Focus

Pardon the lame title. Two years back, I got tipped about this female emcee out of Detroit, Invincible. Her album ShapeShifters was loaded with the same thump that made favorites out of her Michigan peers -- Black Milk, Buff1, Guilty Simpson, Elzhi are just a few. However, what made the album a worthwhile buy was the subject matter and the conscious approach. And she doesn't just talk the talk as you'll come to find out in this collection of videos of songs off the album. She uses music as a vehicle to bring attention to the plight of the people; She mobilizes the people to change the status quo for the better... That's what it's all about, isn't it? Obviously, ShapeShifters comes highly recommended. Obviously!

There will be well over ten million words said about the man, and I realize you can read opinion anywhere and everywhere, but these are mine.

I probably got into his music first in the period they moved from being The Jackson 5 to The Jacksons. I loved to dance but never had any dance ambitions, but here was this young kid who was doing some incredible moves on TV, one couldn’t help but be impressed by someone dancing like a robot to “Dancing Machine”, it seemed futuristic. But the music was funky. “Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground)” and “Blame It On The Boogie” was everywhere in the second half of the 70’s. But then came Off The Wall.