HEYYY MRS. ROBINSON


THE STATEMENT "BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER" IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT WHEN IT COMES TO THE RADIANCE OF BLACK WOMEN ESPECIALLY WOMEN HAILING FROM AN ERA OF FLAWLESS, TIMELESS, GRACEFUL EXECUTION IN WHICH MRS.ROBINSON WAS AMONGST MANY WHO REIGNED SUPREME.

GROWING UP IN ENGLEWOOD NJ EVERYONE KNEW WHO THE ROBINSONS' WERE, BUT IT WASN'T UNTIL I GOT OLDER WHEN I FULLY UNDERSTOOD THAT THE ROBINSONS' WEREN'T JUST THE RICH FAMILY WITH THE NICE ASS HOUSE ON LIBERTY RD LOL.

SYLVIA ROBINSON BORN IN NY NY, HAS A MUSIC CAREER THAT SPANS FROM THE 50'S. HAVING RELEASED A DUO SINGLE THAT REACHED NUMBER ELEVEN ON THE BILLBOARD POP CHARTS IN 1957 SYLVIA'S CAREER WAS MET WITH MODERATE SUCCESS. SHE LATER MARRIED AND MOVED TO NEW JERSEY IN 1966 WHERE SHE WENT ON TO START HER FIRST RECORD LABEL, WHERE SHE CO WROTE AND PRODUCED FOR HER SIGNED ARTISTS WHICH IN TURN HELPED ESTABLISH A STRONG FOOTHOLD IN THE GAME. THIS LABEL WAS ALSO MET WITH MODERATE SUCCESS FOR  MRS. ROBINSON.

IN 1972 SYLVIA SENT A SONG SHE WROTE CALLED PILLOW TALK TO AL GREEN, TURNED DOWN BY HIM SHE RECORDED THE SINGLE HERSELF AND IT BECAME A MAJOR HIT. PILLOW TALK'S SULTRY SEDUCTIVE ORGASMIC TONE IS CAUSE FOR A WHOLE VAGINAS ON PEDESTALS POST OF ITS OWN, THAT SACRED DIVINE SEXUAL FEMALE ENERGY ON THE TRACK IS UNPARALLELED ITS PREDECESSOR TO THE WHOLE DONNA SUMMERS SOUND. WHEN U THROW THAT DIVINE ENERGY IN THE UNIVERSE YOUR REALLY BOUND TO SUCCEED.

BY THE MID 70'S RIDING ON THE SUCCESS OF THE PILLOW TALK SINGLE SYLVIA WENT ON TO FORM THE INFAMOUS SUGAR HILL RECORDS WHICH PRODUCED THE FIRST RAP SINGLE THAT BROUGHT RAP INTO THE PUBLIC MUSIC DOMAIN THE ONE AND ONLY "RAPPERS DELIGHT" PERFORMED BY THE SUGAR HILL GANG THIS SINGLE REVOLUTIONIZED THE ENTIRE MUSIC INDUSTRY. LATER ACTS ON THE LABEL EVEN INCLUDE A YOUNG TEENAGE ANGIE STONE AS APART OF THE ALL FEMALE RAP GROUP THE SEQUENCE. BY 1982 SUGAR HILL RECORDS KICKED OUT ANOTHER MASSIVE RAP SINGLE,  PRODUCED AND CO WRITTEN BY MRS. ROBINSON "THE MESSAGE"  RECORDED BY GRANDMASTER FLASH AND THE FURIOUS FIVE, THE SINGLE WENT ON TO CHANGE THE COURSE OF MUSIC HISTORY ONCE AGAIN.

BY THE LATE 80S THE MUSIC INDUSTRY WAS CHANGING NEW AND UPCOMING LABELS WERE STARTING TO BREAK THROUGH COMPETITION WAS GETTING HEAVY AND UNFORTUNATELY SUGAR HILL RECORDS HAD TO CLOSE ITS DOORS, BUT MRS ROBINSON DIDN'T GO OUT WITHOUT A FIGHT SHE FORMED A NEW LABEL CALLED BON AMI RECORDS IN 1987 WHICH SIGNED A THEN UNKNOWN ACT CALLED THE NEW STYLE LATER TO GO ON AND BE CALLED NAUGHTY BY NATURE.

SYLVIA ALSO OWNED MULTIPLE BARS AND A NIGHT CLUB. IN 2011 MRS ROBINSON PASSED AWAY AND LEAVES BEHIND THREE SONS (TWO OF WHOM PASSED AWAY THEMSELVES RIP SCUTCHIE AND JOEY) AND ALSO A FEW GRANDCHILDREN WHO I'M HAPPY TO SAY I GREW UP WITH LOL.

WOMEN ARE THE EPITOME TO SUCCESS PERIOD, THE GREATEST MOMENTS IN HISTORY INCLUDE A WOMAN AT THE VERY FORE FRONT. IN A WORLD DOMINATED BY  MALE ENERGY SYLVIA ROSE TO FAME EFFORTLESSLY AND BECAME "THE MOTHER OF HIP HOP".

AS ALWAYS IN THE FAMOUS WORDS OF MR. JAMES BROWN " THIS IS A MANS WORLD BUT IT WOULD BE NOTHING WITHOUT A WOMAN OR A GIRL"

 

   

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