• November 20th, 2009
Ten years in the waiting, The Seventh Seal has dropped…
…and goddamn, that is one bad record. Really awful. I guess every single top-shelf producer and same-weight-class-MC was in Barbados or Minnetonka that week, so he had to settle for a bunch of cats he found at the bus station or some shit. It’s like Marlon Brando making his big return to acting by guest starring on Everybody Loves Raymond.
So instead, just get yourself ‘Holy Are You’, cool out to some more unreleased cuts and remixes, and let us never speak of it again.
Eric B. For President (DJ Showtime Remix) / Let the Rhythm Hit ‘Em (DJ Ayres Remix) / Hypnotic / Addictive (Remix) - w/Truth Hurts / Let The Rhythm Hit ‘Em (Omega One Remix) / Take the Train / New York London Paris - w/Art of Noise & Spleen / Buffalo Gals (Back To Skool) / Once Upon A Time in Japan (Remix) / Shades of Black / Living For The City (Remix) / Cold Feeling / Man With A Gun / We All Got Plans (Original Mix) / I Know You Got Soul (Z-Trip Remix) / The Saga Begins (Desert Eagle Discs-You Scare Me Remix)
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• October 22nd, 2009
I read this thing saying smartphones have created a race of cyborgs by making the internet extensions of our bodies, even though it’s not sewn on.
My question is: if I want to smack people who diddle their iPhones all the time, does that make me a racist?
This is Robots Will Fuck Your Shit Up, v3.0.
Exit Multi Mode - Jel / Farewell To The Flesh - Jedi Mind Tricks / Untitled #17 & 18 - Mr. Dibbs / Error Data - Powell / Robot Reality - Taborshell / Do It Like A Robot (Hell Rocks The Equalizer Remix) - Princess Superstar / Cyborg - DJ Quest / We Can Build You - Techno Animal (feat. El-P & Vast Aire) / Cyborg Dread - Techno Animal (feat. Dr. Israel) / Les Petits Yeux Métalliques - Brain Damage / Deshominisation (I) - Alain Goraguer / Robots Forever - Lil B / She Scanned - Four Tet / T-electronique - Faust & Dälek / 0101001011001101011 - Attacks The Darkness / Man Or Machine - K-The-I??? (feat. Mestizo)
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• October 2nd, 2009
The word robot was coined by Karel Capek in his 1920 play, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots). Know what it’s about? Robots rise up and kill the whole human race, that’s what. Y’all been warned.
This is Robots Will Fuck Your Shit Up, v2.0
Straight Outta Skynet / Stupid Robot - Company Flow / African Robotics - Super Chron Flight Brothers / Dirty Robots - Exile / Bladerunners - Mike Ladd (feat. Company Flow) / Blood of the Robot - Rick Rude, Phree Wil, Jewels Hunter, DJ WD4D & DJ Able / Mechanical Advantage - Deepspace 5 / Fuckin’ Robots - Sick Symphonies / War With Robots (feat. PW Singer) / Please Disperse Immediately - Nephlim Modulation Systems / Annihilator Robot - DJ T-Rock / Digital War Lessons - Rouh & Qrazsirs / Humanity Vs Technology - Orko The Sycotik Alien / Programmed To Hunt - Jel / At War With Robots - Solaris Earth Pipeline / Attaque Des Robots - Alain Goraguer / Dominant Species (Instrumental) - Rheturik / Y’all Been Warned - The RZA
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• September 4th, 2009
It’s been 90 years since the word robot was coined, and they’re firmly embedded in our culture, art and subconscious…and they still don’t exist yet.
Most robot stories have the theme of empathy–of bridging the uncanny valley. Either the robots are more empathetic than us, and we treat them like slaves, or they’re less empathetic metal killing machines. Robots represent the idea of our highest achievement, to create something better than ourselves, but also reflect our worse failings–cruelty, xenophobia, hubris, exploitation.
This is Robots Will Fuck Your Shit Up, v1.0.
‘…In Love With Another Robot…’ - Jel / The Mechanikal Man (Scratch Robot) - DJ Grazzhoppa / Bboy Robot - Rouh & Qrazsirs / Robot - Marc D & JRAY; Fourward; KRS-ONE & Buckshot / Robot Love (Medicine 8 Remix) - Popular Tyre / Do It Like A Robot - Princess Superstar / From Tragedy - DJ Krush (feat. Tragedy) / Robot - Proe / Robots - Clokworx / Do The Robot In Cyberspace - Giant Panda / Robot - Dockta Valkus / Anything You Can Do My Robot Can Do Better - Close My Eyes / Vote Robot Remix - Climax Golden Twins / Do Androids Dream of Electric Boogaloo? / Theme From Automatons / Sympathy For The Database / The Robot Has Got the Blues - Worm Is Green
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• August 13th, 2009
Just like the first one, this is some funky shit, on a suiting-up-montage tip and some climactic-fight-scene-ripping-through-all-the-bad-guys-like-butter type of grooves, finishing up with some says-something-sassy-and-cool-like-’Always bet on black’-and-drives-off-before-the-credits-roll beats. Ya feel me? It’s cinelmattic beatsploitation.
Mr. Holland’s Intro - Rob Swift & Richard Dreyfus / Rip Rip - David Holmes / I’ve Never Seen… & Boing Boing (Instrumentals) - The RZA / Killing In The Name Of - The Apples / Baseball Furies Chase - Barry de Vorzon / Troglodyte (Cave Man) - Jimmy Castor Bunch / The Stretch - Detroit Sex Machines / Get Up & Get Down - The Dramatics / Know How (Solid Steel Mix) - Young MC / Jimmy James (Original Original Version) - Beastie Boys / Nite Stalker - Afrika ‘Baby Bam’ / If I Had Wings - DJ Frane / Claim To Fame (Instro) - Oddisee / North By Northwest - Blue Scholars / Collie Stuff - The Chosen Few / Bonus Bill Beat - EarDrumz / Blowin’ Up The Spot (Instrumental) - DJ Premier / Key Master - High & Mighty / House of Rising Funk - Afrique / Double Dog Dare You - Beat Rabbi / Aural Pleasure (Instrumental) - Blackalicious / Cold Blooded (Instrumental) - Common & The Soulquarians
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• July 14th, 2009
In honor of The Seventh Seal dropping-any-minute-now-really-honestly-really-it’s-coming-out-this-time, here’s some remixes and rare cuts.
What’s the deal with Rakim? Greatest MC of all time to anyone not fucked in the head. Your favorite rapper’s favorite rapper. Originator of spiritual MCing and the internal rhyme scheme. And no new album in ten years.
Reading the few interviews around, all I can tell is: the death of his father really messed him up; he’s enjoying raising his kids; and Dre really jerked him around. I’d bet he also has a really, really bad manager, probably his goofy brother-in-law or something. I mean, what label is gonna turn down The God Himself?!
So I’m wondering how come the album is late. Maybe he’s giving us time to get the last six straight.
The Coronation of Rakhnaten (Opening Ceremony) / I Know You Got Soul (Dub) / Put Your Hands Together (Parkside Mix) / As the Rhyme Goes On (Pumpin’ the Turbo - Chad Jay In Effect) / Follow The Leader (RJD2 Remix) / Complicatem (Pass The Hand Grenade Pt 2) / You Don’t Fool Me / Bring It (Turn It Up) / Casualties Of War (Jazz Version) / Don’t Sweat The Technique (Original) / Let The Rhythm Hit ‘Em (Brixton Upso Mix) / Heat It Up / Run (Freestyle) / Last Resort (a.k.a. Paid Off) / When I Be Flowin (King Tech Remix) / After U Die (feat. Truth Hurts) / Guess Who’s Back (Buckwild Remix) / I’m Back (feat. Lil Fame) / Let The Rhythm Hit Em (Z-Trip Remix) / Microphone Fiend (Rage Mix) / The Coronation of Rakhnaten (Closing Ceremony)
Peep out Rap Dungeon and Hip Hop Is Read for more.
New single ‘Holy Are You’ just dropped; you can check it at The Message or here.
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• June 19th, 2009
Nas has released 10 albums in 15 years, but everyone pisses and moans because 9 of them weren’t Illmatic. That’s like hating on George Washington Carver for not inventing something better than peanut butter.
Compared to a lot of MCs, Nas is still dropping steady heat (Exhibit A: “Queens Get The Money”). But really though, every album has some weak tracks–and not just the horrible, horrible radio singles. Nas’ problem has always been beats.
A solo rapper lacks the consistency a DJ brings to the sound and keeps the ego in check–the strength has always been in the triumvirate (Run-DMC, Cypress Hill) or the duo (Gang Starr, Eric B. & Rakim) or the everyone-into-the-phone-booth-thing (The Roots, Wu-Tang). Relying on beats-for-hire has made Nas’ direction waver all over the place; it’s that lack of a defined sound that makes people hate. Every Cypress Hill record is pretty much the same (just in ever-decreasing quality); every Nas record is different. To me, that’s a strength. It’s just too bad he didn’t hook up with the right DJ early on and drop steady solid. When he does pick a good beat, it’s fire. When he doesn’t…that’s when the remixers step up.
So here we got an hour’s worth of Nas remixes, freestyles and unreleased cuts. Peep it.
Hope (Kenzo Digital Remix) / Sucker MCs 2007 / Made You Look (#900 Remix) / Stillmatic (Paid In Full Mix) / DJ Clue Freestyle / The Foulness / Talk Of New York (Hard To Earn Mix) / NY State Of Mind Pt. 2 (Meaning of the Name Mix) / Made U Look (DJ ABD Run Remix) / Got Ur Self… (MIDIMarc Remix) / No Idea’s Original (Kenzo Digital Remix) / Thief’s Theme (Q-Fish Remix) / Streets Disciple (Original Version) / The Setup (Q-Fish Remix) / Affirmative Action (Man Mantis Remix) / One Love (MF Doom Remix) / Every Ghetto (Goodwill Projects’ Minority Report Remix) / Ghetto (feat. Joell Ortiz) (DJ Green Lantern Remix) / Life’s A Bitch (DJ ABD C.R.E.A.M. Remix) / The Game (Dirty Harry’s Biggie Remix) / Silent Murder / Get Down (Nick James Remix)
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• May 21st, 2009
Here we got some Biggie remixes, mostly from other mixtapes. If that’s too meta for you, get with the times.
Why do we celebrate Biggie on the day he died instead of today, his birthday? It’s that gangsta cult of death. Ask yourself: When Big was in that car, broken glass in his lap, bleeding out, do you think he was ready to die? Or did all that gat-poppin’ nihilism fly away and he would’ve given anything to keep breathing?
Mishima wrote: “Human life is limited, but I would like to live forever.” Big didn’t leave behind a huge body of work (just a huge body). But every time it gets remixed, flipped around over a new beat, the lyrics become new again. They even become more iconic, like words cut in stone. And Biggie lives again.
Microphone Murderer / Where Brooklyn At? (Live From Madison Square Garden) / C.R.E.A.M. Freestyle / Things Done Changed (vs. Wu-Tang) - DJ Semi & DJ KG / Party & Bullshit (vs. LOTUG) - DJ Semi & DJ KG / Party & Bullshit (vs. Nas) - DJ Vlad & Dirty Harry / Party & Bullshit (vs. Jimi Hendrix) - DJ Doc Rok / Party & Bullshit (vs. David Bowie) - DJ Muggs / Hypnotize (vs. Joan Jett) - TRVS DJAM / Frank White - DJ Sane720 & Dantana / Going Back to Cali - Se7en Productions / Everyday Struggle (vs. Dr. Dre) – Filth / Real Niggaz (Original West Coast Version) / If I Should Die (vs. 50 Cent) - Dirty Harry / Victory - DJ Rukiz / Young G’s (Remix) - Astronote / Things Done Changed - Golddragon / Can’t Knock The Hustle - MIDIMarc / Ten Crack Commandments – Kenzo Digital / Hypnotize (vs. Frank Sinatra) - DJ Cappel & Smitty / Kick In The Door - DJ Sane720 & Dantana / Hypnotize (vs. Boogie Down Productions) – Elmattic / Nasty Girl (vs. Big Daddy Kane) - Mick Boogie & Terry Urban / Everyday Struggle - DJ Lennox / Dead Wrong (Stop Schemin Remix) - Renegade / Sleepwalkers - Cooking Soul / Things Done Changed (vs. El-P) - Elmattic / A Dream (vs. MF Doom) - DJ LivingDead / You’re Nobody Till Somebody Kills You (Original Version) / Juicy (vs. Aphex Twin) - Spin Doctor Zaeus
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• April 28th, 2009
…something something something, broke my sacroiliac. Which means ‘ass-bone’. Only time an MC’s used proper medical terminology. Kinda surprising since there’s so many ‘doctors’ (Dre, Ice, Octagon, etc.). But I guess nothing rhymes with things like ‘pancreas.’ Except…blancreas.
Really though, “The Message” is the well from where all conscious hip hop flows. 27 years later the beat is still tight. The lyrics drop some serious poetical gems. It’s real art and therefore eternal.
The Message - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five / Hard Times - Run-D.M.C., Vordul Mega, Onra, Baby Huey / In The Ghetto - Eric B. & Rakim / Ghetto Misfortune’s Wealth - The 24 Carat Black / Dead Homiez - Ice Cube / I Been There - KRS-One / Streetlamp Confessions - WindNbreeze, Cryptic One & Alaska / Minimum Wage - Redshield / Rent Control - Super Chron Flight Brothers / A Tribute to Melle Mel - Breez Evahflowin / The Message - Nas / The Message (Remix Suite) - Roots Manuva, Cutting Edge, Ice Cube, Richie Rich, El-P, Mobb Deep, Willy Mason
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• March 29th, 2009
Fetus - Nas / Birth - Ice Cube (feat. Khalid Abdul Muhammad) / The Birth - The RZA / Children of Children - The Black Market Militia (feat. Oscar Brown Jr.) / Wear Clean Draws - The Coup / Snoop Interlude / Grew Up Hard - Trife Da God & Solomon Childs / Young Man Grown - The Narcicyst / Message To Young People - Double Dee & Steinski / The Product - Ice Cube / Concrete Jungles - The Psycho Realm (feat. Crow) / Finger Painting - K-The-I??? / Home Work - Themselves / It’s Just A Playground - Dday One / Little Child Running Wild - Curtis Mayfield / Children’s Story - Slick Rick
[Update]
Really dope re-telling of ‘A Children’s Story’ by Hell Razah & Killah Priest here.
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• March 6th, 2009
Reminiscing of another time: Parkside Ave and a bottle of wine…
Rain Dance - Arrowax / Make It Rain - Ultramagnetic MCs / Rain Drops - Jojo Pellegrino / Rain men - Deep Puddle Dynamics / Rain men (Remix instrumental) - Deep Puddle Dynamics / Rain Edit Interlude - Prefuse 73 / Rainy Dayz - Raekwon (feat. Ghostface Killah & Blue Rasberry) / Stormy Weather - Billy Woods / This Is It (Ain’t Gonna Rain) - Schoolly D / Rain - RJD2 / The Name of Every Raindrop - Tracy Jones / Rain - Autolect / The Levees Broke - Jay Electronica / A Sudden Rain Storm / Flood The Block (Instrumental) - Havoc
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• February 23rd, 2009
Last piece in the bucket moves from head-nodding to nodding out to head-scratching tracks.
Super Chicken Meets Ice Cube Uptown / PLO Styles (Odd Nosdam Mix) - Method Man (feat. Carlton Fisk) / 9 Hip-Hop Samurai - Kode 9 vs. Dead Prez / Hip Hop (DFRNT Dubmix) - Dead Prez / Skank In The Air - Chinese Man / Poison Dart - The Bug & Warrior Queen / Stone - Spectre / Easy Way Out - Strangebrew / Close to the Fire - Teledubgnosis / Always Late - Booka B / Genetic Weapon - Brain Damage (feat. Tena Stelin) / Eyupsultan (King Fader Mix) - Systemwide / Seeing n=0 - Mormon Freegan / Upsetter - Odd Nosdam
Missed this one, but check it out:
King Tubby Vs. Wu Tang - Macro-Dubplates Vol. 1
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• February 6th, 2009
This one’s all instrumental, whacked-out sneakergazing dubstep, illbient, electronic dub type of shit. Goes perfect with an opium-dipped joint and a big pack of Frito Lays.
There’s that thing in Neuromancer where a bunch of Rastas in the future are living in space, and this supercomputer convinces them to help…I forget, do a space rescue or some shit…by cooking them up a dub mix. It would probably sound like this.
Super Chicken Crosses The Road / Gun Too Hot - Dub Syndicate / Headmash - V-Neck / In Heaven, A Devil - Teledubgnosis / Hospital, Come In! - Labº / Going Around Dub - Kobe / Spiritunational Remix - Vibronics / Balalaika Dub - Manuela Krause & Pole / Crusher Dub - Vex’d / Freak Freak - The Bug / At War - DJ Wally / J Dub - Boxcutter / Pre-emptive Psychosis (in Dub) - Alter Echo / Ice - Brain Damage / Anansi Abstrakt - DJ Spooky
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• January 26th, 2009
Revenge of Super Chicken / On Mission (Super Chicken Version) - Talib Kweli vs. Niney the Observer / Skanky Panky - Kid Koala / The Damn Number - Toots & The Maytals vs. Killah Priest / Lucifer (Paul Nice Remix) - Jay-Z / Hardcore Freestyle - DJ Cam (feat. Otis) / No No No - Ghostface Killah / Black Survivors - Bob Marley & Chuck D / Justice - Belief (feat. Vordul Mega & C-Rayz Walz) / Concrete Jungle - Bob Marley & Rakim / Just To Get A Rep (Super Chicken Version) - Gang Starr vs. The Upsetters / Forest Whitiker (Instrumental) - A.N.T. / MPE (Mr. Wyse Remix) - Public Enemy / International Broadcaster - Lee “Scratch” Perry (feat. Roots Manuva & L.S.K.) / Mr. Brown (Globemallow Spike Remix) - Bob Marley & The Upsetters
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• January 18th, 2009
Biggie & Meth vs. Niney The Observer.
So Notorious is out. It looks pretty boring. Not to hate, but biopics are all the same, blah blah childhood blah blah first big break, blah blah oh shit I’m so famous now, and in the background you get different decades’ lamps and news clips and shit.
Someday we’ll get a hip-hop film that’s as interesting visually/narratively as the music is sonically/lyrically: Krush Groove meets I’m Not There or 8 Mile meets Natural Born Killers. Or Wild Style meets Naked Lunch. Or Juice meets I Am Cuba, that would be the shit. In the meantime we’ll have to settle for Mephistophididdy’s latest cash-in.
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• January 5th, 2009
This one goes out to MZW, holding down the BKK/Lexico/Thaitaly axis.
Kool Herc brought the islands to the Bronx to invent hip-hop. This mix brings it back around again.
Super Chicken Lays A Dub / Champion (Remix) - Brother Ali / Niggas (BDP Remix) - Notorious B.I.G. / Clientele Kids (Reggae Remix) - Raekwon, Ghostface Killah & Inspectah Deck / Chains - R.A. The Rugged Man (feat. Masta Killa & Killah Priest) / Shining Interlude (feat. Mumia) / Telegram (Parts 1 & 3) (Catchdubs Remix) - Saul Williams / Badder Than - Sibot (feat. Teba) / Scalp Dem - Super Cat Vs Method Man / Progression Vers Sion - Djins / Jackals & Vipers, Part 9 - Sixtoo / Babylon Rhythm Exorcism - Musaics (DJ Sole) / Killa Instinkt - Sub Dub / Mr. Brown - Styles Of Beyond / Mr. Brown (Spahn Ranch Remix) - Bob Marley & The Upsetters
Also peep these out:
Perfecta - Reggae Reggae Wu
Mista D’s Music Blog: Hip-Hop Inna Reggae Stylee
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• December 22nd, 2008
All mashup edition. Most mashups are ass ups: let’s take two shitty pop songs and put them together! Now they blow twice as much! These are fire, though.
I know this mix is going for the lowest common denominator, but I’m trying to learn to flip a tight mix. Like how Mondrian was a realist painter and then started taking things out, until all that was left was squares and lines. Not like I’m gonna be the Mondrian of beats or anything. The Mondrian of beats is…uh, I don’t really know who that would be. Pete Rock, maybe.
But if this don’t rock your New Year’s Eve party, you took the wrong drugs.
Psycho Ill Logical Intro / Jay-Z vs. Jimi Hendrix - TimG / Kurupt & Roscoe vs. Jimi Hendrix - DJ Muggs / Notorious B.I.G. vs. Jimi Hendrix - DJ Doc Rok / Beastie Boys vs. Jimi Hendrix - CosmoKramer / Ludacris vs. Led Zeppelin - DJ Redeye / Public Enemy vs. Led Zepplin - Z-Trip / The Gravediggaz vs. Metallica - DJ Topcat / Jay-Z vs. The Beatles - DJ Danger Mouse / M.O.P. vs. The Stooges - Elmattic
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• December 10th, 2008
Ten best underground bangers of 2008. I know you slept on some of these. I can see ya pajamas.
Absolute Value - Akrobatik / Hoobity Blah - El-P / The Saga Begins - Almighty / Brooklyn Zu - Brooklyn Zu / Straight Through - KRS-One / The Anthem - The Mighty Underdogs / Dots & Dashes - Doomtree / Breakfast - Fresh Daily / Claim to Fame - Oddisee / Deadly Blades - DJ Muggs & Planet Asia (feat. Prodigal Sunn & Tri State)
Honorable Mentions:
#11. Sabbath Faster - K-The-I??? (feat. Busdriver)
#12. Deathbed Doctrine - Jedi Mind Tricks
#13. So Far - Edgar Allen Floe*
*bonus points for the name. I guess William Cargopants Williams and Herman MelvILL were taken. There is an actual MC called Mo B. Dick. Is that gonna be the new thing for 2009? Hip-hop with allusions to 19th century literature?
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• November 20th, 2008
Can you rock it like this? I can rock it like that. Can you rock it like this? I can rock it LIKE. THAT.
Go Hard - Dub Trio, Gift of Gab & Z-Trip / Tougher Than Leather - Run-D.M.C. / Rockstar II - Z-Trip / Live @ Scribble Jam 2002 - Mr. Dibbs / Lightning Strikes - Cypress Hill / I’m Destructive - Dr. Octagon / Unpleasant Thoughts - DJ Shortfuse / Rock Hard (12″ Version) - Beastie Boys / Dope Beat - Boogie Down Productions / Rocked By Rape - Evolution Control Committee (feat. Dan Rather) / Who Owns Culture? #2 - Double Dee & Steinski / Decay - Jel / Untitled #10 - Dert Floyd / Rock & Roll - Edan (feat. Dagha) / Ladies & Gentlemen…Always - Teledubgnosis / Destroyer - Money Mark / Shut This Down - Odd Nosdam
One time my boy Maestro plugged his bass amp into the stereo, put it in the bathroom for the acoustics, and we did whipits listening to “Tougher Than Leather” on a loop while waiting for the mushrooms to kick in. So this mix goes out to him.
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• November 2nd, 2008
More fire than Krakatoa. If Krakatoa was on fire, plus with the spitting lava all over the place.
The Very Disconcerto / We Speak Animal - Sharkey & C-Rayz Walz / Step It Up - Akrobatik / How Low - R.A. The Rugged Man / Stained Glass Freestyle Pt. 4 - Killah Priest / Made You Shit Your Pants - Copywrite, Yak & Cage / Home of the Brave (Remix) - paWL (feat. Mr. Lif) / Seat Yourself - Roots Manuva (feat. Ricky Ranking) / Brand New Vandals - Rob Sonic / None Shall Pass - Aesop Rock / The Network - Qwel & Maker (feat. Mestizo) / 1000 Degrees - MF Doom & MF Grimm / Victory (MF Doom MoMix) - The Notorious B.I.G., Amerie & 9th Wonder (Lee Plenty Remix) / Watcha Got - Brother Ali / On A Rampage - Stig Of The Dump / Don’t Get It Backwards - J-Live & Supa Dave
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