5/10/17 O&A NYC WALESTYLEZ HIP HOP WEDNESDAY: Travis Scott – Goosebumps ft. Kendrick Lamar

Goosebumps, by  hip hop recording artist Travis Scott serves as the third single from his second studio album Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight. Continue reading

5/8/16 O&A NYC WITH WaleStylez SONG OF THE DAY: Meek Mill – Litty Feat. Tory Lanez)

By Adewale Adekanbi Jr.

Meek Mill continues his hot streak by dropping a video for the track Litty featuring Tory Lanez off his most recent album, DC4. The visuals of the video play out like something straight out of a heist video. Continue reading

5/7/17 O&A NYC SUNDAY AFTERNOON JAZZ CONCERT: Nancy Wilson Live at Carnegie Hall (1987)

Nancy Wilson performs eight songs by herself and two songs with Carl Anderson at Carnegie Hall on June 25, 1987. Continue reading

5/3/17 O&A NYC WITH WALESTYLEZ HIPHOP WEDNESDAY: A$AP Ferg – East Coast ft. Remy Ma

By Adewale Adekanbi Jr.

 

ASAP Ferg released a new single titled East Coast featuring Remy Ma, which will appear on his forthcoming project Still Striving. The Harlem native has returned with a brand new music video for the song.

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5/1/17 O&A NYC SONG OF THE DAY: Diana Ross – Muscles

Muscles (1982)  written and produced by Michael Jackson, and performed by Diana Ross. 

The single’s erotic music video featured Ross in bed dreaming of muscular men. In one scene she is shown floating through the air over a landscape which turns out to be a man’s musclebound body. The video features a young Gil Birmingham (The Twilight Saga film series) in one of his first-ever media appearances.

Diana Ross – Muscles

4/30/17 O&A NYC SUNDAY AFTERNOON JAZZ CONCERT: Sarah Vaughan – Someone to watch over me (1978)

The Divine One Sarah Vaughan sing the George and Ira Gershwin classic Someone to Watch Over Me.   Continue reading

4/29/17 O&A NYC MUSIC: Marvin Gaye- What’s Going On From Motown 25 (1983)

What’s Going On pleads for understanding. Marvin Gaye’s voice is markedly detached; a lonely, but passionate, voice in the crowd. The result of Gaye’s complex songwriting, combined with his abilities as a producer and an arranger was startlingly different from anything previously released by Motown.  Continue reading

4/28/17 O&A NYC WITH WaleStylez SONG OF THE DAY: Ciara – Like A Boy

By Adewale Adekanbi Jr.

Like A Boy is a song performed by R&B artist Ciara for her second album Ciara: The Evolution 2006. Written by Ciara, Candice Nelson, Balewa Muhammad, J. Que, Ezekiel Lewis, and Calvin Kenon, it is the third release in the U.S. and second single in Europe.
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