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Rest well cousin, Tim.  You had it all. Drugs kill.

When your soul needs to get a little funked up, check out these funky soul classics.

Funk Outta Here

Juicy Fruit - Mtume (1983)

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For a guy who really did have death hanging over him, Tupac Shakur sounds no more troubled than usual on All Eyez on Me, his sort-of swan song. (It was the rapper’s final release before his September 1996 death, though his catalog, of course, would continue to grow.) If anything, he seems more resolute than ever to ride the gangsta dream down. The old cautions that young wannabes might reconsider the lifestyle are missing from the double album’s two-plus hours, unless you count the AIDS drama of “Wonda Why They Call U Bitch.” “2 of Amerika’s Most Wanted,” a duet with new Death Row labelmate Snoop Dogg, alternates descriptions of a great party and the vow that “I keep my hand on my gun ’cause they got me on the run.” Moments of real peace — a rumbling remix of the Dr. Dre/Roger Troutman collabo “California Love” the most notable — are few and far between on this street tract. 2Pac became the unlikely martyr of gangsta rap, and a tragic symbol of the toll its lifestyle exacted on urban black America. At the outset of his career, it didn't appear that he would emerge as one of the definitive rappers of the '90s — he started out as a second-string rapper and dancer for Digital Underground, joining only after they had already landed their biggest hit. But in 1991, he delivered an acclaimed debut album, 2Pacalypse Now, and quickly followed with a star-making performance...

Run Tha Streets

Bootsy Collins - I'd Rather Be With You CDQ

Kind Ain't Easy walks the hard road between grace and grit. These songs tell stories of people who've seen life up close - their scars, their laughter, their stubborn tenderness all laid bare in the dust and the rain. The album moves through love's heat and heartbreak, through the quiet ache of being misunderstood, through the long work of staying gentle in a rough-edged world. Each track carries a soul worn but unbroken, searching for redemption not in heaven but in human hands. The sound leans bluesward - raw and honest - with country weaving through it like the slow hum of a backroad engine.

Half the voices here are women, half men, but all speak from the same bone - each one wrestling mercy out of the mess. From the defiant strength of "Half Silk, Half Blade" to the hushed longing of "Safe Haven," from the haunted tenderness of "War Child Blues" to the unguarded sensuality of "You Make Music Out of Me," the album stands where love, pain, and resilience meet. Kind Ain't Easy is a hymn for those who've learned compassion the hard way - through loss, through labor, through the courage to stay kind when kindness costs the most.

Kind Ain't Easy

All kind of the time, leaks through the death.

Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come

Rick James - Mary Jane

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