music video: the roots - rising up f/ chrisette michelle and wale (2008)

hot shit. i love chrisette michelle. first time i heard her was when she did the hook for "lost ones" on kingdom come. her joint with the game, "let us live", is also one of my favorite songs of the year. here's her killin' it on a roots song with ol' boy wale. spit it.

-grizzly

cody chesnuTT - the headphone masterpiece (2002)

the best thing you can possibly do for yourself is get this album for the cred. i mean, come on, how dope and in the know will you be next time you're on your favorite message board and you drop this name. mother fuckers will be like "yoooooooo, this cat is down."

what you will discover, once (if) you give the album a chance, is exactly what you read in the album's title. a lo-fi masterpiece made in a bathroom, by a man who's as strange as he is soulful. this album would be the end result of jimi hendrix, sly stone, and d'angelo sitting around painting their ideal portrait of a musician.

it's confusing, it's raw, it's soulful, it's sexual.. it's what you should be listening to right now.

cody chesnuTT on myspace.

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(p.s. obligatory mention about chesnuTT being featured on the roots classic single "the seed 2.0" (a remake of chesnuTT's "the seed").

- the panda masterpiece