always forgotten but understand miles jaye is a baaaaad mf

you watching a genius fam @Babybop_ @Thugger

amazing musician ability and his ability as a singer is off the charts l. this version is 😳😳😭

one of the greatest standards of all time written by bernard ighner- by the way i loaded up bernards only lp on a thread on here in the unreleased thread drops which i started months ago

Pleasure.

Omg thank you for sharing this, I'm listening rn and so far I'm shook

Pure perfection

My favorite playa song rip static major

This man has bangers

Amazing how he phrases the notes while the band plays with that wah wah violin. His audience is so transfixed and then he goes into Luther when he hits the melody, this mf can alternate between violin & vocals. When he plays it like a wah wah guitar at the end 😭😭😭😭😭😭

One of his classic jams :

His vocal phrasing on this & the control of his voice 🤯🤯🤯

My Spotify playlist bout to be lit

this is masterful in execution and you know are one of the greatest when the god george duke is backing you up on keyboards 😳

@Babybop_

Static majors pen game was the truth. Can’t believe I haven’t heard this

This beat also sounds like something timbo did for ginuwine but I can’t remember off the top of my head.

It's from Playa's only album Cheers 2 u (title track a classic btw), sadly it's not on streaming services.

And yeah this could probably fit on The Bachelor, that's where Timbaland was using the vocoder on a lot of tracks (Pony the most famous ofc).

one of the goats while he was alive i japan 1983:

became a solo artist on a fluke because zappa told him he had a nice voice and should consider being a singer 😳

little did fz know in a few years he would make r&b/soul/funk classics

look at him with his keytar making the japanese go crazy 😎

band is killer all a1 assassins on that stage i would kill for some duke tour shows 😭😭😭

@thugger @Babybop_

14 seconds in and im groovy AF

@AudioConsulting this s*** got me grooving so hard

you got to listen to “reach for it” lp 😎 you will recognize the title track as the basis for the music in ice cube dub c and mac &10’s classic :

obviously listening to it you hear the bootsys rubber band influence in the intro & bassline. it’s the inspiration that made this into a classic

you know he had sheila e in his band before Prince? that’s how sheila met prince.

Those female background vocals 😩

Oh yeaaa female vocals In r&b for the most part they sound like they are on lithium today. ( though we can think of a few names of the new sangers) Everybody just want to have one tone & then we should praise them. B****, you ain’t rachelle ferell, step in line there’s like 1000’s before I will co-sign on you. 😒🤣

Long line:

Fam the way she hits the chords on the intro and the band lays back on the groove with that voice & audience, magical goddess @Babybop_ @thugger 😭😭😭😭

goat s***:

meters and dr j rip to art & dr john 😎

that horn break in the intro with that keyboard

Damn

OP thank you, this thread inspiring a new playlist

I almost forgot this one, master. How many people do you know who can do a Donny Hathaway tribute lp & nail it? A fender Rhodes tribute of the various jazz fusion prodigies?

& write record & play & sing s*** like THIS?

Whittttelinnnnnnne in the sky. That intro how he bends the noteson the synth & then the vocal hits . And that’s just the intro fam 😭😭😭 Like george duke & donny. Put on straight from the vault & you going to start hitting the + button on your stream button

One of the only goats who can say prince heard him and was so blown away he put him in the npg touring band for a few months 😎McComb.......you can’t have this thread without him.

The level this man is on 😨

Another one off the same project:

he doesn’t even sing on this one he just grooves on the synth like he’s George dukes little brother 😳

Da man 😎

And the great news for you, he has over 11 projects

@thugger @Babybop_ man, check out everything he does 😎

Static was so talented

That album is genius. The honesty in leons lyrics in every song

love this thread

If you have any songs in mind be sure to contribute. I will be unleashing more tracks later