Can I kick it? Yes, I can.
Well, well, well…Happy New Year, blogosphere-dwellers! I threatened to change up our Big Fridays and the following was our Kickoff Playlist.
It’s sometimes hard to shift when you’re grooving on something and I do love and will miss Big Rocks [they will return, I promise]. But it’s good to remember that it was a change that started that whole thing, and so change [even though it's weird at first] is the only constant. Ya dig? Especially in a New Year. I am notoriously TERRIBLE at change. When my parents would drive me to camp I’d moan and whine all the way there, and then when they came to pick me up I’d weep piteously for a day and a half. And in spite of almost two decades between now and then, really I am as accustomed to my little routines as Evelyn is to hers. So I was nervous about unveiling this one.
Luckily I saw so many beautiful hip openers and challenging postures executed very well this afternoon; some smiling faces, some impromptu rhymes and R&B licks, and most importantly: rump shaking.
A Tribe Called Quest, “Bonita Applebum”
Dead Prez [No, really], “Hip-Hop”
Beastie Boys, “So What’cha Want” [A shout out to all my Raw Canvas NYE partiers]
Blackalicious, “The Craft”
Beastie Boys, “Body Movin’”
De La Soul, “Big Brother Beat”
Common, “The Light”
Common, “Funky For You”
Digable Planets, “Graffiti”
De La Soul, “Trying People”
The Foreign Exchange, “Happiness”
Curtis Mayfield, “Eddie You Should Know Better”
Eligh, “Riding Water Over Time”
D’Angelo, “Alright”
Aaliyah, “It’s Whatever”
André 3000 feat. Norah Jones, “Baby Take Off Your Cool”