MIXTAPE: Pop Booties. Not Molly. Vol. 1.

Listen to the mixtape and dance like Yeezus

So in between mixtapes, TakAttack is the only person who demands more mixtapes. Everyone owes that guy a thank you card because I just put together a two hour mix for all of your outdoor activities this summer. ALL OF THEM. What I've created is a starting place for your guys' mixtapes. Take off and add what you like. Don't look at the tracklist below as a guideline for the tracklist order. It's just there so you know what I put on here. These songs are a sample of what I would spin if I had to DJ a party. What a crazy idea... me... DJing... The mixtape I put together has a mix of new, old, freestyles over familiar beats, remixes, and just feel good tunes. Now fire up that grill!

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MIXTAPE: BLAU VOL.1

Since I haven't put out one of these suckers out in a while, I decided to go way back through the archives of my iTunes and dig up some gems. There's old shit! There's new shit! And as you can tell by now, the theme I blessed this mixtape was "hard hitting." Whether it's the beat, the lyrics, or what the song is about, these tracks will leave you with a black eye. Use this playlist to work out, rob people, lead rebellions, play CoD, or watch Monday Night Raw. Just make sure to get hype mofo!
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1. Pharoah Monch - Simon Says: According to folklore, whenever this song came onto the speakers in a club, mad fights broke out. No kidding... 2. Flux Pavilion ft. Sway, P Money - Double Edge: Some dubstep for you fiends. I dig the further blending of genres these days though. 3. X-Ecutioners ft. M.O.P. - Let It Bang: One of the loudest emcees on the mic join some of the nastiest DJ's in Hip Hop. 4. Wu-Block - Stick Up Kids: This track flips a classic sample and adds some of the grimiest emcees your favorite rappers love. 5. Garcia ft. N.O.R.E. - 2 Gun Salute: Now known as P.A.P.I., N.O.R.E. joins Garcia (Winner of the Most Boring Rapper Name Ever), jumps on the most hype beat I've heard in ever. Seriously, this beat is dangerous. 6. Liva - Re-Up Gang Motivation: Remember the Re-Up Gang? Man, that group was awesome. 7. Dope Boy Esko ft. ill Camille - D.G.K.: I'm sure all of my white, suburban friends can relate. 8. Reek da Villain ft. Busta Rhymes, Lloyd Banks - Get Away Car Driving: These rhymes are pretty tough. 9. Slum Village ft. Rapper Big Pooh, Joe Scudda, T3 - Riot: I hate how much Slum Village isn't given shine on radio and mainstream media. These guys are so legit. 10. Dope Boy Esko ft. Kendrick Lamar, Scoe - Murda: Had to throw another Esko track on here because of the perfect West Coast gangbangin' beat. 11. Dag Savage - Twilight: I'll listen to almost anything Exile produces. Johaz holds it down on the mic. 12. The Underachievers - New New York: Part of the Beast Coast Movement, this duo is gonna be around for a while. Check out their new mixtape, Indigoism.  13. Raz Fresco & Chill Will - salmonILLA: Man, the Bakers Club's beats are a perfect homage to the Golden Era. And these guys make rapping about looking fly cooler than actually looking fly. 14. Chill Moody - Suicide Barz II: Kick it in the clutch music. 15. Bad Religion - Fuck You: Sometimes you gotta just say "Fuck You." 16. Timeless Truth ft. Sean Price - True Grit: RAW 17. Yahweh - Expensive $hit: Shout out to Andreas for showing me this group. Chitown, represent.  18. Paul Banks ft. High Prizm - Trace: So Paul Banks of Interpol made an instrumental/Hip Hop mixtape and called it Everybody On My Dick Like They Supposed To Be. Some of it is weird and some of it is dope. I'm just honestly confused as to who is on his dick, besides maybe his girlfriend. Or boyfriend. I don't know him like that. 19. Small Professor ft. Elzhi - A Remix I Did Of Deep By Elzhi: Elzhi has sick flows and this beat is bananas. Yes, the fruit. 20. Troy Ave ft. Pusha-T - Concrete Jungle: Token drug dealer track. 21. Reks ft. Kali, JFK, Termanology - Such A Showoff: It's like a punch in the throat from a velvet gloved fist. 22. Hollywood Holt ft. Million $ Mano - Tonite's Da Night Freestyle: Oooh, just wait until they get serious over this beat.

MIXTAPE: UNIT ANTHEMS

This one is a long time coming. From the day inhabitants of the Unit and its associates graduated, we've been talking about putting this together. Well, now that the universe is going to end (not really, guys), I guess it's time to put it out to finally close out my bucket list. Damn, I never got to drive that tank...

I'm not gonna include a tracklist because honestly, I'm lazy. There are about 4 hours of music in this one. Plus, if you don't know some of the songs, no offense, but this mixtape isn't for you. Every song on here has a story behind it (any Doors song), was played way too many times at Unit parties ("Marco Polo"), or sums up something about the time I spent there ("Fat Spliffs"). You may not have noticed it but I definitely played all of these songs at some point on my blown out speakers. You were probably just too fucked up to remember. Or maybe that one song you can't figure out why it's on there, is there because we were playing it on our shitty stereo in the kitchen while cleaning the mountains of dishes as a family/cooking Taco Tuesdays.

Yeah, there's a lot of Lil Wayne on here. Yeah, he used to be good at rapping. And yeah, that's an edited interview of Rick Ross on there that you probably heard us reference all the time. It's hilarious.

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Much love from the Unit and never take your shoes off inside.

MIXTAPE: Dope Crisis Vol.2

I'm pretty sure this is the first sequel to a mixtape I put out a while ago... Regardless, it feels like I haven't put a mixtape out of just shit I've been listening to on my iPod. Maybe I'll even put out a themed mixtape before the year is out. But don't hold your breathe. I'm also open to suggestions for mixtapes.

Disclaimer: Preserve the original tracklist order for best results.

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1. ig'nant II - kami de chukwu: i had to make this the opener with a beat like that. chicago hip hop is so consistent with their core of young emcees.
2. lawd knows - athletic mic league: michigan hip hop group. diggin the choppy flow on this one.
3. the prolog - derek wise: this one is grand like james bond grand. could be the bonus track on the skyfall OST.
4. gone - MHz ft. copywrite + tage future: see if you can catch up with the flow
5. they can't come - p.o.s. ft. sims: minnesota emcee from doomtree. kinda underground as in you've probably never heard of him.
6. even louder - danny! ft. tanya morgan + swizz beatz: danny! is back and better than ever
7. the gordeon knock - typical cats: this chicago group is one of the funkiest. more upbeat than a tribe called quest but very similar in tastes
8. here we go - statik selektah, slaine, wais p, jaysaun: big band horns.
9. world famous - styles of beyond: i could definitely see most people not liking sob because of their rawness. but i'm sure anyone would be down to drink with these guys.
10. pull the plug - statik selektah, jfk, jon connor: jon connor. it's a given.
11. how we do it - jr + ph7 ft. kvbeats + slum village: WILLIE BEATS REALLY DIGS THIS. OFFICIAL COSIGN SON.
12. what you want - audio push: this guy's flow just pulls me in. pause.
13. our time - xv + the squarians: this mixtape wasn't that bad. xv is picking up steam.
14. kidz with gunz - skeme ft. schoolboy q: some hood shit you can ride or die to
15. midnight sprite - riff raff + trapzillas: the genius, in his own right, that is jody highroller and a dope beat courtesy of trapzillas.
16. rivers of blood - the wu-tang clan ft. kool g rap: i can't tell you how much this album and movie met and exceeded my expectations. amazing.
17. don't harsh my mellow - kids these days: this group is gonna be around for a while. pushing hip hop boundaries and doing it well.
18. 1991 (bklyn-hrlm remix) - melo-x ft. azealia banks: melo continues his successful remixing streak and adds some verses to it.

MIXTAPE: THE FIX VOL.1: MONDAY MORNING EDITION

This 13 year old kid bought Grey Goose off eBay. This kid got his fix.

This one is long overdue. I've been working too damn hard at The Source and haven't been able to put a mixtape out in a while. Here's a small one that should help everyone get through the week. Oh, and  it's O-Week. So that means it's an excuse to show up to work shitty this whole week for everyone!

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1. bare knuckle - kid gloves: they make some of the funkiest music of this century. i hope they keep making music.
2. the night out (a-trak & clinton sparks remix) - martin solveig ft. ludacris: a-trak and clinton sparks. what more do you need. ludacris? SURE.
3. absolutely - donnis, iamsu, jay ant: donnis is really good at making hype tracks. case in point.
4. clique - kanye west, big sean, jay-z: one of the stronger tracks off of cruel summer. and it bangs btw.
5. rnr - will brennan: watch out for this kid.
6. the horns - avious: datpiff hidden gem. he can spit.
7. fist of fury - jon connor, papoose, fred the godson, mysonne, sheek louch: off of dj kay slay's mixtape. who listens to those huge dj mixtapes anyway? ...besides me.
8. i'm crazy - st. millie ft. rich tha second: chicago representer.
9. excelsior - the niceguys: i've been saying it for years-these guys are nice. the production on the whole james kelley album is dope.
10. guitar wonderlust - griffen, vic spencer, fat boi: the antierthang crew from chicago.
11. break ya neck freestyle - wrekonize: wrek continues his rampage over other people's beats.
12. big bank - threat, sir jay are, roc: another datpiff hidden gem.
13. 50k - ferrari boyz (gucci + waka): yeah it's hood trap gangsta ignance. so what.
14. we are not good people - bloc party: bloc party dropped off a pretty solid album recently. here's a cut off of it.
15. precautionary measures - illogic, blockhead: simple. efficient.
16. 4th king - brother ali: i think he had the best verse on this beat. maybe tied with hov.
17. simon says (etc!etc! & brillz bootleg remix) - pharoahe monch: GET THE FUCK UP.

UPGRADE

For anyone who has been following this excuse for a blog, I guess I owe you an apology for the lack of posts as of late and an explanation. I recently started an editorial internship at The Source. I've been dedicated a lot of time to that so I won't be able to keep up with this site as much. I'm still reviewing albums at Audiocred. And I just had a post I wrote featured on the front page of The Source. So basically I'll mainly be using this blog for updating people on mixtapes I put together, which is for like five people. Well, thanks to you guys! And fuck the rest!

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The creativity in beer commercials are great. Car chases are great. Put them together and you have the ad above for Carlton Draught. Never had it but it makes me want a pint. Well done.