Recap: Dwele’s Three W’s and the Hathaway Legacy at B.B. King’s NYC
Photos by Helen Marie
INTERVIEW AND STORY BY HELEN MARIE
SHOWTIME: Starting promptly at 8PM Dwele steps onto the B.B. King Blues Club stage for a glimpse of his new album W.ants, W.orld, W.omen.
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Dwele f. Slum Village, “How I Deal” MP3
Dwele’s fifth album hit this week during the blazing heat of summer. His conscious approach to women, life’s desires and the world is neatly formatted into three parts for the 17 track LP. Making the title web-friendly by prefacing his 3 W’s, fits the climate of online purchasing or snagging up Google searches. Selfish!? If you’re about listening to albums from beginning to end, you’ll get to the World section (not world music), towards the middle after the Wants portion is through. Pretty cool concept. Click here to buy Dwele’s W.ants W.orld W.omen.
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Video: Dwele, “What’s Not to Love”
Time is on Dwele’s side lately. After hooking up the outro to Kanye West’s “Power,” his new video takes a tongue and cheek aproach to the ticking clock. He’s poised as the ladies man! His album is called W.W.W (W.ants W.orld W.omen), what better way to acknowledge the inescapable moments where he is bombarded by them (not in a flurry of panties thrown on stage) than to show them through an average neighborhood stroll. Thanks to Dwele, tardiness has a valid excuse. Check out the video after the jump.
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Kanye West f. Dwele, “Power” MP3
Photo by Jason Nocito
It’s probably never a good time to be on Kanye’s bad side. The fate that lies ahead: becoming fodder for Mr. West’s impactful return to to the mic (with Dwele as the cleanup man). His first salvo is as powerful as the title. Back when “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” hit, you wait for that bass drum to hit, and without fail, Yeezy explodes after the opening sample of King Crimson’s “21st Century Schizoid Man.” Then comes the motherload: Fuck SNL and the whole cast/ Tell em Yeezy said they could kiss my whole ass/ more specifically they could kiss my asshole/ I’m an asshole?/ You niggas got joooooookes! Be glad it’s them, and not you not on the receiving end. Happy Memorial Day weekend.
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Video: Dwele, “I Wish”
Dwele is setting the bar high with a laundry list of personal aspirations. He wants to sell music to the masses that it stands out at the top of the desirable things he calls out on “I Wish.” He’s modest about his mediocrity as a musician, even not having the finer things in life that comes with that success. Accepting that, he knows that there’s greater work to be done by addressing those individuals (who could be buying his album) about the more disturbing reality of graduation rates among young black men in his city of Detroit. That’s real talk from Dwele. Listen to Dwele’s message after the jump, where you can also listen to “I Wish.”
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Dwele “What’s Not To Love” MP3
The easy way to a woman’s heart are through compliments, and amazing marathon sex. The standard procedure of foreplay should begin with 12 Play. That’s one way to be forward, but to beat around the bush, Dwele might be more your speed if you’re not ready to ride.
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Raheem Devaughn f. Everyone in Neo Soul, “Nobody Wins a War” MP3
This is what that “We are the World” remake should have been: a group of singers (Raheem, Jill Scott, Bilal, Anthony Hamilton, Algebra, Chrisette Michele, Shelby Johnson, Ledisi, Citizen Cope, Dwele, Chico DeBarge and Rudy Currence) SINGING about conscious shit to move the people. There are so many talented people on this song we were scared our eardrums would explode but there are no ridiculous solos or singers getting crazy and yelling over each other. There is, however, Jill Scott preaching for a good minute at the end, which we’ve never been known to mind because we are members of the Jill Scott Soul Church of the Miracle of SAANGIN. Raheem’s album drops today. -Judnick Mayard
Video: The Suite for Ma Dukes Orchestra f. Dwele, “Angel”
Dwele and a full orchestra, we’ll take it. This dropped yesterday which was the fourth anniversary of Dilla’s passing, and it’s from Timeless, a limited edition three DVD boxset devoted to him. Watch it here.
Suite903 TV: Dwele Talks Bathtubs and Candlelight
No one doesn’t like Dwele. He is the embodiment of this website, he is the embodiment of everything that is beautiful and pure. We were terribly fortunate when he stopped by the Suite903 HQ to talk about his music, his soul, and his acting aspirations. You will watch it and it will feel like a long dip in a jacuzzi bath with some candles… which incidentally Dwele discusses in this video.
Suite903 Podcast 006
1. OlivierDaySoul – Breathe
2. Lorett Fleur & Yann Kesz – Your Best Friend
3. Daru & Reggie B. feat. Rena Jones – Bring You Down
4. Marsha Ambrosius – I Lost You
5. Dwele – Free As A Bird
6. Eric Lau feat. Rahel – Let It Out
7. Richie Hennessey – Living 4 Tomorrow
8. Electric Wire Hustle – Perception
9. Black Milk feat. Melanie Rutherford – Bond 4 Life
10. Shafiq feat. Bilal Oliver – Cheeba (Nottz remix)
Download: Suite903 Podcast 006
Download: Suite903 Podcast 006 (m4a version, chapters supported)
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