This is R&R music. Get lucky in the mid-afternoon music. Get through a tough assignment at work music. Soul music sans words but the feel is all there. Freestyle over it at a show music...

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The start of the HeavyLight Experience...  A hip-hop/soul project made for the grown-ups without being stodgy. Some performance poetry that gets away from cliche and boredom. A melody filled soul project that lacks the selfish of exclusion -- we like pop culture.

HeavyLight Experience is about being open to the arts and regular things. (well, at least, this week!)

-HLX

cloud relaxation (love to smoke)

relax a lil bit. but do remember to nod your head, your heart and mind will appreciate it.

Interlude

We did this live with the help of jazz/soul legend Onaje Allan-Gumbs, on piano, and an all-star band: V Jeffrey Smith (Family Stand/SoulFolk); David Pilgrim bass (SoulFolk); Entrfied keys (Rakiem Walker Experience); and, Granville Mullins drums.



Tai Allen/The Originals - Home Is Where The Hatred Is (Gil Scott-Heron Cover Live From Brooklyn)

That old fashioned but modernized east coast boom bap! With a message!! 

Now go on and do that head-nod!!

Be Okay

Download your copy of Angie Fisher's Hidden Beach debut-"I.R.S." in Hi-Fidelity at iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/i.r.s.-single/id908527264?ls=1


Angie Fisher - I.R.S.

Onaje Allan-Gumbs' New Vintage meets Tai Allen of the Originals/HeavyLight Experience to redux Oscar Brown, Jr's Sixteen Tons.


Tai Allen x Onaje Allan-Gumbs - 16Tons [Live At Ginny's Supper Club In Harlem]

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Duke Dumont - Ocean Drive (Shaun Frank Remix)

Best Ex-Boyfriend Now

I was born at seven 
on the seventh of a Saturday
Right between the chorus
of Hip-Hop Hurray
	And the beat skipped a second
The joint got reflective and
seven niggas found God 
on that very same day 
	So I’m in my zone 
I got my feet kicked back
I got my head in the clouds 
And my hand on a sack 
	Kris Kingle when I mingle
Slinging joy like it’s crack 
The fantasy is the bomb 
But the hours is wack 
	I’m doing overtime
As I’m combing over rhymes
Like my tongue going numb 
When I’m spitting double-time 
	Subtle mind, I don’t mind
It’s divine when I shine 
In my prime lIke a mime 
to your ears when I blind
	Alrighty when I’m 
In my tighty whities
Time to strip for this pole 
Like I’m sexy as Sade 
	Kiss my body 
cuz it’s calling 
Can you hear me, baby
cuz I’m falling 
	Long as I am 
Damn, Strong as I am 
Like an apex predator 
I’m a life editor 
	I ain’t try to scare you 
But I dare you, let your guard down
When I come round like
Gravity and put it down
	Like a Tyson round 
Never round two
You can find me chilling in
Chair made a bamboo 
	And a Bible with some voodoo
And the Holy Qur’an 
With some women in white
Singing some French songs
	And them ghosts get gone
When I exorcise them 
Like the ladies shake
When the spirit horse ride them
	Or the coward start to shake
When the force find him
and the choice blind him 
LIke Paul from the hymn
	Let us sing children
Til the sound shake ground
and the wicked get lost
and lost get found 
	Damn that’s profound        

Say Hallelujah to the ruler 
And middle finger to alla dem that fool ya 
I’m at throne throwing bones 
While I school ya, so nigga
Boo-ya Ya-ka
Boo-ya Ya-ka kk  

Booya Yaka

The Beat Ep vol. 1, Jan. 2013, instrumentals for the fan

Grab your Dreams

Somebody's Daughter ( NinaB ft. @PurpleChrome )

Soul music can be good hip-hop or singing -- in the hands of HeavyLight.

HeavyLight is a collective of East Coast All-star emcees who sing and are dope poets. HeavyLight is a crew, from Boston to Florida, full of friends and award-winning artists: 

- DJ CEO 
- Dasan Ahanu
- Mic El 
- Helena
- Tai Allen
- et al who make appearances then bounce

Next show, we promise to invite you. 

Few places HeavyLight members have performed or featured... maybe it will make you download a tune or 200:

Apollo Theater (not Amatuer Night, though they would)
BET 
CentricTV
Vibe
National Poetry Slam
Verses and Flow
Def Poetry
SoulBounce
SoulTracks
The Source

Basically... "they about that life" 

Play the music. Enjoy the music. Share the (damn) music.

-HL

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