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Track of the Day - Median “Rize”
One of my all time favorites, off of Median’s Relief in the Making mixtape, mixed by DJ Low Key and hosted by 9th Wonder. I randomly selected this track for a mix I made for Drew way back and he bumped it so much it hit me how good it really was. What happened to Median? I’m going to have to try to find the Relief LP somewhere and see if it is as good as his mixtape.
For now download this tape via Low Key’s blog.
Track of the Day - Lil Wayne “Reciept”
It’s kinda hard saying this shit to your face,
so I do it over snares and bass,
music take me away
This is the song that made me a Wayne fan. I was late to check out The Carter II, but I remember buying a used copy about 6 months after it came out at Newbury Comics on Cape Cod.
This was a bit before the buzz around Wayne hit true pandemonium with the Drought 3 and Carter 3 bootlegs from The Empire, that made the anticipation for his studio album so big. I remember friends and fellow hip-hop fans making fun of me rocking out to an artist that was down with Cash Money. Eventually those friends came full circle as the buzz grew with songs like “Outstanding” and “I feel like dying” showing up in best of lists for 2007.
Weezy has a big tour and a new rock record set for 2009, but its the Carter II and ‘07 Lil Wayne that showed this young talent in his prime. Lets hope it wasn’t a peak.
Track of the Day - Tiron ft. Ayomari “Sydney”
Off of the free mixtape, Ketchup (download here). I’ve been a fan of this artist since he first came across on 2DopeBoyz over a year ago. The mixtape features a number of standout tracks, another personal favorite is the joint “Quitter.”
This song has a fun loving melody and hook to what is sort of an all too familiar and depressing topic of ‘the friend zone.’ Its a topic that has been covered by many artists and also by another favorite MC, 88-Keys. How is it that these songs always show up on random at the right time?
Nontheless, a great song, and if you can relate, bump it.
Track of the Day - Mos Def “Say You Will” (live cover)
Work today was filled with too much work and the itunes on shuffle. No time to download anything new, but in the process I remembered a few favorites. For todays track I’ve taken a Mos Def live recording from The Blue Note in New York from January 2009, and one I added to a Play Count list earlier this year.
The live performance brings something special to the song, feeding in more emotion than the polished studio/auto-tune version from Kanye. Mos adds in verses from a track “U R The one” and with an extended instrumental mix, this track lasts for a melodic 12 minutes.
After listening to this it reminded me of some other Mos Def live track I had and after sifting through my itunes I decided to take 7 rare and/or live Mos tracks and share them here. In todays maxi-track of the day:
01. “Say You Will” (live cover)
.02. “Jay Electronica” (live tribute)
Recorded from a live show at Carnegie Hall in June of 2008. I had a chance to see Jay open for the Mighty Mos at Nokia Theatre back in March of ‘08, and since then, I’ve heard very little from Jay. I can’t believe that show was over a year ago.
.03 “Auditorium” (live)
Easily my favorite track off the new Ecstatic album. This is a live Slick Rick-less version recorded at Kennedy Center in Washinton D.C. back in September of 08.
.04 Kanye West - “Good Night” (Plain Pat Remix)
.05 J Dilla - “Saturday Night” (remix ft. Brand New Heavies & Mos Def)
Off of the Jay Dee - The Delicious Vinyl Years
.06 Omer Saar - Travelin’ man (ft. Mos Def & Money Green)
.07. Mos Def freestyle
From an old rip posted up by Cipha Sounds on his blog back in 08.
Track of the Day - Kanye West “My Way”
An old favorite, featured on Kanye’s The Essentials mixtape. This mix came out right before The College Dropout and is still one I overplay. “My Way” features the original Kanye soul sample sound, and personally, I like it more than Jay-z’s “My Way” from the Blueprint 2.
The mixtape documents the begging of what has turned into one of the biggest Pop Stars of today. Other highlights include the original version of “Self Conscious” with the Lauren Hill, “Wanna Ride” ft Common and Ye’s remix of Dwele’s “Hold On.”
For any fans out there, I’ve zipped up the mixtape. Download here.
Check out a previous mixtape post from the same era:
Track of the Day - Blu & Exile “Dancing in the Rain”
Don’t nobody want to dance slow in the rain, just more your ass
If you’re heading out tonight. Rock out with some Blu.
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Track of Day - Sharam ‘She came along’ feat. Kid Cudi
I’ve been gone for a while, my apologies.
Its been a hellish couple weeks, but there have been a few great songs that have helped me grind through the work. With new music recently out from Em, Cudi, Blu, Asher and more it was difficult to pick a track to throw up out of the 20 or so I’ve had on a fairly constant loop the last week +.
It was truly a coin toss between this and Cudi’s latest posse cut ‘Poke her face’ ft the G.O.O.D. music fam, but there is something about the baseline in this track that keeps it stuck in my mind for the entire work day. As more from this artist is released and he begins to build up his press out reach the more anticipation I have for his debut album. Don’t miss out on this one.
Download: She came along (bonus Poke her face)
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Q-Tip ‘We Fight, We Love’ remix ft. Kanye West and Consequence
Track of the Day - Q-Tip ‘We Fight, We Love’ remix
ft. Kanye West and Consequence
Just a feel good track for your Wednesday afternoon. I’m expecting a lot from the Cons album featuring major heavy lifting from Ye and Tip handling the production. Hip-hop often strives on collaboration, and its clear how much Kanye has been inspired by both in his production (tip) and flow (cons). ‘09 might be the year Kanye comes back to being an MC.
See previous TOD’s:
GLC ‘Flight School’ ft Kanye West and T-Pain
Q-tip “Renaissance Rap (remix)”
Consequence “Getting out the game” (ft. Kanye West)
Download ‘We Fight, We Love’ (via Nahright)
Track of the Day - GLC ‘Flight School’ ft Kanye West and T-Pain
This leaked out weeks ago, and in its final version last week. I know that there are reasons to hate on autotune, but yeah, I’m really enjoying the way it adds to the melody here. I’ve been critical of some of Kanye’s recent outside production, but the work hes put together for GLC has been so far so G.O.O.D. with this and Big Screen.
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