Black Girls Rock!

First all, HAPPY NEW YEAR! Everywhere I turn I hear and read words of hope for 2010. Yes 2009 was a difficult, fun, long, brief, bright, sad and joyful moment for many, but the human spirit endures with hope. I am in love with it.

What better way to express hope than wonderful harmonies and melodies? Res to the rescue! I first heard of this artist at a housewarming party where my friends were discussing what happened to this voice also part of the group Idle Warship which includes Talib Kweli. I looked her up last summer but couldn’t find a whole track. But thankfully the internet heard my wishes and Res was still on her grind and now has a whole album for download: Black.Girls.Rock! Yes, she’s right; we do!

My favorite track is called Not A Pretender and I’ve listened to it on repeat nearly 50 times in a row. I’ve included it below for your listening pleasure, but make sure to support and download Black.Girls.Rock! from Res‘s website.

Much love to you and yours in 2010!

[audio: http://www.afrolicious.com/audio/res_notapretender.mp3]

http://thahotness.com My @ tha Hotness

Love Res. A lot of people slept on her.
http://intensedebate.com/people/afrolicious afrolicious

Definitely, but as we can hear she didn't sleep on herself! So thankful for good music!
http://usweetpea.wordpress.com Chai

I haven't been able to listen to much else since she dropped this…and for FREE no less! I love this lady & her music is so fresh!
http://beautyestdiverse.blogspot.com Tiffany

Happy New Year.