This youngster did a true "rendition" of this song. If you've heard the original version, by Lady Gaga, you'd see just how he took this song into his own direction. Since upload this video that has gotten millions of views (almost as many as the original version by Gaga, a pop superstar), he's been invited to perform on Ellen, and since Lady Gaga has helped the kid land a record deal on her label (Interscope).
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Friday, May 14, 2010
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
I'd Love To Produce For a Hip Hop Violinist / Duo Like This!
If you have the skills and the budget, you should contact me... and if you live in the greater Atlanta area, hit me up at 404-507-6854. Let me know you're with it! This isn't the best performance, but it has the right idea.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Bob Marley - Positive Vibrations (Rare Video)
I've never seen this video before in my life. Look at how basic it is, and yet the soul of it is more moving tham half naked girls with fat butts, expensive cars, and rented jewels.
bob marley - positive vibration
..........JHON....... | MySpace Video
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Hip Hop is Like Anything Goes as Long as it Sold
I got tired of hearing people say wack rappers were real Hip Hop or the new era of Hip Hop, as if their music is the evolution of it, when it's clearly not.
Just because a dance is a dance and Hip Hop cultivates dance, like beats to rhymes, and spinning the tables to making beats, graffiti, etc...
...DOES NOT MEAN that everybody that picks up a mic is hot. A lot of so-call rappers out there are wack!!! and that's why those who try to preserve what REAL HIP HOP is don't like to associate those artists as being Hip Hop artists. We're not jealous of success in Hip Hop, either we love what you do or we don't. Nobody'smad that your song is served up with a dance. Back in the day we had the snake, the whop, the Pee-Wee Herman (turned into a rap dance record), and so many other joints. Nobody hates a kid in Hip Hop because his song has a dance.
Though, when the boy can barely rhyme to a beat, sings unbearably off key as a hook, and his beats are wack, then the dance ain't gonna save it, not in it's musicial form. It's wack for the most part. If that can be real hip hop, then anything and everything is.
If it uses a drum machine ...it's hip hop?
If it's associated with a dance ...it's hip hop?
If it tries to rhyme to a beat ...it's hip hop?
If it sings is it R&B???
NO!
...I'm getting real sick of posers who try to adopt the culture like Madonna with an African baby, feeling like this gives them some authenticity as to what Hip Hop is and what those who are Hip Hop should accept as Hip Hop, saying "I bought it/adopted it", "I did the research", "This was that and that is this"
...For the record: My point of view isn't meant to be racist, and I know it sounds like it is, but I loved the Beastie Boys. They were Hip Hop to me. Vanilla Ice WASN't. I don't care if he sold or none of that. KRS-1 was The Best at one point in the time-line. PM DAWN - 0 - They sucked
However, Hip Hop had soul, and the more I come to understand what it was that I loved about Hip Hop, I know it had nothing to do with murder, pimpin, hoes, bling, or wanna be ass rappers with a new dance.
Yes it was about dance, and it was about rap lyrics with the most phenominal deliveries, and the beats were #1, but the way commercialism has success structured in what they might call a successful song, album, or even a classic is full of politics advertised through gimmicks and gestures, which is a whole bunch of bull sh** solidified by statistics/sales.
I love Hip Hop for what Hip Hop used to mean to me.
That love is what becomes future, leaving the rest behind to be forgotten and destroyed.
If those that I respected as being my love of Hip Hop, who started Hip Hop in my life ....if they're gonna let the bull sh** fly and sell their soul to the politics, then what I do needs a new name that isn't Hip Hop to be served on a new platform that isn't industrial.
...and WTF is Hip-Pop ...that's self-degrading in anybody who accepts that badge, cause basically you're just saying you aren't good enough to be Hip Hop, so you'll settle for less as long it emulates what sells more.
Just because a dance is a dance and Hip Hop cultivates dance, like beats to rhymes, and spinning the tables to making beats, graffiti, etc...
...DOES NOT MEAN that everybody that picks up a mic is hot. A lot of so-call rappers out there are wack!!! and that's why those who try to preserve what REAL HIP HOP is don't like to associate those artists as being Hip Hop artists. We're not jealous of success in Hip Hop, either we love what you do or we don't. Nobody'smad that your song is served up with a dance. Back in the day we had the snake, the whop, the Pee-Wee Herman (turned into a rap dance record), and so many other joints. Nobody hates a kid in Hip Hop because his song has a dance.
Though, when the boy can barely rhyme to a beat, sings unbearably off key as a hook, and his beats are wack, then the dance ain't gonna save it, not in it's musicial form. It's wack for the most part. If that can be real hip hop, then anything and everything is.
If it uses a drum machine ...it's hip hop?
If it's associated with a dance ...it's hip hop?
If it tries to rhyme to a beat ...it's hip hop?
If it sings is it R&B???
NO!
...I'm getting real sick of posers who try to adopt the culture like Madonna with an African baby, feeling like this gives them some authenticity as to what Hip Hop is and what those who are Hip Hop should accept as Hip Hop, saying "I bought it/adopted it", "I did the research", "This was that and that is this"
...For the record: My point of view isn't meant to be racist, and I know it sounds like it is, but I loved the Beastie Boys. They were Hip Hop to me. Vanilla Ice WASN't. I don't care if he sold or none of that. KRS-1 was The Best at one point in the time-line. PM DAWN - 0 - They sucked
However, Hip Hop had soul, and the more I come to understand what it was that I loved about Hip Hop, I know it had nothing to do with murder, pimpin, hoes, bling, or wanna be ass rappers with a new dance.
Yes it was about dance, and it was about rap lyrics with the most phenominal deliveries, and the beats were #1, but the way commercialism has success structured in what they might call a successful song, album, or even a classic is full of politics advertised through gimmicks and gestures, which is a whole bunch of bull sh** solidified by statistics/sales.
I love Hip Hop for what Hip Hop used to mean to me.
That love is what becomes future, leaving the rest behind to be forgotten and destroyed.
If those that I respected as being my love of Hip Hop, who started Hip Hop in my life ....if they're gonna let the bull sh** fly and sell their soul to the politics, then what I do needs a new name that isn't Hip Hop to be served on a new platform that isn't industrial.
...and WTF is Hip-Pop ...that's self-degrading in anybody who accepts that badge, cause basically you're just saying you aren't good enough to be Hip Hop, so you'll settle for less as long it emulates what sells more.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Adele singing "My Heart to Stone" on Last Call with Carson Daily
This is a beautiful performance from a girl from overseas, singing her original song from her debut album. She reminds me of Lauryn (Hill).
Friday, April 17, 2009
Jasmine Sullivan singing "Home" from "The Wizard of Oz" LIVE at age 11
I was shocked, cause I don't dig this girl, but she blew this out the frame.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
MC Epic - Acidity (Remix): Produced by Dj Will Power)
You gotta love the digital age. I met MC Epic online at soundclick.com. I added him as a friend, asked him for an acapella, he responded with the acapella to "Acidity", and after sittin' on it for about a week or so ...this is what happened. [click the pic to download]
North of the border
This dude is from Canada. Is that where Hip Hop is right now?! I do have my criticisms, but this is like a breath of fresh air in comparison to what's been on the radio over the past 5 years.
Friday, January 30, 2009
"I will have made it long after I'm dead" - Jimi Hendrix
I wish Jimi had lived a happier life. I love his work and I see the colors he wanted me to see in his music, even in my dreams. A Band of Gypsys is my favorite album, of all time. He dealt with (manic) depression, and during those times, when his colors were lost in gray, his lyrics and self-image reflected morbidly and that sadness that belonged only to him would eclipse his eternal image.
Being set for life, after death, isn't a bad thing. Think about what that really means. I love Jimi Hendrix and I know his electric star is flying through the Universe at great speeds. I'm honored to have had his light before me.
Thank you Jimi
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
The BDK Documentary
I expect this documentary to be off-the-hook. Big Daddy Kane is definitely one of the most influential rap giants of the 80s. I still remember my first encounter with "Long Lived The Kane". Those were the dayz.
Salsa Baby!
I love the music in this film. It's mixed really well. I mean, the bass from the speakers on my little 19' TV moved me. During live performances, they translated Hector's lyrics (from Spanish to English) and I could experience the soul of the music and lyrics paralleled with Hector's experiences in the film. It was a spiritual movie about a man in pursuit of life in New York, against his father's wishes. He came to New York and fell victim to drug addictions, but he left behind a legacy as the front man in the crew of musicians who started Salsa. I thought it was a great movie. I would watch it again. Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony did a great job. This is the Latin 'What's Love Got To Do With It'.
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Overpower Radio is Looking For Artists
Send me your track
Send me your music that shows what you can do. If I have a greater imagination for the skills and gift you have (vocal quality, vocal delivery, musicianship, etc.) I will definitely be in touch.
Overpower Radio is about blessing people with music that's full of heart and from the soul. My mission is to captivate people with an overwhelming joy in love with sound. The artists I'd love to work do what they do for the love of it, and are confident in their abilities beyond the wonders of our pastime legends of all genres, and are yet humble (of course).
While I am a producer, I am first a DJ. I'm looking for the hottest music period! It can be of any style. I'm a Hip Hopper, I'm a rocker, I love jazz, soul singers, MCs, poets, house/club music, reggae music ...anything that's touches me as a work of art, a masterpiece. If your song is that hott!!! ...I'll help you to promote it through my site, podcasts, mixed tapes, spinning it at events, by simply playing it at will.
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