Next week is “The Best You’ve Never Heard” week on Music Help Web. Before I let you know exactly what that is, I’m going to give you a little bit of background on why we’re having a themed week.
Money Mike has put together a fantastic group of writers for this site. No one has exactly the same taste in music. Everyone is different. I was thinking of ways to showcase the variety that you can find on this site and came up with an idea. I wanted to allow each writer to write about one of their favorite songs from one of their favorite artists. But rather than write about a song that’s famous, I wanted them to write about a song that is a little less known. I wanted them to find that one gem that they hold true to their heart that for whatever reason, never hit.
Thus, starting Monday, you’ll be able to read blog posts from some of our writers based around the same theme. Money Mike will lead things off Monday and I’ll finish it up at the end of the week. Look forward to seeing our inner music geek. It will be “The Best You’ve Never Heard”.
Simon Gives Up The Loot In an update to what I posted last weekend, Mike’s main man Perez Hilton had a story on his site about the $9 million dollar thank you gift Simon Cowell gave his now ex-girlfriend Terri Seymour, who broke up with him because he didn’t want to get married. Everyone wants to be an American Idol. I want to be a Simon Cowell.
Lionel Wants To Dance On The Ceiling Again E! Online says that Lionel Richie is working with Ne-Yo and Akon for a track on his new album that’s due out in February. While Lionel should probably act his age, his 2006 song I Call It Love featuring Taj Jackson was actually a pretty good song. Check out the video with daughter Nicole.
Madonna Gets Justin And Britney To Share The Stage, Just Not Together
This is another story from E! Online. Justin and Britney both were guest stars of Madonna’s on her tour which stopped at Dodger Stadium. Brit helped her out with Human Nature while JT was with her for 4 Minutes. But they weren’t on the stage together. Maybe next time.
No To Jermaine But Yes To London? Billboard.com has this last bit about MJ possibly performing in London at the O2 Arena. Like I said last time, I’ll believe it when it comes out of MJ’s mouth.
Q-Tip just released a new album and I figured it was time to make an old Tribe record the Throwback.
I was just 15 years old and heard a track called Check The Rhime. I was floored. I had no idea who A Tribe Called Quest, affectionately now know to me as simply Tribe, was. They were three guys who created this sound of rap music that was very jazzy and soulful. Q-Tip had this helium sounding voice and Phife Dawg called himself the Five Footer. DJ Ali Shaheed Muhammad rounded out the group. But it wasn’t until I heard a track called Scenario that I really started to understand the difference between what was good and bad in rap music. The posse cut featured another group called Leaders Of The New School (LONS) and it was just insane. It also made Busta Rhymes and he probably owes his career to it. Scenario made me wish I could rap.
– Did you know that Bo knows this, and Bo knows that, but Bo don’t know jack, cause Bo can’t rap?
– Phife knew were he stood as he calls himself, “short, dark, and handsome”.
– Check out Reggie Noble smiling.
– Wow, how, now, wow, how, now brown cow?
– You understand the time frame when the references are Bo Jackson and Arsenio.
– Spike Lee looks absolutely no different 17 years later, except I’m not sure if he still wears the X hat.
– Q-Tip is my man but I may never fully forgive him for slobbin’ down Janet Jackson in Poetic Justice. Tupac could get it, but not Q-Tip.
– I don’t understand anything Busta says, but when you’re most well known for the line, “Rahhh rahhh like the dungeon dragon,” does it even matter?
– Young Busa Bus had mad charisma and also lacked the extra 100 pounds Busa Bus carries today.
– “Checkady-choco, the chocolate chicken.” Whenever you have a chocolate chicken, life is good.
– What’s up with the crazy hand signals Q?
I know that people say that Midnight Marauders is THE CLASSIC Tribe album. Yes, it’s great. But it doesn’t have Scenario on it. And to me, that’s their signature song and that’s why I can never go against The Low End Theory. Will they ever get back together and record again? Who knows, but even if they don’t, I’ll just throw this track on once a month and be fine.