Premiere: Keelay, The Park & Jesse Boykins III, “Crash My Hard Drive” MP3
Collaborating on a Valentine’s Day themed single, SF producer Keelay (of Keelay and Zaire) brought in Bay Area groove consultants, The Park, to back up the dynamic and soulful Jesse Boykins III. The point of the song: all them girls crashing your hard drive in this digital age. Keelay explains, “Crash My Hard Drive is what we like to call Social Media Love for all of us who have ever had our hard drives crashed.” I mean come on, if your relationship doesn’t start on Facebook nowadays, you just aren’t creeping hard enough. So whether you’re out with your girl on Valentine’s Day or just clicking through some Facebook photos, check out their project. There’s no question that The Park brings that groove that makes you wanna dance. Combined with Jesse’s vocals and Keelay’s feel, you will no doubt get a full dose of soulful woe for those of us that have ever had our hard drives crashed. -Eric Sandler
Download: Keelay, The Park & Jesse Boykins III, “Crash My Hard Drive”
Video: Jesse Boykins III, “Itis”
OKAY JESSE! This video is jumpstarting our Monday for real. Not only is Jesse kind of doing the thing on this song, soulful without being predictable, this video is super classy and classic without feeling too old or fearful of the new. Or, in a word: SENSUAL. OKAY!
Jesse Boykins III, “Shine”
Suite903 homie lover friend JBIII comes through with a clip for shine just in time for this super cold weather. He looks like he’s having fun. They must have shot this on one of the three hot days we had this summer.
Suite903 Podcast 004
1. Bei Bei & Shawn Lee feat. Georgia Anne Muldrow – Make Me Stronger (Floating Points remix)
2. The Clonious feat. Muhsinah – One At A Time
3. Jesse Boykins III feat.Theophilus London & Keys – Connected
4. Eric Roberson feat.T3 – Further
5. Kelakovski feat. Miss A – Slow Jams
6. Brittany Bosco – Love Thang
7. LeToya feat. Ludacris – Regret
8. Vikter Duplaix – Electric Love
9. Full Crate feat. Mar and Versis – Flirtwitu
10. Sam Champion feat. Kissey Asplund – In My Mind
Download: Suite903 Podcast 004
Download: Suite903 Podcast 004 (m4a version, chapters supported)
Mixed By OP!
Suite903.com Launch Party: Jesse Boykins III
More footage from the jumpoff to end all jumpoffs.
Last Night’s Party: Suite903 Launch Soiree
We go where the parties are, and if they’re not there we make them. Last night you know we had to celebrate the birth of Suite903 with a classy, cute and fully exclusive party at New York’s East Village club Ella. We invited Marsha Ambrosius, Jesse Boykins III, Waajeed and our resident DJ OP! to provide the sexy soundtrack, and Hennessey Artistry provided the beverages. As you can see in the pics after the jump (all shot by our favorite photographer Dorothy Hong), people were feeling it.
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Jesse Boykins is Filling in the Gaps
This Thursday, August 20th, every GAP store in the U.S. of A will host a live acoustic performance in celebration of GAP’s 40 years of tees, khakis, and billboards displaying Common’s beautiful goatee (thank you)! In New York City, you can find Jesse Boykins III & The Beauty Created performing live at The World Financial Building in the store of honor. The free show is open to all folks, all ages and will be followed by an after party at The People’s Lounge. Details for both below:
Show Details
Date: Thursday, August 20th 2009
Time: 7pm- 9pm
City: New York, NY
Venue: The GAP, Born To Play World Financial Center
Address: 255 Liberty Street, Two World Financial Center, Level 2
Admission: Free
Age restrictions: All Ages
After Party
Host: Cinnamon Chambers & Mike Brown
Type: Party
Price: Free Event
Time: Thursday, 20 August 2009 at 9pm
Location: The People’s Lounge
163 Allen Street
Town/City: New York, NY
Suite903 Podcast 002
1. Mayer Hawthorne – Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out (Astronote Remix)
2. PPP – Ain’t No Ifs Or Maybes
3. Zaki Ibrahim – You Choose
4. Daru feat. Reggie B – I Was Wrong
5. Jesse Boykins III – Chanel
6. Ayah – Might Not Be
7. Peter Hadar – Painted
8. Esthero – Superheroes (Afta-1 Remix)
9. The Foreign Exchange – Coming Home To You
10. M64 – Rhythm Of The Drum
11. Buff1 feat. AB – Real Appeal
12. Hawthorne Headhunters – She Wanna
Download: Suite903 Podcast 002
Download: Suite903 Podcast 002 (m4a version, chapters supported)
Mixed By OP!
Jesse Boykins III, “Sunstar”
Jesse Boykins III- SunStar(Official Video) from Jesse Boykins III on Vimeo.
If you ever get to see Jesse Boykins III, be prepared to have your socks, or pantyhose, knocked clean off. I caught a performance with Boykins and wonderboy Theophilus London last summer in BK and was blown away. “Sunstar” is a single off of his second album The Beauty Created LP. The video, shot in my hometown of Miami is gorgeous, and has the sunlight of an early morning (or a late night)—I mean he is in Miami.
