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
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.
Brooklyn is home to many talented musicians. Name a genre and the BK got it covered. Biggie, The Rapture, In Flagranti, Hercules & Love Affair… The list can go on, but let’s focus on today’s Throwback musical outfit. I discovered Dr. Buzzard’s Old Savannah Band from listening to Dj Neil Armstrong’s “Original” mixtape cd over at Reed Space a few years back. Original is crack and so is the single, Cherchez La Femme. The band may have only seen three years of success before going their separate ways. But watch the video and see why they’ve been sampled by the likes of De La Soul, Doug E. Fresh and Ghostface Killah.
LiveNation, Gman and Rizk and Spectrum Presents De La Soul on Friday April 18th at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver.
From Gman and Rizk’s website is this:
“The original practitioners of Daisy Age hip-hop are back. In fact, De La Soul never left. The indie trio first splashed onto the scene with 3 Feet High and Rising, a 1989 masterpiece that introduced the Amityville, New York group’s style of eclectic sampling, quirky, surreal lyrics and pop melodies to the world. The record yielded the hit “Me, Myself and I” and, as a measure of its crossover appeal, 3 Feet High and Rising was named by British rock mag NME as disc Album of the Year. The group’s second effort, De La Soul is Dead, was a more mature effort that dropped some of the debut’s lightness, but still managed an absurd sense of humour. The disc, which included singles like “Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey)”, has become a cult classic—Score listed it as one of its top 100 hip hop albums of all time. Critically acclaimed follow-up releases like Buhloone Mindstate, Stakes is High, Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump, and The Grind Date have revealed a trio never afraid to try new things, and have kept De La Soul’s following on their toes.
The Grammy Award-winning group’s most recent release, The Impossible Mission, includes new tracks, freestyles and never-before released songs from the vaults of the group’s earliest releases. Their contribution to the evolution of the jazz rap subgenre is unassailable, and the band has influenced countless acts, including Black Eyed Peas, Digable Planets and many more.”
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.
