Intro to the mixtape

Why aren't you listening to Dj Quik? Compton G-Funk, perfect for house/block parties, barbecues, the definition of smooth. 'You need to put some lotion on, because your skin is peelin' around the bullet wounds on your back, you're fat, plus you're abortion prone.' Here, and here. For those white college boys who don't know what a mixtape is, you want to get on it, because it's free and you can get studio quality music artists use to promote themselves and you might discover some new guys. The form of the mixtape in itself different from the commercial record, in that there seems to be more of an open source kinda feel with instrumentals; example: every rapper has rapped over the 'a million' instrumentals and it don't seem like there's anyone bitching about copyright. Game's been puttin' out studio quality shit all year, if you haven't gotten to Brake Lights f. Dj Skee and the two disc Purp & Patron, and the Hangover, you way behind. Shit'll have you sayin' 'we only droppin' classics' in no time.

Bob Marley!

Ignore most commercialized, apolitical bullshit, get up with Marley. He sounds like blues to me.

'why linger on?'
African Herbsman

'one good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain' 'I never let the children cry' 'it's Kingston 12'
Trenchtown Rock


Lively up yourself

Gift Raps

Datpiff.com has recently been promoting, Chip tha Ripper, a rapper whose album art style resembles that of 'Family Guy.' It had received a lot of good ratings so I gave it a listen.Though his association with self-obsessed hipster rapper Kid Cudi makes me nauseous and although, given Rick Ross' current overexposure, I had a hard time listening to Chip without thinking of Ross, I gotta say this chubby Cleveland rapper deserves his own place. Here's why: 'U.A.F.', for the hook 'and if you're hands ain't up, it's probably because you broke or you ugly as fuck', 'Dynoman' for Chuck Inglish's wonderful TRON-sounding instrumentals and 'Jumanji', which portrays a violent Cleveland where 'the sun always hide behind them clouds' and you need to 'get yo kids in the house, it's about to go down.' Chip's response: 'roll the windows down and get to bustin', I don't give a fuck about too much of nuthin''.