I just found this on yesyesyall.org (Man, I love this blog!), I loved the cover they posted (I think they made it, beautiful) with this quote of D’angelo “Smack your ass, pull your hair“. As a big fan of D’angelo I was curious to see what was that. It’s a beattape by Chris P (I didn’t find anything about him on google unfortunately) made of D’angelo’s music only and as Chris P said “One Prince sample and one Digital Underground sample (both to enhance the particular beat), and ?uest’s drums from erykah’s “booty” on two beats. Other than that, it’s ALL D’angelo samples.“. This is dope I like it a lot, it’s not new but I never heard it before. I hope you enjoy it!

>>> Sulaiman, a emcee just took some of the beats fby Chris P to rap over, download it here.

Je viens juste de trouver ça sur yesyesyall.org (Ce blog est excellent!) avec une citation de D’angelo, Smack your ass, pull your hair“. En tant que fan de D’angelo ça m’a interpellé, j’ai donc écouté. C’est en fait une beattape de Chris P (inconnu jusque là et je n’ai malheureusement rien trouvé sur internet) composé de sample de D’angelo comme Chris P le dit lui même, “Un sample de Prince et un de Digital Underground et les drums de Questlove prient sur le morceau “Booty” d”Erykah badu. A part ça, ce ne sont que des samples de D’angelo“. Perso j’ai beaucoup aimé le projet, j’espère que vous apprécierez autant que moi.

DOWNLOAD the beat tape.

Chris P – Blood of Gawd
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Chris P – Horny
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Chris P – D’Rums
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Chris P – Still Horny
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Chris P – Smack your ass pull your hair
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What Sulaiman did with those beats :

Friday is the day.
9:20am : I am at the Fnac of Creteil (where the places would be sell at 10am, I went to Creteil and not Paris because the Fnac there would had be so packed) and I am not the only one, 8 people are already on line. We are all very excited about it.
10 am : What are they doing ? The others Fnac might open so please hurry up to open… Some minutes later they opened! I bought 4 tickets. We were allow to buy only 2 per person but a very nice couple bought 2 tickets for me as they just were taking 2 tickets for them!!
10:30 : I am one of the happiest person on Earth, I am going to the Prince show! While leaving I looked at the crowd, the line was really big.

First time but not last.
Sunday was the day! I get to the venue at 6pm as A LOT OF PEOPLE, we could heard Prince singing as the first show started at 5pm (I had a place for the 10pm show), the doors opened at 8pm… People were running and pushing me crazy. 8:30pm : I am in!! I’ve been to le Grand Palais one time for the Andy Warhol Exhibition but it wasn’t in this part of the Palais. It isn’t a place for show, for people that don’t know this place. Prince that gave a conference on monday 12th said about the choice of Le Grand Palais “When I did “21 nights” in London, the sound of the audience was so powerful that I needed something better and bigger. And when I saw the Chanel fashion show (last week) and Karl (Lagerfeld) came out and there was this roar that came up, I was jealous.“. I had again 2 hours of waiting. Prince entered the Palais in a black car and walked to the “backstage”, people applauded him. It’s now 10pm and Prince is on time! The show will end in 1hours and 30 minutes. He came back on stage three times after people called him for an encore. “1999″, “Kiss”, “Purple Rain”.. My best time was “Sometimes it snows in April”, a song I LOVE, the time stops for a seconde and the song was already done!

If you want to heard some seconds of Purple Rain click here (sorry for the bad quality, i recorded with my iphone!)

La Cigale, the best night ever.
Le Grand Palais was okay, my first time but a night after I heard that he would give a show at La Cigale. I called the venue (a venue for concert this time! 1300 places! Beautiful and intimist) they told me “Yes come at 8pm“, I didn’t really believe it. I was at school for my english classes, I texted a friend of mine that missed Prince on sunday telling her to go to the venue to buy our tickets. At 6pm i was done with school, run to the venue, my friend Françoise was there as an hundred people. I called the venue again while in line “It’s sold out, sorry“. I couldn’t believe it, so I asked people on line “We don’t have our tickets yet, they would had told us if it was sold out“. So at this time, I am starting to believe it. At 8pm, finnaly, we are the two next people to buy our tickets, the security guy told us “just a few places are left”. We have our tickets. Now, after 2 hours of waiting to buy our tickets, we have to wait in the others line, the people that have their tickets. The doors are not open yet, we try to go on the front of the line and so we do. The doors open at time almost. We are in, a beautiful places with a balconny with red seat. Beautiful. We are on the second row of people that stay up. 10pm, it’s THE time. Some notes of “Purple Rain” and “Old Skool Company” began. Prince is in a good mood, smiling and dresses in Black with the purple rain tee shirt and a black hat that hightline his class. Prince is on a Funky mood, “Turn me Loose”, “Danse 4 me”, “Stand”, “No More Candy 4 U”. Prince can’t stop smiling, he is so generous on stage, he smiles at us and says “No More Candy for You”, step back and keeps smiling. “It’s too funky for you” and the audience saying “NOOO”. One of the best moment for me was “Girl”, Prince is feeling the audience and we all sing together, girls saying “Boy” and boys saying “Girl”, it was just amazing to see how the audience and Prince formed ONE. It’s not too Funky for us, “Thank You”, “Sing a simple Song” and a beautiful Tribute with “ABC” and “I Want you back” in the dark (requested by Prince, “turn the light off“). Prince backstage after 2 encore with fans that keep calling him by singing the song that defined his week in Paris “All Day, All night, You can be my baby, i’ll make you feel alright” says “I want to go home, pleasseeee, let me go home“. NO, you’re staying with us and give us a great moment and so he did. “I want to be Free” (Ohio Players”), “Come Together” with the audience singing again with the little great man. Prince is just in a gread mood and is sharing with us, music and small talks “You know in my country they don’t play my music anymore… [...] They want to make me a slave but i’m only the slave of God, Music and You“. Prince had a great week in paris, and received lot of love from the fans and Monday at La Cigale, it was the place to be to receive from the Prince. The final song, after 5 encore was a beautiful version of “Purple Rain” with a solo guitare between every verse.
Prince gave us 2 hours and 45 minutes of show, made us smile (some girls went on stage to danse and Prince made fun of one of them that was dancing crazy, asking us by miming if she was drunk or if she smoke), shared some thought with us (about America that “take all the water and petrol”) and the most important had a great time with the us.

TV Show.
Yesterday, Wednesdey 14th was the time for all of us to watch TV and dance crazy in our living room. I never been so happy by watching TV. Prince was the guest of a french private chanel called “Canal+”, he was the guest 10 years ago! Prince started singing during the commercial, asking “when can I go?”, “In one minyte after the commercial” and so Prince went knowing people watching TV would missed the beginning! ah Prince! He did two songs as they said but he came back again for 2 others songs. I never seen a tv show like this, Prince did whatever he wanted to do and the audience was amazing, usually people are sitting nicely, this time people were standing up and dancing and not at the place they were supposed to be. It was the best tv moment since a while. Denisot, the presentator, asked Prince “Are you going to do more shows in Paris“, Prince looked at him and then at the audience and said “Can I do my song“. I think we will have something great soon. I’m feeling it.

Thanks to Prince for this amazing week.

Video :
Interview : Press conference.
Le grand palais : 1, 2 and 3.
La Cigale : Short video.
Le Grand journal (Canal + Tv) : Part 2.

Pictures :

Setlist of La Cigale : Courtesy of Schkopi.com
Old Skool Company, Crimson & Clover, Stand, Turn Me Loose, Dance 4 Me, No More Candy 4 U, Shhh, Stratus, Girl, Forever In My Life, Baby Love, Sexy Dancer – Le Freak, All Day, All Night, Peach, Sing A Simple Song – Be Happy, 7, Come Together, Dreamer, The Bird, Jungle Love, The Glamorous Life, 3121, Purple Rain.

L’été pour ma part s’annonce triste et maussade. En deuil, je suis en famille pour la semaine, on pleure un proche perdu lors d’un accident. Elle partait en vacance en famille, ses vacances elle et les siens ne les connaitront jamais et ne les vivront jamais plus. On pleure, on se dit “et si ce con n’avait pas créé cet accident“, “et si ils étaient parti un jour plus tard” et si et si. Mais rien n’y changera et les pleures écoulés n’arrangeront rien. Elle n’est plus, son sourire reste dans nos mémoires, son rire et sa bonne humeur, son humour génial et son regard taquin. On la gardera près de nous dans nos cœur à défaut de plus. Alors encore une fois je sèche mes larmes avec la musique. Je compte donc sur l’été et ses festival pour m’aider et je conseille cette cure à chacun.
J’ai eu l’habitude d’aller au Jazz Fest de Nice, mon budget ne me l’a malheureusement pas permit cette année, alors je me contenterai des festivals parisiens qui s’annoncent plutôt prometteur. A commencer par Gil Scott Heron, qui est déjà complet, je souhaite donc un bon concert aux chanceux et je me re regarde les vidéos prisent l’année dernière de mon premier concert à NYC. Et puis il y en aura d’autres – des bon concerts – George Clinton le 3 Août qui clôtura le Black Summer Festival. En août se sera soirées et balades nocturne avec l’Itouch. Le retours en musique live se fera avec le Jazz à la villette en Septembre : Seun Kuti, Ornette Coleman, Ron Carter, De La Soul, Ahmad Jamal… Et Free Your Funk promet de belles dates à la rentrer. Sans oublier le Rock The Bells Fr.
La cerise sur le gâteau pour cette semaine, Prince sera peut-être en concert les 24, 25 et 26 Juillet à l’Olympia. On y croit.

Bon été en musique à vous.

Gil Scott Heron à NYC 2008

Prince dans toute sa splendeur… Il parle de spiritualité, de son épilepsie guéri… Le sujet des témoins de Jéhovah est aussi abordé, expliquant pourquoi il n’a pas voté au dernière élection présidentiel. Je vous laisse regarder cette vidéo avec Prince toujours sur son 31, costume noir, chemise et cravate blanche et de jolie talons de 10 cm.

Ah les génies. Et pour la peine, voici un petit son à télécharger figurant sur l’un des albums de la trilogie, LotusFlow3r, sorti en Mars (USA) dans les distributeurs Target une chaîne de magasin de grande distribution) pour seulement 12 dollars! Bien entendu il sortira ici à la Fnac (et non carrefour ou auchan) à 19euro…

Prince – Colonized Mind
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