Wednesday, June 30, 2010

My Ultimate Dead Prez Playlist

Dead Prez is one of the best rap groups out right now, and in honor of their new mixtape I'm making my ultimate Dead Prez playlist. Turn off the radio, Turn off that bullshit.


Goin thru difficult time
Writin my life story in rhyme
But when I look at all the niggas
They hit with mad time
In proportion with the big king pins it don't fit
You could get caught with barely a half a slab
And the judge sentence you like you ran the ave
I ain't plan to get rich fom sellin that shit
It was survival
My game plan was not to get knocked by 5-0
But who am i
Just a young nigga caught in the mix
And if this weed don't sell i'm'a cop me a brick

Let's Get Free (Dead Prez's debut album):
-"Hip-Hop" -"Who shot Biggie Smalls/If we don't get them they gon' get us all, I'm down for runnin' up on them crackers in they City Hall."
- "Police State"
- "Psychology"
- "Animal in Man" - Retells the George Orwell book Animal Farm.
- "It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop"
- "Psychology"


Revolutionary But Gangsta

I think that this might be their best CD yet. Worth buying and listening to the whole thing CD.
  • "D.O.W.N." – 2:07
  • "Hell Yeah (Pimp the System)" (featuring Blue (vocals)) – 4:12
  • "W-4" (featuring Asia Mic) – 4:04
  • "Radio Freq" (featuring Sean Cane (scratches)) – 2:51
  • "Fucked Up" – 2:43
  • "Don't Forget Where U Goin" – 2:09
  • "Twenty" (2:22)
These are just my favorite songs from the CD but the rest are also good.

Turn off the Radio Vol. 1
"Sellin' D.O.P.E." – 3:24 (This is one of my favorite songs)

Turn Off The Radio: The Mixtape Vol. 2-Get Free Or Die Tryin'

Fuck The Law
Coming Of Age
Tallahassee Days
Window To My Soul (great song about Stic-Mans brothers addiction to crack cocaine)
Out In The World

Turn Off The Radio Vol.3 “Pulse of the People”

02. Runnin’ Wild
03. Don’t Hate My Grind (Feat. Bun B)
04. Warpath (Feat. Ratfink)
13. $timulus Plan

Turn Off the Radio Vol. 4: Revolutionary But Gangsta Grillz
when I saw DJ Drama was hosting this mixtape the first thing I thought was "this is going to be really shitty and commercial" but thankfully I was wrong, and it's quite good considering that its Dead Prez and a Gangsta Grillz mixtape.

"Far From Over" – 3:36
"The Game Is A Battlefield" – 3:21
"Never Turn My Back" – 3:39
"Don't Waste It" – 2:52
"Overdose" – 3:13
"Fear Not The Revolution" – 2:37
"Let The People Be Heard" feat. Estelle – 3:29

Torrent:
Dead Prez - Discography (Solos, Mix Tapes)
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5290888/Dead_Prez_-_Discography_(Solos__Mix_Tapes)

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http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5644175/Dead_Prez-Revolutionary_But_Gangsta_Grillz(Hosted_by_DJ_Drama)-2

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Player Hating: Mixtape covers

Player Hating: Mixtape covers
Mixtapes have revolutionized the rap music industry, and allowed lots of great rappers breakthrough and get into the limelight. But if there's one thing I love/hate its mixtape covers. Never have CD covers been so crappy and photoshopped.
Things commonly seen on mixtape covers:
-Cocaine (nothing says mixtape like a couple bricks of blow on the cover)
-Weed
-Scales (because you gotta have something to weigh out your drugs)
-Nice cars
-Women (usually with nice asses, this is rap were talking about)
-Money
-Integration of movie themes


This is the cover of Rick Ross's new mixtape (which the title dick rides the name of a mobster, Ross just loves to use others names to bolster his street cred).
Whats up with the hat and what the hell is he wearing.


Camron Mixtape:
First off you'll notice the Scarface theme with the background colors down to the coke on the table. And of course you got the stacks of money in their to. How original.


This one has your essiential crack rocks, dirty money, and a fire-arm. On a side note this tape looks like crap.


Going with a recent theme of a popular movie.


This should've never have been made. Look how gay this looks, I mean come on jersey shore and mixtapes don't mix. Jersey shore and anything should'nt be mixed.


This combines the cocaine with a movie theme. Cocaine+Nightmare on Elm Street=Nightmare on Coke Street


And of course your scantily clothed ladies with big asses. Do yo thang girls.

Those are some shitty mixtape covers. But hey in an industry where record sales are at an all time low I think we can all agree that when it comes to mixtapes it is what it is.