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Music Monday — What are you listening to? (Hip Hop and R&B Edition)

Michael Tharrington on February 26, 2024

cover image source: Giphy We're rounding out February with another awesome pair of musical genres — Hip Hop and R&B — both of which originated...

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Schemetastic (Rodrigo) • Feb 26 '24

Is it working at DEV like this?

“everyday can be a better day despite the challenge
All you gotta do is leave it better than you found it”

Have a nice week start everyone!

Michael Tharrington • Feb 28 '24

I listened to this one earlier in the week but totally forgot to comment. What a rad song + music video! This is just a good time from start to finish. Goofy feel-good music... I like it! 🙌

Schemetastic (Rodrigo) • Mar 1 '24

Thanks, the world is not perfect and is hard to be possitive, that's why I like that song, is to be possitive, to feel good and you can always find joy even though the times are hard.

Michael Tharrington • Mar 1 '24

That's a good way to live right there! 😀

Michael Tharrington • Feb 28 '24 • Edited

Oh and working at DEV is quite different from this lol!! No office for us — we work from home, so I can blast my music and dance like this if I want to though, haha. 🕺

Schemetastic (Rodrigo) • Mar 1 '24

Haha, sounds amazing. Which kind of music do you usually hear the most?

Repro Dev • Feb 26 '24

I've been listening to this off and on for a smooth start to this Monday

Alicia hitting all the right Keys for me today

Michael Tharrington • Feb 28 '24

Oh hell yeah! Alicia Keys is one of the greats.

I dropped a Tiny Desk show elsewhere in the comments, but now I gotta share one more. Hope ya enjoy this.

Repro Dev • Feb 28 '24

I had no idea about this series, really like this one and it really is a tiny desk ha

Arthur Kh • Feb 26 '24 • Edited

I'm into this playlist for two weeks and can't stop :D

Michael Tharrington • Feb 28 '24

This is a fun playlist, Arthur!

I see Kylie Minogue's Can't Get You Out Of My Head in the second spot and that reminds of this awesome cover I saw, check it out!

Arthur Kh • Feb 28 '24

Wow! Thanks, I'll check it out

Arthur Kh • Feb 29 '24

It's wonderful and so touching

Stefan Moore • Feb 26 '24

@michaeltharrington whats im your ears?

Michael Tharrington • Feb 26 '24

So at this very moment, I'm tuning into an old song called "Acid Raindrops" by People Under the Stairs. I'm digging around and trying to find something good to share with y'all in here... but shoot, why not this track? It's an old favorite from high school.

Stefan Moore • Feb 26 '24

Name sounds familiar can't place at the moment. Not bad and they provide a different feel to the genre.

Stefan Moore • Feb 26 '24

Big Daddy Kane.

Michael Tharrington • Feb 26 '24

Oh hell yeah! Good call out, Stefan.

I really wasn't very aware of Big Daddy Kane until I saw this NPR Tiny Desk concert during COVID.

His flow definitely grabbed and got me to dig back into his material a bit.

There's a cool series on Netflix called Hip-Hop Evolution and one of their episodes focuses on him quite a bit + he's in a lotta the interviews. Good stuff!