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Pause 4 what!?Ī Seat at the Table has the greatest interludes I’ve ever heard on an album. Ken Kaniff from Connecticut? Never heard of him.
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I couldn’t tell you what the skits on Late Registration are about, and that’s one of my favorite albums of all-time. In fact, I usually delete them entirely from my music library. There are a couple exceptions, but historically I’ve always despised skits and interludes. The write-up for Freetown Sound could have gone here as well, but I wanted to mention one specific aspect of this album: the interludes. Here’s to hoping that some of this magic rubs off on Hov.įavorite Tracks: All Night, Freedom, Don’t Hurt Yourself 3. No-holds-barred music that empowers, threatens, and imposes. She has transcended beyond us mere mortals at this point.īeyoncé is making “fuck you” music now. I didn’t leave that night feeling like I connected with her at all, and that was okay.
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It was a scripted, rehearsed-to-death-by-now concert performance by a professional at the top of her game. Things have certainly changed since then.īeing the huge fan that I am now, I went to see Beyoncé on the Formation World Tour in Philly this summer. I was never a fan of her music - save for “Crazy in Love” - and always wrote her off as a generic R&B/Pop superstar who happened to be married to my favorite rapper of all-time.
If you told me in 2012 that Beyoncé would go on to drop two of the best albums of the decade, I wouldn’t have believed you. Maybe that’s good enough.įavorite Tracks: Best to You, I Know, Hadron Collider 4. I still haven’t figured out the answers, but what I do know is that this album sounds great to my ears. Should I feel guilty for detachedly consuming music created by and for those who are fighting battles that I’ll never have to face?Įver since To Pimp A Butterfly released in March of 2015, I’ve asked myself those two questions often. What draws me in to, or makes me especially like, that which I can’t relate to? I’ve always said that I gravitate towards music for escapism more than relatability, but these albums were not made for escapism, they were the respective artist’s very real feelings and experiences. With racial tensions in America at a forefront, I think this is an elephant in the room worth addressing. While struggling to figure out how I wanted to write this blurb, I realized that albums #6–2 on this list were not at all made for my straight white male consumption. Blood Orange - Freetown Soundįreetown Sound is, to put it bluntly, a very black album. The narcissistic and self-destructive R&B of today is great and all, but sometimes “I just want a Michelle Obama lady/To hold me down when the world’s crazy”, and that is when you put on Maxwell.įavorite Tracks: III, Fingers Crossed, 1990x 5. blackSUMMERS’night, the second installment of the “Black Summers’ Night” trilogy (the first was titled BLACKsummers’night, which makes this whole thing an SEO nightmare), is Max’s best album in 20 years. So like I said, you probably don’t listen to enough Maxwell, and you should change that immediately. I was ecstatic when I came across this article in April just for the fact that SOMEONE else out there wanted to bring attention to this album. Either way, Maxwell’s 1996 debut, Urban Hang Suite, is an R&B classic on par with, if not better than Baduizm or Brown Sugar, and deserves more praise than it receives from the masses. Maybe it’s because he wasn’t showing off his abs on any of his album covers? I don’t know. For some reason, other late 90’s neo-soul acts such as Erykah Badu and D’Angelo became generally more popular than him. If you’re white, there’s a very good chance that you’re not all that familiar with Maxwell.