G.O.O.D Soul Food Volume 4... iHeart Shanaz Dorsett

Ladies & Gentlemen... Welcome to the fourth installment of our G.O.O.D Soul Food series & I hope you enjoy this one as much as I do! Ever since I thought up this series of features, one artiste has been in my mind's eyes to bring to you... Actually that's a lie, ever since I started this website, I had always wanted to get this 21-year old Singer/Song-writer from London, England by way of Houston, Texas on here for you! My friend Sean Deez a.k.a Mr. Contributing Writer for Kevin Nottingham & OkayPlayer, put me on to the G.O.O.D.N.E.S.S that is Ms. Shanaz Dorsett back in March if my memory serves me correctly & I've been hooked ever since!

Let's just go straight into the music, I think we've waited a while for this one... I Know I have!




That one's called 'Man Thing' with production from We Plug GOOD Music Alumni, REMOT & it was the very first song I heard from the Songstress... As I would eventually call it, the moment the love affair began & what about the production on this record though? Maddd Genius I tell ya BUT you already knew about the kid Remot, didn't ya? Well if you didn't, you need to download his American Gangster Remix album right HERE & NOW for starters (get your knowledge up please!)... Anyway what do you make of 'Man Thing' then? I'm in love with this record... Just listen to the, for the lack of a better phrase, beautifully-vivid lyrics on this... Coupled with Ms. Dorsett's soulful voice & melodies... With Remot's musical backdrops (tell me you hear the flutes on this) that all come together perfectly on 'Man Thing'.

Another gem from Ms. Shanaz Dorsett right after the jump ladies & gentlemen...




What you just experienced is the EOM produced 'Next Life'... You'd remember EOM (Elements of Music) as one half of the L.A/Virginia Hip-Hop group Wax & EOM that were featured on HERE a few months ago... well Goodness hooked up with Goodness and they created this beautiful record about moving on from a break-up & finding one's self... The thing about Shanaz's song-writing (which I will forever go on about) is that it's so real, it's NOT some far-fetched far-away notion about love & heart-break & relationships & life... I'm sorry if that kinda stuff is your thing but I just appreciate the realness of this woman's songs & is it just me BUT aren't those vocals just so soothing to the ear???

Some more Shanaz, did I hear you say? Well you're in luck cos YES we have got some more...




'Would have took a bullet in your defense BUT you shot me with your own hand...' - Shanaz Dorsett (Battle Scars)

As if one Shanaz Dorsett + EOM collaborative work wasn't 'heaven' enough, we've been blessed with two... This one's 'Battle Scars' and if you will, please allow me to marvel at the beautiful music. This is Shanaz's personal favorite & without making any assumptions here, I kinda see why... It's a painful record & quite the personal one on that level I'd imagine plus it sucks your very emotion right in with it (atleast it does mine) & I feel a sense of dejavu coming because this will be the 2nd time I'm saying this about an EOM production BUT there's something eerily haunting about the musical backdrops to the record especially how the keyboards intertwine with Shanaz's vocals... It almost screams out the fear Ms. Dorsett feels towards love and loving again as loud as the lyrics do. Beautiful Music is what it is!!!

We love Shanaz Dorsett here @ We Plug GOOD Music & we hope you heart her too because she is so the BIZINESS... She's currently working on her debut E.P which should be with us sometime in 010 so prepare your ears ladies & gentlemen, it's gonna be amazing! However while I've still got you here, let's enjoy some more GOOD Music from her, shall we?




Shanaz Dorsett ROCKS! Get with it OR go home... Can I just say that I love people that believe in love, that have faith in it or like my friend would say, that love 'LOVE' & this song, titled 'Need Love' as produced by Remot, shows me that Shanaz is a big fan of 'love' (don't you need to be to write love songs? I dunno lol) and as if to say there is hope yet left for her & all the hopeless romantics out there... After all the heart-break on 'Battle Scars' & the walking away on 'Next Life', the hope springs eternal on 'Need Love' & not that she's found some 'new' love but that after all that, after all is said & done, she still will embrace 'LOVE'. This is my favorite Shanaz Dorsett song, it's a hopeful soulful record that blows me away every time + if there's anything I need right now, it's hopeful & soulful...

Soooo... what's your two pence on Ms. Dorsett? Lemme know aight!!!

Until the Next Time...

We PLuG 2 You... G.O.O.D Music (We the Future Volume 1)

Ok you already know who we are & what we do, if you dont, check us out here!!! Let's get right into it... I'm so excited right now, you dont even understand!!! We've got some real GOOD music to finally share with you guys!!! We got some new exclusive stuff and we did some 'diggin' in the crates' type shit as well but the overriding theme for this blog is... the artistes that we bring to you here, now are all new, actually strike that, they're UP & COMING... you could say 'About 2 Blow', I say THE FUTURE!!!

Right!!! So I love this song, I absolutely love this song!!! And that's kinda why it's goin on first lol!!! Its called 'Baby Mi' & I'd quickly like to introduce you to the voice, the heart, the soul behind this tuune! Her name is Sonia Irabor, but we call her 'La-La'!!! She says she 'lives for this' and my gosh, do we believe her!!! Because we're only here to speak about the GOOD music, lets jus listen ok...






My fav part of that song... 'I'm most comfortable with you like KINI BIG DEAL?'...

And JUS inCase you were feelin that joint (which I am so sure you were), we jus got our hands on some new & EXCLUSIVE s**t from homegirl, its called 'Lettin Go' and its produced by RIES an upcoming producer who says he is the future of west african hip-hop so we'll have 2 look out for him... anyway check it out!!!






For the record, 'Baby Mi' is my favorite 'La-La' track but there's jus sufin bout this one, maybe its the bounce to it, the feistyness in the lyrics & yet the easy breezy tone her voice takes... I jus love it! 'Nigga please look at this face...'??? Jus love it!!! But that's only my opinion, you tell me what you think aight!

& turnin this GOOD Music thing all the way 180degrees round, we've got some of my fav kinda music in this bit!!! Oh by the way, we're at the G.O.O.D Hip-Hop section lol!

I personally have been tryna get this tune out to you guys ever since I heard it! Y'all know D'Banj right (NO I dont have stuff from D'banj! Well not YET anyway), then you must know the colossal record 'Gbono Felli Feli'? Well in the last few months, a few 9ja emcees have gone and done freestyles on it, with M.I being the most prominent of the lot BUT when I heard that Falz aka Bahd Ghoi jumped on the 'Gbono Felli Feli' beat, I was like 'hmmmm' but then I heard this...






... and all I could say was 'WOW!!!', first off... BIG UP 2 Don Jazzy for such a ridiculous beat, hands out the sickest beat outta 9ja in the last year (don't worry Gongo Aso is up there too lol!) but alas I digress... This freestyle though!!! Ok the beat packs so much 'umph' to it & I feared that it took a certain high energy flow (that I hadn't seen Falz show in his other records, his flow was more mellow or laid back, well before now!) 2 ride that beat & oh WHAT ENERGY does the kid bring on this track!?!?! & this is me yeah 'did he jus spit in "Yoruba" right there?', it trips me how the guy mixes his vernacular wiv pidgin english & propa english language! What's more though is its a FUN track & the lyrics don't disappoint! I am very impressed with this record & that's sayin the very least!!!

'Look now I be fyne boy... No be say Na powder! No be say Na Powder!!!' lol

Obviously keepin wiv the vibe of givin y'all some new & exclusive music every chance that we get, here's the latest record from Falz aka Bahd Ghoi (lol). This one's produced by David Evans from The Priority Club UK. RWD Magazine says Mr. Evans is the 'future of UK R&B'!!! (OK QUICK EDIT Y'ALL THIS ONE'S PRODUCED BY A BROVA FROM CANADA CALLED 'JEGEDE JACKSON'! APPARENTLY DAVID EVAN'S STUDIO IS WHERE THE TRACK WAS LACED & MASTERED!!!). Me personally, I dunno yet! The production on 'Doin It' (that's the name of the new Falz record btw lol) is alright, its catchy & it's got that bounce to it... why don't I jus let you hear the track yourselves???





SO don't hoard your comments, let us know what you're thinkin! I like this one but I've heard Falz better... At first listen I thought production on this was just adequate but after a few more listens, I definitely like the bounce on it! I'd love 2 hear your take on that too! Essentially though, I like it but I'm not bowled over (AM I EVER LOL???)

Forget everything else you've heard about it cos 2009 is definitely the YEAR of REMOT. Goin thru his discography, its hard to believe its been lil over a year since he started puttin his music out there for y'all (it was exclusively for us elitist b4 then lol!!!). But I'll give a run thru... you know that Jay-Z/Coldplay mash-up mixtape called Viva La Hova put together by Terry Urban & Mick Boogie? He produced a couple joints on there & HipHop DX, MTV, VH1, Coldplay & even the Jigga Man all co-signed that mixtape... & The Mick Boogie + Adele mash-up mixtape, 1988? Well he blessed that aswell! Rolling Stones gave one of his productions, 'To Make You Feel My Love' (a remix of Adele's 'First Love') on that mixtape some 'shine'... Fact of the matter is, REMOT (pronounce 'remote') is really G.O.O.D Music... so let's get to the music, shall we?

'Modern Soul' is how he'd describe his sound and he calls this track 'Best AT It' & you know what's madd about it? We can SO flippin digg that!!! Check it OUt...






Damn!!! & that's all I'm saying! You say what you can lol... Naah seriously say something!!!

And to close us out, we have Remot on hand with an instrumental he used to mash-up Radiohead's 'reckoner' with Lupe Fiasco's 'superstar' for Mick Boogie & Terry Urban's '2009: The Grammy Remix Album'... What we did so you can get a feel of how the magic happens is we've compiled the raw production with the actual song... so enjoy (hit next 2 play the next track obviously lol)!!! And before you listen... nah why don't I let you jus listen...





I bet you're thinkin 'Hmmm did he sample Lupe's 'superstar' on that track', especially after you've heard the full track wiv vocals and everything? Well NO because Radiohead's 'reckoner' is being sampled on this track! I know, I know, so uncanny lol! Lupe's vocals were sampled though and 6th Sense took the hook on that track.

OK I'm done talking, we want comments... loads of comments so bring it!!!

Until the next time...