Weekend Jam - Hip Hop Love Songs

Today’s Weekend Jam goes to how hip-hop at one time influences the connection between a man and woman. I know hip-hop caught a bad rap of degrading the ladies by sexual exploitation, but the minority of hip-hop songs brought out the softer side of men who wanted to be with ladies. I now present to you: The Slow Jam Rap Songs:

“I Need Love” LL Cool J: I said it once and I will say it again, this is why they called him LL Cool J (Ladies Love Cool James).

“Hey Lover” LL Cool J feat. Boyz 2 Men: See “I Need Love” and classic sample of “The Lady in My Life” by Michael Jackson.

“Can You Get Away” Tupac: The legend of this song was that he was really writing a personal letter to Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes. Whatever the reason, great song off one the greatest album in my lifetime “Me Against The World”

“Brainstorming” MC Brains: Although the name and the song are just as cheesy and corny, it still was a jam to be with your girl and make a lil love.

“Callin Me” Mac: This No Limit alum switched it up from gangster to smooth talker, and the beat is still to this day a bonafide classic.

“How It’s Going Down” DMX: The ultimate crush and how I feel about you song. Classic material from the Dog.

All Through the Night: Tone Loc feat. El Debarge: Tone have a smooth voice, but still I am LOLing at how did the West Coast feel this. You have to remember this was at the same time shortly "The Chronic" came out. You know the rest.

What is your favorite rap slow jam?

The Audacity of Trey Songz

I was doing a daily tenure in and out today when I hit a snag post. I had to questioned this:

“When do young R&B singers start to talk about the older R&B singers who have paved a style for them to come up on?”

This is what Trey Songz did to Mr. Pied Piper AKA Mr. Pee-on-you AKA R. Kelly and Aaron Hall. Here is what Trey Songz said about Kells.



....here is the song,



……..and here is his clarification,


Okay here is R. Kelly response.



Alright, now listening to both sides of the story; I am agreeing with R. Kelly on both sides. As much bad as he have done (the peeing incident on the young girl, the interview talking about has young teens on your team (not as a mentoring)), he did paved the way for R&B singers to express themselves from the 90s and beyond. I’m mean here is a kid (can’t call him a young man because he doesn’t deserve that title after that rant) telling a grown man what he need to do. I don’t know who Trey Songz is but as singer, his game either needs to step up on his next album or those words are going to come back to haunt him. I think Trey is good talent but leave the fan stuff for us to worry about. You might have the U.S. still listening to “Successful,” but everybody in the world will always remember “I Believe I Can Fly.”

So Note to Trey: “R&B singers can’t be rappers unless you can back it up.”