Ana Clara Ribeiro
My Life Is Good – 애쉬비 (Ash-B)
5 December 2017
Here’s a cool song for you to just chill and be grateful for your life, in a non cheesy way. Relax and think of the good things about your life. Your life is good.
When you get to hear “My life is good”, by Ash-B, if you’re not fluent in Korean, the only lines you’ll understand are probably “My life is good” or “My life is cool” and “I’m proud of myself”. That’s enough, though.
Lágrimas do Palhaço – Kamau feat. Tulipa Ruiz
28 November 2017
What do you do with the sadness when you’re in a position to make others feel good? Where do you put it when you need to hide it?
Music and any other form of art might be a great escape, but that’s the tricky point: art usually demands you to be true to yourself and get in touch with your feelings. So how are you supposed to show up a smile when you’re doing exactly the one thing who forces you to remember how much you’re feeling down?
What’s Next – Latasha Alcindor
21 November 2017
Latasha Alcindor has a lot to say, and there’s so much style in the way she says it.
“What’s next” is an amazing sonic journey from her past and background as a black girl from the hood, to the future she is creating, the tomorrow she wants to see…
Perto de Mim – Sorry Drummer Feat. Stefanie, Rashid, Tatiana Bispo, DJ Negrito
14 November 2017
This is not just a song about falling in love. It’s as delicious as one, but better.
Born Luis Roberto Julião, Sorry Drummer is a Brazilian drummer and producer who brings a soulful approach to hip hop. His music is awesome, but I believe he also deserves credit for being able to reunite amazing artists and make it even better, like he does in this song.
Institutionalized – Kendrick Lamar feat. Bilal, Anna Wise & Snoop Dogg
7 November 2017
Art and music are indeed some of the most efficient and fit platforms to address social problems. Besides, being as subjective and democratic as it is, music is meant to entertain but sometimes it might also make you think.
Happen Ending – Epik High
31 October 2017
The whole point of this playlist is to encourage open-mindness through music, and to celebrate art as a powerful tool to find both what’s universal and what’s unique about each human being.
That being said, “Happen ending” by Epik High fits “Music to Dali & Jay-Z lovers” in so many levels that it’s hard to describe…
Sun, Star & Crescents – Large Professor
24 October 2017
We’re going to have some instrumental tracks in our playlist too and this is a great one to start with!
What’s awesome about tracks with no vocals is that they leave space for you to fill the instrumentals with whatever’s going through your mind. You can just jam along to them and think about anything you want. The production gives you a clue of which directions your thoughts may go, but it’s up to you to step into the suggested journey or create your own and just take the song as the soundtrack!
The Thrill Is Back – Statik Selektah feat. Styles P & Talib Kweli
17 October 2017
“Old versus new” discussions are recurrent in so many fields, and hip hop is not immune to it.
American DJ Statik Selektah and rappers Talib Kweli and Styles P released “The thrill is gone” in 2010, expressing their anguishes about how contemporary hip hop is all about “funny clothes”, “Auto-Tunes” and is full of “too many vultures” but has little from the culture it is supposed to channel.
To Heart – Tymee
10 October 2017
What’s amazing about South Korean rapper Tymee is her ability to go from super cute and sweet, to super dark and deep, to super badass and fierce, and then back to super super cute, but always sounding genuine and plausible in all these styles.
When We Love – Jhene Aiko
3 October 2017
We haven’t had much melodic vocals so far in this playlist – the closet thing to singing was Tássia Reis.
Hip hop is surely the biggest inspiration for “Music to Dali & Jay-Z lovers”, but it doesn’t mean all of our songs must be rap songs (check our brand statement here).
The track of the week is Jhene Aiko’s “When we love”, a track from her album “Trip”, which is pretty much a soundtrack for a mental and/or spiritual storytelling trip through a story of love and pain.
Love Is love – Versis
25 September 2017
“Love is love”, it’s simple like that.
If you truly feel it, you will automatically share it, enjoy life and respect people.
“Love is love”. It doesn’t need much more than these three words and an one minute and a half song, like this. As long as love is what keeps your heart “flowing, going, jumping, pumping”, you won’t need more than this to understand.
Jazz (We’ve Got) – A Tribe Called Quest
12 September 2017
This song is a primarily example of their music, because it brings all the right elements of that movement – and also, of what we value in “Music to Dali & Jay-Z lovers”: the peaceful vibes, the jazzy sound (with a sample from Jimmy McGriff), the intriguing lyrics.