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A Few Thoughts On Why Yuna's Existence May 'Call' For A Celebration

Yuna Zarai, the sweet, soft-spoken Malay singer-songwriter first introduced to us on the Pharrell-produced "Live Your Life," a two-ton feather of a song reminiscent of the Neptunes' late-'90's work (I say "Pharrell-produced" because at this point, we all know P....

Remi | 05/15/2012 at 11:30 AM | Comments () | Permalink

I Was There

R&B Stars Shine At 2012 SESAC Pop Music Awards

Last night, at the Skylight Soho in NYC, the music industry came out to celebrate a slew of producers, songwriters and publishers affiliated with SESAC at the performance rights organization's 2012 Pop Music Awards event. Among the big names walking...

Remi | 05/11/2012 at 4:00 PM | Comments () | Permalink

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Serato Honors 'Icon,' Artist, DJ Erykah Badu

The great thing about Erykah Badu is her constant shapeshifting -- when you launch a Badu video (interview, performance, or promo clip), you never know what Badu look you're gonna get. And if it's in an interview or performance setting,...

Remi | 05/10/2012 at 1:45 PM | Comments () | Permalink

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Watch Whitney 'Sparkle' In This First Look At Her Final Movie

Just over a month after her untimely passing (and over a week after its official causes were revealed), the trailer to Whitney Houston's final motion picture Sparkle premiered this morning on NBC's Today show. It's all too sickeningly familiar. Icon...

Remi | 04/02/2012 at 4:00 PM | Comments () | Permalink

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Does D'Banj's 'Oliver Twist' Video Live Up To The Hype?

Full disclosure: unlike 95% of people who've set foot on African soil in the last decade, I've never been much of a D'Banj fan. So when I visited Lagos, Nigeria last November, he was the last artist I expected to...

Remi | 03/19/2012 at 3:30 PM | Comments () | Permalink

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Jennifer Hudson Shows Ne-Yo & Rick Ross She's The 'Man'

As Jennifer Hudson continued putting out Weight Watchers videos with the prolific gusto of a pre-BHO bin Laden, the visual-obsessed peanut gallery (read: folks like me) wondered when she'd finally use this new frame of hers in the service of...

Remi | 03/01/2012 at 11:30 AM | Comments () | Permalink

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Jon B. Comes Back With Another Good 'One'

After a three-year absence, R&B crooner Jon B. is back with his (regrettably titled) seventh studio album, Comfortable Swagg, and the video for the lead single "Only One." Having blamed the underperformance of his last few albums on poor label backing,...

Remi | 02/22/2012 at 11:00 AM | Comments () | Permalink

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Five Reasons We're Disappointed In Madonna's "Luvin''

When word got out that Madonna would be kicking off the MDNA album cycle with a collaboration with M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj, expectations ran high -- it was either going to be oddball pop perfection or misguided, posturing garbage. The...

Remi | 02/06/2012 at 5:00 PM | Comments () | Permalink

Video SoulBounce

Get 'Stupid' With Bez's New Video

On listening to Bounce-Worthy artist Bez's 2011 debut album, Super Sun, we were instantly taken with brilliantly Legend-esque uptempos like "Say" and the title track, and the mournful standouts "More You" and the Sade-evocative "Stronger." But a near-universal favorite in...

Remi | 02/01/2012 at 2:00 PM | Comments () | Permalink

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SoulBounce Honors 2011's Song Of The Year: Eric Roberson's 'Picture Perfect'

When I first heard Eric Roberson's follow-up to the GRAMMY-nominated Music Fan First was to be titled Mister Nice Guy, I expected an album's worth of jaded, somewhat bitter reflections on the injustice that is Roberson's relatively low profile in...

Remi | 12/29/2011 at 7:00 PM | Comments () | Permalink

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SoulBounce Honors 2011's Woman Of The Year: Jill Scott

Having closed out 2010 by participating in a landmark ensemble performance of Nina Simone's "Four Women" at the Black Girls Rock gala, Jill Scott had tongues wagging from the top of this year. From her recent weight loss to her...

Remi | 12/29/2011 at 6:00 PM | Comments () | Permalink

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Janelle Monáe Shows Us What A Prize She Is

Recently, word got out that Janelle Monáe was working on not one but two new albums to be released in 2012. Sure, we know such back-to-back releases never materialize (ask Maxwell and E. Badu), but as long as she doesn't go...

Remi | 12/20/2011 at 11:00 AM | Comments () | Permalink

Rewind

SoulBounce's Class of 1991: Naughty By Nature 'Naughty By Nature'

Before Naughty By Nature, hip hop was a pretty different place, and its artists a little more one-note. Your beats were menacing or they were lighthearted; your subject matter political or party-oriented. Then three boys from East Orange, New Jersey...

Remi | 12/08/2011 at 8:00 PM | Comments () | Permalink

First Spin

Will Mariah Carey & John Legend Put You In The 'Christmas' Spirit?

Bah humbug. Hot on the heels of reworking her modern holiday classic "All I Want for Christmas is You" with teen queen Justin Bieber, Mariah Carey continues her bid to become permanent Pope of Christmastown with her corresponding appeal to...

Remi | 11/17/2011 at 2:00 PM | Comments () | Permalink

Rewind

SoulBounce's Class Of 1991: Michael Jackson 'Dangerous'

As an addition to Michael Jackson's commercial catalog, Dangerous was doomed from the jump. As the first product delivered under Jackson's record-setting $65-million contract with Sony, it was meant to restore him to juggernaut form after the relatively disappointing sales...

Remi | 11/15/2011 at 7:00 PM | Comments () | Permalink

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Gettin' Down With The 'Kings,' As Crowned By Borbay

On Wednesday night, after a glut of media coverage and unanimously positive reviews, artist Borbay closed the showing of his #KingsOfHipHop show at Publicis Modem in NYC. His collection depicts the seven arguably most successful hip-hop artists working today, wryly...

Remi | 10/06/2011 at 11:00 AM | Comments () | Permalink

First Spin

Robin Thicke Shows Us There Is 'Love After War'

Robin Thicke is back on the scene again with "Love After War," the title track off his upcoming fifth album. On the track that borrows heavily from Blackstreet's 1994 single "Joy," Thicke croons about the sometimes-tender, sometimes-turbulent turns of an...

Remi | 10/04/2011 at 11:00 AM | Comments () | Permalink

Reviews

Van Hunt Isn't Giving You What You Were 'Hoping For,' But You'll Eat It And Like It

After the last-minute label drama that saw his planned third album Popular yanked from record store-bound delivery trucks, the Van Hunt of What Were You Hoping For? seems a little darker; a little more world-weary. Right. Because he was Mary...

Remi | 09/27/2011 at 12:00 PM | Comments () | Permalink

Reviews

Take A Trip To Lenny Kravitz's 'Black And White America'

Lenny Kravitz is not an album artist. Then again, he isn't a consistently strong singles artist either. He is a talented songwriter, though prone to cheesy, overly precious lyrics. And if the critics are to be believed, he's neither R&B...

Remi | 08/30/2011 at 12:00 PM | Comments () | Permalink

Art & Soul, Video SoulBounce

When Erykah, Jaybo & Miki 'MADE' A Moment In Berlin

Earlier this month, Erykah Badu was invited to bask in the adoration of classical composer Mihalj "Miki" Kekenj, and French-trained German artist Jaybo at Berlin's famed MADE space. With Miki's somewhat more traditional take and Jaybo's more street-leaning style (from...

Remi | 08/23/2011 at 11:00 AM | Comments () | Permalink

First Spin

Asa's 'Dreamer Girl' Shows Her Imperfections

When Nigerian-Parisienne Asa (pronounced Asha) burst on the scene in '08, it was with the socially conscious one-two punch of "Jailer" and "Fire on the Mountain." Her music transcended language -- with some of her Yoruba-language tracks becoming the most...

Remi | 08/15/2011 at 11:00 AM | Comments () | Permalink

First Spin

Teedra Moses Really Didn't Need 'Another' Version Of This Song

Teedra Moses, with five mixtapes to her one major-label release, is back with anuthr another banger. Or at least, she was, when this this track was first released with her latest effort, Luxurious Undergrind....

Remi | 08/12/2011 at 11:00 AM | Comments () | Permalink

A Soulful Noise

Motownphilly's Back Again...Soon

I've never been a conscious fan of Boyz II Men. Like my appendix, tonsils, and vestigial tail, I didn't know what the quartet meant to me until they were gone. Thanks to the worship of a Wanya-crazy sister, I did...

Remi | 07/27/2011 at 3:00 PM | Comments () | Permalink

Reviews

Beyoncé's '4' Puts Her At A Precarious Crossroads

Almost a month before the release of her fourth studio album, 4, Beyoncé found herself in an unfamiliar position -- lead single "Run The World (Girls)" failed to catch on with audiences, igniting (at least in the minds of the...

Remi | 06/28/2011 at 1:00 PM | Comments () | Permalink

Soul Cynic, Video SoulBounce

Is Kanye's 'Monster' Too Much, Too Little, Too Late?

With the official release of the video for Kanye West's "Monster," I'm reminded of the arguments I had when the first version leaked at the tail end of last year, wherein I yelled how that version was in no way...

Remi | 06/07/2011 at 2:00 PM | Comments () | Permalink

First Spin

Does '1+1' = Beyoncé?

There is unrest in Casa Knowles. After the world failed to collapse on itself for her latest effort in vampy fempowerment, Team Beyoncé has gone on the offensive. Yes, she showed up and showed out with a three-pronged media assault...

Remi | 05/26/2011 at 1:00 PM | Comments () | Permalink

Video SoulBounce

Jill Scott Shows Us What 'Love' Looks Like On 'Light Of The Sundays'

This past weekend, Essence.com revealed the second edition in their continuing "Jill Scott: Light of the Sundays" series. This time, we're getting a behind-the-scenes look at the "So In Love" video shoot with Anthony Hamilton. Looks like the folks at...

Remi | 05/16/2011 at 11:00 AM | Comments () | Permalink

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