Tracklist: A1 It's A Party (LP Version) (4:38) A2 It's A Party (AllStar Remix) (4:10) A3 It's A Party (The Ummah Remix) (4:17) A4 It's A Party (LP Version Instrumental) (4:40) A5 It's A Party (AllStar Remix Instrumental) (4:32) A6 It's A Party (AllStar Remix Acapella) (4:03) B1 Ill Vibe (LP Version) (3:40) B2 Ill Vibe (The Ummah Remix) (3:38) B3 Ill Vibe (LP Version Instrumental) (3:41) B4 It's A Party (The Ummah Remix Instrumental) (4:17) B5 Ill Vibe (LP Version Acapella) (3:05) download
Tha Alkaholiks - The Next Level
Tracklist: A1 The Next Level (LP Version) (4:44) A2 The Next Level (Remix) (4:22) Remix - E-Swift A3 The Next Level (Radio Edit LP Version) (3:53) B1 The Next Level (Instrumental Remix) (4:22) Remix - E-Swift B2 The Next Level (Instrumental LP Version) (4:44) B3 The Next Level (Acappella) (3:53) download
Jersey of the Day Bo Jackson Kansas City Royals $80 + shipping Size 54
Tracklist: 1 Droppin' Em (4:22) 2 Smokin' Dopin' (3:31) 3 Fast Peg (1:38) Co-producer - Bryan Philpot 4 Clap Your Hands (5:07) Guitar - Billy "Spaceman" Patterson 5 Nitro (4:43) Co-producer - Eric Sadler , Hank Shocklee 6 You're My Heart (4:42) 7 I'm That Type Of Guy (5:16) 8 Why Do You Think They Call It Dope? (3:49) 9 Going Back To Cali (4:09) Producer - Rick Rubin 10 It Gets No Rougher (5:16) Co-producer - Eric Sadler , Hank Shocklee , Keith Shocklee 11 Big Ole Butt (4:34) 12 One Shot At Love (4:18) Keyboards - David Tobocman 13 1-900 LL Cool J (3:01) 14 Two Different Worlds (5:19) Vocals - Cydne Monet 15 Jealous (3:54) 16 Jingling Baby (4:15) 17 Def Jam In The Motherland (4:35) 18 Change Your Ways (3:20) download
Mobb Deep - Temperature's Rising / Give Up The Goods (Just Step)
Tracklist: A1 Give Up The Goods (Just Step) Featuring - Big Noyd
A2 Give Up The Goods (Just Step) (Instrumental)
B1 Temperature's Rising (Remix) Vocals - Crystal Johnson
B2 Temperature's Rising (LP Version) Vocals - Crystal Johnson download
Termanology - Hood Politics Vol. II
Tracklist: 1. Let's Go - Intro 2. 4 My Niggaz Locked Down 3. Rear View Mirror 4. Doin' My Job feat. Snuk 5. The War's On 6. Ain't Fuckin' w/ This feat. Prospect (of Terror Squad) 7. How We Live feat. Nas 8. 22 Years 9. Real Recognize Real feat. Qash 10. This Is Hip Hop 11. Book Of Rhymes 12. Holla Back feat. Ghetto 13. They Don't Know feat. Dylan, Clip 14. If I Could Change feat. Twan Hill 15. Let's Get Down 16. Love To You feat. Stali, Clip 17. Still In Effect feat. Ed Rock 18. What Do You Believe In? (Remix) feat. Xzibit 19. Out Da Gate feat. ST. Da Squad 20. Outro download
And now I present you with Billy Mitchell: Video Game Player of the CENTURY
I clock in soon as I step on the stage I get paid when my record is played. -Brother Ali
My homey Medium Seen recently did a write up on Brother Ali when he came to Calgary. The show was most DEFINITELY off the hook. Ali ripped it and had everybody feeling his struggle. Blueprint was in attendance and put in work. I mostly witnessed him at the bar abusing his open bar tab. He was giving a lot of props to Jaegermeister and walking around like a regular joe. My crew chatted with him for a bit and all I can say is that cat is real down to earth. I was kinda disappointed he didn't have more wax at the merch table but what can you do? I have a CD EP he did called Vitamins and Minerals which I'll rip once I get a chance to peep it. I was mostly mesmerized by the presence of Ali though. It's not everyday you get to stand and rap with a dude that is so gifted at expressing himself with spoken word as well as writing. I gave him a jersey and thanked him for penning 'Forest Whittaker' and having the courage to put his life on display. He was real real humble and said he remembered meeting me in Seoul and signing my t-shirt. As you can imagine I was shocked he remembered me and signing my t-shirt. I can only say I'd like to get to know duke better. Anyways here's the article.
BROTHER ALI the Urban Norman Rockwell spreads blood on beats by Sean P. Young
On the RJD2 track “Final Frontier” Brother Ali’s label mate and fellow veteran underground trench-digger Blueprint suggested that tone-deaf soundmen always worked his gigs, causing “the ass end” of his artform to become exposed.
Like those soundmen, many blogophiles distorted Ali’s importance to this millennium’s resurgence of authentic hip hop by focusing on all the wrong cadences, leaving the “white-rapper” stigma looming near Ali’s potential legacy. For years after his already classic 2003 gem Shadows on the Sun, those confused about Ali’s racial background argued if the albino rapper’s birth parents were black or white.
Finally, in March of 2007 Ali crushed the short-toothed debate, spilling his views about the matter with “Daylight” from his latest album The Undisputed Truth. “They ask me if I’m black or white? I said neither, race is a made up thing, I don’t believe in it.” With the dropping of those two crafty lines, the message board kids were given something new to ponder in their cyber caves of solitude and the fans interested in Brother Ali’s talent were once again free to listen attentively.
“The ones who really listen close to my music tell me about their personal things and how the music relates to their lives, and that’s really important to me,” Ali explains. He affirms that the Undisputed Truth title which Rhymesayers co-owner Sean “Slug” Daly had inked on his neck is meant to indicate Ali's personal experiences learning the nature of self-veracity.
“I’m not trying to educate you or lead you into believing anything in particular, these are just my feelings about certain situations,” he says.
Combining stop and rock on a dime flow, top notch historical knowledge, and production from self-taught virtuoso Ant, it’s hard not to take Ali’s political views as proclamation. The tracks “Uncle Sam God Damn” and “Letter From The Government” are introspective tales concerning forgotten American history and the frustration towards the system felt by the underclassed, respectively.
But again, Ali explains that he has no aspirations to be anybody’s ideological messiah. “I’m not presenting myself as a leader or as a revolutionary," he says. "I don’t think that’s my role.”
The Undisputed Truth undeniably has the far-reaching capabilities to put Ali and Rhymesayers Entertainment on hip hop’s mainstage, and this may be why they decided to test Warner’s channels of distribution with Ali’s second full-length LP.
“With Warner we really have a lot of options,” Ali says. “Some of the smaller cities we play don’t have independent music shops, but now kids in those places can get my album at Target or Best Buy for about ten dollars.”
Ali, already the people’s champion for his ability to convert crowds of skeptics in seconds with his live act, seems to be chasing down his dream of being the best with a spear-gun. The positive critical and public responses to the “Urban Norman Rockwell” and his Undisputed Truth demonstrate that the dark-ages of hip hop must be coming to a close.
Who: Brother Ali When: October 6th (The Underground, Calgary)
Blueprint - 1988
Tracklist: 01 Intro (0:27) 02 Anything Is Possible (1:30) 03 1988 (3:03) 04 Inner City Native Son (3:24) 05 Tramp (4:45) 06 Boom Box (5:18) 07 Trouble On My Mind (3:39) 08 Lo-Fi Funk (3:31) Featuring - Aesop Rock 09 Big Girls Need Love Too (4:02) 10 Fresh (2:44) 11 Where's Your Girl At? (3:03) 12 Kill Me First (5:01) Featuring - CJ The Cynic 13 Liberated (5:05)
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DJ Mark Farina - Mushroom Jazz 4
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