Album Review- Ghostface - The Great Ghostdini

One of my Twitter peoples laughed when I said I thought that Ghosts new album would be better than Raekwon's newest release. Well, it isn't better by say the lyrics or the songs but it is an interesting concept that only Ghostface, out of anyone from the Wu, could pull off. First off, the album is called in it's entirety: "Ghostdini the Wizard of Poetry in the Emerald City". I know, a big wtf

Hip-Hop Love Songs 4

Now Puffy aka Diddy isn't the first person who comes to mind when you;re thinking about love songs in hip-hop. Everyone knows Puff is an asshole. However he has done a couple of songs for the ladies. "Last Night" with Keyshia Cole is from the Nelly school of love songs, where Puff rap-sings about a woman.Puffy - Last Night - Diddy, Keyshia ColeUploaded by cassie84However for Me, Diddy gets on the

Hip-Hop Love Songs 3

Welcome to the era of Ja Rule. The main artist on Murder Inc blew up "singing" to women with the female of his label. I'm not promoting these as the same type of strong images in my previous two posts in the series. Ja is more of the hood love type of artist. Actually, he is a blend of LL's "I Need Love" and maybe some of Common's material, so for that i have to give Ja a pass. He really made his

Hip-Hop Love Songs 2

Now last time I talked about hip-hop love songs I made a comment about "Poetry chicks". I'm paraphrasing there, but you need to go back and check it out. The focus of that post was the myriad of songs by Common that I felt strongly represented black love. I'm a married man so a lot of those feelings are still fresh for me. I think a lot of guys sometimes forget how it feels after a certain amount

Hip-hop Love songs

What's love got to do with it? Love has got a lot to do with it. In the hip-hop community, there aren't a plethora of songs that showcase the love between a man and a woman on mature terms. I have to include the term mature because most of the recent songs about male and female relations are ghettofied and very immature at the core. The genre basically started with the classic, "I need Love" by