Episode 223 - Be Yourself
4:00pm, 2-23-2026
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Today on Mating Calls, M2S is back and left to her own devices in Studio B, where she'll be closing out Black History Month for 2026. We had originally hoped to do a Frank Ocean tribute, but because today's set is all-vinyl, we'll have to save that theme for a very special episode at a later date.
Frank is a huge influence of today's playlist, though, as we explore soulful sounds and space themes with tracks from Eddie Kendricks, Marvin Gaye, Lauryn Hill, Tajai of The Souls Mischief, Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def), and of course Frank himself--just to name a few. It's gonna be a fun, rhythmic ride home through an atmospheric river as we celebrate the amazing Black American artists who've built ~*the culture*~ from the ground up.
- 4:00pm Be Thankful for What You've Got by Bunny Clarke on 100% Dynamite (Soul Jazz)
- 4:03pm Can I by Eddie Kendricks on Eddie At His Best (Tamia)
- 4:06pm I Hear A Symphony by The Supremes on Greatest Hits (Motown)
- 4:09pm Ne nam 2 by Tourê Kunda on New Africa (Celluloid)
- 4:12pm Cosmic Contact by Undisputed Truth on Method to the Madness (Whitfield, 1976)
- 4:14pm A Funky Space Reincarnation by Marvin Gaye on Here My Dear (Motown)
- 4:22pm Stardust from Tomorrow by Sun Ra and His Cosmo Love Adventure Arkestra on Live At The Pine Street Theater, October 18th, 1988 (Jackpot)
- 4:27pm Pink + White by Frank Ocean on Blond (Boys Don't Cry)
- 4:28pm Be Yourself by Frank Ocean on Blond (Boys Don't Cry)
- 4:30pm Electric Relaxation by A Tribe Called Quest on Anthology (Jive)
- 4:33pm Gentle Persuasion by Doug Hream Blunt on My Name Is Doug Hream Blunt (Luaka Bop)
- 4:40pm Burning Jungle by Ofege on Doing It in Lagos: Boogie, Pop & Disco in 1980's Nigeria (Soundway)
- 4:44pm Oh, My People by The Last Poets on The Last Poets (Celluloid)
- 4:51pm Light My Fire by Al Green on Gets Next To You (hi)
- 4:55pm PRIDE by Kendrick Lamar on DAMN. (Aftermath/Interscope)
- 4:59pm Everything Is Everything by Lauryn Hill on The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (Ruffhouse Records)
- 5:06pm I Can't Stand The Rain by Ann Peebles on Freedom For The Stallion: American Soul Music 1952-1976 (Cairo)
- 5:07pm I Be Blowin by De La Soul, Maceo Parker on Buhloone Mindstate (A.O.I.)
- 5:12pm Binz by Solange on When I Get Home (Columbia)
- 5:16pm Maggot Brain by Funkadelic on Maggot Brain (Westbound)
- 5:23pm Let It Ride by Tajai on Heiro Oldies (Heiroglyphics)
- 5:26pm Bad Girls by Donna Summer on Bad Girls (UMG)
- 5:31pm UMI Says by Mos Def on Black On Both Sides (Rawkus)
- 5:36pm Mini Really Fit Dem by Soul Flames on Rock Steady Cool (Kingston Sounds)
- 5:39pm All Blues (feat. John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderly & Bill Evans) by Miles Davis on Kind Of Blue (Columbia)
- 5:51pm Sigfried by Frank Ocean on Blond (Boys Don't Cry)
- 5:56pm Tunan by Mamman Sani on La Musique Électronique Du Niger (Sahel Sounds)