It feels like it’s been a minute since we’ve done a hip-hop mix, but quite honestly I haven’t come across anything quite inspiring, until now that is. Q-Tip is the shit, ’nuff said. He has a new album coming out and teamed up with Dj Dub to present an array of songs that he’s been featured as an artist or produced.This soon-to-be classic features new, classic and unreleased from Q-Tip. Artists like Busta Rhymes, Andre 3000, Kanye West, D’Angelo and more all make appearances on this momentous mixtape.
1. Intro - DJ Dub
2. Verses From the Abstract - A Tribe Called Quest
3. Midnight - A Tribe Called Quest
4. Midnight 08 Smirnoff Signature mix - Q-Tip
5. Wild Hot - Q-Tip / Busta Rhymes
6. Oh My God - A Tribe Called Quest
7. Got Til Its Gone - Janet Jackson / Q-Tip / Joni Mitchell
8. Footprints - A Tribe Called Quest
9. The Promo - Jungle Bros / Q-Tip
10. Buddy Remix - A Tribe Called Quest / Jungle Bros / De La Soul
11. Check The Rhime - A Tribe Called Quest
12. Groove Is In The Heart - Dee-Lite / Q-Tip
13. Sh. Fe. Mcs - A Tribe Called Quest / De La Soul
14. Excursions - A Tribe Called Quest
15. Drink Away The Pain - Mobb Deep (Prod by Q-Tip)
16. Get Down Q-Tip Remix - Q-Tip / Craig Mack
17. Dont Curse - Heavy D / Kool G Rap / Grand Puba / CL Smooth / Big Daddy Kane / Pete Rock / Q-Tip
18. Make It Better - Kanye West / Talib Kweli / Q-Tip
19. A Rolling Skating Jam Named Saturdays - Q-Tip / De La Soul
20. Heels - Q-Tip
21. Abstractionisms - Q-Tip
22. I Believe - Q-Tip / D’Angelo
23. Vivrant Thing - Q-Tip
24. Can I Kick It (Spirit Mix) - A Tribe Called Quest
25. Lyrics To Go (Tumblin Dice Remix) - A Tribe Called Quest
26. Get It Together Remix - Beastie Boys / Q-Tip
27. Sucka Nigga - A Tribe Called Quest
28. Get A Hold - A Tribe Called Quest
29. Lets Ride - Q-Tip
30. One Love - Nas (Prod by Q-Tip)
31. Give Up The Goods - Mobb Deep (Prod By Q-Tip)
32. The World Is Yours Remix - Nas (Prod by Q-Tip)
33. In The Sun - Large Professor / Q-Tip
34. Bonita Applebum (Hootie Mix) - A Tribe Called Quest
35. Glamour & Glitz - A Tribe Called Quest
36. Feva - Q-Tip
37. Practice Session - The Ummah
38. Thats Sexy - Q-Tip / Andre 3000
39. What The Fuss (Hard Remix) - Stevie Wonder / Q-Tip
40. Ill Vibe - Busta Rhymes / Q-Tip
41. Gettin Up - Q-Tip
The year was 1994. The setting, summer time in New York City. This comedy / drama takes you on a journey through the main character, Luke Shapiro, who spends his summer before college selling weed throughout New York City. He ends up trading weed for some therapy with his shrink (Ben Kingsley), which honestly was pretty funny, the conversation the two have throughout the movie. Luke also has a crush on his shrinks’ step daughter and his high school classmate, Stephanie. The reason for the film name The Wackness, is because of Luke’s inability to see things positively and just living in the moment, as Stephanie puts it, “Your all about the wackness, while I’m all about the dopeness”. In addition to this coming of age story this film definitely throws you back to the Golden Era of Hip Hop with tracks like: “The What”, “Summertime”, “The World is Yours”, “Can I Kick It?” and a few other tracks that aren’t actually on the soundtrack such as Pharcyde. Check out the trailer above or visit the film’s site here.
Just Blaze drops a mixtape featuring over 50 tracks from the early 90’s. The mix is dope, but there is a bit of talking on it, which I’m not a huge fan of, but hey this is Just Blaze. Features a ton of tracks from artists like Main Source, A Tribe Called Quest, Naughty By Nature, Black Moon, Das Efx, Big L, Mobb Deep and more. Tracklist is after the jump and download link below.
Awwwwwww gyeah. Rock The Bells line-up has been announced for this year. Headlining this year will be A Tribe Called Quest, NAS, Mos Def and a grip of other artists as you can see from the flyer above. I had the pleasure of attending last year’s Rock The Bells in New York with Wu-Tang Clan and Rage Against The Machine being the main headliners and I have to say it was easily one of the best concerts I’ve ever attended. Off course alot of it had to do with the fact that it was in New York and a lot of these artists were killing it on stage for fam and friends. I’m hoping for Santogold, Kid Sister and Dead Prez for the leg of the tour that hits my city. For more info visit www.guerillaunion.com.
This weeks’ Throwback Thursday goes out to A Tribe Called Quest. Dedicated to a co-worker of mine, she brought up all these memories of all the classic joints I grew up listening to and spinning. Growing up I loved the whole Native Tongues crew, which included the likes of the Jungle Brothers, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest and Black Sheep to name a few. Two things when I first copped the Midnight Marauders album: 1. I thought this was one of the illest album covers I had ever seen. Granted I didn’t know all the faces on the cover, but I knew a few to be like “wow” and made me want to find out who everybody on the cover was and 2. All of the songs on this album were classics, in fact this album would stay in constant rotation. First on cassette, then on CD, then on my iPod, now I’m looking to get this on vinyl, as I’m trying to collect all the classics on vinyl.
The joint that I’m featuring today off of this classic album is “Electric Relaxation”, as soon as I heard the opening beats I was hooked and guess what, that opening 30 seconds of this song I use as my ringtone. The way Q-Tip and Phife flipped it back and forth lyrically is just seamless and smooth. The video is classic and simple featuring the three members in and around New York, cruising in a cab, kickin’ it in the streets and chillin’ in the restaurant. Simply timeless unlike these wack videos we usually see nowadays. Refresh your memory on the song and then hit the jump to check out where this was sampled from.
