This week’s Friday Freestyle is just the usual soul essentials. I started off with a track by Eric Roberson from a compilation called While U Wait, one of the best compilations I’ve heard this year. Eric also has an EP called the “Appetizer” available on his site. Will Downing (every woman needs a little Will [...]

Soul 2 Soul with Ladybug Mecca
Ladybug Mecca is cool like dat. We discovered that back in 1993 when the socially conscious rap group Digable Planets (Mary Ann “Ladybug Mecca” Vieira, Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler and Craig “Doodlebug” Irving) topped the charts with their platinum selling debut album, Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space). [...]

Happy Belated Birthday to one of my favorite singers and a very cool guy to talk to, D. Brock aka Darien Brockington. I just found out he’s a Virgo whose birthday happens to be on the same date as mine, Sept. 14. How cool is that! Make sure you check out the new songs he’s [...]