Music Break. Friday Bonus Edition
If you can’t get Coldplay’s stadium rock out of your head, try these 10 (well, eleven) tunes.
First up, Sean’s five year old prefers this remix by Dead Prez of “Beautiful Girls” to the original:
The French soul singer Ben l’Oncle Soul’s “Petite soeur”:
Tiombe of the East Village “spaced-out RnB acid house revivalist outfit” Cubic Zirconia channels Josephine Baker:
(You remember the video Kahlil Joseph directed for the “Black & Blue” track Cubic Zirconia did with Spoek Mathambo, right.)
Belgian rapper Akro (of local Mundele fame) recorded this video in Kingston, featuring Jamaican singer Stacious.
Since it is getting cold, it’s worth revisiting the remix of “Your Summer Song” by Exile, featuring one J Mitchell on vocals:
The next clip is not a music video, but one of many trailers for “Hit Me With Music,” a new documentary about dancehall:
The French rap collective, 113 (named for a commuter bus number in the “suburbs” of Paris) is now no more. You’ll recognize their famous tune “Prince de la Ville.” But, according to our French-Algerian connection, 113’s most popular song is that in the video below. It is a humorous take on the cliché of African families in France preparing for the annual trek to the continent with gifts for cousins aunts, nephews…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlNsHGxYRxQ
D’banj, nowadays part of Kanye West’s music label, made this song in 2010. It has about 1.2 million views on Youtube. His guest star in the video is popular Nollywood actress Genevieve Nnaji:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW3EpwyuiGA
More smooth grooves. Oakland’s Raphael Saadiq’s “Movin’ Down the Line”:
Brazilian rapper Parteum takes a trip down memory lane on the streets of São Paulo and São Caetano do Sul:
Finally, number 11, the intensity of the late Cape Town rapper Devious is on full display in this video shot in Amsterdam in 2001 by Thomas Gesthuizen. We thought of Devious last week, when Contro’Versy, another Cape Town rapper, passed:
