While we're talking about great drums, let's keep it rolling.
Scroll down below to listen out for the sample on Common's "Forever Begins" off 2007's Finding Forever.
🎶 Don't turn it loose, 'cause it's a mother. 🎶
Sampled by Dre, JAY Z, Public Enemy, and many other hip hop greats, this track features one of the best breaks from the legendary drummer Clyde Stubblefield.
We sadly lost this incredible Nigerian artist earlier this year at the ripe old age of 90, but his funky synth-afrobeat music lives on (and is the perfect jam to listen to while rollerskating, no?). This track is off his 1979 record Tomorrow, and was released as part of a compilation over thirty years later by David Byrne's Luaka Bop imprint.
Learn more about Onyeabor in this article from the Guardian or in the Noisey documentary below.
Had a magical time up in the mountains around Lake Tahoe over the past three days for Women's Empowerment Weekend, celebrating the upcoming wedding of my incredible friend Alia with sixteen badass ladybosses. Feeling grateful for all of the strength, wisdom, and dance floor breakdowns we shared during our time out in the woods together.
Yep.
Views from the Six.
This voice. That beat. Those lyrics (seriously, go check out his annotations on Genius).
Khalid perfectly captures that feeling of young love on this track and I just can't get enough.
Thanks to my homegirl Marika for scooping this lil' ditty at SXSW. Ari Lennox has got some serious soul.
Read up on how Lennox found herself working on J.Cole's Dreamville imprint after throwing up some covers online, including this dreamy flip of Beyoncé's "Drunk In Love," in this interview with The FADER.
She slays it on this Otis Redding track, one of my all-time favourites...
...and just one more of her take on the legendary Lauryn Hill's classic "X Factor," background noise and all.
Hailing from Oakland, this pretty bird's got a voice that's so sugar-sweet.
Feeling the R&B vibes today and rediscovered NAO's album from this last summer.
Can't stop listening to this one. Been digging Syd since her days with The Internet ("Girl" is one of my favourite tracks), her guest appearance last year on Kaytranada's "You're The One" off 99.9% marked one of the record's best jams, and she's seriously brought it on FIN, her debut studio album.
Weekend throwback.
And here's Danny Glover (aka Childish Gambino) covering the original version of Tamia's "So Into You" from 1998.
And, last but not least, the Commodores track "Say Yeah" that started it all -- listen up for the sample.
One of those days.
Soulful, smooth, sexy.