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MELANIE FIONA

A lot of people aint up on here yet but I hope they will be soon. Melanie Fiona is a Guyanese R&B singer from Toronto who has the talents to completely kill the game. She's a soul singer who sometimes has a reggae feel...but just overall, her voice is amazing. I'm appreciative of the movement to bring real R&B back and I think she can play a major role in that.


Her album, "The Bridge" is scheduled to drop on Nov. 3
I can show you better than I can tell you...Les is more ;)

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Love this song!!! And even though technically it's Birdman's song, there is no need for him on this track at all. Drake & Wayne got it.

Sirens Off! Go COP it: Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon: The End of Day

I'm not gonna lie...I was never really a Kid Cudi fan until now. I mean, I liked his songs but I never thought about buying the album.

GLAD I DID. I must say tho...this album is not for everybody. It's for music heads. If you like to limit your music intake to one type of sound, this is not for you. If you're not really into lyrics or the message of a song, once again, this is not for you.

A lot of artists claim that their album "tells a story" but sometimes they really don't. This one does. Cudi takes you from the ending of a day, through the night, and then up for the next morning. You already heard the singles "Day N Nite" and "Make Her Say"...so no need for me to vouch for those.

"Heart of A Lion" is my "Rocky" song. I truly feel like I could take on the whole world when I listen to that. "Solo Dolo" is on some next ish. There's a difference between being alone and being lonely. Cudi clearly knows that. "Hyerr" is self-explanatory...

A description of the album really does it no justice. Sirens off...go cop it!

By the way, the kid is kinda cute too...I'm just sayin tho...lol







Shout out to Cha'le & Tia for helping me realize that he's great.

Between him and Drizzy, the hip-hop game is gonna be in good hands for AWHILE.

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Sirens Off! Go COP it: Trey Songz - "Ready"

10 Reasons to BUY (yes...BUY) Trey Songz's new album "READY"

Before I even start this list, please know that I downloaded the album a week ago and still bought it today. Some artists just deserve the support...Some albums are just worth it.

1. It's a good album. It has a good combination of slow jams and songs that you can bump in your car. Although I loved the last album, "Trey Day", that album was a lot slower. This has a lil bit more of the Trey that goes H.A.M. on the mixtapes.

2. Trey already gave you "Anticipation" for free. Anybody who has that mixtape knows that it's great....enough said. (If you don't have it...please get your music game up.)

3. You have to hear "Say Aah"...that track is for the club. And the car. And the crib. And the iPod.

4.Honestly, I have to say that Trey's vocals are better now than they've ever been. I've heard people say that he was going through a "yodeling stage"...but I think that's over. His voice is amazing. He's one of the best R&B singers that we have out right now.

5.The album has good features: Drizzy...Loso...Gucci...some of the hottest. Great collabos.


6. I must admit...I thought that it was a little redundant for Trey to put "Successful" on his album after everybody has already worn it out on Drake's "So Far Gone." I was wrong. Trey's verse and adlibs at the end of the song make it a completely new track. I love it.

7.Trey Songz is gorgeous. If you don't buy his albums for the music, buy it for the pictures. LOL :)

8. "LOL :)" Did you hear the beat? CrAAAAzy! The creative mixtape version of Trey Songz showed up on this one. Best line of the whole song: "I sent that little face with the tongue cuz I'm nasty." Need I say more? The SayNow phone number is even catchy lol "(804) 335-0051" (you gotta hear him sing it to understand what I mean.)

9. "I Gotta Make It" reached #6 on the Billboard charts. "Trey Day" reached #2. "Ready" is better.

10. Real music lovers have to support real music.

Les is More.

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But shout out to Jaggon for puttin me on...

Sample Me This...

The Teena Marie track is classic. Listen to it when the time reaches 4:30 to hear the part that was sampled for Luda's chorus.

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Who remembers this??? (And yes, that's Keri Hilson on the hook...)

~R.I.P. Aaliyah~

I saw this on GlobalGrind...figured I'd share it...

The Least: The Ne-Yo Edition

You know who's doing the very least these days? NE-YO. How do you go from tracks like "Mirror" & "Let Me Get This Right" (for all the real Ne-Yo fans) to a track like "Your Girl is A Hoe?" It's just sad because when In My Own Words dropped in 2006, it was one of those albums that you could listen to from beginning to end...from "Stay" all the way to the "Get Down Like That Remix" with Ghostface.

Then he came out with "Because of You" to kick off his second album (by the same name as this lead single), which to me, was his first slip downwards. I hated that song. It was so unoriginal and a stereotypical track for an R&B artist who was trying to crossover into Pop. It wasn't necessarily a bad song...I just expected more from him. But after I heard "Say It", "Leaving Tonight" with Jennifer Hudson, "Make It Work" and few of the other tracks off the album, I wasn't completely disappointed. Plus, this was around the same time that he was on Fabolous' "Make Me Better"...which also saved him some cool points.

The best thing, in my opinion, about Ne-Yo is his songwriting. The worst thing about Ne-Yo is his inablilty to completely let go of the songs that he writes for other artists that become hits. I don't know if you remember, but at one point, Mario was mad because Ne-Yo was seen on multiple occasions performing "Let Me Love You." Dude, we know you wrote the song...chill. And I remember when I tried to download Rihanna's "Take A Bow," only to hit play and hear that it was a live version of Ne-Yo singing it. Not to mention that after Beyonce's "Irreplaceable" blew up, Ne-Yo snatched his track back, wrote "Go On Girl" and put the song that has the same beat on his album. On top of all that, he co-produced a song called "Single" with Polow Da Don for New Kids on the Block. You can already guess...the song ended up on his third album without the group. (I will admit, though, that Ne-Yo's version was better. That song should have never been a male duet anyway lol)


Speaking of his third album, Year of the Gentleman, ...it was aiight. It wasn't as good as the first two, which is not just my opinion, but a fact, simply because it never hit #1 on the Billboard Charts like the first albums did. I hated the first single "Closer." I thought he was trying to be too much like Michael Jackson and I wasn't a fan of all that... but "Miss Independent" was great. The production was phenomenal, his vocals were hot, and the video was even good. He followed that up with the remix, "She Got Her Own," and I thought I was about the be a real Ne-Yo fan again. But then he came out with mediocrity like "Mad" and "Part of the List" and my excitement for him faded along with the rest of his popularity.

He just comes off so arrogant and annoying now. Sometimes I wish he would just shut up, write songs, and let other artists throw their swag on it. Don't get me wrong, there a few tracks that didn't make his album (like, "Sexy In Here") that should have, and might have been beneficial to his career...but overall, your boy is slippin.

I will say that the 2009 BET Awards was a good look for Ne-Yo. His rendition of Michael Jackson's "Lady In My Life" was outstanding and honestly, I don't think that anyone else could have done it...(except maybe Usher?). It was the first time that I could appreciate his yearning to emulate MJ. His vocal game was definitely on point. (I don't know how I feel about that bald head though...)

Anyway, he's supposed to start working on his 4th album in 2010. Can we please get a new Ne-Yo?...or at least the old one? All I know is...if "Your Girl is a Hoe" is on the album, I refuse to buy it. He's doing the least and Les is more.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KOBE :-)

Anyone who knows me, knows that I am a DIE HARD Kobe Bryant fan. So I just wanted to take a lil time to show one of the greatest basketball players in the world some love on his 31st birthday. The defending champs gon be back at it again in October...LET'S GO!!!!

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Guess who sampled this song? (This one is easy...)

Conversation: A Lil Ventilation

So, as I watching the video for "Every Girl" by Young Money yesterday, it occurred to me that the concept of a dude wanting to be with "every girl in the world" is not only ridiculous, but completely unoriginal.

When you think about it, "Every Girl" is a modern-day, more disrespectful version of Hov's "Girls, Girls, Girls." Not to come off as a feminist ('cause trust, I'm far from all that...) but the major difference between these two hip-hop hits is the value of all these girls...in the world.

While "Every Girl" is FAR MORE immersed in physicality, Jay not only talks about what these girls look like, but what their personalities are like...what they do for him...how they are an attribution (or not) to his lifestyle. He's even willing to give a young chick a chance, despite the fact that he has to "toss a couple dollars, just to shut up her holla." I mean...yea...he calls a girl a hoe in the last verse, but he laces the chorus with words like "love" and "adore." "Put ya number on this paper cuz I would love to date ya"...The YM Crew never even mentions a damn date!

Weezy gets the song poppin with "I like a long haired thick red bone..." and I swear to you, his whole entire verse is STRICTLY about how a chick looks and what they do together...sexually, of course. I mean, I can't lie, I thought it was cute when he said, "I don't think you're beautiful, I think you're beyond it," but the follow-up line quickly snatches you out of anything romantic. And honestly, the listener never gets a glimpse of a personality trait until Drake's verse, where he spits, "All they want to talk about is partyin' and fashion..." (Please note that I used to word GLIMPSE purposely, because that is thee ONLY line not physically-related in his verse.) Oh and ladies, please don't show up with your friend because then he's really confused...

Jae Millz kinda saves YM as he explains that he "ain't being disrespectful baby I'm just being Millz and I don't know how fake feels so I gotta keep it real." Then he goes on to list all of these occupations of women...which is OK...'cause at least you're lookin for somebody who's smart enough to be employed...(wait, is a "skeezer" employed???) But don't get hopeful, the song goes back downhill from there. Hoes become god's gift like Christmas and v-cards are taken from retards...THE MOST.

But despite the utter disrespect for women...I LOVE this song. The beat and melody throughout the track, which is produced by The Bizness, is hot. And plus "let's be honnnnnnest," every girl that they are talking about exist somewhere, so it's not like they're making it up. I'd only really be offended if I was her. But I'm not... Les is more ;)

Allow Me To Reintroduce Myself...My Name Is...

Leslie. I started this blog back in February, shortly after my family suffered the loss of our matriarch. Although, secretly, I've always wanted to do something like this, I didn't really have the time to keep it up as I embarked on my final semester as an undergraduate student at Temple U. But now that I don't have papers to write, shifts to cover at the library, or the duties of being Mo'Shay LaRen's assistant (which I miss...alot), I now have the time to welcome you into the world of Les Is More.

I chose that name for the blog, (not only because of the intentional pun on words of my name that I am called by those close to me), but also because it's...well...me. Sometimes people try to do too much, not realizing that less is more. Sometimes people don't know what to expect from me, not realizing that Les is more..."more than what you bargained for and nothing less than real." Ride with me...

~The True Epitome of Strength~

I LOVE her so much. She always understood where I was coming from, and when she didn't, she pretended that she did. She always supported me and told me how proud of me she was...

I just wish that somebody, anybody could understand how big of a loss this was for me...how empty, I've felt since the day that she left...how non-existent my birthday was without her phone call at midnight. I don't even really remember New Years...could have cared less about a damn countdown. Ever since December 31st, I've become a different person: somebody that cries when I wake up in the morning and any other time that I'm alone for a substantial amount of time. I feel like I'm not really gripping reality because I always forget that she's gone. I always think about calling her or visiting her when I go home... all the time.

Every now & again, I can hear her voice in my head saying, "Hey Les" or "I love you too baby doll." My mother and her were two of the only people who said "Les" with the actual S at the end...opposed to the Z. She really knew me. She knew if I was sad - whether I was directly in front of her or not. And no matter how much I smile now - I know that she's looking down on me knowing that I'm sad - very sad - all the time. I'm always crying, whether the tears actually stream down my face or not. I think that I get sadder the closer I get to graduation because that was supposed to be the one sure time that she was going to come see my school and view the campus that I have grown to love - thanks to her getting me here. To say that I miss her is an understatement. To say that I love her is even more of an understatement.

I truly believe that God puts people in your life for a reason. I think that He put Joan P. in my life to show me what strength and love and fairness is. He put her here to help my mother mold me into a productive human being. He put her here to to support our family - both physically and emotionally.

"What you've given me, I could never return & there's so much, girl, I've yet to learn. But I want to show my appreciation 'cause when I found you, I found a new inspiration."

Everything that I accomplish is in memory of Joan P. Baylor.