Mash-ups are nothing new. Hell, mash-ups featuring Jay-Z are nothing new, but if you’re a fan of the Jigga Man, you definitely want to check out “Jaydiohead”. DJ Minty Fresh Beats has grabbed a bunch of the best songs from latter-day Jay (“Black Album”, “Blueprint”, “American Gangster”) and mixed them with some of Radiohead’s greatest songs (from “OK Computer”, “Kid A” and “In Rainbows”) and the results are almost as good as when Danger Mouse mixed Jigga with The Beatles on “The Grey Album”. My favorite happens to be “Dirt off Your Shoulder” mixed with “Paranoid Android”. Who said Kanye was the only person that could sample Radiohead? (oops, The Roots did it too). Check Jaydiohead out at www.jaydiohead.com where you can download the album for free!
Remember yesterday I told you about Prince’s plans to release a pair of albums in the New Year? Well, you can find the first fruits of his labor on his website, lotusflow3r.com. Of course, Lotus Flower is the name of one of the albums the Purple One will be releasing this year. There’s video footage, a web store, and three new songs being streamed, including Prince’s cover of Tommy James & The Shondells/Joan Jett & The Blackhearts’ “Crimson & Clover”. Check it out and let us know what you think of the new material!!
After JSlow 6, I didn’t really have anything in the pipeline. With my son being born, I was buying less music so I decided to create a JSlow tape specifically focusing on one singer or group which meant I didn’t have to buy any new music to make the tape. I thought about doing Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, but for some reason, I went with Jodeci. Why? I’m not exactly sure, but I’d bet it was because of K-Ci and Jojo’s All My Life. That was “our†song. And by “ourâ€, I mean that when K-Ci and Jojo’s Love Always came out, I told my now ex-wife about the song (several months before it hit) and it became “our†song. It’s still fun to listen to that song today because while it doesn’t have the same meaning, it definitely makes me smile.
And I think roughly all the babies born between 1991 and 1994 were created to a Jodeci song.
JSlow 7: The Jodecidal JSlow (circa late 1999 – meaning only the first two K-Ci and Jojo albums were used)
1. Forever My Lady – Jodeci
2. Hello Darlin’ – K-Ci and JoJo
3. Cry For You – Jodeci
4. How Could You – K-Ci and JoJo (Bulletproof Soundtrack)
Ain’t no more blue left in my sky, only cloudy moments
5. Lately (live version) – Jodeci
6. Stay – Jodeci
7. Love U 4 Life – Jodeci
8. Don’t Rush (Take Love Slowly) – K-Ci and JoJo
9. Feenin’ – Jodeci
10. Life – K-Ci and JoJo (Life soundtrack)
11. Come And Talk To Me – Jodeci
12. All My Life – K-Ci and JoJo
13. I Care ‘Bout You – Milestone (Soul Food soundtrack)
14. Tell Me It’s Real – K-Ci and JoJo
What’s funny to me is that Life isn’t even a love song. But it was a song on the movie Life starring Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence, and at the time, it was the best possible duo ever on screen for me. I also really liked the song.
I didn’t add Last Night’s Letter for some reason, which was actually the second single on K-Ci and Jojo’s rookie album, and the single before All My Life.
I always thought the Cry For You video was odd because Jodeci was in the desert, but wearing leather and Sox caps.
How Could You was the lead single from the Adam Sandler and Damon Wayons movie Bulletproof which was awful and great all at the same time.
The live version of Lately (a Stevie Wonder cover) is just fierce.
Feenin’ was heated and all of a sudden I had a new word in my vocabulary that normal people didn’t understand.
I Care ‘Bout You was a song from the movie Soul Food and was a made up group featuring K-Ci and Jojo, Babyface, and his brothers Kevon and Melvin Edmonds.
Tell Me It’s Real was the lead single for K-Ci and Jojo’s second album called It’s Real.
