Music: Commentary Track for February 6th #musicmonday [@roxfontaine, free MP3 downloads]

February 7, 2012 by Hannibal Tabu Leave a Comment

Senior hip hop correspondent Rox Fontaine will be recommending selections from our weekly #musicmonday column.Click through to the link below to find the songs you'll love.

Etta James, "I'd Rather Go Blind" (Lucky Paul Reworking)
It was a sad day for music when Etta James passed. Her influence on music spread far and wide. Of course, every musician out there that was inspired or intrigued by her work took to the studio to offer up some sort of tribute. Producer Lucky Paul's reworking of "I'd Rather Go Blind" is a great modern take on such a classic soul sound. It's clearly 2012 in style but does not completely overwhelm the Etta James vocal. Good job, LP!

Tha Dogg Pound, "Make It Hot" feat. Snoop Dogg
Rap is a dated art form by nature. It's has always been about the right now. Snoop Dogg is one of the few rappers that has been able to work across decades successfully. While most of us had written his homies Tha Dogg Pound off, they prove with this track that they still got it. This is 100% OG from start to finish. The track is distinctly California rider and the "hop" on it is too good. Kurupt's opening verse is made us do a triple take and slap ourselves.

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Young boys need to step it up.

heRobust, "Facebook Lift"
I guess we're in a West Coast state of mind today. This electronic/experimental tune has a little G-Funk flavor that's undeniable. While we have no idea what the title means, the music is so good that it doesn't matter what it's called. Tight work by heRobust. We dig this one 360.

You can download all these songs and more at the link below.

[Source: Komplicated]

About Hannibal Tabu

Born in Rockford, Illinois; raised in Memphis, Tennessee; matriculated in
Tacoma, Washington and broadcasting live from Los Angeles, Hannibal Tabu is
a writer, a brother, a husband, a misanthrope, a son, an emcee, an uncle, a
poet, a father, a designer, a nephew, a romantic, a storyteller, and by
god, a fan. He spent more than ten years doing the journalist thing for
Vibe, Slave Trade, MTV Online, Rap Pages, America Online, the Los Angeles
Sentinel, Spinnerrack.com, Speak and The Source. Hannibal has worked as a
web designer/producer and graphic artist for American Honda, eHobbies.com,
Quicken.com, Express.com, the California Association of REALTORS, Disney
Channel, NextPlanetOver.com, Toyota Motor Sales, Kaiser Permanente,
California Bank & Trust and many more. As a poet, Hannibal has been
published in The Drumming Between Us, (sic) Vice Verse, Drumvoices Review,
Voices From Leimert Park and other anthologies, as well as being author of
the collection BORN BENEATH AN ANGRY STAR and co-author of FLIGHT MANUAL.
As a novelist, he's written THE CROWN: ASCENSION and FARAWAY (both
available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble & Smashwords) and the upcoming sci fi
political thriller ROGUE NATION. He's the winner of the 2012 Top Cow Talent Hunt, writer of Waso: Will To Power for Stranger Comics, Project: Wildfire for Legends Press, and co-writer of an issue of Watson & Holmes (alongside 2 Guns writer Steven Grant) for New Paradigm Studios. For six years he was the editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Herald-Dispatch group of newspapers, is currently the co-owner and editor-in-chief of Black geek website Komplicated at the Good
Men Project, and uses his Operative Network website (www.operative.net) to
publish his poetry, market what he's doing, rant at the world and emit
strangled cries for help. In addition to all that, Hannibal collects comic
books, has scores of action figures, DJs private parties, is a Mac OS
zealot, sings and sometimes even hosts karaoke, practices a form of
spirituality based on ancient Egyptian belief, and goes to bed every day,
secretly hoping that half the world will commit suicide in his honor.