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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 - 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 - Ghostface “Holla”
Off of Ghost’s 2004 album, The Pretty Tony Album.
Last night I uploaded this album to my itunes along with a few other choice classics (in my eyes). I added the Lox first album Money, Power & Respect, Dwele’s Subject, Zo & Tigallo Sing the 80’s! and 9th Wonders take on the Black Album, Black is Back.
None of thee would be major albums, but to me they are classics. Besides the more recent 80’s album, the others were all albums I bumped consistently in my Jeep back in college. The forced listening of what ever albums I had on hand made certain ones favorites out of repeat play, and nothing beats physically owning a record. I love having so much digital music, but as I was flipping through one of my large CD binders, holding almost 300 hip-hop albums from 1997-2004, I was walking back through my past with each page turn. 8 Jay-z albums, all pre Kingdom Come, on 2 pages? Awesome. Something about it sure beats scrolling through itunes.
I figured I should pick a TOD that matches up so I went with a very meta track, produced by Ghost himself. On the track the ‘production’ is minimal, if Ghost did anything at all, rapping directly over the original track. Its one of two track on Pretty Tony Ghost built himself, the other “Save Me Dear” is a faster tempo, but has the exact same appeal with its simplicty.
I’ve zipped the two together for your downloading enjoyment, but really, go buy the album for 99 cents in a bin somewhere.
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