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Old School Wednesday: Ice Cube – It Was a Good Day

by mvsw | Jan 23, 2021 | Music, QooA

Today’s mood, courtesy of Ice Cube back in 1992.

The Isley Brothers ~ “Footsteps in the Dark“

Such a great slow jam from the same guys that made “Shout” and other hits like “Twist and Shout” during their 7 decade career.

The Moments ~ “Sexy Mama“

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Restaurants are open for dining, spring time is in the air, there’s a cutie looking towards us, what shall we wear?

ZARA FLORA | Don’t Call It Ikebana

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Get to know the journalist who took on a quarantine hobby and launched a successful side gig in floral arrangements informed by architecture, art, and getting back to nature

Murmurs | Valentine’s Day S

by qooaspace | February 9, 2021 | Art, Fashion, Feature, featured, Flowers, Food & Beverage, QooA, Style, Well Being | 0 Comments

The beloved DTLA art space and cafe offers up a gift for all the senses this Valentine’s Day

Animal Crackers | Space Talk

by BJ Panda Bear | January 28, 2021 | Art, Fashion, Feature, featured, QooA, Style, Well Being | 0 Comments

From 60s Rudi Gernreich and Peggy Moffitt with their mod swagger to 80s era postmodernism and post punk well filtered through MTV, Hollywood has had a rich culture of bold design, color, and experimentation. This torch is carried on with the retro futurist work of LA...

Old School Wednesday: Ice Cube – It Was a Good Day

by mvsw | January 23, 2021 | Music, QooA | 0 Comments

Ice Cube ~ "It Was a Good Day" (L)Today's mood, courtesy of Ice Cube back in 1992. Samples: The Isley Brothers ~ "Footsteps in the Dark" Such a great slow jam from the same guys that made "Shout" and other hits like "Twist and Shout" during their 7 decade...

Kid Hastings | Movement and Selfcare

by qooaspace | January 22, 2021 | Art, Feature, featured, Music, QooA, Well Being, Wellness | 0 Comments

On the release of Kid Hastings AKA Jake McEvoy’s latest video for “Call Me Up”, The singer songwriter tells us about movement as self care

Chess, Mon Amor | Amor Services

by qooaspace | January 19, 2021 | Art, Fashion, Feature, featured, Music, QooA, Well Being, Wellness | 0 Comments

The LA Based Amor Studio curates a gallery show on a Chess Board with Chess, Mon Amor, featuring Alake Shilling, Tremaine Emory, Bernhard Willhelm, Yves Tumor, Gaetano Pesce, Ser Serpas, and Mandy Harris Williams

Old School Wednesday: Dr Dre – Let Me Ride

by mvsw | January 13, 2021 | Music, QooA | 0 Comments

Dr. Dre ~ "Let Me Ride" (L) So on and so on, why don't you let me roll on?I remember back in the days when I used to have to get my stroll onDidn't nobody wanna speakNow everybody peepin' out they window when they hear me beatin' up the streetIs it Dre? Is it...

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Old School Wednesday: Dr Dre – Let Me Ride

by mvsw | Jan 13, 2021 | Music, QooA

Dr. Dre ~ “Let Me Ride” (L)

So on and so on, why don’t you let me roll on?
I remember back in the days when I used to have to get my stroll on
Didn’t nobody wanna speak
Now everybody peepin’ out they window when they hear me beatin’ up the street
Is it Dre? Is it Dre?
That’s what they say every single motherf*ckin’ day
Yo, but I ain’t trippin’, I’m just kickin’ it
While my D’s keep spinnin’ and these h**s keep grinnin’ I’ll be—

Rollin’ in my six-four
What everybody sayin’?

To say that The Chronic is an important album is an understatement, especially if you grew up in the 90s. “Let Me Ride” is like a greatest hits of Rap sampling with tracks like James Brown, Parliament, and Bill Withers.

Hoping Dr. Dre makes a full recovery.

Samples:

James Brown ~ “Funky Drummer“

The granddaddy of drum samples. Clyde Stubblefield y’all.

Parliament ~ “Mothership Connection (Star Child)“

Bill Withers ~ “Kissing My Love“

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Dine in Design : Spring 2021 Shopping Guide

by qooaspace | March 1, 2021 | Fashion, featured, QooA, Style, Wellness | 0 Comments

Restaurants are open for dining, spring time is in the air, there’s a cutie looking towards us, what shall we wear?

ZARA FLORA | Don’t Call It Ikebana

by BJ Panda Bear | February 24, 2021 | Art, Beauty, Feature, featured, Flowers, QooA, Wellness | 0 Comments

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Murmurs | Valentine’s Day S

by qooaspace | February 9, 2021 | Art, Fashion, Feature, featured, Flowers, Food & Beverage, QooA, Style, Well Being | 0 Comments

The beloved DTLA art space and cafe offers up a gift for all the senses this Valentine’s Day

Animal Crackers | Space Talk

by BJ Panda Bear | January 28, 2021 | Art, Fashion, Feature, featured, QooA, Style, Well Being | 0 Comments

Old School Wednesday: Ice Cube – It Was a Good Day

by mvsw | January 23, 2021 | Music, QooA | 0 Comments

Kid Hastings | Movement and Selfcare

by qooaspace | January 22, 2021 | Art, Feature, featured, Music, QooA, Well Being, Wellness | 0 Comments

On the release of Kid Hastings AKA Jake McEvoy’s latest video for “Call Me Up”, The singer songwriter tells us about movement as self care

Chess, Mon Amor | Amor Services

by qooaspace | January 19, 2021 | Art, Fashion, Feature, featured, Music, QooA, Well Being, Wellness | 0 Comments

Old School Wednesday: Dr Dre – Let Me Ride

by mvsw | January 13, 2021 | Music, QooA | 0 Comments

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by BJ Panda Bear | January 12, 2021 | Feature, featured, Interiors, Philosophy, QooA, Style, The Movement, Travel, Well Being, Wellness | 0 Comments

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Old School Wednesday: 3rd Bass – Gas Face

by mvsw | Jan 10, 2021 | Music, QooA

3rd Bass ~ “Gas Face” (L)

“A Gas Face can either be a smile or a smirk
When appears, a monkey wrench to work one’s clockwork
Perkin his brim to the rim of my cup
Don’t tempt me, you’re empty, so fill’er up!
Is I’m talkin coffee or cocoa, is you loco?
Cash or credit for unleaded at Sunoco
KMD and 3rd Bass is just ace in the hole
I mean soul, so make the Gas Face (HUAHAHA)
Damn, if looks could kill
You look like host was a ghost from your grill
But still, what’s the new fed, to recollect
To our passing phase to facades to ’80-deca
For my label reads Hood, street might have a tattoo
Don’t pick any card or no rabbit from my hat
Never a magician if I ever tricked em
“Oh sh*t!” Another Gas Face victim”

– Zev Love X

#2020 gets the gas face!

I was late getting Old School Wednesday out this week. It was going to be about 2020 sucking and looking forward to 2021. Then 2020 sent a reminder that is still has a few hours left and struck one more time. MF DOOM…

Just remember ALL CAPS when you spell the man name

“Gas Face” Samples:
The Emotions ~ “I Like It”

Aretha Franklin ~ “Think”

Fat Boys ~ “Beat Box is Rockin’”

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Dine in Design : Spring 2021 Shopping Guide

by qooaspace | March 1, 2021 | Fashion, featured, QooA, Style, Wellness | 0 Comments

Restaurants are open for dining, spring time is in the air, there’s a cutie looking towards us, what shall we wear?

ZARA FLORA | Don’t Call It Ikebana

by BJ Panda Bear | February 24, 2021 | Art, Beauty, Feature, featured, Flowers, QooA, Wellness | 0 Comments

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Murmurs | Valentine’s Day S

by qooaspace | February 9, 2021 | Art, Fashion, Feature, featured, Flowers, Food & Beverage, QooA, Style, Well Being | 0 Comments

The beloved DTLA art space and cafe offers up a gift for all the senses this Valentine’s Day

Animal Crackers | Space Talk

by BJ Panda Bear | January 28, 2021 | Art, Fashion, Feature, featured, QooA, Style, Well Being | 0 Comments

Old School Wednesday: Ice Cube – It Was a Good Day

by mvsw | January 23, 2021 | Music, QooA | 0 Comments

Kid Hastings | Movement and Selfcare

by qooaspace | January 22, 2021 | Art, Feature, featured, Music, QooA, Well Being, Wellness | 0 Comments

On the release of Kid Hastings AKA Jake McEvoy’s latest video for “Call Me Up”, The singer songwriter tells us about movement as self care

Chess, Mon Amor | Amor Services

by qooaspace | January 19, 2021 | Art, Fashion, Feature, featured, Music, QooA, Well Being, Wellness | 0 Comments

Old School Wednesday: Dr Dre – Let Me Ride

by mvsw | January 13, 2021 | Music, QooA | 0 Comments

bläanks | Urbanized Cottagecore

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Old School Wednesday: RUN DMC – Christmas in Hollis

by mvsw | Dec 24, 2020 | Music, QooA, vinyl

RUN DMC ~ “Christmas in Hollis” (L)

“Rhymes so loud and proud you hear it
It’s Christmas time and we got the spirit
Jack Frost chillin‘, the orchid’s out
And that’s what Christmas is all about
The time is now, the place is here
And the whole wide world is filled with cheer”

What’s not to love? One of the best hip hop holiday tracks from one of the Pioneers of Rap, RUN DMC.

Happy Holidays y’all!

Samples:

Clarence Carter ~ “Back Door Santa“

I always thought the sample was Peter Gabriel‘s “Sledgehammer“

Isaac Watts ~ “Joy to the World“

Gene Autry ~ “Frosty the Snowman“

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Dine in Design : Spring 2021 Shopping Guide

by qooaspace | March 1, 2021 | Fashion, featured, QooA, Style, Wellness | 0 Comments

Restaurants are open for dining, spring time is in the air, there’s a cutie looking towards us, what shall we wear?

ZARA FLORA | Don’t Call It Ikebana

by BJ Panda Bear | February 24, 2021 | Art, Beauty, Feature, featured, Flowers, QooA, Wellness | 0 Comments

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Murmurs | Valentine’s Day S

by qooaspace | February 9, 2021 | Art, Fashion, Feature, featured, Flowers, Food & Beverage, QooA, Style, Well Being | 0 Comments

The beloved DTLA art space and cafe offers up a gift for all the senses this Valentine’s Day

Animal Crackers | Space Talk

by BJ Panda Bear | January 28, 2021 | Art, Fashion, Feature, featured, QooA, Style, Well Being | 0 Comments

Old School Wednesday: Ice Cube – It Was a Good Day

by mvsw | January 23, 2021 | Music, QooA | 0 Comments

Kid Hastings | Movement and Selfcare

by qooaspace | January 22, 2021 | Art, Feature, featured, Music, QooA, Well Being, Wellness | 0 Comments

On the release of Kid Hastings AKA Jake McEvoy’s latest video for “Call Me Up”, The singer songwriter tells us about movement as self care

Chess, Mon Amor | Amor Services

by qooaspace | January 19, 2021 | Art, Fashion, Feature, featured, Music, QooA, Well Being, Wellness | 0 Comments

Old School Wednesday: Dr Dre – Let Me Ride

by mvsw | January 13, 2021 | Music, QooA | 0 Comments

bläanks | Urbanized Cottagecore

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Old School Wednesday: Geto Boys – Mind Playing Tricks on Me

by mvsw | Oct 28, 2020 | Music, QooA

G eto Boys ~ “Mind Playing Tricks on Me” (L)

“This year Halloween fell on a weekend

Me and Geto Boys are trick-or-treatin’

Robbin’ little kids for bags

‘Til a law man got behind our ass

So we speeded up the pace

Took a look back and he was right before our face…”

That slowed down Isaac Hayes sample and guitar riff is instantly gratifying. Every. Time.

This is always one of our favorite Old School Wednesday traditions – “Mind Playing Tricks on Me” for Halloween!

“Mind Playing Tricks on Me” is easily one of the most defining tracks of 1990’s rap. At the time, most Gangsta Rap was about the glorification of that life, then Geto Boys are like – Hold my Gold Medal Flour – release ”Mind is Playing Tricks on Me” and the game changed. Scarface, Willie D, and Bushwick Bill are rhyming about the trauma of gangsta life in 1991 and although it has a hard edge to it, the topics they touch on are relevant to 2020 pandemic times: PTSD, paranoia, loneliness, isolation, anxiety, and suicidal ideation (The struggle is real y’all, so don’t be afraid to talk to someone).

I think its amazing that Scarface got the inspiration for the song’s title from his mawmaw.

Happy Halloween Y’all!

Samples:

Isaac Hayes ~ “Hung Up on My Baby”

Such an amazing track.

Graham Central Station ~ “The Jam”

The drum sample is about 5:13 into the song.

Geto Boys ~ “Mind of a Lunatic”

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