– 'What Happened?' (Produced By: Shuko)ĥ. Sean Price (of Heltah Skeltah) – 'Credidibility' (Produced By: Shuko)Ĥ. Skyzoo – 'Strung Out' (Produced By: Shuko)ģ. Heltah Skeltah & DJ Dutchmaster - 'Intro' (Produced By: Shuko)Ģ. Golden Age throwback vibe mixtape featuring underground west coast artists such as Blu,J Davey, & Pac DivĬompilation album form German producer Shukoġ. In the meantime I’m posting some of my favorite tracks they’ve dropped over the last year. Still waiting for that Church League Champions to drop. One of my favorite new groups out right now. Nice compilation of tracks she’s been featured on over the years. “……with the funky singing from Miss Vinia Mojica!!!” – ATCQ.
I’ve been vibing to a lot of House Music lately, and this is the perfect group for it. Here’s the album he recorded in 2002 that never came out. Nice blend of dope lyrics and jazzy production.īefore he was ¼ of Slaughter House, Crooked I was supposed to be the savior of Death Row records. Check out his first album too if you haven’t already heard it.Īlbum sampler from the Blaqprint featuring production from Primo.įollow-up to last year’s compilation. New album from Hip Hop purist Donny Goines. Up and coming West Coast emcee who runs with Pac Div, Diz Gibran, etc. This is one of the hottest mixtapes to drop this year. Many a rappers have been covering the classics lately, but not quite like this. Joel Ortiz - Joel Ortiz Covers the Classics Shaun Escoffery Todd Terry's Deep House Editĭe La Soul - Are You In?: Nike + Original RunĪlthough far from their best work. Vstylez Clash of the Titans-Vstylez ft Royce 5 9,Rapper Big Pooh,Elzhi and Phat Kat prod by MoSS Black Thought)īuckshot I Got Cha Opin '09 (Smirnoff Signature Mix) One of the few albums I’ve actually bought this year.Īlso be on the lookout for Royce da 5’9” – The Revival dropping 7/7/09Ĭrooked I & DJ Wicked Jackin' 4 Beats 2009 2, minus the raunchy lyrics.Ĭlassic Jay Dee. A must have! Kinda puts me in the mind of Slum Village’s Fantastic Vol. This is that album that reminds you why you fell in love with Hip Hop in the first place. My catalogue is pretty thorough from ‘87-‘98, but this is working wonders for my old school hip hop collection. If you long for the old Eminem, when he wasn’t using that dumb accent and when his punch lines were actually witty not stupid, check out these mixtapesĢ0 years worth of hip hop with 800+ tracks. Royce delivers a nice appetizer to that Slaughterhouse LP 2 and making it an exciting record for anyone in love with purist hip-hop.It’s about damn time! I’ve been waiting for this to drop for the longest. In the end, no matter how much one hears Jay Dee's squeaky clean production, it never gets old, justifying the hype surrounding Fantastic, Vol. Unfortunately, his sound isn't new anymore, and though many may like the fact that Slum Village doesn't rap about decadent topics, one often finds Eminem's psychosis, Easy-E's promiscuousness, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's odes to bud, and DMX's inner conflicts more entertaining than Slum Village's mundane topics. 2 had hit the streets in the mid to late '90s rather than in 2000, it would have been a landmark album with Jay Dee's signature neo-JB's hip-hop. The problem lies in the fact that Slum Village isn't nearly as interesting as lyricists and their album follows rather than precedes these other groups. One can't help but notice that Slum Village sounds strikingly similar to A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, and Common, which isn't surprising considering the fact that Jay Dee produced all three artists. Gangsta motifs, violence, bling-bling, drugs, misogyny, ice, trash talking, nonsense? These topics are also notably absent here, leaving Jay Dee, T3, and Baatin to rap about less dramatic and more egotistical topics such as their skills. Similar to how his production looks back to a classic retro style of pre- Bernie Worrell funk, Slum Village's lyrics also have more in common with the past than the present. Dre's signature West Coast synth lines, and RZA's hallucinagenic orchestral ambience are nowhere to be found in Jay Dee's production. The synthesizer-based sounds, such as Mannie Fresh's ass-shaking electro beats, Dr.
He specializes in a clean, musical style of hip-hop beats with an emphasis on crisp acoustic percussion and other classic funk sounds. Jay Dee's solid production track record for renowned artists such as Common and Q-Tip garnered the majority of the hype for this Detroit trio's second album. 2 finally reached the public's ears, reinforcing the fact that the group - and particularly producer Jay Dee - planned to continue where A Tribe Called Quest left off. After being talked about and awaited for months, Slum Village's Fantastic, Vol.