Another joint from one of the "newly" found external hard-drives; King Sun`s "Mr. Policeman" produced by Jazzy Jay. This song was originally recorded for the "Who`s The Man?" soundtrack back in 1993, but ended up going unreleased instead. The reason? Who knows really, but I can only guess that it was probably due to all the "Cop Killer" music controversy that was taking place at the time. The label releasing the soundtrack probably didn`t want to get caught up in all the backlash. So in an effort to skip the headache they just simply chose to omit the song altogether, but that`s just my lil` theory on it. BiG uPs must go out to Nobs, the one who originally shared this tape with the masses! Much appreciated BiG homie!! With this tape rip you get the song & instrumental, obviously due to the source the sound quality is far from HD. It is what it is though, I`d rather have the chance to hear the song than not at all. So check it out & enjoy...
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh man, lost but newly found external hard-drives are truly a treasure to discover again.....LoL, long story short I just recently found a few boxes with some external hard-drives that I thought were looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong lost! Unfortunately there are some that don`t seem to be workin` at the moment, but I have found a few that contained some joints worth sharing. So before the rest of these drives die here`s the first joint that I figured was worthy of a share. I`m not sure exactly what the story is behind this album & why the project went 'unreleased' but either way here y`all go for your listening pleasure...
From what I can tell this project was originally set for a 1996 release thru All City Records, but for whatever reasons it wasn`t released commercially. Only promo CDs, cassettes & vinyl exist from what I can see during my online searches. I can`t remember where I actually got this file from, but it`s definitely not my CD rip, unfortunately it is only in 192. I however did boost the volume on everyone of these tracks because they were crazy low!! It`s truly a shame, at least to my ears because there are quite a few joints that folks out there need to hear especially from kats like Steve Def, Kool Kaz & Noggin Nodders! The King Tech remixes of D`Angelo`s "Dreamin` Eyes Of Mine", "Shit, Damn, Motherfucker" & "Brown Sugar" are pretty solid. Chino XL gets his shine on with his three features, but my favorite is "Rappaz Are In Danger". Gotta love how he tears apart his former Art Of Origin rhymin` partner! The "Wake Up Show Anthem" is pretty DoPe for what it is collabo`~wise & definitely deserves it`s spot in the Hip Hop Archives. However what really stands out to me on this comp` is the songs from the lesser~known artists like Steve Def, Kool Kaz, Noggin Nodders & The BUMS. Check it out & enjoy...
Been on a little bit of a nostalgic trip lately, checkin` out plenty of early `90's mixtapes & well this joint just happen to stand out amongst the ones that I had been listening to. The mixtape in question coomes from DJ Cocoa Chanelle titled "The Best Kept Secret". Honestly I wasn`t familiar with any of her work prior to this mixtape, but I truly enjoyed this one! Her selection of music, mixin` skills, as well as the 'Cocoa Mix' blends are all on point here! If you`re a fan of `90's Hip Hop & R&B I`m sure you won`t be disappointed. I grabbed the original files from DJ Step One`s blog so BiG uPs must go out to him! I simply boosted up the volume on a few of the tracks & separated the Side A & Side B files into individual tracks for easier listening. The original files are also included for those that care about that type of thing, enjoy...
Side A: 1. Intro {ft. Hurricane G}
2. Freestyle {KRS-One & Redman}
3. Never Seen Before b/w 10 Crack Commandments [Cocoa Mix] {EPMD}
4. Off The Books {Beatnuts}
5. Zhane b/w Off The Books & Ill Nana [Cocoa Mix]
6. Reach [Exclusive] {Mobb Deep}
7. Flipmode Squad [New] {Rampage}
8. Leschea b/w KRS-One [Cocoa Mix]
9. Put Your Hands Where Your Eyes Can See {Busta Rhymes}
10. Next Level b/w Tragedy - True Confessions [Cocoa Mix]
11. 1-2 Many [New] {Common Sense}
12. Victory {Puff Daddy}
13. Jagged Edge b/w Organized Konfusion [Cocoa Mix]
14. Legal Money [New] {Shaq ft. Mobb Deep}
15. Give It Up Baby [New] {Tracey Lee}
Side B: 1. Minnie The Moocher [Exclusive] {Ol` Dirty Bastard}
2. Love Is All We Need b/w Heavy D [Cocoa Mix] {Mary J. Blige}
3. Illa Noyz {Boot Camp}
4. SWV b/w Capone-N-Noreaga [Cocoa Mix]
5. Bubblin` [New] {CRU}
6. Mary J. Blige b/w Mobb Deep [Cocoa Mix]
7. Hoodlum {Mobb Deep ft. Rakim}
8. It`s On You {2 Individuals}
9. Likwidation [New] {Alkaholiks}
10. It`s Been A Long Time [New] {Rakim}
11. Some [New] {De La Soul}
12. I`m Not A Player [Exclusive] {Big Punisher}
13. Nobody Cares [New] {New Child}
14. Blackstreet b/w New Child [Cocoa Mix]
15. Soul In The Hole [Exclusive] {Wu All-Stars}
What`s good? What`s happenin`?? What`s lovely my people??? It`s been a good minute since I`ve posted up something, I do apologize but I blame Life....LoL anyways yo what I have for y`all is something that I`m almost certain you`ll enjoy. Was it worth the wait? Perhaps, it all depends on yourself really. I`m going to take things back to a time when record labels would actually use promo/advance copies of an album to do just that PROMOTE the album. It was an interesting time indeed if you were a Hip Hop fan because you`d end up with some slight differences between the advance & retail versions of the album. Whether it was track sequencing, song title changes, sample clearance issues resulting in a slight change in the beat of a song, tracks not appearing at all or albums getting shelved for whatever industry issue. So there`s always a reason to peep an advanced copy of an album, especially if it`s from the 1990`s or early 2000`s...
With that being said I`m going to take things back to the year 2000 when Cam`Ron was set to drop his second album "Sex, Drugs & Entertainment" ("S.D.E." for y`all abbreviating mu` fuckas) with the Epic record label. At the time online peer-to-peer file sharing (Napster, Limewire, etc.) was probably at it`s highest, so labels were really pushing 'advance/promo' copies of their releases. Now perhaps I may be giving records labels more credit than they deserve, but I think that one way labels still kept an interest in their releases was to create these 'advanced versions' that were intentionally different than the retail versions, then again that`s my 2021 view on it. I mean that`s what I would have done! Think about it, even if folks get a hold of & download the promo~advance it`s not the retail. Sure, they could just eventually DL the the retail as well but it`s still an extra step they`d need to take & not everyone is computer/online savvy so it`ll lead to sales regardless because people are lazy...
So back to Cam`Ron`s "Sex, Drugs & Entertainment" album.......this isn`t it. Nope what I`ve got to share with y`all is the Advanced version of said album. Yup, it`s nothing like the retail. Sure some songs are the same but honestly like my homie BaZooKa KooPa said to me, "Dogg, this shit is just flowin` fluid like your Rum & Coke in a straw....Ha~HaH, the album`s OK, but this shit right here homie, this shit right here should`ve been the album!" Ya know what? I TOTALLY concur with ol` BaZ` Ko` because honestly it is just that, more connective with the tracks & even the skits/interludes. Someone deserves credit fo` sho` because they did Cam` some justice with this version without question. I dug it so much I decided to give it an HeRBaN DeLuXe VeRSioN touch & that`s what y`all are getting right here...
First off BiG~uP kingsol81 for hookin` me up with the original Advance copy after I searched for it & came up shorter than my patience in the DMV line on a Monday morning, much appreciated homie! After listening to it I had to of course compare it to the retail, you know for research purposes & even tho some of the songs & skits are the same I still feel that the track~sequencing of the Advance Copy is waaaaay better than the retail! So much more fluid like I mentioned before. I`ll definitely take "I Don`t Like You" (the Charli Baltimore collabo`), the "Bitches Ain`t Shit" flip (featuring McGruff, Jim Jones, Juelz Santana & Keema),"When A Nigga`s Fed Up" & "Gimme Some Head" featuring Keema over the Honey collabo` "That`s Me", "Freak", "All The Chickens" & "What Means The World To You" featuring Keema...which is basically just a PG-13 toned down "Gimme Some Head"...
Although I really DiG the Advance Copy of "Sex, Drugs & Entertainment" I did find that it was just a bit low on the volume side of things on a lot of the tracks, so I had to BuMP them uP a bit. While I was editing the volume of some of the tracks I also decided to split the skits into their own tracks, simply for easier listening purposes. Sometimes ya just want to get to the music & skits get in the way. There was also a few tracks that had skips & pops/clicks in them so I did my best to try & edit them out. It started on track 20, 21 & 25. In fact, "Why No" was skipping so much so in the beginning that I had to cut it out & mix in the version from the retail album because I just wasn`t trying to spend the time editing every single one of the skips because there was too many for me to bother dealing with. I wanted to keep things as O.G. as possible so I didn`t just switch up all the tracks that were the same as on the retail album because it would take away from the 'digital griminess' of the Advance. So all I`ve done when puttin` my touch on this HeRBaN DeLuXe VeRSioN was BuMP uP the volume on the tracks, split the skits into their own individual tracks & try to edit out some pops, clicks & skips from a few tracks, as well as add 2 joints to the end that just had to be on here; "Hustler" & "Too Late"...
Standout joints for me are; "Do It Again" somethin` about that hook had me reciting it hours after listening....LoL, "Still High Till We Die (Come Kill Me)" is probably my fav` joint on here, "I Don`t Like You" I dig how Cam` & Charli go back & forth on here they have some solid chemistry on this song, "Let Me Know", "Double Up", "Losin` Weight" is a solid collabo` with Prodigy, "Bitches Ain`t Shit" is a decent Easy Coast flip of Dr. Dre classic tune of the same name, "Gimme Some Head" featuring Keema is a solid joint & should`ve been on the retail version of the album with "What Means The World To You?" being used as it`s radio version instead but hey that`s just me. While I`m speaking about Keema, does anyone have any more info` on her? "S.D.E. (Sports, Drugs & Entertainment)" is great, listeners will dig the Biggie & Jay-Z samples used. Finally we get to "Hustler" & "Too Late" which both should have been on the retail album. So there ya have it, check it out & enjoy...
1. Fuck You [Intro]
2. Whatever
3. Do It Again {ft. Jim Jones & Destiny`s Child}
4. Phone Sex [Skit]
5. Where You At? {ft. Noreaga}
6. What Up Wit` Ma$e? [Skit] 7. Still High Till We Die (Come Kill Me)
8. What I Gotta Live For?
9. Violence {ft. Ol` Dirty Bastard}
10. Phone Call [Skit]
11. I Don`t Like You {ft. Charli Baltimore}
12. Let Me Know
13. Money Talks [Skit]
14. My Hood
15. Double Up {ft. Juelz Santana}
16. Where`s That Money At B? [Skit]
17. Losin` Weight {ft. Prodigy}
18. Can I Get Some Pussy? [Skit] 19. Bitches Ain`t Shit {ft. McGruff, Jim Jones, Juelz Santana & Keema}
20. Bitches, Hoes & Chicken~heads [Skit]
21. When A Nigga`s Fed Up
22. Call Them Bitches [Skit] 23. Gimme Some Head {ft. Keema}
24. Why? [Skit]
25. Why No {ft. Jim Jones & Freeky Zeeky} 26. S.D.E. (Sports, Drugs & Entertainment)
27. Where I`m From {ft. Dutch & Spade}
What`s lovely my peoples? Hope Life`s treating ya fairly! Today we`re gon` take it back to 1995 & dust off a 12 inch single released thru Wreck Records by New York`s infamous DJ Funkmaster Flex & The Ghetto Celebs called "Nuttin` But Flavor". I`m not truly sure exactly who the 'Ghetto Celebs' are, but I`m just guessin` that it probably just consisted of whoever was featured on a Funkmaster record at the time of release. For any Hip Hop head this right here is a gem of a single for many reasons, but I`ll just state 2 of `em right now `cuz that`s all that`s needed! First off; you get to hear some early work from 3 great emcees who are no longer here BLeSS`n us with music right now; Ol` Dirty Bastard, Biggie & Craig Mack! So GoD BLeSS the dead, R.I.P.!!! You get to hear why Hip Hop truly loves Ol` Dirty`s standout style on "Nuttin` But Flavor". In my humble opinion he outshines both Charlie Brown & Biz Markie on the track, no DiSReSPeCT....but that`s just how I hear it! Secondly; the B-Side of this single features some live from the Palladium freestyles from none other than the late & great Biggie & Craig Mack which were recorded on August 5th, 1994 (Funkmaster`s birthday apparently). What`s interesting about the Craig Mack freestyle is that it also features Biggie kickin` some raps right along with him, which is kind of rare because there`s not very much recorded material of them working together. The Biggie 'freestyle' includes some rhymes that would later end up on "Unbelievable". So there ya have it y`all, enjoy...
