Drake & Alicia Keys - Fireworks

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Off of Drake's highly anticipated album Thank Me Later here is "Fireworks" featuring Alicia Keys. I just felt it to be fitting with the 4th of July this weekend. Enjoy!

Jay-Z & Beyonce are staying forever young @ Coachella

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Jay-Z and B, tore it up at Coachella this weekend. Not too much more to say than that.

Erykah Badu: Window Seat

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Off the up coming New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh)album, Erykah Badu comes back with some controversy. On March 13, 2010,Erykah Badu shed her clothes as she walked along a Dallas, Texas, sidewalk until she was nude at the site where President Kennedy was assassinated. Suddenly, a shot rang out as the song ended; Badu's head jerked back and she fell to the ground. The result was a controversial video for her song "Window Seat", which Badu wrote on her Twitter feed "was shot guerrilla style, no crew, 1 take, no closed set, no warning, 2 min., Downtown Dallas, then ran like hell." Children with their families could be seen nearby as Badu stripped without any permission in Dealey Plaza, a popular tourist spot since Kennedy's 1963 assassination. Controversy or not she is still one of the best vocalist ever. Don't believe me just watch this live performance on the Jimmy Fallon show.

Mayer Hawthorne

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Keeping with the recent theme on the Empowering You Always blog is another new artist who has a real retro vibe. Green Eyed Love is off Mayer Hawthorne's "A Strange Arrangement" LP. Available on Stones Throw Records. Expect big things from this kid.

Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings

By the sound of them, you would think Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings started making funk-threaded soul music together in the 1960s. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings are widely considered to be at the forefront of a revivalist movement that aims to recapture the feeling of soul and funk music as it was at its height in the late 1960s to mid 1970s. Here is their first single from the up coming April release.

I Learned the Hard Way- Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings (April 6 2010, Daptone DAP-019)

Earth Song

If you missed the 2010 Grammys this was a must see.