For this week’s pick I present “Flint Central High School – Class of 1990.” My boss at Sirius XM asked me to put together a mix that they would be giving out at the 20th Year Reunion of the Flint, Michigan School.
This joint has a lot of the top-40 joints that were [...]
This week I’m featuring a new producer/performer from Michigan – Bei Maejor. He’s been on the radar for a while, but a feature on Ciara’s “Ride (Remix)” alongside Andre 3000 put him over the top.
His latest mixtape features Shade45′s own Clinton Sparks. It’s full of uptempo bang-bangs – check it out!
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Here’s a new mix full of Electro Boogie I did for Sedgwick & Cedar – inspired by their new line of t-shirts – “Planet Rock.”
Tracklist:
1. Trans Europe Express – Kraftwerk
2. Planet Rock – Afrika Bambaataa
3. Looking For The Perfect Beat – Afrika Bambaataa
4. Jam On It – Newcleus
5. Al-Naafiysh (The Soul) – Jerry Calliste Jr.
6. [...]
This week I decided to give you the instrumental funk. So all aspiring producers take a listen to the work of the legendary Black Milk and newcomer FreshNerd of 100 Akres.
On Black Milk’s “Music From The Color Purple” – he deconstructs tracks from my favorite artist, Prince, and makes some treeeats! [...]
This is our good friend Kerry “Krucial” Brothers’ artist Andra’s debut project. “LoveIs4Suckaz” features some verses from some heavyweights in the game including Drake, Kid Cudi and Lupe Fiasco. Andra was born in Zimbabwe, and educated at Stanford – and this joint has some bangers on there!
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We first met Phil Ade with his 368 Music Group boss Raheem DeVaughn and Tabi Bonney. He was talking about releasing The Letterman, but I wasn’t sure what the vibe of the project would be. I was down in DC this weekend riding around listening to this joint and it’s a guaranteed banger! [...]
Mick Boogie and DJ Jazzy Jeff put together a bang bang banger of a mixtape with this one. I was gonna put a Summer mix out – glad I didn’t haha. I’m mad Mick got drawn into my favorite scene from a music video on the cover though! Luuuckkky!!
1. Summertime Intro
2. Kool [...]
I wanted to name this section POOP. Angela wouldn’t let me. Each Wednesday I’ll be giving ya’ll my mixtape pick of the week. It’s gonna be Spectacular like that dude from Pretty Ricky.
This week’s pick is our boy DJ Trauma’s collabo with the one and only Estelle. This is a dope [...]
One of our Don’t Quit Your Day Job alumni, and all around cool dude, Skotch Davis dropped a video for a track off his upcoming “SkotchTape.”
Check it out:
Skotch Davis “Exhibit Me” from The ICU on Vimeo.
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Today The Dogg Pound were our special co-hosts. I decided to give them a LIVE tribute mix of some of my favorite Dogg Pound tracks. With almost 20 years of music under their belts – Daz and Kurupt truly are legends.
1. Get Crazy N The Club – Dogg Pound
2. It Aint [...]
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