What Are You Listening To?

[CRAZY-HORSE]

AMY WINEHOUSE "back to black" cd, 2006

great to pull out another absolute classic album!
REAL R&B/Soul music.
her second and final album.
almost 20,000,000 worldwide sales.
pure class from the get-go
in the top 40 albums of the last 20yrs for sure.
if only she wasnt so self destructive....
had never noticed previousy but she looks a lot like Gaga from certain angles.
I LOVE THIS ALBUM

[CRAZY-HORSE]

NESSA MORGAN  "sex and poverty"  cd, 2004

R&B/Soul....
New Zealand Maori....
debut set...
hearing Lauren Hill and Mary J Blige throughout this one..
a few F-Bombs thrown in for good measure where needed and certainly not overused...
a good solid album...
appears she only released two albums, not sure why because she is a good artist!
I LIKE THIS ALBUM

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from the album, the lead off single:

another re-listen today
i still like it.

[CRAZY-HORSE]

EMINEM  "kamikaze" cd, 2018.

his tenth of eleven...
i own them all...
surprised i hadnt posted this one yet...
i like most of the lyrics excpet for the profanities which abound in places...
dont like his delivery on most of it,
he sounds aggressive, very little of the humour from earlier albums...
only like two or three tracks on here, the rest is crap.
I DO NOT LIKE THIS ALBUM

favourite:






Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
It's 2002, everything was totally new
We were globally huge, watchin' sales go through the roof
We wrote and we feuded, Runyon Avenue soldiers included
A multitude of homies who would bounce for no good excuse
We were so bulletproof—wrote, souped and soaked in our youth
Thought we was runnin' shit 'til we lost the sole of our shoe
The death of Doody broke us in two
We were thrown for a loop, ain't none of us know what to do
And at the time I was goin' through my own struggles too
So I wasn't in no condition to be coachin' us through
Everyone tried to go solo, really nobody blew
I was hopin' they do, so I ain't have to shoulder the crew
The plan was put everyone in position so that they knew
How to stand on their own, and I don't wanna open up wounds
I just noticed that oomph was gone when we go in the booth
'Cause the truth is, the moment that Proof died, so did the group
Shoot...

If I could leave this all behind
I could open up my eyes and walk in a straight line

Down to the river with you
Help me leave this all behind

I'ma wash away my sins
I'ma rinse away this dirt
I forgot to make amends
To all the friends I may have hurt
I better stop and say my grace
From it I pray that I don't fall

'Cause on the way back down I may
End up runnin' back into them all
I never meant to use you all as my stepping stones

It was never the same, and it's bothered me since
And the farther we drift apart, the more awkward it gets
The more time goes by, the more life happens
And we gotta be men, we got responsibilities
Plus we don't say how we feel
And I feel like this is what got us in the debacle we're in
Been with you guys thick and thin
But it's almost as if sometimes we're not even friends
Which reminded me Biz, "Rockstar" was the shit
Y'all coulda got you a hit without me on the shit
If you woulda put D12 on it, wish I coulda did
More than try talkin' you into comin' up off of it
I know it wasn't my fault, but part of it probably is
I think of all of the trips to BET

And the rappers I wish that we woulda politicked with
Maybe y'all coulda clicked and got you some features
But that's water under the bridge
But I'm washin' my sins in it 'til my conscience is cleansed

If I could leave this all behind
I could open up my eyes and walk in a straight line
Down to the river with you
Help me leave this all behind

I'ma wash away my sins
I'ma rinse away this dirt
I forgot to make amends

To all the friends I may have hurt
I better stop and say my grace
From it I pray that I don't fall
'Cause on the way back down I may
End up runnin' back into them all
I never meant to use you all as my stepping stones

Bacardi and Hen', never thought the party would end
One minute you're bodyin' shit, but then your audience splits
You can already sense the climate is startin' to shift
To these kids you no longer exist
Went from rainin' cats and dogs in this bitch
To tiny drops, little drips
And by the time your reign is over, you'll hardly be missed
You start thinkin' of all the artists you dissed
All the carnage you left, is this the kind of karma you get
For turnin' your fuckin' back on Bizzy, Kuniva and Swift?
A Freudian slip, subconsciously, I honestly wished
I ain't feel so much guilt and y'all didn't harbor resentment
But it's hard to pretend that y'all ain't got none
I just wish I had words, but I guess there just are none for this
To my partners, I can't say how sorry I am
This is not how I planned for our story to end
I love all of you men
But I just can't be the guy everybody depends
On for entire careers 'cause that's not even fair
I will always be here, but that spark isn't there
And I don't know how to recapture that time and that era
I've tried hearkening back to, but I'm fightin' for air
I'm barely chartin' myself

Feels like I'm on the descent, but it was not my intent
To treat y'all like a stepping stone
Though I ain't left no one behind, but we been down every road
Done all we possibly can, I know we kept our hopes up
But the longer we spend livin' this lie that we live
The less is left for closure, so let's let this go
It's not goodbye to our friendship, but D12 is over

I'ma wash away my sins

I'ma rinse away this dirt
I forgot to make amends
To all the friends I may have hurt
I better stop and say my grace
From it I pray that I don't fall
'Cause on the way back down I may
End up runnin' back into them all
I never meant to use you all as my stepping stones
I never mant to make you feel like my stepping stones
I never meant to use you all for my stepping stones

[CRAZY-HORSE]

AMY WINEHOUSE  "back to black"  cd, 2006

my final 2021 album listen...
 great to pull out another absolute classic album!
REAL R&B/Soul music.
her second and final album.
almost 20,000,000 worldwide sales.
pure class from the get-go
in the top 40 albums of the last 20yrs for sure.
** sigh** if only she wasnt so self destructive....**sigh again**
I LOVE THIS ALBUM

so easy to pick the obvious 'rehab' as best but heres another for a change:
just like Elvis she slurs and mumbles her way through but when the music starts thats a different story!

[Music Head]

Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert



#3 on A.O.T.Y. chart
from London with Nigerian roots
4th album
I guess we call her a rapper
but not the rap crap kind
it's different
actual intelligence involved
interesting music

single

[Ruby]

^Huh! Very interesting - and intelligent. Quite weighty, actually. I mean that in terms of substance.

[CRAZY-HORSE]

this is exactly what rap/hip-hop should be IMO.

the track actually wouldnt have been too far out of place on some of Gil Scott-Heron's works

[Music Head]

pulled from the A.O.T.Y. chart at #6



Brit rapper
the accent doesn't help it not be rap crap 
I guess porn rap hasn't made it over there 

single

[CRAZY-HORSE]

arent Minaj & Cardi porn rap???

[Music Head]

^^
oops, sorry
forgot about females