i made the purge...

no need to say too much regarding the musical content so um, yeah...

shouts to P for the ill cover (hold me dowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwn Peeeeeeeeee!!!!!), the homies Rage and Shecky for the inspiration and assistance, the absolutely legendary Electrifying Mojo (great talking with u brotha!!!), and all the folk who created the timeless music that made this mix possible.

more links and insight into this collection will be forthcoming but at this moment, i'm preparing to board a plane so just bear with me.

in the meantime enjoy...

Timeless Material "The Lake Minnetonka Suite, Vol. 1" (zshare link)

i want my chain back!!!

this shit is absolutely hilarious. shouts to the folk at itsthereal.com for providing humorous parodies of hip-hop related blunders over the last year or so...

side note: i need that Mannie, Juvie, & Weezy tee shirt though. that shit is type illy...

this jawn was a crate STAPLE for years (thanx M3!!)

if you were a DJ rocking at any credible venues in the city of Atlanta (or beyond) where authentic hiphop was being spun between the years of '93 and '99, then this joint should be or should have been a staple in your crate.

if you were clever and REALLY knew your shit, then with double copies of it you could cleverly flip both sides (the Before Midnight mix and the After Midnight mix) and keep niggas flippin' their wigs for a good while.

i credit M3 for being the FIRST person i ever heard play this joint back in the day while doing a Sunday night set on 88.5's "Rhythm & Vibes". he KILLED it...

i came across doubles of it a few days later and the rest is party break history. M3 successfully kicked open the door on the "party break" spinning craze here in the A, i kicked that muthafucka DOWN!!!

the Before Midnight mix is what i'm giving you here, you'll have to find the After Midnight mix and the bonus beats on your own shawty...

Funkmaster Flex "Dope On Plastic" (Before Midnight Mix) zshare link

Funkmaster Flex "Dope On Plastic" (Before Midnight Mix) rapidshare link

thank me later...

La Di Da Di: for all you mp3J's out there who don't know any better (thank me later, lol)...

yeah i call u mp3J's because u download a buncha classic hiphop shit off the net without actually LISTENING to it before attempting to play out somewhere.

nothing wrong with downloading (shit i do it myself from time to time, i'm not CRAZY) but c'mon people, get your LISTENING skills back up. i can't (and won't) respect you as a DJ (females too, y'all aren't exempt from criticism) if u don't even know the songs that you play.

I'm ranting because i had the misfortune of going out a few nights ago and hearing a muhfucka play "La Di Da Di" without him even noticing that parts of that song that help make it the TIMELESS CLASSIC that it'll always be were edited out. the crowd even looked at him like "nigga what the fuck???"

so i've decided to do you guys a favor and uh, help you out per se.

Doug E. Fresh & The Get Fresh Crew "La Di Da Di" (the REAL unedited version) zshare link

Doug E. Fresh & The Get Fresh Crew "La Di Da Di" (the REAL unedited version) rapidshare link

now take a listen to that, and then compare it to your mp3. see what's missing in your version???

i didn't bother cleaning the record beforehand, i intentionally left all the crackle and pop in there for the authenticity cause some of y'all don't know what that's like, lol...

and yeah, (to be totally "High Fidelity" retentive) that pic is MY copy of the record and i'm proud to say that i've had that joint for 23 years. i remember exactly where i bought it from and all that (Record Bar in the fall of '85). call me an "old head" all u want, but i know my music.

again, thank me later...

and to again put y'all up on game, "High Fidelity", the movie starring John Cusack and Jack Black about the owner of a record shop with snobbish record store clerks is a MUST SEE.

trust me....

clutch your purse around me again, i DARE YOU!!!

hilarious and oh so perfect because it happens ALL the time. i wanted to blog about my experience with this shit about a year back but after seeing this vid, there's no real need to.

where was I when disaster struck on 9/11/01?

hmmm...

i had literally just moved into my new crib out in Marietta a couple days earlier so there were unpacked boxes with tons of sneakers, equipment, and records PLUS my girl's stuff (yeah i had one at the time) all over the place. she had already left in the morning for work at Piedmont Hospital and i was packing for a trip to NYC (yep) because Ludacris was scheduled to tape an appearance on 106 & Park that day. my tv at the time wasn't "cable ready" and Comcast hadn't made it out yet so i had NO IDEA of what was going on. Ludacris was already in NYC because he was at the Michael Jackson Tribute that N'Sync put on plus it was his birthday (yes his birthday is September 11th so he'll ALWAYS remember this tragic day)

i remember that my flight was supposed to be at 10something and usually there'd be a driver parked out front ready to drive me to the airport well in advance of flight time but i kept going outside and wondering "where in the hell is the driver? i can't miss my flight!!!"

so i make the call to Books (Luda's former road manager) like "did u give the driver my new address? he's not outside, i'm trying not to miss the flight. where u at?"

he's like "nigga turn on the tv, ain't no muthafuckin flights goin NOWHERE today and probably for the rest of the week. some terrorists have flown into the World Trade Center, plus the Pentagon in DC and somewhere else in Pennsylvania so travel is a wrap."

because i couldn't watch tv i didn't really grasp how serious the situation was. i remember when the World Trade Center was originally bombed back in '93 and although it made a splash for a sec, it turned out to be NOTHING compared to this. no disrespect intended to the families of those who lost their lives in '93, but this turned out to be an entirely different kind of animal.

first i took a slight breather knowing that i had no immediate family in New York City so i turned on the radio and i listened to Denise Dunbar (v103) confirm everything Books said and then some.

knowing Ludacris & Chaka were already in NYC i tried hitting them up but all the Skytel 2way communication lines were fucked up in that vicinity for a while but it turned out that they were safe and in a car driving back to Atlanta.

Comcast came the next day and then i got to see all the carnage myself over and over for hours on end.

absolutely disgusting...



couldn't believe my eyes. disbelief quickly turned into anger but there wasn't really shit i could do about it.

i won't lie, once the terrorists had been identified, anyone who looked foreign or Arabic to me got the extreme side-eye, ESPECIALLY once travel resumed a few days later at the airports with all the extra security precautions being put in place. damn that shit was hella aggravating before i got used to it. i remember when your family/girl/chick/sidepiece/jumpoff/whatever could meet you at the gate upon landing in the city, NOT NO MO! i remember being able to have more than one carry on bag, NOT NO MO!!! all types of extra shit like drinks and etc, NOT NO MO!!!

thank Osama and all his other terrorist brethren for that...

thank God shit is a lot safer now, or at least it feels that way.

Lord forbid something else happens....

"crossing my fingers that it doesn't"

fin...

I NEED THESE!!!

they may look rather simple compared to a lotta other sneaks that are out now, but if you lived in Detroit between the years of '83 and '87, you KNOW that these Original Concord Hi joints right here (in whatever colorway, but especially the patent leather joints) were pretty much the cherry on top of whatever fly outfit you planned on wearing around the city.

of course one of the downsides of trying to be fly was that you also had to worry about possibly getting rushed (also known as getting jacked or getting "Yung Berg'd") for your shit as well. to this day one of the most vicious beatings i've ever seen a muhfucka get in public happened outside of Henry Ford HS when a dude who had been cockily rocking his patent leather cherry red Forums all day during school got fucked de fuck up once school let out by 4 short Bobby Valentino lookin niggas. not only did they relieve him of the sneaks but they took his Cincinnati Reds Starter jacket as well...

and it was cold and rainy that day. go head and ask yourself the key question y'all....

"how da fuck do we posed ta keep peace?"

lol...

anyway, i want dem damn sneakers....

post edit: I GOT EM!!! i took a lil' trip to Wish in L5P and lo and behold, there they were. immediate purchase!!!