Author: Rosanne

Have you ever heard that Kelis song Trick me? It goes: “Might trick me once I won’t let you trick me twice” I mention this because things need to get real. I got a couple of responses to my newsletter last week asking if everything was ok… Seeing that I was Under Pressure. Well sometimes,…

Wow, what a week it has been. Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic is the title of the Prince album I worked wayyyyy back in 1999 as a label manager. I think it means something like: offer yourself to the positive. But with him you never know. Still, I will focus on it being a call…

“Ain’t no sunshine when she’s goneIt’s not warm when she’s awayAin’t no sunshine when she’s goneAnd she always gone too long anytime she goes away” I love Bill Withers, I mean the man has had so many hits! Lean on me, Lovely day, Just the two of us and of course Ain’t no sunshine. Remember that scene from…

So I am singing Kanye’s newest single ‘Famous’ and am hearing this sample I recognize. I look it up and it is a song that has been sampled a lot. And the woman singing it is called Sister Nancy. That cracked me up. The song comes from an era in Jamaican music where DJ’s (rappers)…