I love how Saba is talking about some very real things in society that are happening but is making it sound cool and something you can sing along to.  That’s the power of music for me just shown right there. In his chorus I can imagine him performing this and the crowd singing along to every single word, but if you take a minute to realise what he actually said it’s  pretty depressing. But songs do that don’t sometimes, right? Like they say things in such a way that you actually completely forget the essence of what the artist is
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About 6 years ago I met a family friend for the first time his name was Martin. He asked me what kind of music I was listening to and I showed him. To put it mildly he didn’t like it at all haha. Then he started putting me on to some of the artists that he used to listen to when he was younger. Then he played a few songs from the group- of this week’s SOTW amongst other artists such as Erykah Badu and Q-Tip. I loved the lyricism and the smoothness of their tracks and in Martin’s expressive
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I love see Big Sean’s progression. I remember before he was seen as being Kanye’s young little protege now he’s really made a lane for himself. This choice reminds me of something all these motivational speakers always say: ” You need to see the success before it happens! You know! ” Sometimes when you hear them say this and the way in which they say it you’re mentally like shut up,  its not that straightforward. But they’re certainly onto something in my opinion. I f you keep visualising it your actions will start moving you in that direction, slowly but
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It is very rarely that I come across an Afrobeats  song that I enjoy listening to but I can say with absolute certainty this is a song I genuinely love after hearing it a number of times. I don’t like touching on sensitive subjects such as race on my blog. But after watching the video of this song and hearing the content it will be like not addressing the elephant in the room. Growing up being dark-skinned or “African” was usually frowned upon and I think that was the same experience that a lot of darker skinned people have had
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This is a clean choice. This song really reminds of Can’t Tell Me Nothing by Kanye. Or Drake’s How About Now? Every has those people in your life that thought you weren’t anything and even said it to you. I’m no different my life is full of those  types of people. What I started realising is that success is usually the best revenge. I remember I watched Chadwick Boseman give an interview he was talking about how people used to be racist to him when he was younger living in the South of America. Well the tables really have turned!
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I’m not a big fan of politics. If I was honest I would pretty much say that I detest it. The lies, the misleading information, the lack of transparency its all a pretty murky industry to be honest. But the only thing is that despite my detest for politics I can’t get away from it even if I wanted to. It’s like saying I hate football( soccer) and you live England. Well, you can’t really get away from it. For instance: You’re trying to go see your friend at 2pm and you call to  tell her you’re going to be
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Jay-Z is one my favourite artists. I’m currently listening to his whole discography. I’m currently in listening to Dynasty Roc La Familia and The Blueprint. I’m doing ths because I always admired him, Rocafella and their whole movement; and at the age I’m at  I can finally appreciate such a complex artist and the many layers he has in his is music. Because of where I’m at right now on on his discography I haven’t heard this album but I will get to it. I love the feel of this song and the video. It feels really like House Lannisters
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With this song I did a bit of research but I couldn’t really find conclusive evidence as to who Van Morrison was talking about in this song. The passion that is portrayed in this  makes me feel so sure that this is a personal experience that he went through. I’ve searched on Google, read his wikipedia page but still there is no real answer as to who this song is actually referring to. Tuberculosis took the lives of many people in the post-world war two era.  Maybe Van felt guilty that with a fledgling music career that so many of
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Do you just love hearing someone give a speech or seeing someone speak on TV and they are speaking your exact point of view. And you start screaming PREAAAACCH!! PREEAAAAACHH!! That’s what I feel like this choice does for a lot of people that don’t have a voice. Everyone knows Black Panther came out like a month ago. And its like one of the highest grossing films in box office history I think.  Everyone talks about its good to have black representation in a film and I agree, it is. But the funny thing is that I personally feel like 
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This blog  was supposed to be done around the start of the year but to be honest I really didn’t know what to write so I just left it as a draft. I didn’t understand what was being said, but sonically I did think it sounded on point. Coming back to do SOTW I saw Matthias’s choice in draft and I had to do it. Everybody has a vice of some sort. If you say you don’t you’re lieing! Or you just haven’t lived long enough. One of mine was that I used to watch a lot of Television Programmes
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