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As Requested: Here’s All The Music From Episode 2 Of ‘Insecure’ Season 3

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Source: Jason LaVeris / Getty Once again Insecure has delivered! Episode 2 of Season 3 was an amazing look at Daniel and Issa’s relationship. You saw firsthand Daniel’s insecurities and for once, saw how Issa was there to help him for a change. It was an amazing turn of events for anyone who has been watching the show over the last two seasons. As usual, the show’s soundtrack was absolutely perfect and helped in the delivery of each scene in an amazing way. Since the episode was all about Issa and Daniel being frustrated with not being able to follow their dreams, the soundtrack for the episode was primarily themed around getting to the money. Raphael Saadiq did an amazing job with the music choice. So, without further adieu, here are all the songs you heard on episode 2 of Insecure . Brenmar – “Like A Hoe” New York and Miami based, by way of Chicago, Brenmar represents a strange musical paradox. 2014’s self-released  High End Times Vol. 1  – one of SPIN’s  Best Overlooked Albums of 2014  – put him in the spotlight as a groundbreaking maestro for artists like Mykki Blanco, Sasha Go Hard, and Junglepussy.  For his last official EP released in 2015, Brenmar entrusted the project to his friend A-Trak by signing with Brooklyn-based Fool’s Gold Records .   Flip through for more!

As Requested: Here’s All The Music From Episode 2 Of ‘Insecure’ Season 3

As Requested: Here’s All The Music From Episode 2 Of ‘Insecure’ Season 3

Originally posted here:

Source: Jason LaVeris / Getty Once again Insecure has delivered! Episode 2 of Season 3 was an amazing look at Daniel and Issa’s relationship. You saw firsthand Daniel’s insecurities and for once, saw how Issa was there to help him for a change. It was an amazing turn of events for anyone who has been watching the show over the last two seasons. As usual, the show’s soundtrack was absolutely perfect and helped in the delivery of each scene in an amazing way. Since the episode was all about Issa and Daniel being frustrated with not being able to follow their dreams, the soundtrack for the episode was primarily themed around getting to the money. Raphael Saadiq did an amazing job with the music choice. So, without further adieu, here are all the songs you heard on episode 2 of Insecure . Brenmar – “Like A Hoe” New York and Miami based, by way of Chicago, Brenmar represents a strange musical paradox. 2014’s self-released  High End Times Vol. 1  – one of SPIN’s  Best Overlooked Albums of 2014  – put him in the spotlight as a groundbreaking maestro for artists like Mykki Blanco, Sasha Go Hard, and Junglepussy.  For his last official EP released in 2015, Brenmar entrusted the project to his friend A-Trak by signing with Brooklyn-based Fool’s Gold Records .   Flip through for more!

As Requested: Here’s All The Music From Episode 2 Of ‘Insecure’ Season 3

From “How Does It Feel” To “Love Of My Life”: Songs You Didn’t Know Raphael Saadiq Wrote And Produced

Please don’t sleep on this man’s talents ladies and gents…musical genius!

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From “How Does It Feel” To “Love Of My Life”: Songs You Didn’t Know Raphael Saadiq Wrote And Produced

Just Can’t Get Enough! GQ Releases Outtakes From That Dope A$$ D’Angelo Interview

D’Angelo Talks About The Frustrations Of Fame And Why He Hates The Term Neo-Soul We recently shared parts of D’Angelo’s first interview in 12 years, and loved it so much that we were thrilled to find out GQ had published more outtakes from the interview online that didn’t make the print issue. Here are a few excerpts below: On fighting fame after Brown Sugar and hating the term ‘neo soul’: D’Angelo looks back on that time with some discomfort. A perfectionist, he wishes he’d had more of an active interplay with the audience. But it all took off so fast, he says. He was confused, he says, by his sudden notoriety, even as he, Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu and others were credited with launching the “neo-soul” movement (a label he hates). “It counteracts the very fawking idea of what it was in the first place,” he says. “It’s black music thinking — it’s black music manifested outside of the box. And when you label it neo soul, you’re putting it right back in the box. How about you just call me soul music?” That argument was just one of many D was having in his own head. “I tried to fight, I guess, what typically fame quote-unquote does to people,” he says. “I didn’t want to stop being, you know, the rambunctious mug that I was, because that’s what made my music what it was. It happens to the best of them, you know: At some point in everyone’s career, it was like the music lost its bite. I’m like, ‘Well, how do you avoid that?’” On what it was like for D to perform in Stockholm in January, his first concert in more than a decade: “It was scary,” D will tell me later, reflecting on playing the guitar in public for the first time. “I would feel comfortable when I was by myself, but actually getting onstage and playing was a different thing. My friend Raphael Saadiq was like, ‘Yo, man, you’ve just got to jump in. Start swimming. Just jump in the pool, you know?’ It was good advice. I was nervous up until the point where we started playing and singing, and then it just felt—it felt cool.” On D’s upcoming third album: Despite assurances that it’s 97-percent done, D hasn’t locked his third. Not yet. In Europe, he unveiled several songs he thinks will be on it. In addition to “Ain’t That Easy” and the irresistible dance number, “Sugar Daddy,” there is a song Questlove compares to Herbie Hancock called “The Charade.” “Crawling through a systematic maze to demise,” it begins, and D sings the line with a seething fury. When I catch a reference to “the deceiver,” I can’t help but think: this song—twisted, almost atonal, multi-layered—is about that forked-tongued devil, Fame. D says I’m wrong. “It’s about the disenfranchised,” he says. “It’s telling the powers that be, ‘This is why we are justified in our stance.’ There’s another song on the album called ‘A Thousand Deaths’ that is the flip side of the coin. ‘A Thousand Deaths’ is just a fucking war cry. You know what I mean? The beheadings have commenced.” It occurs to me that the Nat Turner Rebellion of 1831, in which slaves rose up and killed more than 50 white people, the only sustained slave rebellion in the South’s history, took place in D’s home state of Virginia. “Ain’t no justice/It’s just us/Ash to ashes/Dust to dust,” D sang so insistently on Voodoo. I am beginning to get what he means. I ask someone who has a closely-guarded copy to let me hear “1000 Deaths.” It is dark, dense and mysterious and makes the most of D’s newfound prowess on the guitar. The lead vocal is so distorted—like the moans and groans of a Negro spiritual—that D could almost be speaking in tongues. The song is compelling, maybe even profound, but it is the opposite of catchy. That’s just fine with D. He tells me art, not commerce, is his fuel. This sounds so dope. We can’t wait to hear D’s new album! Photo credit: Gregory Harris/GQ

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Happy President’s Day: Mick Boogie & Terry Urban Bring You “Obamify” To Celebrate Prez’s Day!

It’s President’s Day; you’re off. And you ain’t got isht to do… So enjoy some music! What’s a federal holiday without a soundtrack? Our friends Mick Boogie & Terry Urban have brought us some tunes to to help celebrate President’s Day. Everyone was describing President Obama’s cool Spotify playlist as a mix. Well, it wasn’t. But it is now. The mixtape includes all of Obama’s favorite songs: including music from U2, Aretha Franklin, Aretha Franklin, Florence & The Machine, No Doubt, Bruce Springsteen, Raphael Saadiq and more now mixed together Mick Boogie & Terry Urban style. Support the 2012 Obama campaign here: www.barackobama.com Cover art designed by the talented M-C and used under Creative Commons license. Visit M-C here: art.mcturgeon.com And, of course, visit MickBoogie.com & TerryUrban.com for more. More On Bossip! Breezy And His Boo Thang Hit The Beach… Do You Believe She’s Not Threatened By His RihRih Reunion? Happy Birthday, MJ! A Gallery Of Iconic Michael Jordan Images Through The Years From Baller To Hole-y Jeans Lover You’re Fired!: Check Out The Wild Card Stars On This Season’s “Celebrity Apprentice” We Saw The Signs: Couples We Knew Were Doomed To Fail Before Even They Did

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BET’s 106 & Park Host Rocsi: Black Men She’s Allegedly Dated

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Rocsi from BET’s “106 & Park” has been linked to a lot of black men, and she’s reportedly now dating Raphael Saadiq after spending some quality time with him in Miami. In addition to Raphael, Rocsi is rumored to have hooked up with her co-host Terrence J and Young Money’s Mack Maine, to name a few. Check out the full list of Rosci’s alleged hook-ups at Bossip . RELATED POSTS: Rocsi Finally Explains Why Lil Webbie Is Banned From 106 & Park [VIDEO] Amber Rose Gets Kissed By Rocsi In “Gang Of Roses 2″ [VIDEO]

BET’s 106 & Park Host Rocsi: Black Men She’s Allegedly Dated

Cover Girls: Gabrielle Union Gets Hot & Wet For WMB- World’s Most Beautiful Magazine

Here is the beautiful Gabrielle Union heating things up (other than D-Wade) on the cover of the world’s first 3-D magazine WMB “World’s Most Beautiful.” You likey??? We likey. More On Bossip! Tie The Knot: The Top 10 Engaged Couples We Can’t Wait To See Get Hitched New Couple???: 106 And Park’s Rocsi Diaz Rocks A ‘Kini And Looks Cozy With Raphael Saadiq On The Beach In Miami!! That’s Gotta Hurt: The Most Embarrassing Break-Ups Of All Time Some Afternoon Preciousness: Look At Lauryn Hill’s Daughter Selah Marley Stuntin’ Like Her Mama

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Lollapalooza 2010 Lineup Announcement

Lollapalooza 2010 Lineup Announcement – The members or lineup of the Lollapalooza 2010 has already been announced in public. This year Lollapalooza will be held on August 6-8, 2010 live at the Chicago Grand Park. Tickets will be cost at around $215 for a three-day pass and $850 for special VIP packages. If there ’s one thing which Lollapalooza 2010 line up will head over is its rock performances which shall witness a major chunk of performers all geared up to set the rhythm right which ranges from Yea-sayer, MGMT along with Devo. Performers like Cypress Hill, B.o.B, and Peanut Butter Wolf shall grace Lollapalooza 2010 with their hip hops beats. Following that, Lollapalooza 2010 line up also has the Chicago pedigrees flaming it up with performances coming from Flosstradamus, Reilly Assassination and Staples. Here’s the complete lineup (which, as usual, is subject to change; in the past, refunds have not been offered for lineup changes): Soundgarden, Green Day, Lady Gaga, Arcade Fire, the Strokes, Phoeni x, Social Distortion, MGMT, Jimmy Cliff, Hot Chip, the Black Keys, the National, Spoon,  Devo, Cypress Hill, Cut Copy, the New Pornographers, Erykah Badu, Slightly Stoopid, Grizzly Bear, Gogol Bordello, Chromeo, Wolfmother, Yeasayer, X Japan, MUTEMATH, Metric, Dirty Projectors, AFI, Mavis Staples, Matt & Kim, the xx, Drive-By Truckers, Blues Traveler. Wavves, American Bang, the Ike Reilly Assassination, Company of Thieves, Nneka, Harlem, the Constellations, Miniature Tigers, Mimicking Birds, the Kissaway Trail, HEALTH, Javelin, the Morning Benders, Foxy Shazam, Violent Soho, Royal Bangs, NEON TREES, Freelance Whales, Semi Precious Weapons, Dan Black, The Band of Heathens, Dragonette, My Dear Disco, Shawn Fisher, Neon Hitch, Skybox, The Ettes, Jukebox the Ghost, These United States, MyNameIsJohnMichael. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, the Temper Trap, Jamie Lidell, Frightened Rabbit, F Buttons, Deer Tick, Blitzen Trapper, Stars, Raphael Saadiq, the Cribs, Minus the Bear, Switchfoot, the Walkmen, Mumford & Sons, Wild Beasts, Rogue Wave, Los Amigos Invisibles, the Big Pink, the Dodos, Hockey, Cymbals Eat Guitars, B.o.B, Dawes, Warpaint, the Antlers, the Soft Pack, Rebelution, Balkan Beat Box. Lollapalooza 2010 Lineup Announcement is a post from: Daily World Buzz Continue reading

XBOX 360 USB Device Support Update Released

Good news to all Xbox 360 console users. The most recent update to Xbox LIVE® enables support for USB flash drives to expand the memory of your Xbox 360 console. The recent update for the Xbox 360 intends to maximize what the Xbox LIVE has to offer-from HD movies to downloadable game content. Users who will update their Xbox 360 consoles will be able to game saves, Xbox LIVE gamer profiles, or Arcade game  on external USB devices. Details on How to Update the Xbox 360 for USB Device Support and a forum thread is posted on the official Xbox website. XBOX 360 USB Device Support Update Released is a post from: Daily World Buzz Continue reading