaphoric trite not my experience lyrics either ...
it Goes:
midnight rush, with a pen in my hand
inkin' lincoln, sand-script with a fan
remembering me, before we began
sometimes I felt so def in the jam
but the ones who loved me, told me to stop
like homegirl can't catch shit if it drop
a superwoman chick, you know that I am
some shit don't fly by me in a man
'cause I do not accept any less
than someone just as real, as fabulous
don't want no paper gangsta
won't sign away my life to
someone whose got the flavor
but don't have no follow through
don't want no paper gangsta
won't sign no monkey papers
I don't do funny business
not interested in fakers
OMG...that hook is amazing.
I love the lack of music in the verses...its a plain piano chord...
Sometimes I feel so Def in the JAM?? WTH??
Is she Eminem's sister? Did she grow up in the Bronx? Does she write her own stuff?
Homegirl can't catch shit if it drop??
HUH? WHO IS THIS??? DOES SHE WRITE HER OWN LYRICS?????
Wont sign no Monkey papers.....
Won't sign away my life to someone who's got the flavor
but don't have no follow through....
thats a line Mary J. Blige would say back in the day...before she got happy and all..but thats another story.
ollo?
its TLC...in spandex...
Where the hell have I been?
and I'm serious I need to know if she writes her own stuff before I begin this GIRL CRUSH
So I guess I Can do Gaga...
I just have to ignore the videos....
and listen with my eyes closed..
I love the lack of music in the verses...its a plain piano chord...
Sometimes I feel so Def in the JAM?? WTH??
Is she Eminem's sister? Did she grow up in the Bronx? Does she write her own stuff?
Homegirl can't catch shit if it drop??
HUH? WHO IS THIS??? DOES SHE WRITE HER OWN LYRICS?????
Wont sign no Monkey papers.....
Won't sign away my life to someone who's got the flavor
but don't have no follow through....
thats a line Mary J. Blige would say back in the day...before she got happy and all..but thats another story.
got something really shiny to start
want me to sign there on your range rover heart
I've heard it before, yeah, the dinners were nice
'til your diamond words melted into some ice
you should been rapping to the beat of my song
mr. california, paper gangsta raw
I'm looking for love, not an empty page
full of stuff that means nothing but "you've been played
ollo?
its TLC...in spandex...
Where the hell have I been?
and I'm serious I need to know if she writes her own stuff before I begin this GIRL CRUSH
So I guess I Can do Gaga...
I just have to ignore the videos....
and listen with my eyes closed..
The Carnival Jumbie is a fickle one.
Artists trying to decide when to drop their songs for Road March - if its too early or too late?
Will the hype die out before its time for the Road?
Will it get so much play early up that people fed with it by the time its the top of the season.
And sometimes....
Sometimes you just hit flicking GOLD!
Enter.....................
Wotless
Here nuh....
People talk about formula. Call and Response. Hook. RPM's. Everything important.
Outside of Benjai's Trini....in terms of the songs that call out to the TRINIDADIAN sensibility....I don't think any thing tops this song this year.
We hear the rhythm alone....and then that melody - the Jig-like rhythm [Tobagonians you know what I talking about] and immediately we get that feeling in the belly that songs like Black Stalin - Feelin to party and Kitchener's Sugar Bum Bum - that immediately have people hands reaching to the sky, eyes closed, in their private celebration of being alive, of being Trinidadian, of being in that EXACT moment at that EXACT time - waiting for the drop..
Waiting...wait for it ,..Waiting ...wait for it...
and
Yeah ...we need the speed for the Road March,
the adrenaline rush too...yeah...
But sometimes...its the lavway, the chipping song, that captures the moment of carnival -
the innate connection that Trinidadians have to the music and to carnival and to each other...
and I'm not trying to be elitist....
but we BORN to that..
It's our genetic, cultural, innate sensitivity to it..
So when some one manages to combine that ORGANIC connection to the music, to carnival and to each other...the expression of how we feel about carnival...
"We feel like...we just win a million dollars..."
I went to a party last night and Back2 Basics [I was well waiting for the second set Basics :)]
While just running the percussion on Wotless - he aint even play the song yet- he was just teasing people with the rhythm - Teasing you...
anyways he said it best...[ah paraphrasing]
When its carnival season, you could pay for your costume and only have 2 cents left in your pocket....but when you on the road ...Yuh Rich
You can't go to all the fetes ...and you max out your credit card just to get the flight...and you don't know exactly where you staying...but you home...and your people next to you ...and you playing mas ...Yuh Rich..
You gone to every fete and you don't know how you paying the bills next week...but you don't care...Yuh Rich
Cause you feel like ....you just win a million dollars...
We Wotless....and we Love it..
God I love Soca.! <3
A dance is a FLIRT!!
ok.. I LOVE thisssss..why?
i wanna hold it like i hold mi mike when i sing once you satisfied
there's no reason to take of mi wedding ring This is the season for the wining
The only thing taking off tonight is mi shirt...cause all i wanna do is Flirt...
with no strings attached...
WOOIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII.....
i want the LYRICSSS!!!
-Disclaimer-
Ok...so her voice kinda weird in the track....like this can't be the final version. It not mixed all the way down..maybe this is a first take..
but
the elements there for me..
The lyrics - Pure Bad GIIRL..
YOU KNOW what im talking about ladies..
the song that you gonna stick your tongue out when you hear it..
and wine by yourself...
lol
Turn it round and put pressure on it..
Press Harder..press harder...
I THINK i like it.
-Disclaimer-
One of the most sampled songs on the Universe.
- Do Prisoners get to go online?? Should they? I mean they can do research on their case right? and wouldn't it be cool if they could use Skype to call their family of they run out of Phone cards or credits or whatever gets them access to the collect phone call? Wouldn't it be cool if they could write a blog about their life inside? Or write letters to their Kids and wives on the outside??
- Its so funny when you release things or people from you, immediately you start receiving energy that maybe had been there all along...??
- I wish I were at the beach. I keep having dreams of sunburn and LOVING IT.
- Is anybody REALLY working at their desk today?? like REALLY? FOR real for real??
- I think i FINALLY have a game plan for my return to the "Place".<----- More on that in the New Year.
- I have PLANS for the Old Year/New Year night. Kinda bubble gut, nerve wracking plans...but its exciting...
- And Finally: I'm posting this..cause...I love the song, I love the singer..the video is awesome...and the lyrics are amazing..and shit i like it.. and I've been listening to it all day..so let everybody else suffer too.'
:)
Morning World...
Life can be so cyclical. This is a post from my other blog....but Once again i feel the same way. This time though I actually found the song that I've been singin in my head all day...and back then too...
Can somebody play some parang??? SomeSignal Hill Alumni..."christmas coming yeah yeah yeah yeahhhh yeahhhhhhh "....
Im longing to hear bamboo bursting in the cool afternoons...When the days cleaning would finally slow down and the smell of lemon pledge and wood varnish would float out on the night air...
Im longing to smell fresh bread baking in the mornings...and see loaves of bread and sweetbread covered with towels and cooling on the counter. The days when pans of fruit sit soaking in rum....when the press for the pastels become the most prized possession and a day is dedicated to oiling it just right.... When the big decisions become...Olives or no...??
Im longing to walk into the market and smell the apples and grapes and pears on sale and KNOW...yes its Christmas in Trinidad... With vendors harassing you to buy their wares....when one just down the street would be selling the same thing...
I want to hear the box base and guitars playing in the neighbours house and know that soon it will be our turn to be the host.....When the rum in abundance in the cupboard will emerge...and the bucket of ice filled and the nuts and walnuts laid out....Its not Christmas without the cheese snacks for the kids...and the black cake for the adults.
OOOh that black cake....the recipes guarded like a honored possession...where sisters can tell the difference in who made the "batch" that were eating now....
I want to smell the ham baking in the oven...where children and adults alike keep turning the light on to peep at the skin...caramelizing in the oven...knowing that still there would be a wait while it cooled....but hoping that you were lucky enough to be around for the sample...
Can you remember the batter?? The left over goodness from the cakes?? who cared that the ingredients were raw?? The vanilla essence in that creamy batter was more than enough. Who can forget the smell of varnish and lemon pledge everywhere, the smell of fresh paint and linens brought out and left in the sun ....so that the very smell of them was island warmth.
This is the time of polishing silverware, or removing louvres, and cleaning cabinets. This was the time of lime on the cement outside the house, of polishing mahogany until you could see your face in it...Chores were aplenty...but it also meant opportunities to be good were too....
Florida's Cold....but not too cold today.
Kinda trapped indoors....but not all Day!
Yeah...:) I think i'm smiling ;)
Smile...
:) Thx.
Cee-lo's album the Lady killer is out now.
If you're a soul music fan..no..a good music fan...you MUST get it.
This album isn't called the Lady Killer because he is Mister Mac Daddy...slay them chicks.
it's way more clever.
He's telling us ladies...EXACTLY what we want to hear.
Imagine your prince charming,
a slinger of metaphor...
a creator of imagery...
with an Uncanny insight into your personal heart...
give him a singing voice..
and urban swagger...
Meet LADY KILLER!
its a dangerous must have album....
But
Be very careful ...you may get swept away in it....
It feels like love and summertime..
its an illusion....but a sexy, pretty, happy one.
Oooohhh... Hey Hey Hey Hey... I want you [x2] Hey, I love the night lifeYes I do it's so much funAnd before you know itAh here comes the sunSweetheart it's been real, but... The thrill is gone Silence is like a spiritThat picked my house to hauntBut I know it's there so I'm nonchalantYet deep inside I need what I want
And I want you to run away with me and experience something newAnything you've already done just won't doI want youAnd I want you to genuinely and sincerely want me tooYou can believe in my babyDon't be cruel'Cause I want you Would a trip to a remoted island ease your mindOh you look like a solitare every sunshineI like her 'cause she's funAnd she's fearlessShe's a friend of mine And I'm not trying to say that you need some helpOr you can have anything you want with your bad selfI like her 'cause she's smartBut she's still sexyShe is somethin' else
That's why I want you to run away with me and experience something newAnything you've already done just won't doI want youAnd I want you to genuinely and sincerely want me tooYou can believe in my baby, don't be cruel'Cause I want you Oooh... Oh one world to find a ladyThat happens to be three times the ladyGod is goodBut he took his time when he designed you babyThat's why I want you AndOh I'll even quit my jobLovin' you, I'll make it my jobThank you Lord, thank you lordThis is itMy god! That's why I want you 
:). k? K. :)
Last night somebody told me that you would be in town
I opened up my eyes and you were staring me down
I often think about the last times we spent together
Ummm hmmmmm
And sometimes
When no one was around and its just me
You serve a special parted memory
[x2:]
It's our dream to see
(oh baby)
You here with me
(I miss you)
After all this time
You're still fine
(Girl let's chill)
For the Weekend
(For the Weekend babe, I'd like to chill for the weekend)
This morning
I awake to find you next to me
Holding a long convesation over a green tea baby
we speak about the love before
Night before
And its killing me
(no way)
I Gotta let you leave
(Although)
But at least we know
That We made another memory
Of the Way you
Let me love you
Hold You
You've got me so in love
[Chorus:]
It's our dream to see
You here with me
(I miss you)
After all this time
(baby)
You're still fine
For the Weekend
(you and I)
I thank the man above
For my Weekend Love
[x2:]
It's our dream to see
You here with me
(can you believe)
After all this time
You're still fine
(on my mind)
For the Weekend
(So let's do you and me for the Week-end)
Baby that would be alright
I love this song. The resonance of Black Thoughts voice is so piercing...and the hook is a haunting floating gem of need and yearning and strength. The Roots are forever my go to band for authentic hip hop. My brand of hip hop. I wish they would come to Florida sometime..In fact I have a whole list of artists that never come to my side of town..sigh..Maybe I should start a petition.
This song though always beings back a memory of a guy that was never mine. lol. No seriously...I created a faux relationship in my head. And Yes i KNEW it was all imaginary. But in my HEAD this is what he would sing for me.
The Real situation was...he was a friend..who knew I was in a bad relationship...and would give me advice on how to deal with my impending heartbreak. As always...women transfer feelings ..when in truth he was just being a good friend.
I wonder if he ever figured out i had created this imaginary BLACK LOVE fest in my head..with him as Lead!???
Girls Are weird.
Chorus] x 2
(Erykah Badu)
If you were worried 'bout where
I been or who I saw or
what club I went to with my homies
baby don't worry you know that you got me
[Verse 1]
(Black Thought)
Somebody told me that this planet was small
we use to live in the same building on the same floor
and never met before
until I'm overseas on tour
and peep this ethiopian queen from philly
taking classes abroad
she studying film and photo flash focus record
said she workin on a flick and
could my click do the score
she said she loved my show in paris
at elise momarre
and that I stepped off the stage
and took a piece of her heart
we knew from the start that
things fall apart, intentions shatter
she like that shit don't matter
when I get home get at her
through letter, phone, whatever
let's link, let's get together
shit you think not, think the Thought went home and forgot
time passed, we back in philly now she up in my spa
tellin me the things I'm tellin her is makin her hot
startin buildin with her constantly round the clock
now she in my world like hip-hop
and keep tellin me
[Chorus] x2
[Verse 2]
(Black Thought)
Yo, I'm the type that's always catchin a flight
and sometimes I gotta be out at the height of the night
and that's when she flip and get on some 'ol
(Eve)
Another lonely night
seems like I'm on the side you only loving your mic
I know you gotta get that paper daddy keep that shit tight
but yo I need some sort of love in my life, you dig me
while politicin with my sister from new york city
she said she know this ball player and he think I'm pretty
sike, I'm playin boo, you know it's just wit you I'm stayin boo
and when cats be poppin game I don't hear what they sayin boo
when you out there in the world, I'm still your girl
with all my classes I don't have the time for life's thrills
so when you sweatin on stage think of me when you rhyme
and don't be listenin to your homies they be leavin you blind
(Black Thought)
Yeah, so what you sayin I can trust you?
(Female Voice)
Is you crazy, you my king for real
(Both)
But sometimes relationships get ill
(Female Voice)
No doubt
[Chorus] x2
[Verse 3]
(Black Thought)
Thet snake could be that chick
and that rat could be that cool cat
that's whispering "she tryin to play you for the fool Black"
if something's on your chest then let it be known
see I'm not your every five minutes all on the phone
and on the topic of trust, it's just a matter of fact
that people bite back and fracture what's intact
and they'll forever be I ain't on some "oh I'm a celebrity"
I deal with the real so if it's artificial let it be
I've seen people caught in love like whirlwinds
listening to they squads and listening to girlfriends
that's exactly the point where they whole world ends
lies come in, that's where that drama begins, she like
[Chorus]
This song makes me smile :)
The Greatness - Raheem Devaughn featuring Wale
