S P I C Y P I M P S - nu jazz, broken beat, soul, dancefloor jazz, rare groove + hip hop

NAS - Sly Fox

Many of you all know I'm an avid FOX "News" viewer, but not because I agree with their elitist and mostly racist programming. Watching FOX "News" (also dubbed FOX Noise and FAUX News) keeps Me informed of the enemy's plans and helps Me to articulate well thought-out responses to the views of right-wing propaganda (Sean Hannity) and white privilege (Bill O'Reilly). In a recent video from his new album, Nas has responded to FOX's constant attacks on Barack Obama and his family, as well as the Black community as a whole. I genuinely like video and while I'm sure that a great deal of his audience doesn't even watch FOX "News" as his song implies, Nas provides an editorial that tells that less-aware portion of his audience something they don't know. 'Edutainment' as KRS-ONE calls it. Nas could easily be considered schizophrenic with his messages that go from one end of the spectrum to the other; however, being a fan since Main Source's Live at the BBQ, I have always applauded his positive efforts -- even the positive efforts that are deemed as negative messages by those with less artistic vision because of his use of the word 'nigga' and use of violence to illustrate. (It ain't always what it seems, y'all.)

I must say that although I agree with the sentiment of this video, it would be unfair and unbalanced for Me to say that Bill O'Reilly's comment about Michelle Obama and a lynching party was indeed taken out of context. I watched that show and understood exactly what B.O. was saying, and firmly don't believe there was malicious, racial intent. I don't defend O'Reilly unless absolutely necessary, but this is definitely an instance I feel it necessary. Just because Michelle Obama's name was mentioned in the same sentence with the words 'lynching party' simply does not equate to a racist remark. Quite surprisingly, I have found B.O. to be very respectful to Obama and his family, even though he clearly disagrees with Obama's views. I've even heard him on both The Factor and The Radio Factor defend Obama and give him the benefit of a doubt when conservative naysayers like Karl Rove accuse Obama of being less of the good person than he presents himself. Yes, B.O. did overdue the Michelle Obama/"proud of my country" thing, but his comments are nowhere -- NOWHERE! -- near as ridiculous, offensive and asinine as thug Sean Hannity's comments about the Obamas. He seems to loathe the Obamas with every fiber of his being. But despite My belief of B.O.'s fairness in this instance, FOX "News" still stands as a beacon of hate.

Please note, there are explicit lyrics in this video.

ROTATION NOTES - June 27, 2008

I'm finally back -- and bringing freshness and pimpishness to all. It's been a rough past month with losing all the downloadable mixes on SP and an extremely nasty computer virus that had Me down for two weeks. Despite the madness, listenership is outstanding. As of today, Live365 ranks SP as the #1 acid jazz station. (yeah, I know -- the term acid jazz is so dated, but hey, it's L365.) SP also averages a rating of 4 to 4.5 out of 5 stars among listeners! So again, thanks so much for your continued support and patience during this fiasco. By mid to late July mid-August all site mixes should be back up as well as the entire Respect the Architect series, including installments for May, June, July and August. Now for the bidness...

The latest radio installment includes an alternate take of Amy Winehouse's Take The Box (get well soon, Amy), Drive by Fertile Ground (the perfect summer road song if you can afford to drive), Linda Lewis' Sideway Shuffle, DJ Mitsu's Shylight, Maysa Leak's The Bottle (Bluey and Ski Risin UK Mix), OFS Unlimited's Mystic, Peter Brown's For Your Love (ya know, the one Clara Hill covered), and Mos Def's Sun, Moon, Stars. Also listen out for the Visioneers' wonderfully jazzy cover of Nas' The World Is Your's, a Mike Mangini remix of Nina Simone's Gimme Some, Get Out of My Hair by Bilal, Faded Memories by Black Spade, the nonsensical yet oh-so-fun Booty La La by Bugz in The Attic, My Angel Is You by Jean Grae, Fyza's Best Thing, Simbad's Venus, Incognito's I've Been Waiting, Catch My Breath by Ta'raach & The Lovelution, as well as songs from Kissey Asplund and Peven Everett. There's more Incognito with The 25th Chapter (Ski Oakenfull vs. Paradiso Broken Funk Remix) and Show Me Love, a Yam Who Rework. Social commentary for today includes Oil in the Ground by Tower of Power, George Benson's cover of The World is a Ghetto, and Where The Levees Broke by Ed Motta & Bluey.  :( x5

I finally had the chance to check out Presto's State of the Art album and was so very pleased. Expect to hear two joints from that album, Street Sport featuring Ark of T Weaponz and the sure to become classic Conquer Mentally toting three of hip hop's most prolific MC's, Sadat X, O.C., and Large Professor. (UNH! -- In yo' face like!) Featured albums this month include Dwele's Sketches of A Man, Sy Smith's Conflict, and the Chocolate Soul III compilation with cuts from Torrie Griffin (Brighter Than the Sun), Kai Martin (Stay As You Are [You Are My Star Mix]), Be Natural (Sunshine), and K'alyn (I Encourage). Of course, there's more 14+ hours of high-quality izm -- jazz (nu, dancefloor, classic, free & conscious), soul, broken beat, rare groove, and hip hop as well as Afro-beat and Afro-Latin rhythms. Enjoy...

DOWNLOADING MIXES & RESPECT THE ARCHITECT

OK, so here's the deal with downloading on SP... The company that I was using, MediaMax, has now become TheLinkUp.com. They have failed to move SpicyPimps' files, and may have even lost a great deal of them. I'm not sure, as they refuse to return My emails or even address the issues plaguing them on their blog. Because of this lack of courtesy and professionalism, I have canceled My account with them. I am in the process of finding another media host and will have to correct all the download links on this site. I ask that you be patient during this time, as I will work as efficiently as I can. I apologize for this inconvenience.

Please note that May's Respect the Architect is late as a result of this transfer. Feel free to listen to SpicyPimps Radio by clicking hear.

If you are a MediaMax/TheLinkUp user and have not checked to see if your own files have been transferred properly, then do so immediately. I have been reading comment after comment from many an unhappy subscriber. Many of them have also canceled their accounts because of lost files and the worst customer service imaginable. You may also want to consider canceling your account as well. Not only did I receive no notification whatsoever about TheLinkUp taking over, but the prices increased and storage size was minimized as well. Tacky, unprofessional and hellbound. Run as fast as you can! DO NOT EVER DO BUSINESS WITH THESE PEOPLE!!!

Here's a sample of the bitterness...

http://tlublog.blogspot.com  (The first comment by Dean sums it up)

http://thelinkupusers.blogspot.com

http://mediamaxusers.blogspot.com

Darfur Now College Tour: UCLA, May 28th + 29th ...don't sleep!

 

ALL EVENTS ARE FREE WITH A SUGGESTED DONATION

ALL DONATIONS WILL GO TO THE GENOCIDE INTERVENTION NETWORK (GI-NET)

http://www.darfurnowtour.com
http://www.takepart.com/darfurnow

a modern day jazz story (for haters)*

*contains no additives or preservatives

My deep love for jazz comes from its ingenuity and precision. The only other genre that I consider even comparable in skill level and dedication is hip hop. Despite what jazz purists might say, the similarities between jazz and hip hop are phenomenal. In jazz, there's improvisation and arrangement. In hip hop, there's freestylin' and production. Artists from both genres are sincerely dedicated to their craft. Despite those who reduce sampling to stealing, I challenge those same people to use the essence of a song and compound it with beats, lyrics and sometimes live instrumentation, in an effort to create something entirely different. Easier said than done. Unfortunately, haters don't know that hip hop is not the enemy; large media conglomerates are. Mainstream hip hop has been fiercely diluted by Corporate America -- watered (dumbed) down considerably and heavily-injected with preservatives to keep minds illiterate, ignorant, misguided, misinformed, and stagnant. Continuous listening will only increase the spiritual and socio-economic decay. So here's My love for all that is true and good in hip hop, and my peace for the haters. Click hear to listen and enjoy...

01 jazz liberatorz - intro
02 electric conversation - find myself
03 billy brooks - forty days
04 break mechanics - zen zen
05 quasimoto - jazz cats pt. 1
06 charlie hunter quartet ft. mos def - creole
07 courtney pine ft. cassandra wilson + dj pogo - don't 'xplain
08 rh factor - poetry
09 freestyle fellowship - inner city boundaries
10 a tribe called quest - jazz (we've got)
11 jazz liberatorz ft. tre hardson - interlude
12 madlib - lost lust
13 digable planets, lester bowie + wah wah watson - flyin' high in the brooklyn sky
14 pharoah sanders, umar bin hassan + abodun oyewole - this is madness

more on the subject...
Hip Hop and Jazz (hiphopmusic.com, 12.30.03)
Shape of Jazz to Come

 

ROTATION NOTES - April 27, 2008

What's up, party people?  Before I begin, I want to thank you, My loyal listeners. Because of your endless support, ratings are through the roof! I want to especially thank San Francisco coming in with the highest listener ratings, closely followed by New York, and Washington, DC in third. It is with great pleasure that I continue to produce quality programming. SpicyPimps is truly a labor of love, as I receive no profits from this endeavor. I appreciate all the listening hours and financial support that you have shown during these past few years. This year SpicyPimps turns three, and with your continued support, I look forward to growth and many more years of sharing good music. Again, thank you so much. I love nothing more than this right hear.

OK, so I *kinda* snapped with the Jazz Liberatorz a bit. OK, more than kinda. (I love them so.) But once you hear the tracks from their latest album, Clin d'Oeil, you'll understand completely. Clin d'Oeil boasts what you've come to expect and love, with ill backpack beats behind fiercely well-sampled jazz joints, in addition to first-rate lyricism. Out-fuckin-standing! MC's and vocalists in the current playlist include Asheru, Lizz Fields, Stacy Epps, and Tre Hardson. The album itself also includes J. Sands, Fat Lip, T-Love, Maspyke, Tableek, Apani B Fly Emcee, Sadat X, Raashan Ahmad, Soul Clan, J-Live, Omni and Buckshot. And peep the album cover design -- clearly an homage to Black Jazz Records. With all that jazz-based hip hop enthusiasm, I also included more tracks from previous JL endeavors.

Also listen out for something new from Swing Out Sister's  Beautiful Mess cd, Eulorhythmics, Sunburst Band, Kyoto Jazz Massive's rendition of the Eddie Henderson classic Kudu, and Vicelounge joints featuring Craig Knight (Don't Worry) and Dee Ferguson (Supa Baby Talk (I Want You Here). Also... Colonel Red, Fyza, Shawn J Period, Vaceo, Oezlem, and Tosca, Extended Spirit, Groove Collective, plus so much more totaling 16+ hours of dope shit.

And don't forget...

EQUINOX Jazz Show, Sundays & Wednesdays 3-6 am & 7-10 pm CST
THE DIRTY SET... Classic Soul & Funk, weekdays 1-2 pm CST and Sundays 2-6 pm CST

DIRTY LUNCH & DIRTY SUNDAY SET

Beginning Sunday, April 6th, Dirty Lunch Set & Extended Sunday Dirt airs:

Monday - Friday @ 1 pm - 2 pm CST

Sunday extended set @ 2 pm - 6 pm CST

This marks the first dusty set I'm showcasing here on SP. Of course, I play dusties throughout the regular ELYSIUM format, but this one will be strictly old skool, with a concentration in classic soul and funk (and no interference of nu jazz, broken beat, etc). I will say putting this together didn't seem like a dusty set because these songs don't seem like dusties for Me, as My vanity won't allow them to be. Since this is the first set, I wanted to make it special in a couple of ways, one obvious and the other maybe not so obvious. Just a taste of what's ahead -- Two Tons O' Fun (Just Us), Pleasure (Thoughts of Old Flames), Free Life (Wish You Were Here), Marvin Gaye (You Can Leave, But It's Going to Cost You), Uncle Louie (Full Tilt Boogie), and Bernard Wright (Haboglabotribin'). And no dusty set would be of maximum pimpishness without music from My favorite male vocal group The Dramatics (You're Foolin' You and Treat Me Like a Man). Speaking of pimpishness, Lowrell's Mellow, Mellow, Right On is for My Chicken Wings buddy, Jamal ...LOL) Of course that's not all; there are hours of quality music in store. Enjoy.