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Rick James
Today’s Artist
Rick James 1948-2004 (56)
She's a very kinky girl.
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Rick James skipped the draft to Canada, learned bass from watching Sly Stone, and came back as the baddest one in the room. Super Freak was a song about his own life that became everybody else's party. He sampled himself before hip-hop made it standard. His whole act was too much and exactly enough, a candle burning at both ends and every middle too. More on Rick James →
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Who Did It Better
play Got to Give It Up
Got to give it up
Got to give it up
Marvin Gaye 1977
Marvin Gaye
Aaliyah 1996
Aaliyah

Got to Give It Up 0:30 is about the moment resistance crumbles and the rhythm wins. A man on the dance floor fighting his own shyness until surrender becomes the only way through. He stops protecting his cool long enough to let the night take him.

Giving it up means letting the music move through you without apology. The pretense falls away and something truer steps forward. Losing control is not losing anything. It is finally finding how to move.

You tell us. →
Today’s Record
How Will I Know
How will I know if he really loves me?
I say a prayer with every heartbeat
Album art
Whitney Houston

She needs a sign. Does he love her or is she imagining things? Every heartbeat carries a prayer. She watches for clues. Love does not come with instructions. Sometimes the only way to know is to take the risk and find out for yourself.

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Yesterday’s Track
Album art 1980
Stephanie Mills
Never Knew Love Like This Before
I never knew love like this before
Now I'm lonely never more
She never knew love could feel like this. Before him she thought she understood. She was wrong. Real love surprised her when she stopped looking. It is the truth of someone who finally felt what she only read about in songs.
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Today’s Theme
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You’re Kidding, Right
Lonnie Johnson invented the guitar solo. The first recorded single-note guitar solo in history was Lonnie Johnson playing on the 1927 track '6/88 Glide.' He played 12-string solos that directly influenced Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt. He drew the map that every guitar hero since has followed. Without Lonnie Johnson, there's no B.B. King, no Jimi Hendrix, no Eric Clapton.
Soul in the Movies
Brown Sugar 2002
Brown Sugar Brown Sugar is a hip-hop romantic comedy from 2002 that understands the difference between loving music and loving someone. Taye Diggs and Sanaa Lathan star as childhood friends who bond over hip-hop and spend twenty years wondering. Mos Def's 'Brown Sugar' is the title track and the thesis. Brown sugar. The soundtrack was the love story.
The Sunday Drop
One song. One story. Every Sunday.

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1,414 artist portraits across 5 genres (Rock, Jazz, Soul, Blues, Folk). 1,363 sourced from Wikipedia (Creative Commons / Public Domain), 50 from Deezer (promotional artwork).

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We are a music discovery project.
Rick James
Today’s Artist
Rick James1948 – 2004
She's a very kinky girl..**FIXXXXX**
Rick James skipped the draft to Canada, learned bass from watching Sly Stone, and came back as the baddest one in the room. Super Freak was a song about his own life that became everybody else's party. He sampled himself before hip-hop made it standard. His whole act was too much and exactly enough, a candle burning at both ends and every middle too.
More on Rick James →
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Who Did It Better
play Got to Give It Up 1977
Got to give it up
Got to give it up
Marvin Gaye Aaliyah

Got to Give It Up 0:30 is about the moment resistance crumbles and the rhythm wins. A man on the dance floor fighting his own shyness until surrender becomes the only way through. He stops protecting his cool long enough to let the night take him.

Giving it up means letting the music move through you without apology. The pretense falls away and something truer steps forward. Losing control is not losing anything. It is finally finding how to move.

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Today’s Record
How Will I Know
How will I know if he really loves me?
I say a prayer with every heartbeat
She needs a sign. Does he love her or is she imagining things? Every heartbeat carries a prayer. She watches for clues. Love does not come with instructions. Sometimes the only way to know is to take the risk and find out for yourself.
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Today’s Theme
The new hairdo
A Beyoncé song that isn't really Beyoncé's. A Charles Bradley song that was written by Black Sabbath...
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Soul in the Movies
Brown Sugar 2002
Brown Sugar is a hip-hop romantic comedy from 2002 that understands the difference between loving music and loving someone. Taye Diggs and Sanaa Lathan star as childhood friends who bond over hip-hop and spend twenty years wondering. Mos Def's 'Brown Sugar' is the title track and the thesis. Brown sugar. The soundtrack was the love story.
You’re Kidding, Right
Lonnie Johnson invented the guitar solo. The first recorded single-note guitar solo in history was Lonnie Johnson playing on the 1927 track '6/88 Glide.' He played 12-string solos that directly influenced Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt. He drew the map that every guitar hero since has followed. Without Lonnie Johnson, there's no B.B. King, no Jimi Hendrix, no Eric Clapton.
Why We're Here
Most of us grew up with free radio. Then corporations took over the playlist. Then we found Spotify and YouTube -- until the algorithm quietly decided what we liked, and suddenly we were stuck on repeat again. There's so much music out there, and only so much time to hear it.
At HotSupper, we just want to open things up a little. Maybe you'll stumble on an artist you've never heard of. Maybe you'll rediscover a song you'd completely forgotten. Maybe you'll just tap your toes. Either way, it's yours to explore. And if you have ideas to make this place better, we're all ears.
The Sunday Drop
One song. One story. Every Sunday.

No algorithms. No trending sections. Just a song someone loved and the story behind it. Delivered Sunday morning.

Free. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.

Take your shoes off. We got music on.
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Image Credits

1,414 artist portraits across 5 genres (Rock, Jazz, Soul, Blues, Folk). 1,363 sourced from Wikipedia (Creative Commons / Public Domain), 50 from Deezer (promotional artwork).

Full attribution breakdown →

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