Keziah Jones closes the distance

Keziah Jones – Long Distance Love

Nice tune from Keziah featuring Nneka who just released a new project a month ago called Concrete Jungle

Paola Jean – Featherlight

I just randomly ran across this video. Video is kinda nice on the eyes.

TY gets Emotional

Organic Mental Food

Boog Brown – The Essence

StaHHr – Still Dope

Rakim – Freestyle

The Soul Rewind: Ain’t Nobody’s Lil Girl

For those that missed my weekly feature over at Honeysoul.com, I’m bringing it here to Can’t Slow Down now that those doors have closed. This is a blend I whipped up last night with Monica’s Ain’t Nobody and Shafiq Husayn’s Lil Girl instrumental. Just having fun with records as I like to do from time to time so look out for more and let me know your how you like the track.

Georgia Anne Muldrow – Run Away

Georgia Anne Muldrow – Run Away

A good friend of mine who shall remain anonymous – not ( big G), said I should post this new song from Georgia’s upcoming album due out November 10 titled “Early”. The track is official so check for the album on Vinyl, CD, or MP3 when it drops. Check below for the video “E.S.P” from her latest album UMSINDO out now on itunes.

J*Davey Ends Your World

J*DaVeY – End of Your World (Mama’s Back)

Ms Jack Davey the from fashion forward LA based group J*Davey is still rocking her mohawked hairdo in their latest video which is another heater. Isn’t it amazing how “underground” groups influence the mainstream in sound and style? Word to Cassie and Rihanna. I came across a very good analogy that aptly describes the group sound and style,  especially Jack (Ms) which is “the love child between Prince & Erykah Badu”.

RoddyRod This Time Around

RODDYROD – THIS TIME ROUND ft. CARLITTA DURAND & PHONTE

This song by Roddy Rod featuring Phonte and Carlitta Durand has been floating around for a while but this song right here does it for me every time I listen to it. For those who don’t know Roddy Rod is the third member (beat provider) from the group Maspyke and this song is off his album “Cuba After Market, which is more broken beat than it is hiphop.

New Music Mondays

It’s 2 am so I’ll be quick with this. And even while heads are sleepin, it still qualifies as Monday. I just checked out two dope new videos and the first is from Toronto rapper, Saukrates, for his song, Ms Yesterday. I heard this on his MySpace a year or so back. It was dope then and it’s dope now. Saukrates continues to innovate and do his thing regardless of the critics and we love him for it.

The second is Dwele jammin with the folks for a live version of Travelin Girl, from the album, Sketches of A Man. Dwele is forever innovative and seems to be enjoying web 2.o for all it’s worth, plus he’s rockin a fat, old skool, gold rope chain, so points for that one.

Vintage Vibes

The name Paul E Lopes is known far and wide across this globe for rockin parties and honestly, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone unwilling to give this man props. More recent party-goers in Toronto recognize the name for his long standing Bump n Hustle parties with Mike Tull but in heads circles it’s all about the CIUT days when he hosted and deejayed the show Vibes N Stuff.

This is a mixtape from back in those day and  is chalked full of classic b-boy/soul choooones! I don’t know the exact year (1994) this is from but when i say mixtape, I mean that literally, the shit was ripped from a cassette for all you kiddies who forgot.

Paul E Lopes – Rare Groove 1

Side A

Chocolate Milk – Action Speaks Louder Than Words
Eddie Harris – It’s All Right Now
S.O.U.L – Peace Of Mind
Ripple – I Don’t Know What It Is
Pleasure – Bouncy Lady
Stone Alliance – Sweetie Pie
Trinidad Steel Drummers – Cissy Strut
Funk Inc – Smokin At Tiffany’s
Jackson Sisters – I Believe In Miracles
Marvin Gaye – T Plays It Cool
Curtis Mayfield – Do Do Wop Is Strong In Here
Billy Brooks – Fourty Days

Side B
9th Creation – Bubble Gum
Blackbyrds – Do It Fluid
New Jersey Queens – Party Don’t Worry About It
Vibrettes – Humpty Dump
Die Hard & Oddball – Gi’da Po Man A Break
Charles Wright & Watts 103rd Band – Express Yourself
Jimmy Castor Bunch – It’s just Begun
Al Jarreau – You Don’t See Me
The Whole Darn Family – Seven Minutes Of Funk
Donald Byrd – Dominoes
Johnny Hammond – Shifting Gears
Cymande – Brothers On The Slide
Lafayette Afro Rock Band – Hihache

Slum Village Video Premiere

Sometimes it pays to be a nightowl. Check ViolatorDjs.com right about now…….

Pop, Locked & Loaded

I took some footage of the 6th Annual Pop, Locked & Loaded b-boy battle a few weeks back but i’m pretty dissapointed with my latest camera purchase so I don’t know how much footage i’ll be posting these days. Fortunately someone else has come to the rescue and tossed this up for all to see. The b-boys held it down this year without a doubt. Peace to Benzo, the organizer of the event, who announced that he is retiring from battling and shows. His legacy lives on.