U People Podcast – Episode #21 “Got Questions?”

Lets talk about it. SEX that is.  Our guide on this quest to find the answers to our most indelicate questions is our own Dr. G Love aka Dr. Geryll Robinson resident healer. Find out how to manage the inevitable “crazies” around love and sex that this life can bring you. Gloria Bigelow makes an appearance with another U People Story. As always we love U People everywhere, so you folks out there we want to hear from you. Visit iLoveUPeople.com for more antics.

 

Brooklyn Girl In…Amsterdam [Episode #2]

Before meeting up with the Brooklyn Funk Essentials for a month long tour, Hanifah stops in Amsterdam as a guest of the Crime Jazz Festival. There she meets people who not just show her the town but bits of herself 3,000 miles from home. She finds out that Amsterdam is more than what it is known for and that its real intoxicants are found in its people. During the Crime Jazz Festival there was a special U People Screening in front of a Dutch audience made up of black, white and racially mixed people. Below are snippets of the audio from the talk back.

U People Podcast – Episode #20 “The Short List”

This week Hanifah and Olive welcome Stacey Ann Chin to the hot seat. Well, it was her own couch but you get the picture. We answer tough questions like why she feels she can’t get a date as well as a unexpected look at who she thinks is hot. Gloria Bigelow is back with another U People story.All in another fine podcast from us to U People.

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U People Podcast – Episode #19 “Big Butter Jesus”

Ohio, Ohio O how we love you. Hanifah and Olive travel to the snowy wilds of the midwest. At the Cincinnati Herstory Festival they show U People the film and return bleary eyed to talk with Shelley Nicole of Shelley Nicole’s Blakbushe about her own trip to Ohio. Shelley shares a video diary of the campaign trail between New York and Youngstown Ohio. Hanifah and Olive tell Shelley about their encounter with Big Butter Jesus.As always we love you U People so come it get while its fresh.iLoveUPeople.com
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U People Episode # 18 ” For the Granola in You”

This week we feature Skim an extraordinary talent and a featured artist on the U People soundtrack. She is in our fabulous boro of Brooklyn far away from her home in California. We are extra crunchy this week as we revel in Michfest memories of great music, bare bosom and group showers. Gloria Bigelow is at it again getting those U People stories. Keep watching because we have some surprises coming up that you wont want to miss.

Don’t forget about those U People Cards featuring the hottest DJs and the best in indie music.

The Onliest

The Onliest featuring twin sisters Ganessa (Dez) and Tiffany (Zelle) James are one of our favorite groups to check out here in Brooklyn. They are also featured on the U People February Mix by DJ Lynnee. To give you a taste of their acoustic goodness check this impromptu performance video with them singing their spin on Rachelle Farelle’s “I Know You Love Me”; while chillin’ in the crib. Click image to for more info and link to their myspace page at www.myspace.com/theonliest

3 Questions: DJ Lynnee Denise

I first came to know the music of DJ Lynnee Denise in the Bay Area while loosing track of space and time on the dance floor of one of her legendary Wildseed parties. Every Wednesday there would be a pilgrimage of the devoted from Oakland to a small little Brazilian restaurant in Frisco. There we would dance and soak cheek to cheek, hip to hip, boy and girl, girl and girl , boy and boy, person to person. The windows were fogged and in them were messages written backwards for the outside world to see “Dance My People Dance”. This is one reason why I asked DJ Lynee to spin the February U People Mixtape and thought she also could answer these three questions:

1. When was the first time you experienced the sensation of love (outside the context of a lover). Tell the story of when you experienced love in the way that it defined it for you?

One of my first memories of love came when I discovered my parents album collection. I thought i was deeply in love with hip hop, but when I discovered that hip hop’s parents were–rock, soul, jazz, reggae, blues…I was truly in love with all of these sounds. I felt like i was finally being allowed to participate in the larger conversation of music as a universal
language.

2. What is the heaviest thing you ever carried and when did you put it down?

The heaviest thing i’ve ever carried was guilt about past mistakes. I put it down when i began to trust the idea that I, like all other humans, had the ability to learn, change and grow. I’m lighter now.

3. When did you accept the title artist and how have you defined that for yourself?

When i turned 30 years old, something happened. I became more aware of the discipline, focus and balance it required to truly hear my voice as an artist. Before then I felt like I had a voice, but that it was an echo of someone else’s voice. I accepted the title artist about two years
ago. I define artist as a person who is not only paying attention to the details of what’s happening, but developing new tools and forms of expression that help us all unlearn and reapply what we’ve known for centuries….something divine lives within.

More info on DJ Lynnee Denise

Check this snippet of DJ Lynnee Denise’s eclectic mix for the February U People Download Card.

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February Track List
1. A La Ronde Jianda.
2. Do You Mind Hanifah
3. Always Nice Jianda
4. Free Prelude Jill Scott
5. happily ever after
6. Aqurarium Meshell Nedege O’cello
7. The Hours lynnee denise–featuring malena perez
8. obsession battle groove
9. nights over egypt the jones girl
10. human behavior bjork
11.paper thin mc lyte
12. Estrellas (Re-Bound) lynnee denise
13. the women gather nikki giovanni
14. starr people ebb mix fertile ground
15. Where I want to go Tarray Reynolds
16. Believer Onliest
17. I want More Cassandra Wilson