Take a dive into "Dear Summer" produced by Just Blaze for Memphis Bleek (Philly legend). Specifically, we dive into the beginning, when the producer samples... the outside world. Today we talk about car horns, sirens, bells whistles... everything you hear, but don't always know it. Turns out, we are literate in a sonic vocabulary of audible signals that transcends even our capacity for spoken language. How these sounds interplay with our lived environments has a lot more to do with how we feel than may be initially apparent. Kept it light, short and ended with a full listen of a Nina Simone album from 1965. As always, stay mellow and groovy, and thanks for tuning in.