Rare Artist Series: DJ Quik - Flow For Sale

Yet another example of DJ Quik's stellar sound off his latest album.  They just don't make west coast g-funk like they used... well, actually, he does.

Flow For Sale

Rare Artist Series: Cormega feat Red Alert, Parrish Smith, Grand Puba, KRS One and Big Daddy Kane - VIII

A posse cut from five rap pioneers set up by Cormega.  Was never a big fan of Cormega but the album this is off of made me want to go back and listen again to his earlier material.  Anyhow - this is a joint that gets heavy rotation.


VIII feat Red Alert, Parrish Smith, Grand Puba, KRS One and Big Daddy Kane

Rare Artist Series: Biz Markie - Bad Day

A bonus cut from the EP "Friends" finds the Biz talking about a bad day he is having.  Definitely one of the songs I had slept on for years and stumbled across a few months ago.  Solid stuff from a rap pioneer.

Bad Day

Rare Artist Series: Big Daddy Kane - Taste Of Chocolate Intro

The extended mix of this, found on a 12" is just as good, but this is the original off the album.  I might post the other later.  I was always a huge Kane fan back in the day and would defend him as much as I could besides the R&B nonsense.  I watched a documentary the other day about him and it is true that he was pioneer and ahead of his time in that aspect but I still don't listen to R&B like that.  Anyhow here is a...

Taste of Chocolate (Intro)

Rare Artist Series: Lords of The Underground - Funky Child

What an incredible energetic track.  Marley Marl laced the Lords with this beat and Do It All delivered it some serious justice.  Possibly one of the last times James Brown was sampled and put to good effect.

Funky Child

April 2011 Zip Folder

Zip folder of files from April 2011 are found...

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Rare Artist Series: Last Emperor, Masta Ace and Trugoy - Clear Day

Another great posse cut featuring the Last Emperor.  Prince Paul produced the beat and the two emcees accompanying the Emp provide some dope verses to accentuate the "feel good" song.

Clear Day

Rare Artist Series: Rage Against The Machine - Hadda Be Playing On A Juke Box

Off of one of their EP's comes one of my favorite Rage Against the Machine songs.  You can tell from the beginning that Zach De La Rocha is dissing his audience - must be from Lalapalooza or something like that.  Anyhow he delivers a reciting of an Allen Ginsberg speech that is extremely effective over the live instrumentation.

Hadda Be Playing On A Juke Box

Rare Artist Series: Black Moon Shit Iz Real

A John Klemmer sample was put to good use on this raw cut off Black Moon's best album to date.  It is a classic in my opinion.  I remember smoking out to this just nodding my head back and forth entering the mind of Buckshot.  Back when hip hop was hip hop.  Ha ha ha - whatever that means.  Still good.

Shit Iz Real

Rare Artist Series: Big Punisher - Dream Shatterer

Christopher Lee Rios was nasty on the mic.  Skillful in ways that many rappers could not even compete with.  His life ended short just like so many other talented emcees.  Anyway - it is too bad he didn't have as much leftover material like Tupac does but we can always listen to the classics like...

Dream Shatterer

Rare Artist Series: Grand Visitor - The Visitor (Situation Critical)

Homeliss Derlelix is another group I never heard of until years later and at that point they disbanded.  Here is a single from the Grand Visitor before he became a part of the group.  Love the cat's voice and like Guru said it is "mostly the voice".  Tight.

The Visitor (Situation Critical)

Rip It

Freestyle tomfoolery from the three emcees circa 2001.

Rip It

Rare Artist Series: Gangstarr - Now You're Mine

"Yo, duke, you're dead wrong...".  Man, oh, man, I can listen to this song over and over.  I was always a Guru fan while other's didn't dig "mostly his voice".  Anyhow - the beats, rhymes and cuts on this song come together perfectly like a puzzle.

Now You're Mine

Rare Artist Series: Eddie Ill & DL - Freestyle with Last Emperor, Asheru & J-Live

One of my favorite "freestyle" tracks ever.  I love the flow of the beat and the three emcees shine brightly extremely fluidly all over it.

Freestyle with Last Emperor, Asheru & J-Live

Magmatic (2011 Analog Remix Dub Instrumental)

Dub Instrumental

Magmatic (2011 Analog Remix) - The Video

The Video

Magmatic (2011 Analog Remix)

The scene is still Magmatic for this rendition of the MJB and T-Booth collaboration.  Mysterio pulled analog samples from movies and TV shows like "Star Trek", "Land of the Lost" and "X-Files" to accentuate the sci-fi vibe.  The analog samples are equally spacey and switch up at the right time to compliment the two emcees dope verses.  Sound effects fit into the design as well delivering what happens to be one of Mysterio's favorite Universal Sounds remixes to date.

Magmatic (2011 Analog Remix)

Rare Artist Series: J-Live - Charmed Life

Underrated, overlooked and yet J-Live is always consistent.  Here he teams up with another cat who never got his "real" due.  Jazzy Jeff provides the beat as J gets introspective.

Charmed Life

Facial Features (2011 Analog Remix Dub)

the dub

Facial Features (2011 Analog Remix Vibe Version)

No drums on this version.

Facial Features (2011 Analog Remix)

A jazz tinged production composed by Mysterio as he assembled analog samples to compliment the classic song by Kwote Scriptures.  Snippets of dialogue and vocal singing from women's recordings, new and old, were inserted over a swinging drum program.

Facial Features (2011 Analog Remix)

Facial Features (2011 Analog Remix) - The Video

The Video

Rare Artist Series: DJ Doom - Dreamer (feat. Kahli And Estelle)

Doom.  What a name for this DJ to pick.  I immediately dismissed his audacity for choosing that name.  But upon listening to his album I was quickly intrigued.  Here is one cut that is completely fresh and features one of the few new singers I can stomach: Estelle.


Dreamer (feat. Kahli And Estelle)

Fuckin' Up Da West Coast (2011 Analog Remix Dub Life)

The Dub

Fuckin' Up Da West Coast (2011 Analog Remix) - The Video

The Video

Fuckin' Up Da West Coast (2011 Analog Remix)

MC Automatic and Static are still fuckin' up the west coast but this time Mysterio is behind the boards instead of DJ Meathooks.  The west coast gangsta flavor is still in effect with a booming 808 track setting the back drop for this gangsta ass picnic on the mic.

Fuckin' Up Da West Coast (2011 Analog Remix)

Rare Artist Series: Apathy - What Goes Up

Storytelling in hip hop has always been a staple and it hits me even more when it is heartfelt but not at all sappy.  Apathy delivers his tale of the gun over a very soulful track.  Top Notch.

What Goes Up

Suckas (2011 Analog Remix) - The Video

The Video

Suckas (2011 Analog Remix Instrumental)

The Beat

Suckas (2011 Analog Remix)

A classic Universal Sounds posse cut reinvented for the second decade of the twenty-first Century.  A quote from the film "Payback" kicks off the proceedings as analog layers of samples glide over a programmed beat conducted by Mysterio.  Suckas still don't like them.

Suckas (2011 Analog Remix)

Rare Artist Series: Atmosphere - Crewed Up

Ant and Slug brought back the posse cut on their excellent "unreleased promo" album "Strictly Leakage".  Definitely a throwback which fit in with the other nostalgia induced tunes on the album.

Crewed Up

Rare Artist Series: 7L & Esoteric - Stalker

This is such a creepy and funny ass track at the same time.  I think they sample "Kids in the Hall" on this one in regards to the chorus/breakdown.  The beat is funky and the lyrical story Esoteric put together proves how great of a story teller he can be.

Stalker

Rare Artist Series: Big Noyd - Back Up In This Bitch

I slept on Noyd when he came out.  He had dope verses on Mobb Deep's second album but I guess he just slipped off my radar after that.  Anyhow - digging back in the crates I gave his record a spin and definitely he has been in my top rotation as of late.  Great mid 90's hip hop from Queensbridge, motherfucka!



Back Up In This Bitch

Rare Artist Series: Def Squad - Check N Me Out

The Green Eyed Bandit sampled the group Space Machine for this favorite Def Squad cut of mine.  So funky and the three emcees voices and lyrics compliment it to the tee.  Solid.

Check N Me Out

Chaos and Mayhem (Live @ the PUB 1995)

The live version of the self titled song by Mayhem before he was known as Aya Da Storm.

Chaos and Mayhem (Live @ the PUB 1995) 

Rare Artist Series: Vakill - The Creed

One of my favorite tracks by this Chi-Town native.  The beat is intense and his lyrics are complex yet completely understandable.  Play over and over and over.

The Creed

March 2011 Zip Folder

All files from March 2011 neatly zipped up here in this folder.

Plus Minus (2011 Layer Cake Remix) - The Video

The Video

Plus Minus (2011 Layer Cake Remix)

Mysterio took samples from Scott Walker, Jimi Hendrix and the movie Layer Cake to craft this new version of the Lost Link classic cut.  The beat is intense matching the polar opposite intesity of the dynamic duo's deadly verses.

Plus Minus (2011 Analog Remix)

Plus Minus (2011 Layer Cake Remix Remix Dub)

Dub Life

Rainy Day

Back in 2001 Sinima Beats, then known as Optiskept, created this jam with Kwote, Nekia and Cise.

Rainy Day

Rare Artist Series: DJ Quik - Ghetto Rendezvous

What a breath of fresh air in a rather stale environment for the Heavyweights of Hip Hop.  "Book of David" is definitely one of my favorite or if not THE FAVORITE album of 2011 for me.  This is the first cut that got heavy rotation in my IPOD playlist and eventually on vinyl when I purchased it a couple weeks ago.

Ghetto Rendezvous

Rare Artist Series: Jabrjaw & DJ Dee Dubbs - Songs Like These

Some good old hip hop straight out of Florida.  Definitely a breath of fresh air in the otherwise stale environment of hip hop music these days.  Peep and support.

Jabrjaw & DJ Dee Dubbs - Songs Like These

Rare Artist Series: Vakill - Armorgeddon

Finally Vakill came back with an album in 2011 and he did not disappoint which can be attested to here with this track off his "Armor of God" album:

Armorgeddon

Dead Boy (Live in 1995)

E.N.S. performing his classic tune "Dead Boy" at the Pub.

Dead Boy (Live in 1995)

Spontaneous Combustion (2011 Analog Remix) - The Video

The Video

Spontaneous Combustion (2011 Analog Remix)

Mysterio chopped up some fine jazz samples and inserted an introduction by Mick to kick off this remix of the class combo cut created by Anoir and Aya.  Sound effects still in "effcect" to accentuate their highly flammable verses.

Spontaneous Combustion (2011 Analog Remix)

Spontaneous Combustion (2011 Analog Remix Instrumental)

Spontaneous Combustion (2011 Analog Remix Instrumental)

Soul (Take 2)

The original soul groove from Cise before the remix.

Soul (Take 2)

Rare Artist Series: MF Grimm - Do it For The Kids

MF Grimm whipped up an excellent graphic novel which I highly recommend.  It documents his whole life up until the day it was made.  However, here is one of the many songs I like a lot but GM/MF Grimm.  Solid material.
Do it For The Kids