If “Adorn” was Miguel’s breakthrough “I Wanna Be Your Lover”-style hit, “Coffee” was his “Dirty Mind”. I make the Prince comparison because…well, because it’s apt. It also means Miguel’s next album will make him a pop superstar. After all, Prince’s fifth album was 1999. I’m getting ahead of myself. “Coffee” was the lead single from… Read More “Coffee” by Miguel (2015)
The first people I came out to were my friend Patrick, my former history teacher Elliott, and my high school buddy Jacob. I did it all via letter (because it was 1994 and also because face to face discussion was virtually impossible and plus I was a punk and wouldn’t have been able to come… Read More “Bi” by Living Colour (1993)
Common’s 2002 album Electric Circus was met with a lot of scratched heads upon release. The Chicago MC had already engineered a stylistic shift from prototypical boom-bap to full-on neo-soul, and broke through commercially with 1999′s Like Water For Chocolate. Even with that genre detour though, Electric Circus was on some other shit. It was… Read More “Between Me, You & Liberation” by Common (2002)
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