DragOn-The Crazies

DragOn presents his latest mixtape ”The Crazies” available now for free download at the link below. I must say DragOn and DJ Self are doin it right on this one. Good shit guys keep grindin.

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Guns & Butter – C-Rayz Walz / Melvin (Ving Rhames)

eat your mac-cheese and fishsticks you not 50 you gon’ die tryin to get rich

Guns and Butter is just one of many standout songs off of C-Rayz Walz 2003  Def Jux album Ravipops.

Speaking of Guns and Butter…Melvin from Baby Boy (Ving Rhames) breaks down the concept of Guns & Butter to Jody & Sweetpea (Tyrese Gibson & Omar Gooding)

Fever – Tabi Bonney

Dope new video from Tabi BonneyRaheem DeVaughn for Fever.

Success – Stat Quo

Cool new video from Stat Quo for Success this one will appear on Stat’s upcoming Statlanta, which actually seems like it will drop 5-4-2010 on Sha Money XL’s new Dream Big Ventures Imprint so be on the look for that. Success – Stat Quo

Fo Yo Sorrows – Big Boi feat. George Clinton & Too Short

Back 2 the time machine I believe

I’m pretty sure Big Boi is done with his album and these labels need to stop fucking around and release it.  Sir Lucious Leftfoot : The Son Of Chico Dusty as of now still doesn’t have a solid release date, over the past few years material has been slowly leaking  from the project.  Daddy Fat Sacks in the meantime gives us the video for Fo Yo Sorrrows featuring George Clinton & Too Short, yee-yeeeah. Fo Yo Sorrows – Big Boi Feat. Too Short & George Clinton

Henny & Bacardi – Cassidy Feat. Swizz Beatz

This is the new version of Henny & Bacardi by Cassidy & Swizz Beatz (Happy they are working together again) produced by Vinylz. Henny N Bacardi – Cassidy Feat. Swizz Beatz

Look Easy – Laws Feat. Diz Gibran

Dope new song from newcomer Laws featuring cali native Diz Gibran Look Easy produced by 9th Wonder off of Laws upcoming Overtime.

Look Easy – Laws Feat. Diz Gibran

Find A Way – A Tribe Called Quest

Messin me up, my whole head, teasin me, just like Tisha did Martin, now look at what you startin - Tip

I’m not sure what it is about this song, but whenever spring time starts to roll back around, this joint annually comes back to me.  Find A Way by A Tribe Called Quest and produced by J-Dilla appeared on 1998’s The Love Movement, it featured Q-Tip & Phife exchanging verses with a dope visual to boot directed by Paul Hunter. Find A Way – A Tribe Called Quest

Rare Joints from the Notorious Biggie Smalls

Alright, first up is this joint off of Tracey Lee’s debut 1997 album, Many Facez which featured a couple verses from the Notorious B.I.G.  Coincidentally The Buchanans flipped the same sample six years later for Jay-Z on What More Can I Say off The Black Album. Keep Your Hands High – Tracey Lee Feat. Biggie Smalls

Next up is a personal favorite of mine which got much play on the old boombox, taken from Funkmaster Flex’s 60 Minutes of Funk Volume 2.  This one if you’ve never heard it is a must-have, featuring The Lox & Biggie spitting exclusives over RZA’s C.R.E.A.M. (Cash Rules Everything Around Me) instrumental. Biggie & Lox Freestyle Funk Flex

Biggie was the shit on R & B jams too which is evident on this Jermaine Dupri & Da Brat heater for the Bad Boys Soundtrack in 95.  B-I-G glides effortlessly over that polished So So Def production like no other, plus the classic Gap Band sample ties it together oh so smoothly. Da B-Side – Da Brat & Jermaine Dupri Feat. Notorious B.I.G.

What happened between 2pac and Biggie was truly a shakesperian-like tragedy, one time friends turned enemies over petty disputes and miscommunication.  Two icons that propelled each other to heights unseen in Hip-Hop before and probably will never be seen again.  Listening to the original version of Runnin (not Eminem’s 2003 remix)makes me wonder what a Pac/Big reunion would’ve sounded like in 2010.  “Nothing sadder in life than wasted talent”  Runnin – 2pac Feat. Biggie Smalls & The Outlawz

In case you missed it, Notorious B.I.G. 2009 tribute

Exhibit B.C. – Bobby Creekwater

New video from Bobby Creekwater for Exhibit B.C. (no this isn’t over that Just Blaze beat, check it out)