Today is the late Marvin Gaye‘s birthday. Coincidentally he died a day before his birthday, in 1984.
He’s had so many hits that of course his songs were sample by the following artists:
Kanye West- “Spaceships”, College Dropout album sampled from “Distant Lover”
Robin Thicke, T.I. & Pharrell- “Blurred Lines”, sampled from “Got To Give It Up”
The Jackson- “Shake Your Body”, Sampled from “Got To Give It Up”
Ja Rule & Ashanti- “Mesmerized”, Sampled from “Stop Look, Listen”
Smilez & Superstar- “Tell Me”, Sampled from “Stop, Look, Listen”
Method Man & Mary J Blige- “All I Need”, sampled from “All I Need To Get By”
Chris Brown- “Back To Sleep”, sampled from “Sexual Healing”
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Thats just to name a few artists who sampled the GOAT music. He was Inducted in the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame in 1987 and Received a star on the Hollywood Hall of Fame in 1990.
I know I wasn’t even thought of when his music was released but I have an old soul and appreciate older music!
Today marks the 21 years that the Notorious BIG was murdered in Los Angeles. His music continues to live on and murder case is still unsolved.
Lately, there has been a lot of Biggie unsolved murder series showing on television; from Biggie: The Life of Notorious, to Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and Notorious BIG to Oxygen network shows and plenty more, PLUS the movie that came out in 2009, which was a good film; but it’s a bit overwhelming. It’s like the network are blatantly trying to make money off the unsolved murder (including Tupac) and to me, reopening the wounds of his loved ones, like his mother, ex-wife and more importantly his children. I feel like the case could be handled out of the public without creating television shows about it. I appreciate the perspective but it’s becoming a bit too much. Overall, I hope the murder does get solved.
Some of Biggie’s hits are “Juicy”, “Hypnotize”, “Big Poppa”, “Party & Bullshit”, “Who Shot Ya”, “Mo Money Mo Problems” and several more. Use this day to play all your Biggie hits if you’re a hip hop fan.
Happy 30th birthday to the successful singer and businesswoman.
Rihanna had a successful year last year when she launched her Fenty makeup line in September 2017 and racked up $72 million in the first month!! Fenty was also named one of the best inventions of 2017, by TIME magazine.
She also raised over $2 billion for Senegal. Her album Anti, released in 2016, has beat Katy Perry for the most #1 singles in a Dance Club songs. She’s even got a street named after her in her home town of Barbados!!
She is pawpin!!! (poppin) and can only go up from here. Happy Birthday Ri Ri Boo!
Todays Black History Fact is about Eartha Kitt. She was the original singer of the Christmas hit “Santa Baby” and was the first Black Catwoman in the Batman and Robin series in the 1960s.
Eartha also played in Boomerang as Lady Eloise, Madame Zeroni in Holes and the voice of Yzma in The Emperor’s New Groove which won her an Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Female Performer in an Animated Feature Production. She’s been on television and in movies since the late 1940s (uncredited).
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Eartha acted in films up until a year before she passed in 2008 from colon cancer.
May her recognition live on and may she Rest In Peace.
I’m an old head at heart and The Temptations is one of my favorite oldies groups: so when I heard that Dennis Edwards passed away on Friday, it was kinda sad. He would’ve been 75 years old today.
If you aren’t familiar with Dennis, he was a lead singer in The Temptations, who replaced David Ruffin in the late 1960s. He was the lead singer on “Papa was a Rolling Stone“ and also sang on other songs such as “Ain’t Too Proud To Beg” “Just My Imagination” “I wish it Would Rain” “I Can’t Get Next To You” and plenty more. You may remember his song “Don’t Look Any Further” :
Not to mention, he stayed in St. Louis after his fame. He even was staying in North County (Stl lango). Dennis did an interview back 2011, talking about moving back to St.Louis:
He will definitely be remembered for his powerful voice and hit songs.
I tuned in to the Grammys last night and I was happy about the performances buuuuuut disappointed at some of the wins.
For instance, I LOVE SZA, so of course I was rooting for her to win at least 1 out of the 5 Grammys she was nominated for, ESPECIALLY for Best New Artist, but for some reason….Alessia Care won. Alessia’s definitely been active in the music scene for about three ish years, versus SZA who’s been dropping low key EPs but had a BOOMING year in 2017. For the Best R&B performance category, even though SZA was nominated, it was a given that Bruno was going to win because…well he’s Bruno.
For Best Urban Contemporary Album category, that was a toughy, but I don’t think The Weeknd should’ve snagged that one and I listened to that album. I would’ve gave it to at least Childish Gambino, even Khalid and especially SZA. When you think about it…why wasn’t Kehlani’s SweetSexySavage album nominated under this category. I definitely LOVED that album and I had never listened to any of her music prior to that album. Also, why the helllllllllllllllllll wasn’t Heartbreak on a Full Moon nominated. We ALL know that Chris KILT the album. Yes, it was a lengthy album but well-deserving of a Grammy The category for Best R&B Album was a given because Bruno was in that category but I feel like 24k Magic wasn’t all R&B. It had funk in it, which is cool, but I feel like they put him in wayyyy too many categories.
The Best Rap Performance was given to Kendrick Lamar for Humble, but he was in competition with Cardi B for Bodak Yellow and Migos for Bad and Boujee. I would’ve been happier if one of the two won. Kendrick also won Best Rap/Sung Performance for Loyalty, Best Rap Song for Duckworth AND Best Rap Album for DAMN. Of course I’m glad he won, “For The Culture” but damn…literally; Cardi, Migos and SZA could’ve snagged an award from those categories.
I will say that I liked Kendrick’s performance, it was dope AF. Ri Ri was shaking a lil something and my girl SZA sang one of my favs “Broken Clocks. Childish Gambino performed some song, and his vocals were on point! And OF COURSE Bruno & Cardi KILT their performance of Finesse Remix.
Overall review of the awards: good performances, not so good winners.
I LOVED the NAACP Image awards last night, not only for the black excellence but for the winners as well.
The show started out with Anthony Anderson hosting and telling a few jokes. He actually took home the award for Outstanding Actor in a Comedy TV Series for Blackish.
The first winner was Octavia Spencer winning the Outstanding Actress Award for a Drama Movie in Gifted
Girls Trip won for best Motion Picture. (Tiffany Haddish had a good year last year.)
The show Black-ish won for Outstanding Comedy TV Series.
Tracee Ellis Ross won for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series for Black-ish
(How dope, the TV comedy couple won.)
Omari Hardwick won for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series for Power.
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The show won for Power Outstanding Drama Series.
The actress Naturi Naughton won for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series for Power.
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Taraji P. Henson won for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for Empire
Charlie Wilson was awarded the Make A Difference Award for raising awareness to homelessness in America.
Daniel Kaluuya, won for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture, for Get Out, which was his first award.
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Jay Ellis won Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his role in Insecure.
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My fav SZA won for Outstanding new artist
Bruno Mars won for Outstanding traditional song AND Outstanding Music Video/Visual Album
It was really nice seeing some of my favorite shows nominated and even winning well-deserved awards. Hopefully “the Academy” will pick up on their great talent and ALL of these winners will be nominated for the Oscars.
Danii Gold 