Jumping in Headfirst

I'm on CPT (Colored People Time) with this update, but between moving in and sleeping, I hadn't really thought about the Music and Song updates. Sorry folks. Truth be told, this update is kind of a surprise to me. I had no intentions of coming here today, but while I was listening to Foxxhole from a few weeks ago, they brought on Marques Houston. Now the last time I seen this dude, he was in the R&B group IMX (because when you get in your twenties you can't just run around calling yourself "Immature"--you can't just invite folks to clown on you like that) singing 'bout his First Time. Had all the kids in my seventh grade History class (somehow I got stuck with all the niggas) singing that shit. But that was a good six or seven years ago--personally I thought since then dude had fell off like a loose Halloween mask. ...But I guess not, 'cause at the end they played this song here, called A Case of You. I've been known to post a lot of R...

Koihime Musou is one of those series that can ONLY come from Japan, with all of its harems and cute schoolgirls with infinite hammerspace capabilities. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms characters...all reimagined either as busty warrior girls or lolicons, and all of them in skimpy outfits. This would drive your average "artsy" anime fan a bit batty, but if you have a sense of humor, this is JUST amusing enough to be addicting. And this incredibly upbeat song by fripSide is the perfect opening.

I feel my Princess of Music hasn't gotten enough attention on here. Its impossible to unseat Masami-chan , but Nana Mizuki would be the one to do it if anyone were to, and because of that she's earned the title of Princess of Music from me. My first introduction to Mizuki-chan was the fanservice (and panties)-laden Rosario to Vampire, where she voiced the main love interest, Akashiya Moka. I've never been the type to pay much attention to seiyuu, but when I noticed she also did the peppy opening song to the series, Cosmic Love, that's when I sat up and took notice.

...Freaking Hyde. You suck, dude. No joke. Hyde never has to do another good song for the rest of his life (though he has), and the sheer, nuts-shattering AWESOMENESS of Driver's High will STILL provide him with cool points. Even the freaking video is top quality. *sighs* Carry on, you obnoxiously talented bastard. Carry on.

Code Geass' first opening. FLOW is a very interesting rock band, to me. Much like L~Arc, normally I can take them or leave them. But every now and again, they'll get on the right anime OP and rip it. You gotta admire that, on some levels. Granted, Code Geass sucks, but we'll get into that later.

First day of the new month. Let's try a little something different here at JiH, hm? Its all anime songs week! For the next five days you'll be getting my favorite anime openings and endings. For today, hope you all are in the mood for some J-Pop!

Greatest rap group of this decade, off the greatest album of this decade. Fuck these blurbs, hit the jump and listen. Little Brother Ft Joe Scudda - Lovin' It Uploaded by yuu2006 . - See the latest featured music videos. I still can't figure why BET wouldn't show this video. Although I gotta admit, they went hard at pretty much ALL the major groups of black culture in music right now with the parodies.

Heh-ha. My FAVORITE part of this song is when all the rapping is over, actually. Ya'll know what I'm talking about. Right at the tail end, when Snoop Dogg hops on and says, "I'm sitting back, watching Montel Jordan's video, and I see the same bitch, who was in, the home boy Nate Dogg's video. Then I flip the channel, I'm checking out my homeboy Tupac video, and I see same bitch, who was in MY video. And then, what make THAT even more fucked up--I'm watching Million Man March, and I see the same bitch in the Million Man March, that was in the homeboy Warren G video!" Shit had me in tears.

Gotta love m-flo. Verbal and Taku (and Lisa!) from their early days hit us up with a track that took my 2005 self, when he heard it, straight back to the 90's. ...Y'know, back when hip-hop was cool.

Blame YouTube. I was going to do something intelligent and respectful to show you more of hip-hop's "conscious" side, but they wouldn't let me embed that video, so I said fuck it and threw some D's on that bitch. Hit the jump. "I couldn't really tell you if Halle's really real, but I'ma let you know soon as I get a chance to feel." Kanye wilds out on this track, no joke. And he MURDERED whoever did the original version of this. Kanye West throw some D's remix Uploaded by superyanel . - See the latest featured music videos.

I didn't realize until I read it on another site that today was the eight year anniversary of R&B singer Aaliyah's death. I still remember hearing about it in school--it came as such a shock because she was so talented, and so young--she was super popular, and there wasn't a single person who didn't know that popular as she was, she was just getting started. Check the jump for the song.

I hate to do the whole, "I was an Outkast fan before it was popular!" thing, but I kinda was. Everyone jumped on the group when they released "Mrs. Jackson" (OOOH!), and they became mainstream when Andre 3000 released "Hey Ya", but I was listening to these cats way way back. Back when they dropped Rosa Parks as a single, and was showing a young cat like me Da Art of Storytelling with Slick Rick. These guys have always been capable of bringing the heat, back then, and even now that there are housewives who know the tune to Mrs. Jackson.

A little more of "street" Namie. This reminded me of some 1999-2000-era hip-hop/R&B kinda stuff, when I first heard it. So Crazy is an awesome song, but looking at the video, I guess Namie was trying to channel J.Lo with the looks and dance moves.

I start humming this song around older folks and the first thing I hear is, "Boy what you know about that? That's way before your time!" ...Which, it is. This song was recorded 15 years before I was even BORN. But so what? On the very subject my boy Jamie Foxx got in trouble for--is the music of today, better than the music of yesterday, a lot of people want to say, "Don't you think our parents said the same thing about our music when we were growing up?" ...Yeah, they did. But see, here's what something like the Stylistics proves: It doesn't matter. Good music today, will be good music 30 years from now. Good music of yesteryear is good music NOW. And any REAL fan of music can vibe to good music, no matter what era its from. The Stylistics' Betcha By Golly Wow, Hall and Oates' I Can't Go For That, Warren G's Regulators, Jay Z's 99 Problems--it doesn't matter.

YouTube songblocked me out of the video I wanted--they all had embedding turned off, so I just said screw it. You get this. Its not a bad song, but I overlooked it at first because, normally I don't really mess with either of these cats, 'cause while I love R&B, most of it is garbage. But this had a kinda 90's R&B vibe (we all know this "new millenia" R&B don't compare), so when I first heard it I dug it. ...That said, unless Usher has something to tell us (that he goes looking for dates at playgrounds), it really ain't no way in the world he and Kellz was messing with the same girl. And after the brick he dropped last time (Moving Mountains!), I doubt he could avoid going to jail like his partner on this song did.

I did say Namie Amuro was once a pop star, and this is one of her first songs from back when she was a member of the girl group Super Monkeys. Very catchy, so hope you love it. You have to admit, they're quite energetic. She was cute back then, too! (Of course, back then I was like, 9, but still!)

Lotta R&B coming through this place lately! Maybe I'm just in a real romantic mood, I don't know... ...Not really, I just felt R&B could use a little bit of shine on this site since it hasn't been getting it. Y'know, I really love this song...but SOMEBODY has gotta explain to me why, right at the end of the song, Sisqo suddenly says HIS OWN FUCKING NAME. Really nigga? Why your OWN name? If that doesn't seem odd to you, think about how weird it would sound if somebody called out they own name during sex. This dude getting hard looking at his own self in the mirror, what kinda bullshit is this.... Then again, I'm still trying to figure out why he thought wearing an unbuttoned coat to show off his chest in the video was a good idea, so maybe I'm the wrong person for this...these R&B cats have always been kinda questionable to me image-wise.

Hah. I had actually forgotten this song until a minute ago, while I was listening to this track from Gerald Levert (the "L" in LSG) called Casanova. Decent song, so I figured I'd hook you up with the video. (Casanova will pop up later, if I find it...) ...Is Keith Sweat still alive? He ain't homeless, I can tell you that--he begs too good. I know he was hot back in the late 80's and had a sorta-kinda comeback in the late 90's, but I ain't really heard from the dude since. I'm sure he dropped a chart-bottoming album in 2005-2007...everybody from the 70's and 80's seemed to put an album out then.

First heard of Hall and Oates when I was looking at I Love the 80's on VH1. Was such an odd little video, but the song was kinda catchy, so they got filed away in my brain, which meant when my uncle asked me to find him a Hall & Oates album, my interest was finally peaked enough to check these guys out. If you're interested, get the Looking Back (The Best Of) album. SO many classics on that one. This would be one of said classics:

We're back, WBUN radio stations, with the perfect slow jam for everybody out there trying to get a woman to let you put the tip in. ...Whatever happened to Freddie Jackson, anyway? Does he still make music? He's not popular right now, but that ain't a big shock--all this autotune stuff crowds out people capable of actually singing, especially males.