J.Dilla Tribute: WCFSO & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson

On a previous post I mention the late great, J.Dilla. Dilla was a revolutionary artist and producer. He's inspired so many artists and producers. He passed away on February 10, 2006, three days after his 32nd birthday due to cardiac arrest. Jay Dee's presence in the Hip Hop community is greatly missed. A lot of people don't really know about "Jay Dee". Jason Weinberger, WCFSO, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and the people at Vtech remade and re-recorded Dilla's music with an orchestra which sounds pretty amazing. Also, legendary Roots group have paid their respect to J.Dilla by re-recording some of his number one hits in a mixtape titled "Dilla Joints".



“I probably don’t have to explain how exciting it was for me to find myself performing Dilla’s music with the WCFSO. Even more gratifying, though, were other aspects of the evening – feeling the connections emerge between Dilla and his predecessors William Grant Still and Duke Ellington, taking the orchestra outside of its comfort level and in the process to a whole other level of music making, and especially offering our audience the opportunity to abandon preconceptions and discover something special.” - Jason Weinberger

A History of Rap: Jimmy Fallon, Justin Timberlake & The Roots

On Wednesday, September 29th, 2010, Justin Timberlake was a special guest on the Jimmy Fallon Show. What made this episode special is that both, Timberlake and Fallon, accompanied by legendary Hip Hop group, The Roots, performed an epic ode to Hip Hop

A conversation about the Sugar Hill Gang led to Timberlake and Fallon performing the last 30 years of Hip Hop by rhyming lines from Sugar Hill Gang, Beastie Boys, Digital Underground, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Notorious B.I.G, Tupac, Missy Elliot, Eminem, Jay-Z and etc.

This video alone captures the essence and content of my blog. I am a 19 year old Toronto bound male who loves music. The older I grow the deeper I seem to wonder in the eternal roots of music. The more I discover about music the more interested I become into it. Music has the power to express love, hate, poverty, crime, politics, problems, death, happiness, change, hope and etc. Music is like my own timeline; I can listen to certain songs and remember things that were going on around that time, or remember specific events that occurred. Music is my own personal hyperlink into time and so are the music videos.

I think this is a marvelous way to start my blog. This blog will be a music journal of mine; I'm going to post music and music videos that I love and cherish.

This blog will not specifically be about one genre of music but many different genres as it is after all my personal preference. I hope you all enjoy!

From Toronto, With Love
Florind