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'Everyone Nose' What You Do In The Bathroom With N*E*R*D

N*E*R*D's video for "Everyone Nose" has finally premiered. After seeing the sneak peek earlier this week, the video just seems like two more minutes of the same. Yawn. Lindsay Lohan's overly hyped up appearance in the clip was unnecessary at best, but what would an ode to nose candy be without her? Watch the video if you want to see some girl-on-girl action, Pharrell playing photog, Kanye playing Kanye, a raucous club scene, and blacked out frames replaced with 'Removed By Request'. I'm almost scared to find out what exactly they removed.


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Butta  |  05/14/2008 at 12:00 PM  |  Leave a Comment  |  Permalink

Media Watch

Inside The FADER's 'Icon' Issue with Aaliyah

The FADER's annual "Icon" issue has finally been released and we finally get to see what lies between the pages of this year's issue, dedicated to Aaliyah. Inside, Missy Elliott, Timbaland, Method Man, Cassie, Mark Ronson, Tank and more all recount their personal memories and thoughts on America's Babygirl. The entire magazine is available for download as a pdf, but you can check out some of the images after the bounce.

The FADER Issue 54 Free Download [FADER]

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nOvaMatic  |  05/14/2008 at 11:00 AM  |  Leave a Comment  |  Permalink

Morning Soul

Morning Soul: Not Just Knee Deep

• Jill Scott is going on tour to promote her new bra line. [JS]
  
• Ciara is jumping on the bandwagon and will be putting some "house" music on her next CD. When is this madness going to stop? [BB]
• Mariah Carey gushed to Ellen Degeneres about her hubby yesterday. [WSHH]
• Rumors of Nate Dogg's death have been greatly exaggerated. [ID]
• Kanye West already told us that when he got on he'd leave her ass for a white girl so are we really surprised at this? [PH]
  

Butta  |  05/14/2008 at 10:00 AM  |  Leave a Comment  |  Permalink

Top 100 Soul/R&B Songs

#69: Mary J. Blige 'Love No Limit'

To say that I'm a big Mary J. Blige fan would be an understatement. If you look back to 1992 and everyone else that was thriving at that time, then look at today, who's still standing? Growing Pains did 629k in its first week. As the vocal sample in "No One Else" says, "There is no competition..."

What's the 411? debuted in a year that also saw the release of Ooooooohhh...On the TLC Tip and SWV's It's About Time. All three of them employed a heavy dose of street appeal and Hip-Hop beats. But what set Mary's album apart was how she was able to ease out of the baggy jeans to capture the raw Soul of those that came before her, namely Chaka Khan. The Dave Hall-helmed "Love No Limit," specifically, seemed like a track better suited for the likes of Anita Baker, with a jazzy arrangement that primed it for Adult Contemporary radio. Even at such an early stage in her career, with everyone touting her as the consummate B-Girl (and eventual "Queen of Hip-Hop Soul," which would land her on the cover of The Source), Mary showed a versatility and a level of comfort in any musical setting that few since her debut have been able to emulate, no matter how hard they tried.

nOvaMatic  |  05/13/2008 at 6:00 PM  |  Comments (4)  |  Permalink

Name That Beat

Name That Beat: Volume 25

Welcome back to the 25th installment of Name That Beat! Last week's beat was a doozy, I will admit. Nevertheless, shabazz showed and proved that he had the goods and provided the correct answer. Charles Mingus' "Mingus Fingus No. 2" provided the beat for Organized Konfusion's "Stress." Good job, shabazz. That horn sample on "Stress" was tucked away on an already horn-laden track by Mingus.

ill Mami  |  05/13/2008 at 5:00 PM  |  Comments (2)  |  Permalink

Rap Snacks

Nicolay: The New Foreign Exchange Album is Almost Done

For anyone that hasn't had a chance to experience The Foreign Exchange's Connected album, you are missing out on one of the most finely executed, melodic and original Hip Hop albums to drop within the past few years. Dutch producer Nicolay and Little Brother's Phonte, who basically recorded the album via email and instant messenger and never saw each other in the studio, exuded the kind of chemistry reserved for teams that are attached at the hip. Fans have been on pins and needles waiting for the next FE project, and Nic noted in our interview with him that it was on the way, side-eyes be damned. He's a man of his word. Check out what he had to say recently on his Myspace page:

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nOvaMatic  |  05/13/2008 at 4:32 PM  |  Comments (2)  |  Permalink

First Spin, We Hear

Kanye Vs. Lupe? With Any Luck This is True

Not that we want anything to endanger the execution of the oft-mythologized CRS project, but this is too juicy not to post. According to HamptonRoads, Kanye got into it with Lupe Fiasco over a verse for the "Everyone Nose" remix, basically accusing Lulu of stealing from him.

The Neptunes were working on a remix to their single "Everyone Nose" with a verse from Lupe Fiasco. All was going fine until Kanye enters and hears Lupe's verse, which was all too similar to one he had spit not long ago. Ye lost it, accusing Lupe of stealing/finishing his verse -- and that Lupe had the opportunity when he'd looked in Kanye's rhyme book previously. Everyone in the crowded room was laughing, thinking it was a joke, but Ye continued on, basically causing a massive, Naomi-worthy row and P had to calm everything down.

Props to Pharrell for being the moderator in this scenario, what with him being accused of stealing on occasion. So that was real big of him and everything. Perhaps being surrounded by peers that also think he's crazy will cause Kanye to re-evaluate his attitude. Maybe. (Intel via Idolator)

nOvaMatic  |  05/13/2008 at 4:00 PM  |  Comments (3)  |  Permalink

Video SoulBounce

JD Gets all Kanye-Like on Usher's Behalf

You might want to turn down your speakers if you're at work watching this. In the following hilarious clip, Jermaine Dupri cuts a fool because Usher has to "share" a Billboard magazine cover with recent SESAC Award winner Danja. According to JD, this is "what's wrong with the music industry" when someone like Usher who has sold tens of millions of records and is the biggest R&B/Pop star to walk the earth since Jesus was a boy has to take a backseat to someone else. "No disrespect to who this is on the cover," JD says. It might worth pointing out that Danja produced "Appetite" for Here I Stand and "Migrate" for Mariah. I'm sure JD knows this.

nOvaMatic  |  05/13/2008 at 3:00 PM  |  Comments (2)  |  Permalink

Soul On Film

Casting the New 'Fame' Motion Picture

At first Fame was an Oscar Award-winning film in 1980, starring Debbie Allen and Irene Cara, that followed a group of kids at a performing arts high school in NY, who dance, sing and cry their way from "audition" to "graduation." Then, Fame was a television show that aired between 1982 and 1987, with Allen reprising her role as "Lydia Grant." The television version also saw stars like Janet Jackson and Nia Peeples drop by.

Fame went away and we forgot about it, but the reprieve wouldn't last long. Fame came back as a stage musical! The success of this lead to a futile spin-off/American Idol rip-off reality TV competition called Fame in 2003, with Debbie Allen as producer. But nobody liked it because the contestants, who were called upon to sing and dance, couldn't sing! This, we thought, would be the final nail in the coffin to this most effervescent of enterprises. But things come full circle, as they tend to do, and they are now in the process of holding an open casting call for a remake of the original Fame, to be released in theaters by Lakeshore/MGM.

Since it absolutely refuses to die with dignity, we've decided to do some fantasy casting. Just for shiggles. Also, I wish someone would bring back Gremlins. Or Melrose Place.

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nOvaMatic  |  05/13/2008 at 2:00 PM  |  Comments (2)  |  Permalink

Soul Cynic

Rumored Producers for Whitney's Comeback Proves Singers Over 40 Don't Get Out Much

Prepare for an imaginary fourth quarter "showdown" between Whitney Houston and that other troubled "Itney" in 2008. I swear, the fact that so many music sites are even uttering their names in the same sentence with regards to music makes me want to cancel my Internet. But this isn't about people inventing competition where there is none. This is about the geniuses behind Whitney's new album and their refusal to just let the woman release an album without hyping it's likely producers.

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nOvaMatic  |  05/13/2008 at 1:12 PM  |  Comments (1)  |  Permalink

Rewind

Happy Birthday, Stevie Wonder

How do you say 'happy birthday' to a man who actually wrote a "Happy Birthday" song? How do you put into words the impact he's had on R&B and soul music history? How do you pay all due respect to a global icon who's amassed more than thirty top ten hits, won a record twenty-five Grammy awards, an Academy award for Best Song and has been inducted into both the Rock & Roll and Songwriters halls of fame?

In fact, how do you thank the man who gave us "Isn't She Lovely" and "My Cherie Amour"? The man who took us to "Higher Ground," who had a "Part Time Lover" and dared anyone to question him about it? How do you do better than "Do I Do," "You Are the Sunshine of My Life," "Living for the City" and "I Was Made to Love Her"? How do you even begin to acknowledge the motion picture soundtracks to which he's contributed, the television shows on which he's appeared, the duets he's been a part of, the tribute songs he's inspired? How do you shout out his patented head sway, the beads, the hairline, the way he made the harmonica cool, his mastery of the keyboard, clavinet, et al?

If you're SoulBounce, you pay the ultimate respect by including his songs on our Top 100 countdown. And today, right now, we do it through words: Happy 58th Birthday, Steveland Hardaway Morris, aka Stevie Wonder!

What's your favorite Stevie song?  Let us know.

Harlem  |  05/13/2008 at 12:30 PM  |  Comments (12)  |  Permalink

Bounce-Worthy

Bounce-Worthy: Tawiah

Imagine my surprise after hearing "Watch Out" by British songstress Tawiah on numerous mixes last year only to hear an '80s Cameo-sounding banger ("Another One") on another mixtape recently. Still giddy from stumbling upon this hidden gem, there were more surprises in store when I also discovered Tawiah's EP In Jodi's Bedroom floating amongst the flotsam within the interwebs. Twenty-one-year-old Tawiah, who hails from South London, has a velvety voice that bends and twists on the songs that all range from the rock/'80s funk/soul which she has coined "twisted soul." Do yourself a favor and catch up on some hot Nu Soul by supporting this mohawked-dreadlocked soul sista and cop her album. Tawiah [MySpace][Amazon][iTunes]

ill Mami  |  05/13/2008 at 12:00 PM  |  Comments (3)  |  Permalink