Hey Everybody…it’s the Mixtress of R&B! I hope you had a great time on New Year’s Eve…I was putting together my best of 2010. I’m starting it out with Fuck you by Ceelo and ending it with Runaway..pretty much sums up my life in 2010! After all..I did play majority of these in my mixtapes throughout the year…I also did this mix as a collabo with another site:  The Soul Reservoir …I am “Your Favorite Blogger’s, Favorite DJ”

The Soul Reservoir

Recently, I G-Chatted with the one and only Mixtress of R&B, DJ Diva, a little while ago wanting to know if I’d like to share one of her great mixes with TSR’s readership. Now, I couldn’t very well contact you all and ask you personally but I’m pretty sure you’d want it. So on your behalf, I quickly and happily accepted.

Diva shot the links over and we checked it out all while typing this up and throwing together a quick artwork for the files. The entire mix is compiled of all the tracks from last year that made the majority of the noise in those nighttime meeting places and venues, as well as just plain old smash hits. Now you know full well that I don’t normally cater to commercial anything, but this mix has a good bit of tracks that got heavy rotation which I did enjoy whenever the rarity of a terrestrial radio station was playing within earshot.

Plus it’s a DJ Diva mix!! With her being ”Your favorite blogger’s favorite DJ“, and being well known for her Monday Mixtape series, also in addition to recently being featured on SOULBOUNCE as their first female Mixologist, how could I pass this up?

In true DJ Diva fashion she has provided links to a Lo-Fi version that while is FREE and sounds dayum good, won’t make your speakers thump as much as the Hi-Fi version which we’ll be hosting on Bandcamp for a penny short of a whole dollar.

Considering the economy, thats not a bad deal. Plus if you were to buy all these tracks separately, in CD Quality and on the iTunes, it would run you $26 but hey, we’ll let you do your own math.

So hit the following links, get to downloading and enjoy the mix as a nice way to say goodbye to 2010 and hello to 2011.

(Well without bragging…Enjoy the last mixtape from me in 2010 (well enjoy it in 2011 which is about right! lol)

Please purchase the cd version here:

Hey Everybody!

This is a special mix for me. Afrobella requested a mixtape for her Caress Girls Night Out giveaway which included everything in this lovely picture below:

Five people will win the two new Whipped Soufflé Body Washes, and ONE lucky Grand Prize winner will receive the ultimate “Caress Girls’ Night Out Essentials Prize Pack” which includes:
New Caress Whipped Soufflés Body Washes (Blackberry Cream & White Peach Cream) , a  Susan Farber hot pink clutch and a pink iPod Nano so you can bump your girls night out soundtrack as you get ready to hit the town!

And I’m providing the Sountrack!!! yay!!!

I went through 160 entries and tallied all of the songs. Beyonce Get Me Bodied was the number 1 song requested!!! Freekum Dress came in second! As a matter of fact, these ladies wanted a whole Beyonce Mixtape! I couldn’t do that but I included a lot of her songs. I also included some of Afrobella’s favorites too!

I hope you enjoy the mix and congrats to all of the winners!

Thank you Bella for asking me to do this..It was a lot of fun and I am eternally grateful for the opportunity to work you again!

Track Listing:

1. Beyonce – Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix)
2. Beyonce – Freakum Dress
3. Lil’ Kim, Missy Elliot, Angie Martinez, Da Brat – Ladies Night (Not Tonight remix)
4. Cupid – Do My Ladies Run This Party
5. Destiny’s Child – Jumpin’ Jumpin
6. Aaliyah ft. Timberland & Missy Eliott – Up Jumps the Boogie
7. Total ft. Timbaland & Missy Elliot – What About Us (remix)
8. Blackstreet – No Diggity
9. Queen Pen ft. Lost Boyz – Party Aint a Party
10. Mary Jane Girls – All Night Long
11. Mariah Carey ft. Jermaine Dupri – It’s Like That
12. Michael Jackson – PYT (Pretty Young Thing)
13. DJ Class feat. Kanye West – I’m The Ish (Remix)
14. Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling
15. Usher ft. Will.I.Am – OMG
16. Justin Timberland – Sexyback (Dirty)
17. Vanity 6 – Nasty Girl
18. Destiny’s Child – Bootylicious
19. Zhane – Hey Mr. DJ
20. Lucy Pearl – Dance Tonight
21. Usher – Bad Girl
22. Kanye West ft T-Pain – Good Life
23. Tweet – Call Me
24. Missy Elliott Ft. Nas, Eve, Q-Tip – Hot Boyz (Dirty Remix)
25. Kool & The Gang – Ladies Night

Hey Everybody! This is June Jacking Part 5! It should be called the Drake Edition because of course I love his new album!

I call it June Jacking because when I started hustling mixed cds 7 years ago…it was really jacking the net for music then.  I would spend hours searching for songs and uploading songs from my cds…just a long drawn out process!

Things are easier now with places like Limewire and Dopehood.com (love yall!)  When I need new music now I tend to head over to Eb-the Celeb‘s site or YouHeardThatNew (although I don’t mess with rap that much). My new music mixes are generally more on the hiphop side and probably not safe for children under 11. Play at your own risk!

I hope you enjoy it!

Track Listing

1. Drake – find Your Love
2. Usher ft. Plies -  Daddy’s Home
3. Nikki Minaj ft. Flo-Rida – Your Love
4. Fat Joe ft. Young Jeezy – HaHa (Slow Down)
5. Mary J. Blige, Swizz Beatz, Drake, T.I – Fancy
6. The Dream ft. T.I. – Makeup Bag
7. B.O.B. ft. Bruno Mars – Nothing On You
8. Dirty Money ft. Rick Ross, Nikki Minaj – Hello, Good Morning
9. Kanye West – Power
10. Usher ft. Will.I.Am – OMG
11. Clinton Sparks ft. DJ Class, Jermaine Dupri – Favorite DJ
12. T-Pain – Kiss Her
13. R. Kelly – I Love The DJ
14. Lil Jon ft R. Kelly, Mario – Miss Chocolate
15. Demarco – Wine Me Nuh Gyal
16. Serani – What You Need
17. Jim Jones – Summertime
18. Drake ft. Jay-Z – Light Up
19. Chris Brown & Tyga Ft. Kevin McCall – Deuces
20. Drake ft. Alicia Keyes – Fireworks

Have a blessed and safe New Year and see you on the other side of 10

1. Empire State Of Mind – Jay-Z Ft. Alicia Keys (Come on…Hands down the best song of the year)
2. Best I Ever Had – Drake (Milk and Cookies at his finest…Smooth groove song)
3. Rockin’ That Thang – The Dream (To continue the groove..slide in this hit by Dream)
4. Throw It In The Bag – Fabolous Ft. The Dream (another usual suspect hit)
5. Blame It (Remix) – Jamie Foxx Ft. Yung Joc & T-Pain (One of my fav tracks this year..everytime I heard it I had to dance)
6. I Get It In – 50 Cent (I got in it in 2009…that is all)
7. Baby By Me (Remix) – 50 Cent Ft. Ne-Yo (Finally a hot track with NeYo..isn’t 50 a rapper? Sounds R&B to me)
8. Love Come Down (Remix) – Dirty Money Ft. Red Cafe (Of course Diddy had to have a club banger this year)
9. Dancing On Me – DJ Webstar Ft. Jim Jones (HARLEM…HARLEM….HARLEM..yeah)
10. My Sweetie – Wale ( a lil African flavor fo ya…this is probably my most listened song by Wale this year.  I even stopped calling him “Whale”)
11. Million Dollar Bill – Whitney Houston (Go on Whitney! It was too bad that she couldn’t reproduce this live but I still loved the track)
12. Be My #2 – R. Kelly (I was waiting for this dang R.Kelly album all year. He made so happy with this track. It may not get rotation if his managers are retarded…but this is a new Step song which could bring back Disco and the Hustle)
13. The One f. Drake – Mary J. Blige (This was my attitude song this year….made so even more after I found out Mary smacked her husband in the club over some BS..I hope she did it to the beat…I hear that girl…I ain’t #2 or 3..I’m the ONE!)
14. I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho) – Pitbull (Reggaeton…I’m Dominican…that is all..)
15. I’m The Ish (Remix) – DJ Class ft. Kanye West (My husband’s favorite out of all my playlists this year…I loved bouncing with him in the livingroom…we got down!)
16. Girlfriend – Chris Brown Ft. Lupe Fiasco (His new fav…LaLaLa…hopefully Chris will be able to continue his career)
17. Sweet Dreams – Beyonce (My twins most requested song..I was mad at the video at first…but this song grew on me in a big way)
18. Poker Face – Lady GaGa (Gaga was the breakout artist of 2009…LOVE.HER!)
19. Put It In A Love Song – Alicia Keys Ft. Beyonce (This song will be creeping up on everybody in the next few weeks…Look for a live perfomance real soon…dang or at least a video…please!!)
20. Just Like Me – Jamie Foxx ft T.I. (Cause I am)
21. Gimme 20 Dollars- DJ Webstar Ft. Ron Browz (HARLEM…HARLEM….HARLEM..yeah)
22. I Can Transform Ya – Chris Brown Ft. Lil Wayne & Swizz Beatz (Swizz-y was busy this year…but I knew it was coming..didn’t sexpect him to finally cop to A Keys though…crazy beat)
23. Boyfriend Number 2 – Pleasure P (I await the final call on those charges but I loved this song this year..)

This week’s mix is some of the best of Timberland. Timberland is one of the best R&B producers I know. Yeah, I know he does rap too but his hiphop beats always appeals to these R&B ears of mine. He has the ability to make the hardest MCs sound danceable! Timberland is a genius. His beats always leave you slightly off kilter, slightly off beat with enough break for grinding. Yeah…I spent a lot of time grinding to Tim. Don’t let the lights go dim on some Aaliyah…don’t let the lights go dim and I owed somebody like Nas…Enough reminiscing…

(RantTime like back in the blogspot days)

As usual you may hear a few mistakes…I do this in one take with a little practice time to set up mix points and try out the beatmatching. In case you are wondering why I don’t spend more time on my “craft”..it’s because a Diva has a HUSBAND, a set of twins who are honor roll students and attending private school, I’m in Graduate School now..pursuing my Ph.D. in English Literature..plus I have a lot of friends…social media peeps included and all of this consumes my time. Oh and did I mention I’m a full time manager at a Top Graduate School? Yeah..A Diva is busy…

That said…I tried to camouflage any really bad mix points…I am really proud of some blends…Like 1&2, 2&3, 6&7, 8&9, 14&15, and some more…As said in class…I have a really good ear for beatmixing on turntables..and a talent for playlist selection… so please…enough comments on my beatmixing skills….

Enjoy it or click off.

I do this “every week”…I give you a new theme every week…I put a lot of time in choosing a good playlist to go along with my concept…I make my own coverart every week and I’m no artist! I’m really tired of the “Oh you didn’t do this right” and “you didn’t scratch..blah blah blah” comments.

I never promised you a rose garden.

I say all that to say…this is my hobby…and I enjoy it…I really do. Eventually I will purchase more equipment..I went to the Scratch Academy and got that Certificate…so please believe…I KNOW how to scratch!..Every week my mixes get better and every week I birth more music, which gets me back and forth to work and gives some folks pleasure.

I hope YOU enjoy it!

Track Listing

1. Are You That Somebody? – Aaliyah
2. Ride My Pony – Genuwine
3. Cry Me A River – Justin Timberlake
4. Oops Oh My – Tweet Ft Fabolous
5. The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly) – Missy Elliott
6. All In My Grill – Missy Elliott
7. Can We Get Kinky Tonight Remix – SWV  ft. Missy Elliot & Timberland
8. If Your Girl Only Knew – Aaliyah
9. Come Back in One Piece – Aaliyah ft DMX
10.Ride or Die B*tch – The Lox ft Timberland & Eve
11. The Bounce – Jay Z  ft. Kanye West
12. You Owe Me – Nas Ft. Ginuwine
13. Love 2 Luv Ya – Timbaland & Magoo
14. The Way I Are – Timberland
15. Part of Me – Chris Cornell ft. Timberland
16. Now Drop – Timberland & Magoo ft Fat Man Scoop
17. Promiscuous Girl – Nelly Furtado ft. Timbaland
18. My Love – Justin Timberlake Ft. T.I.
19. Trippin’ – Total ft. Missy Elliot
20. Beep Me 911 – Missy Elliott
21. Ice Box – Omarion Ft. Timberland
22. What About Us – Jodeci
23. One In A Million – Aaliyah
24. Call Me – Tweet
25. *igga What *igga Who – Jay Z

If you like the mix..here’s where you can purchase the divided version and one track mix:

Originally recorded 5/18/09

This is part 2 of the Monday Mixtape for this week. Here is part one..

So I like I said before…I have been swamped by outings with friends, the twins graduation, Prom and induction into the Honor Society, changes in leadership at the job…It’s been quite a summer so far.

I’m behind but I like to keep my promises.

This mix was requested by my best friend Tutu. Yeah she’s my best friend. Divaliscious is my sister and Tutu is my best friend. She requested this mix for her b’day back in April and although I was still going to class at Scratch, I put this together for her. I used some of songs I was listening to in April and may…with some of the songs i used for my final at the Scratch Academy…with some of the songs I heard during Tutu’s birthday weekend…

Funny thing is…I threw a graduation party for the twins and this mix was such a hit…so uhm…you might want to listen to what your kids are listening to..

I took too long posting it…but those who have had it…have loved it…so why hold on to it?

Most are songs you already love but I hope you still enjoy the mix!

Track Listing

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1. MM – 01 – Knock You Down  – Keri Hilson Ft. Kanye West & Ne-Yo (04:14)
2. MM – 02 – Boyfriend Number 2 – Pleasure P (02:39)
3. MM – 03 – Rocking That Thang (Remix) -  The Dream ft Fabolous (03:57)
4. MM – 04 – Best I Ever Had – Drake (03:36)
5. MM – 05 – What You Do – Chrisette Michele Ft. Ne-Yo (02:47)
6. MM – 06 – Blame It (Remix) – Jamie Foxx Ft. Yung Joc & T-Pain (03:43)
7. MM – 07 – Just Like Me – Jamie Foxx ft T.I. (03:17)
8. MM – 08 – Hottest In Da Hood – Red Cafe (02:38)
9. MM – 09 – Donk – Soulja Boy (02:40)
10. MM – 10 – Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix) – Beyonce (05:21)
11. MM – 11 – Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) – Beyonce (03:08)
12. MM – 12 – Dancing On Me – Webstar & Jim Jones (01:45)
13. MM – 13 – All Night Long – Faith Evans ft. Puff Daddy (02:37)
14. MM – 14 – Love Like This Before – Faith Evans ft. Fat Man Scoop (03:43)
15. MM – 15 – Silky – Cam’Ron (03:05)
16. MM – 16 – The Jump Off – Lil’ Kim ft. Mr. Cheeks (02:46)
17. MM – 17 – Rotate (Remix) – CNN Ft. Ron Browz, Swizz Beatz, Busta Rhymes & Jadakiss (02:57)
18. MM – 18 – Took The Night – Chelly (01:46)
19. MM – 19 – I’m The Ish (Remix) – DJ Class ft. Kanye West (02:25)
20. MM – 20 – Boom Boom Pow (Remix) – Black Eyed Peas (02:39)
21. MM – 21 – Pokerface (Freestyle) – Queen Latifah (02:11)
22. MM – 22 – Just Dance(Ft Akon) – Lady Gaga (03:41)
23. MM – 23 – Birthday Sex (Remix) – Jeremih ft. Red Cafe (03:25)
24. MM – 24 – Every Girl -  Lil Wayne Ft. Drake, Jae Millz (03:54)
25. MM – 25 – Pretty Wings – Maxwell (04:06)

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I Love R&B. I mean really really love it! The new artists coming out really don’t have that soul that I’m looking for…or the longevity factor…

Not John Legend!!!! Whether he’s singing about cheating on you, leaving you or loving you…his sultry, raspy growl will have you straining to get every last lick and lyric coming out of his mouth. Not to mention his piano skills which leave me absolutely breathless! ( and I thought only Prince could do that!LOL)

It’s my birthday this week so I guess I had to treat myself right? So for my Mixtape present to myself I compiled all of my John Legend favorites…i hope I included yours!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!! YAYYYY!!!!!

Track Listing

1. Quickly  – John Legend ft. Brandy
2. Stereo – John Legend
3. It’s Over – John Legend ft.Kanye West
4. Alright – John Legend
5. I Can Change – John Legend ft. Snoop Dog
6. I Used To Love You – John Legend ft.Kanye West
7. Number One – John Legend
8. Heaven – John Legend
9. P.D.A. – John Legend
10. Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing – John Legend
11. Green Light – John Legend ft. Andre 3000
12. Selfish (Remix) – John Legend
13.Refuge (When It’s Cold Outside) – John Legend
14. So High (Cloud 9 Remix Edit)- John Legend ft. Lauryn Hill
15. Again – John Legend
16. Another Again – John Legend
17. Maxine – John Legend
18. Where Did My Baby Go – John Legend
19. Save Room – John Legend
20. Stay With You – John Legend
21. Ordinary People – John Legend
22. Hello, It’s Me – John Legend
23. Faithful – Common ft. Bilal & John Legend