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Rejected! Legendary Singer Stephanie Mills Says She Has No Interest In Being Part Of TVOne’s “Unsung”

Well damn… Stephanie Mills Says She Does Not Want To Appear On TV One’s Unsung Despite the wild success of TV One’s Unsung series, highlighting many of music’s most treasured voices from Tina Marie to Teddy Pendergrass and Minnie Ripperton, Stephanie Mills refuses to do the show. The ESSENCE Music Festival performer says she doesn’t like the show. “They have approached me quite a few times, but I [won’t] do that show,” she tells the Huffington Post. “I’ve always been very private, and at 55 I don’t want to open up my life to that.” Three times married and a single mom of a child with special needs, Mills is adamant about keeping things private. “I don’t want to get on these shows and open up my life; I don’t think it’s anyone’s business.” Admittedly, many of the show’s highlighted artists have passed on or have had limited success for various reasons. But Mills says, that’s not her story. “I don’t feel unsung. I feel like I’ve had a wonderful career. I’ve done wonderful things and met so many wonderful people. So I don’t feel like I’m unsung at all.” The iconic singer even refuses to participate in the Unsung episodes of her friends. “They’ve done Angela Winbush and they even wanted me to say something about her on that show, and I love Angela, we’re sisters. But I had to tell her, ‘I don’t want to do that.’ I’m not that girl.” This upcoming season will feature stories of Angela Bofill, Kool Moe Dee, The Marvelettes and the late Gerald Levert. We get it if you don’t want to appear in your own show, but you couldn’t take a couple minutes to say something nice about your “sister” Angela Winbush? Shaaaaaaady! Image via WENN Source

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Rejected! Legendary Singer Stephanie Mills Says She Has No Interest In Being Part Of TVOne’s “Unsung”

DJ Quik Breaks Down The Color Of Sound On New Album

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In honor of 4/20 here is something that you should read under the influence but is just as insightful sober. DJ Quik, the Compton California OG producer and MC, has just released his eighth album The Book Of David. If you haven’t ingested the female-friendly sonics of “Real Women” or “ Luv Of My Life” head over to your favorite online retailer and make it happen stat. When Mr. David Blake spoke with hip-hop production site Nodfactor.com about the musical inspirations behind his latest work he took the time to explain how we see music as well as hear it. Take a look. There are more sonic colors on this record than I’m used to using. They’re complex, they’re moody, they’re emotive but they’re fun at the same time. It sounds like…I think of records like Donny Hathaway ….they have real red tones in them. And puce. They’re minor 9ths so they’re colorful and they make you feel something as soon as you hear em. As opposed to a C major or C minor chord, those are like blue notes in a sense. B Flats. In hip-hop “ Sweet Black P*ssy” is a red record. “Tonight” i s a bluish record it’s a like a burgundy bluish. “ Born And Raised In Compton ” is brown. It’s Isaac Hayes , his skin color and his record label. Just brown because that groove is so funky. The first Barkay’s band did that. The ones that crashed in that plane with Otis Redding . They were the house band for Stax. That’s where I sampled that sh*t from. Records like “ Luv of My Life” are reddish, greenish, orange. “Real Women” is clear, it’s colorless. It’s a white diamond. I sampled that from Dave Grushen and Angela Bofill . Don’t you love my range and my diversity? Quik also explains why he made the songs and the reason they were released first: Who doesn’t love John B? The last record we’ve heard him on was Tupac’s “Are You Still Down?” That’s not fair. John B means more to R&B than that, so why wouldn’t I support my brother and put him back on the radio where he belongs. It’s an ode to the women we really admire. I admire Sylvia Rhone . She’s beautiful to me. Debra Lee at BET. Cathy Hughes. We did it for women like that. Even though they’re a little out of my range, they got me in cougar town, but I still look up to fine women. DJ Quik’ s The Book Of David is out now! RELATED POSTS: DJ Quik & Ice Cube “Boogie Til You Conk Out” [NEW MUSIC] DJ Quik Reminisces On Working With Nate Dogg [VIDEO]

DJ Quik Breaks Down The Color Of Sound On New Album