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Payn's Ponderings Black History Month Music Edition


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2/10 Sharon Jones

This one is really tough for me. I was lucky enough to see Sharon and the Dap Kings a number of times. Great musicians and a beautiful soul! After she battled cancer, she went on a tour that was unleashed. I mean like rival Tina Turner unleashed. A great performer and lovely person that to me was never "too short, too fat, too black, or too old."

 

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Tackhead is a band whose members have played with some big names- Living Colour, NIN to name a couple- but with killer tracks under their own name. This is the song that exposed them to me:

 

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Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprosy was an offshoot of The Beatnigs, featuring Michael Franti. This was the first song released off of their debut album:

 
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Dynamic Syncopation “The Plan”

Unfortunately, this is NOT the album version. It’s a remix that, AFAIK, only exists in video form.
 

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The 1980s & 1990s exploded with rap bands going in all kinds of directions. One big trend was sampling jazz instead of/addition to go-to genres like Blues, R&B, and Funk

Souls of Mischief

A Tribe Called Quest

Arrested Development

Diggable Planets

De La Soul
 
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