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The 2nd single off of Grieves' album Together/Apart. Produced by Budo.


Grieves - Bloody Poetry

Remix of Musiq Soulchild's "Just Friends"

Free download: http://get.tndn.io/l/99CamIkAJW

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Just Friends

Chaka Khan - Aint Nobody

Chaka Chan  I know you I love you 試聴トラック

Chaka khan i know you i love you sample

Seraphim Suite are DJs Jeremy Healy & Amos with Mica Paris on vocals.
Full Vocal Mix and Dub Mix; Label Three 8; Year 2004

Seraphim Suite ft. Mica Paris - Over (Sinewave Surfers 4AM Mix) Three 8

prod. Young Chop, Plu2o Nash,  Chance The Rapper & The Social Experiment.



Stevie Wonder

"Stevie Wonder" ft Chance The Rapper

Chaka Khan - Miss My Love (CAZZETTE BOOTLEG)

In honor of the latest edition of "A Moment In Rhymesayers" video series, which focuses on Headshots tape #4: History, we wanted to post up a track from the tape. No song seemed more fitting and perfect than Soul Eqlipse "Think". "History" was recorded and released for, as well as, is dedicated to Soul Eqlipse/Abstract Pack/Headshots member Sess, who had passed away earlier that year. Soul Eqlipse was a group that consists of two members of The Abstract Pack; Sess and Glo. We asked Glo to give us his memories on the song "Think" below. Check out this special video and dedication to Sess here: bit.ly/RSE20YT

In my opinion that was the best song we've ever written together as Soul Eqlipse, because it was the realest! Every song we ever wrote was about rippin MCs or how hip hop we were and when I presented the concept to Sess he was with it. It's also IMO that his verse on there is one of, if not the, realest he's ever written. He was brutally honest about his drinking and smoking habit, and how/why he did it. He gives advice that he was never given about some things people should think about before they chose a religion, etc… But, also the fact that he has all this wisdom about these things, but didn't "have the balls" to follow through with what he knows that could save his life. Ironically, after we wrote the song and had performed it a couple of times, Sess started really trying to slow down a little for his sons, being an even better father, and in his life in general. That song also showed me the power of substance in MC'ing vs. just rappin for me. As in, how I wanted to do my art. The (Abstract) Pack really started  recording (their official debut album) "Bousta Set It" shortly after his death and that was the last time I ever used cusswords in my lyrics. That song changed me, changed us, changed him. 
-Glo Pesci of Soul Eclipse/The Abstract Pack/Headshots Crew

LYRICS:

Glo's Verse: "I got a problem, I got a real big problem/But, this situation goes way past using a condom/But I must admit sometimes I don't roll on one/Diseased? No, not at all son, but am I really sure about the origins of my sneeze/and high Feev's I seem to catch to easily/all to often, nowadays, plus I'm constantly coughing/Exhaustion just from walking, could it be ways I'm caught in/a zone of coincidenti-ality, past technicalities / of girls I boned, or is God simply saying he's mad at me?/That'll be ill, but still I know/It's a combo of the last two this time's been passed due / LIving life off the mercy of the Lord/Now I ask you, 'Is it worth it?' Hell no! Sure, I scored/But, after once or twice you get bored/Looking into the face of someone who you have no care for/And, then she relays she's pregnant, but, that's not all, there's more/You've been diagnosed with WHAT??!! Though I say I didn't give it with conviction, I'm unsure/HMMMM, Did I when we did it?/My conscious tried to mention my symptoms, I didn't listen/So, is it / Chlamydia from Lydia or Syphilis from Phyllis/Or Gonorrhea from Lawana or Leah/I'm looking in the mirror, 'I Can't believe ya, I can't believe ya'/You played yourself and gave yourself to undeserved crotches/and now my skin is plagued with splotches/I ruined other peoples lives, as well as mine/It's too much for my conscious, more stress than Brent Sayers or Pharoah Monch combined, mixed/How did I get caught up in this mess/I guess I should thought, yes, that would have prevented/gave help in giving myself respect/but it's too late, life has dealt me a bad card/or did I take it?/Or did my bad decisions make it? / As whatever spreads I can't shake it and it will not stop/But, I'm too scared to see the doc, I just keep on until I drop/Y'all, I'm on call with death, my picture's posted on His mail room wall/But could have one good thought and decision, stopped it all?/I'll never know…"

Hook: "Just think…just think…what if you could just, just think, just…think, what if you could just, just think, just think, what if you could just, huh, just blink yourself away/but, you can't you're here to stay/So, you best make decisions to live and see the next day/But, HEY, do what you wanna do/But, before you do something stupid, think it thru, man, think it thru…"

Sess' verse: "Think of the ways for life before you pick the road you're living/and the plagues in life before you choose on a religion/Best to save your life before it plummets and falls/I say, I can,but YO, I won't because I don't got the balls/I toss fools out my life who give me worry and stress/Regardless of those I love and now I said at the rest/Angered by my own actions as I feel the tears roll/I try to hide it with the weed smoke, but it poisons my soul/Oh, why do decisions of your life come back to haunt you/Like what goes around, comes around, kid, hey, I won't front/You know, I done did some dirt and I'll probably ain't done/Shit, I just jacked this one kid for fun, who wants some?/Done did mad thinking and then came to conclusions/Losing my mind trying to find that one fusion/Of happiness, lavish living and a little bit of sexin'/Each time I try, I seem to fly into a different direction/Staying somber and broke, fu**ing some trick I don't care for/Therefore the hole that I dig myself gets deeper/Creep to the liquor store, to grab another 4-0/So I can drown my sorrow into that empty 40 bottle/My homies try to cheer me up with sticky buds and pretty hotties/I guess my body's tolerance has peaked/and to all of you out there popping that weak…you best ta' think"

Hook/Outro: "Just think…just think…what if you could just, just think, just…think, what if you could just, just think, just think, what if you could just, could just, could just blink yourself away/That kid Sess'll do some dirt with no delay/I paid attention to my Pops, he didn't' play/He'd say, "Pockets, I'm depending on you son, to pull your family thru/I could give a damn what you got to do/You could get to jackin' or even selling pearly yay/But, you gotta get that loot today/I won't be here tomorrow and the rent was due yesterday, yesterday, yay-yeah…"


Soul Eqlipse - Think (1996) [Headshots tape #4: History]

Captain Rapp ‘Bad Times (I Can’t Stand It)’ (greg wilson edit)

120 bpm

Previously limited vinyl only 2009.

With all the talk of recession during late 2008 through 2009, Captain Rapp’s ‘Bad Times’ kept running through my head, prompting the idea to put together this edit, which would be pressed  to limited vinyl as part of the Ruff Edits series, appearing as ‘Ruff Rapp’ on Ruff Edits #3. Now, with the news reporters back to warning us of a rocky road ahead, with all the social problems this might entail, it provides a topical opportunity to share it here.

Taking its lyrical cue from 1982’s seminal recording, ‘The Message’ by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, ‘Bad Times (I Can’t Stand It)’ was a socially conscious rap that explored the issues of the day, topped off with the raw pleas of singer Kimberley Ball. Just as important though was the killer Electro-Funk groove that set the more discerning of dancefloors alight. A proper underground tune that was huge for me during the latter part of ’83 , topping my floorfillers list not long before I called time on my DJ career:
http://www.electrofunkroots.co.uk/lists/no1_floorfillers.html

This was very much a track you’d only hear if you were tuned into what was going on in the black clubs over here. Like the majority of tracks I played, I’d picked it up on import from Spin Inn, the essential shop in the North for Soul, Funk, Disco, Electro-Funk and Jazz (the elements that made up a specialist night circa ‘83). As I've said before, if you didn't buy your records at an import stockist like Spin Inn, you couldn't seriously aspire to be a black music specialist, and Spin Inn was right up there, along with an elite of shops, like Groove and City Sounds in London, shaping the course of UK club culture via the constant stream of dance music, great, good and not so good, they brought into this country.

Whereas New York was the centre of the dance universe at this time, its hybrid groove and technological experimentation pushing the music ever forward, ‘Bad Times’ was a West Coast, not East Coast  track, released on a small label out of Los Angeles called Saturn, with unknowns, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (along with Rich Cason), credited as arranging and performing (Jam & Lewis would, of course, become the most successful dance / R&B producers of the mid-late 80’s). Captain Rapp himself was Larry Earl Glenn, whose 1981 ‘Gigalo Rapp’ (by Disco Daddy & Captain Rapp) has its place in history as the first West Coast Rap 12”. 

‘Bad Times’ would be issued in the UK on the Becket label, but failed to make any real impact beyond the black scene. As such, it’s always retained its underground credentials, and a place in the hearts of black music enthusiasts with a fond ear for the early 80’s. 

Greg Wilson – October 2011

Check out my label's music at: https://superweirdsubstance.bandcamp.com

Captain Rapp 'Bad Times (I Can't Stand It)' (greg wilson edit)

M-Gee Feat. Mica Paris - Bodyswerve (Bit Funk Remix)

Remix produced by M-Phazes
Lead and backing vocals: Kimbra
Lead vocals: Wally De Backer

*************
Now and then I think of when we were together
Like when you said you felt so happy you could die
Told myself that you were right for me
But felt so lonely in your company
But that was love and it's an ache I still remember

You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness
Like resignation to the end
Always the end
So when we found that we could not make sense
Well you said that we would still be friends
But I'll admit that I was glad that it was over

But you didn't have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened
And that we were nothing
And I don't even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger
And that feels so rough
You didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records
And then change your number
I guess that I don't need that though
Now you're just somebody that I used to know

Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over
But had me believing it was always something that I'd done
And I don't wanna live that way
Reading into every word you say
You said that you could let it go
And I wouldn't catch you hung up on somebody that you used to know...

But you didn't have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened
And that we were nothing
And I don't even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger
And that feels so rough
You didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records
And then change your number
I guess that I don't need that though
Now you're just somebody that I used to know

I used to know
That I used to know

Somebody...
*************

Somebody That I Used To Know Remixes

Somebody That I Used To Know (M-Phazes Remix) [feat. Kimbra]

Remix produced by Dan Aux

Lead and backing vocals: Kimbra
Lead and backing vocals: Wally

*************
Now and then I think of when we were together
Like when you said you felt so happy you could die
Told myself that you were right for me
But felt so lonely in your company
But that was love and it's an ache I still remember

You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness
Like resignation to the end
Always the end
So when we found that we could not make sense
Well you said that we would still be friends
But I'll admit that I was glad that it was over

But you didn't have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened
And that we were nothing
And I don't even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger
And that feels so rough
You didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records
And then change your number
I guess that I don't need that though
Now you're just somebody that I used to know

Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over
But had me believing it was always something that I'd done
And I don't wanna live that way
Reading into every word you say
You said that you could let it go
And I wouldn't catch you hung up on somebody that you used to know...

But you didn't have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened
And that we were nothing
And I don't even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger
And that feels so rough
You didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records
And then change your number
I guess that I don't need that though
Now you're just somebody that I used to know

I used to know
That I used to know

Somebody...
*************

Somebody That I Used To Know (Dan Aux Remix) [feat. Kimbra]

Eric Bènet Ft.Ledisi - Good Life(Soul'n'vibes & Hgm RE-Touch)

Avicii 'Levels' Skrillex Remix

Make It Bun Dem

Skrillex & Damian 'Jr Gong' Marley - Make It Bun Dem

Taken from Swing City Remixed Volume Two

Written by G. Nelson / M. Schwartz. Produced by M-Gee.
Vocals by Mica Paris.
Additional production & remix by Bit Funk.

©2012 Swing City Records

M-Gee feat. Mica Paris - Bodyswerve (Bit Funk Remix)

Chaka Khan - Ain't Nobody (Bumps Aint Nobody Keepin It Real Edit)

Sergio Mendes - The Real Thing (Babyface Sweet Edit)

Richard Empire & WeGoDeep feat. Kelli Leigh - Breathe [Natural High]
Exclusive on Beatport: 15/04/2013
Release Date: 13/05/2013

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