This week’s Slow Jam Mixtape is taking a different turn.  Afrobella, one of my favorite bloggers, listened to my first Dancehall Mixtape last week and wanted more reggae! In honor of her first radio show, this mixtape is called Lover’s Rock. Full of the soulful tunes from some of the best crooners of reggae. I even dug up and old “chune” from Delroy Wilson who was one of the first lover’s rock recording artists! I’m sure I left out some of your favorites but hit me up in comments and I’d be happy to do a part 2!

Enjoy! And don’t forget to tune in to Afrobella’s first radio show this Thursday at 11am EST!

1. Sanchez – Lonliness
2. Frankie Paul – Sara
3. Singing Melody – Groovy Kind of Love
4. Sanchez – I’m Missing You (Love Bump Riddim)
5. Garnett Silk – Oh me Oh My (Love Bump Riddim)
6. Glen washington – Consider Me (Love bump Riddim)
7. Beres Hammond – No Disturb Sign
8. Gregory Isaacs – Night Nurse
9. Gregory Issacs – Sad To Know (You’re Leaving)
10. Beres Hammond – She Loves Me Now
11. Cocoa Tea & Freddie  McGregor & Dennis Brown – Try Love
12. Beres Hammond – Sweetness
13. Sanchez & Beres Hammond – Come Back Home
14. Ghost – Nothing At All
15. Singing Melody & Ghost – How Could She (My Conversation Riddim)
16. Gyptian – Hold Yuh
17. Beres Hammond – If Love So Nice
18. Frankie Paul – Close To You
19. Delroy Wilson – Since I Met You Baby
20. Bob Marley  – Stir It Up
21. Sade – By Your Side
22. Gyptian – African Queen

The Ladies have been calling for more Heartbreak music and I also needed something along the lines of this. Maybe it’s a music “Dear John” letter to my exes or it could be a purging which is also overdue for me. I experienced a lot of emotions doing this mix. I redid it twice because I wanted it right. If you have someone to say goodbye to or if you have already bid someone adieu, this is the mix for you. Full of Neo-Soul goodness from some of the finest female singers in the genre, I hope you enjoy it!

Track Listing

1. Lauren Hill – Ex-Factor
2. Conya Doss – You Really Hurt Me
3. Jill Scott – Slowly Surely
4. Jaguar Wright – Same Shit Different Day, Pt. 1
5. Angie Stone ft. D’Angelo – Everyday
6. Kelly Price – You Should Have Told Me
7. Kelis – Saddest Story
8. Sade – Soldier Of Love
9. Amy Winehouse – Back To Black
10. Vivian Greene- Gotta Go Gotta Leave
11. Chrisette Michele – Blame It On Me
12. Ledisi – Goin’ Through Changes
13. Hil St. Soul – We Don’t Talk
14. Algebra Blessett – What Happened
15. Melanie Fiona- It Kills Me
16. Meshell Ndegeocello – You made a Fool of Me (Love and Basketball)
17. Lalah Hathaway – What Goes Around
18. Sade – King Of Sorrow

Hey Everybody!!!

This mixtape is a step out of the box. Jimi Izrael contacted me and requested that I do a mixtape for the release of his new book “The Denzel Principle- Why Black Women Can’t Find Good Black Men”.

This was a new experience for me..I took his selected readings…read by the Dizzle himself and laid them over popular instrumentals. I took some of the most recent R&B and hip hop songs and placed them between the tracks.

Jimi talks about everything in this mix and it is extremely controversial! He starts it off with Da Dizzle- talking about the Denzel Washington effect on women. Jimi then goes into the Booty Scale where he rates the various aspects of  white female hindparts. He has a diatribe against Kevin Powell…he really doesn’t care for him as you may be able to tell! Ejaculation Negotiaton starts off talking about just that but it ends with a poignant twist! Birds and Bees is a talk that Jimi wants to have with his daughter when she is of age…really as blunt and straight forward as he can be! Jimi has a problem with Essence magazine too and he tells you all about it! if your girl has a lot of friends…then you need to listen to Peeps. He talks about the generational curse of Single Motherhood which almost made me mad enough to stop production (I’m glad I didn’t). In Exhale he talks about Terri McMillian and you know he goes in on her messed up gaydar! and in the final selection of The Lesson he talks about an important childhood experience and how it affected his life.

I know you will have a good time listening to this. Please purchase the book at Amazon.com (link provided) I’ve read it and you will be laughing, sighing, crying and cursing from cover to cover!

Thank you for choosing me to do this mix Jimi, I hope you sell a million copies!

Track Listing

1. Dizzle – Jimi Iz
2. Smackdown- Lil wayne & pharell
3. Da Booty Scale – Jimi Iz
4. Big ole butt- LL
5. Kevin Powell- Jimi Iz
6. I Wanna Rock (Remix) – Snoop, Jay Z, Ludacris
7. Ejaculation  Negotiation – Jimi Iz
8. Be A Father To Your Child _ Ed O.G and the Bulldogs
9. Un-thinkable- Alicia Keys
10. Birds and Bees – Jimi Iz
11. Soldier of Love – Sade
12. I am- Mary J Blige (Marley Marl Remix)
13. Essence - Jimi Iz
14. I Come First- NeYo
15. Peeps - Jimi Iz
16. Don’t Try 2 Call Her Now- Ryan Leslie
17. Single Motherhood - Jimi Iz
18. Exhale - Jimi Iz
19. Get Money- Junior Mafia ft the Notorious B.I.G
20. Lesson - Jimi Iz

You can also purchase the book at:

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Barnes and Nobles

She is just gorgeous! This is gonna be a helluva year for R&B!!!