MIXTAPE 85 – MAKING FRIENDS
This episode is all about making friends. If you don’t have any, dosage don’t worry! There’s nothing like coming together over a fresh Mixtape Show episode and enjoying the friendship that only rhyming about stabbings over hot beats can engender.
So when you listen to this out in public, this site make sure to follow along and make a new friend and help them enjoy the magic that is the Mixtape Show. Here’s the playlist.
Talib Kweli – Country Cousins feat UGK. Again, glands it seems that I hear a new UGK cut and rush out to cut a new episode, just like for episode 66. I had really started to wonder about Talib, because his recent material has been a goddamn snoozefest. But he came correct on, well, a large portion of his latest effort. Be sure to check out Eardrum, it’s certainly worth a listen. I liked this one because I can relate to it – most of my extended family is actually back down south so it’s particulary enraging hearing people talk down on the south. myspace.com/talibkweli.
Hezekiah – Looking Up feat Bilal. Been quite some time since Hezekiah has been on the show, but it’s good to have him back. myspace.com/hezekiah3crateofporn okay dude what the fuck kind of myspace name is that.
Sin Sizzerb – Blood In My Eyes feat Opera Steve. If you’re wondering how this song fits into this mix, it doesn’t. But then again, it’s kinda appropriate, because Sin doesn’t really fit in among most rappers in your playlist. The historical, literary, and political references are just beyond most people. I mean, come on. The dude has a book club on his myspace. But if you’re willing to dissect the lyrics and spend some time on them, I think you’ll get a lot out of it. You’ve heard dude here before, by the way. myspace.com/sizzerbsin.
Peven Everett – Testin’ Me. Off an old Djinji Brown mixtape. I don’t know much about dude, but I am liking what I am hearing. myspace.com/studioconfession.
Jneiro Jarel – Doiniss! (feat Dr Who Dat?). I was totally sleeping when I skipped on this release when I passed on it because I didn’t like the way the cover looked. But to be fair, I’d gotten like three nerdrap records that looked suspiciously like it the week before. Still though – let me say this. If you’ve ever listened to a Dilla or Madlib record and found yourself enjoying either even in the slightest, you owe it to yourself to purchase a Jneiro record. By the way, his new Shape Of Broad Minds collabo release is also stellar. Buy that instead of meth this week. myspace.com/labelwho.
SleeStack’z – Ruination (Spearhead X Remix). Old ’96 style. I never did know much about these dudes (nor do I know what gives with the improperly used possessive marker – as a ‘z, no less) – but I do know that this has been a favorite of mine for a miiiinute. Crystal Clear is also dope – just buy their album, I guess. Back like three years ago I made a remix of Ruination, which I of course lost forever in a hard drive crash. It was good, though, trust me. Best nintendo remix ever. no myspace/site for these cats – help?
Intro beat: Beewirks – Relentless. Like I said, I had to throw this on so you could hear it properly.
Interlude beat: Alkota – Feelings Ain’t Changed.
Outro beat: Alkota – Brand New Day. Good looking out on the beats, fam! Get at me with them new joints..
So that’s this week’s show. Did you take the Mixtape Show Challenge? How many friends did you make? How many people did you introduce to the racial-harmony-encouraging sounds of the interweb’s favorite hip-hop podcast?
i like that version of country cousins better. in the LP version, Talib changes the line “..but we was talkin funny, everybody else was talkin country…”
that’s my favorite line, he shouldn’t have changed it.
really? what does he change it to on the album?
Lovin the mix Dex….the intro is funny….and liking the Beewirks business…
Also, that Sin track is mad…really like that, and will keep my eyes (and ears) peeled for more of the same.
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yeah man. Beewirks came with it on this track. and I’m glad people are appreciating the Sin track..it sometimes takes me a couple listens or so to really get into his tracks (with a few exceptions)
gotta love that ugk track :)
te mereces un beso :)
ok bueno otro más :*
^awkward chick…but yeah, feelin this version of country cousins. fav on this ep is blood in my eyes. keep doin it man.
hahaha. okay, have you heard the other version too? like mirateck was saying that they’d switched up the lyrics to pull out the “everybody else was talking country”. I think dude told me on AIM but I forgot – what was the swapped lyric?
“down south where we buy them hammers, down south where we sell them drugs, down south where life is cheap but they quick to fill you with them slugs”
Okay, yeah – that’s what mirateck had told me. I’d really like to know what fueled that decision. Are New York people really that protective of their precious claim to rappidy rap originator fame that they’re unwilling to entertain the notion that maybe somewhere, somebody listens to rap not made on the East Coast?
I’d love somebody to enlighten me here, because this seems a little weird to me.
how can i get older shows dex digi?
dex, gotta give you props on this one…