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November 30, 2007 | Tags: none
If you’re like me (and I sure as shit hope you’re not), you’ve probably reached that point where you can’t really listen to rap music all the fucking time. I don’t know about you, but I could never listen to the tunes of the Mash Out Posse to relax frayed nerves or soothe a headache.

I listen to hip-hop music about 98% the time I turn on my old-ass iPod, so it’s easy to find a song, album or playlist that fits my mood at the time. But then there are those times where I just can’t listen to rap at all, as if my brain is prohibiting me from listening to the audio carnage of Styles P and Byzantine crack raps of Ghostface Killah. So in an effort to expand my musical horizons – and possibly prevent me from completely returning to the days of Hall & Oates and Chuck Mangione [1] – I turn to a multitude of artists. Real talk, you don’t have to solely listen to rap music to be considered “hip-hop,” because in actuality the culture is essentially a melting pot of everything from jazz and soul, to punk and even country. One day I may do some shit about how country music is the White equivalent of hip-hop, but right now I’d like to put you all on game to these people you needs to fuck with when you can’t listen to rap.

Sergio Mendes – True story is that I more or less couldn’t give a shit about any kind of Latin music up until about last year, when I hit up a free Latin Jazz concert with my sister at New York’s Lincoln Center. Let me tell you, there’s nothing like seeing an entire crowd – man, woman and child – simultaneously let that rhythm hit ‘em; the shit’s almost spiritual. While a lot of peoples know Sergio from the shit he did with those rapping gypsies the Black Eyed Peas last year, duke has been running the bossa nova game for well over 40 years.
DOWNLOAD: Mas Que Nada (the original, fuck that Will.I.Am version)

Justice – I’ve slept on these cats. But after I saw a drunk Kanye crash the stage Dirt McGirt style at some awards show, they got my interest. Perhaps due to the fact I grew up heavy on Freestyle music and used to murder cats on Marvel vs. Capcom 2 [2] while Daft Punk played in the arcade, they’ve definitely gotten my attention.
DOWNLOAD: D.A.N.C.E.
BONUS DOWNLOAD: Wale – W.A.L.E.D.A.N.C.E.

Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings – What’s wack to me is that while a talented but drug-addled artist like Amy Winehouse catches all kinds of attention for the wrong reasons, those that actually restarted this funk/soul revivalist movement shit get no play. Although the Dap Kings are more known for being the backing band during Amy’s Back In Black sessions, they’ve been around for well over a decade, bringing that real soulful shit but lacking the shine as their counterparts.
DOWNLOAD: 100 Days, 100 Nights

Machel Montano – When I visited Trinidad for Carnival earlier this year, I was introduced to his music in the best way possible: some wild sexy, big-butt Trini gal using my pelvis as a grind station to his vocals. Next to dancehall, soca music has got to be one of the freakiest sounds ever. I bet you can swing an episode in the back seat of a Jeep pumping this shit.
DOWNLOAD: One More Time


[1] “Feels So Good” is that motherfucking crack, though.

[2] Strider, Gambit and Dr. Doom = you can’t see me like John Cena.

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