Proud badge

Register To Vote

Get This Badge

NPR News and Notes With Farai Chideya

Archive for the 'Grown Folks Music' Category

28 Jun

Grown Folks Saturday Salute to Seattle Sound

Blue Scholars

“Joe Metro”

What? Did you expect something else??
Peace.

21 Jun

Grown Folks Saturday salute to ‘Westside’ Hip Hop

Yo Yo
You Can’t Play With My Yo-Yo

On my first trip from the East coast to LA in 1990, fate kissed me on the forehead at the car rental desk. I was assigned a convertible with a booming sound system instead of the super discount subcompact paid for by my company. After immediately noticing the golden [...]

24 May

Grown Folks Saturday Salute to House Anthems

Move Your Body
Marshall Jefferson
One of those songs I crave from time to time.
Just do what Marshall says and you’ll feel better.

17 May

Grown Folks Saturday Salute to Old Skool Hip Hop

Passin’ Me By
The Pharcyde
If you love early hip hop and are of a certain age, you’ll remember The Box. I went through a phase where I ordered up this song every night for a couple of weeks. Of course it took hours for them to play it so I didn’t get much sleep during that [...]

10 May

Grown Folks Saturday Salute to Momma

I’ll Always Love my Momma
The Intruders
For my mom, Dee.
Thank you.

03 May

Grown Folks Saturday Salute to Disco

Funkytown

Lipps Inc.

26 Apr

Grown Folks Saturday Salute to Garage

Keep On
D Train
“The sky is the limit and you know that you can have what you want
Be what you want.”

12 Apr

Grown Folks Saturday Salute to House Music

Break 4 Love

Raze
For some who are older it may be Motown or the Beach Boys. For some who are younger it may be East Coast/West Coast hip hop, Boy Bands and Pop.
For me, it’s House Music. As they say, “You park your car in the garage. House is where you live.”

05 Apr

Grown Folks Saturday Salute to R&B

Let’s Get Down
Tony, Toni, Tone featuring DJ Quik
Finger snapping, hand clapping and hip swaying highly encouraged.

29 Mar

Grown Folks Saturday salute to House Music

That’s the way love is
Ten City