Put On For Your City Mix

An exploration of the spirits of vintage funk and jazz records which have found their way into contemporary rap music. A cut-up selection of timeless tunes sampled by A Tribe Called Quest, The Beatnuts, MF DOOM, Ice Cube, Cypress Hill, and many more.

I'm not including a tracklisting cause mixes are better when you don't know what song's coming next. If you'd like an ID of any of the songs on here, just ask and I'll answer.

Music Haunted by the Ghosts of Records Past: Vol. I

A 30-minute mixtape celebrating the works of RAKIM. This was put together for The Huey Show's 'Hip Hop Mixtape' Volume Two. The series was broadcast over the period of the Hip Hop 50 Summer celebrations, with each episode focusing on one element of the culture. Episode 2 concentrated on The MC, and I was asked to put together a mix of Huey's favourite MC; the god Rakim.

Precisely 30 minutes of classics, features, breaks and samples from the g.o.a.t.

Originally broadcast on BBC 6 Music, Weds 26th July 2023.

Show hosted by Huey Morgan
Series produced by T-Bone & Agent J aka Jamie Groovement.

TRACKLIST:
Rakim - Intro (The 18th Letter)
Eric B & Rakim - Relax With Pep
Rakim - How I Get Down
Eric B & Rakim - Mahogany
Nas, Rakim & Alicia Keys - Streets of New York
Rakim - New York (Ya Out There)
Eric B & Rakim - Keep The Beat
Rakim - Remember That
Gang Starr ft. WC & Rakim - The Militia II (Remix)
Cecil Holmes - Call Me, Come Back Home
Rakim - It’s Been A Long Time
Rakim - Waiting For The World To End
Rakim - The Saga Begins
Eric B & Rakim - My Melody
Eric B & Rakim - Move The Crowd
Rakim - Put It All To Music
Rakim - Shades of Black
Rakim - Guess Who’s Back
Rakim - It’s The R
Eric B & Rakim - To The Listeners
24 Carat Black - Ghetto, Misfortune’s Wealth
Eric B & Rakim - In The Ghetto
Mobb Deep ft. Rakim - Hoodlum
Canibus ft. Rakim - I’ll Buss ‘Em U Punish ‘Em (Remix)
Rakim - When I Be On The Mic
Eric B & Rakim - Microphone Fiend
Eric B & Rakim - Eric B For President (Extended / LP Version)
Eric B & Rakim - Paid In Full (Coldcut Remix / LP Version)
Dennis Edwards & Siedah Garret - Don’t Look Any Further (Acapella)
DJ Premier, Nas, KRS One, Kanye West & Rakim - Classic
Rakim - Heat It Up
Eric B & Rakim - What’s Going On
Eric B & Rakim - The “R”
Truth Hurts ft. Rakim - Addictive
Mica Paris ft. Rakim - Contribution
Jody Watley ft. Eric B & Rakim - Friends
Midnight Star - Curious
Eric B & Rakim - What’s On Your Mind (House Party II Rap Theme)
Eric B & Rakim - I Ain’t No Joke
Eric B & Rakim - I Know You Got Soul (Acapella / LP Version)
Bobby Byrd - I Know You Got Soul
Eric B & Rakim - Lyrics of Fury
Eric B & Rakim - The Punisher
Eric B & Rakim - Don’t Sweat The Technique
Eric B & Rakim - Follow The Leader
Eric B & Rakim - Let The Rhythm Hit ‘Em
Eric B & Rakim - No Omega
Eric B & Rakim - No Competition
Eric B & Rakim - Untouchables
Eric B & Rakim - Juice (Know The Ledge)

Includes samples from Crook’s Corner Rakim 2020 interview.

#HipHop50

Rakim Tribute: The Hip Hop Mixtape | BBC 6 Music

This mix was put together to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Wu-Tang Clan's debut album 'Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)' & A Tribe Called Quest's third LP 'Midnight Marauders' - two of the greatest Hip Hop albums of all time, which were both released on the same day in November 1993.

One for one from both albums, Tribe to Wu, also including breaks sampled on both projects.

Broadcast on 4th November 2023 on BBC 6 Music for The Huey Show's Block Party; my last one for the year.

Mix concept & execution by BobaFatt
Show hosted by Huey Morgan
Wu-Tribe symbol by Jamie Groovement
The Huey Show produced by Tom Whalley

Tracklist:
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders Intro
Cal Tjader - Aquarius
Jack Wilkins - Red Clay
A Tribe Called Quest - Sucka N***a
Wu-Tang Clan - Bring Da Ruckus
A Tribe Called Quest - Keep It Rollin’
Gladys Knight & The Pips - The Way We Were
Wu-Tang Clan - Can It Be All So Simple
A Tribe Called Quest - Clap Your Hands
The Meters - Handclapping Song
The Charmels - As Long As I’ve Got You
Wu-Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M.
Bola Sete - Bettina
A Tribe Called Quest - 8 Million Stories
El Michels Affair ft. Lee Fields & The Shacks - Tearz
Wendy Rene - After Laughter (Comes Tears)
Wu-Tang Clan - Tearz
A Tribe Called Quest - We Can Get Down
Wu-Tang Clan - 7th Chamber
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight
Wu-Tang Clan - 7th Chamber Part II
A Tribe Called Quest - God Lives Through
El Michels Affair - Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthing ta F’ Wit
Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t
Biz Markie - Nobody Beats The Biz
A Tribe Called Quest - The Chase Part II
Wu-Tang Clan - Clan In Da Front (Intro)
The New Birth - Honey Bee
Minnie Riperton - Inside My Love
A Tribe Called Quest - Lyrics To Go
Wu-Tang Clan - Clan In Da Front
A Tribe Called Quest - Steve Biko (Stir It Up)
Wu-Tang Clan - Method Man
The Whatnauts - Why Can’t People Be Colors Too
A Tribe Called Quest - Oh My God
Kool & the Gang - Who’s Gonna Take The Weight
Wu-Tang Clan - Da Mystery Of Chessboxin’
A Tribe Called Quest ft. Trugoy - Award Tour
Wu-Tang Clan - Shame On A Nuh
Syl Johnson - Different Strokes
Ronnie Foster - Mystic Brew
A Tribe Called Quest - Electric Relaxation
Wu-Tang Clan - Protect Ya Neck

Also includes various skits from both albums and clips from movies ‘Beats, Rhymes & Life’ and ‘Coffee & Cigarettes’.

A Tribe Called Wu Block Party | BBC 6 Music

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the classic 4th album from The Roots, ‘Things Fall Apart’, this is a Block Party mix comprised of the Philadelphia Hip Hop band’s finest work, headed by the core group of Soulquarian's Questlove, Black Thought & the late Malik B, and featuring the likes of Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Mos Def, J Dilla, Rahzel & Jimmy Fallon.

Broadcast on BBC 6 Music's The Huey Show, Feb 24th 2024.

Mix by BobaFatt
Hosted by Huey Morgan
The Huey Show is produced by Tom 'T-Bone' Whalley
The Huey Show logo by Jamie Groovement

TRACKLIST:
Huey Morgan - 2min Intro

Intro (Do You Want More?!..)
The Roots Are Comin’
Live At The T-Connection
Table Of Contents Part 2
Essawhamah? (Live At The Soulshack)
Rising Down (ft. Mos Def)
Break You Off
Datskat
Clones
Distortion To Static
Silent Treatment (Black Thought’s 87 You & Yours Mix)
What You Want (ft. Jaguar)
Proceed (The Roots Come Alive Version / LP Version)
Mellow My Man (The Roots Come Alive Version / LP Version)
Stay Cool
Don’t Feel Right (ft. Maimouna Youssef aka Mumu Fresh)
? vs. Rahzel
It’s The Music
Can’t Stop This
What They Do
Love Of My Life (ft. Common) (The Roots Come Alive Version / LP Version)
Right On (ft. Joanna Newsome & STS)
Dynamite
Worldwide (London Groove)
Respond / React
The Next Movement
Silent Treatment (Da Beatminerz Remix)
Don’t See Us
Double Trouble (ft. Mos Def)
Without A Doubt
Don’t Say Nuthin’
Adrenaline
100% Dundee
Swept Away
Melting Pot
Din Da Da
The Seed 2.0 (ft. Cody Chesnutt)
Thought@Work
Boom! (ft. Big Daddy Kane & Kool G Rap)
You Got Me (ft. Erykah Badu & Jill Scott) (LP Version / Original Version / Live Version)

Samples:
Teen Summit, BET
Flava TV interview in London (2001)
The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon: Every Shout Out To The Roots Ever

The Roots Block Party Mix | BBC 6 Music

First broadcast on BBC 6 Music on Record Store Day 2024 (April 20th), this is a 27 minute mix celebrating the 30th anniversary of ‘Illmatic’, the debut by Nas, largely considered to be one of the greatest Hip Hop albums of all time.

The mix (starting 4:30 in) explores cuts and breaks used on the LP, while the second half blasts through some of Nasir Jones biggest smashes and early features.

TRACKLIST:

Intro: 4 mins 30 secs of BBC 6 Music on Record Store Day

Nas - Back When
(Biz Markie - Nobody Beats The Biz)
Nas - The Stretch Armstrong & Bobbito Show (WKCR 28.10.93)
Nas - NY State Of Mind
(Nas, Rakim & Alicia Keys - Streets of New York)
(Eric B & Rakim - Mahogany)
Ahmad Jamal Trio - I Love Music
Nas - The World Is Yours
(Nas - Thief’s Theme)
Jay Z - Dead Presidents
Nas & AZ - Life’s A B**ch (Acapella)
Elzhi ft. Stokley Williams (Mint Condition) - Life’s A B**ch / Yearning For Your Love
Nas - Memory Lane (Sittin’ In Da Park)
Nas - Represent
Cast of Hair - Dead End
Nas - Halftime
Gary Byrd - Soul Travelin’ Pt.1
Will Sessions - One Love
Nas - One Love (Album Mix / curbsideprophetremix)
Nas - The Stretch Armstrong & Bobbito Show (WKCR 28.10.93)
Michael Jackson - Human Nature / (SWV - Right Here (Remix))
Nas - It Ain’t Hard To Tell (Album Mix / Large Professor Remix)
Nas - Nas is Like
Nas - Get Down
James Brown - The Boss
Nas - Made You Look
(Nas - I Can)
Nas - The Don
Nas & Damian Marley - Road To Zion
Nas - The Message
Nas - Street Dreams
Nas - Nastradamus
Nas - One Mic
Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight
The New Birth - Echoes Of My Mind
Swizz Beatz ft. Nas - Echo
Nas ft. Ludacris, Slick Rick & Doug E Fresh - Virgo (Statik Selektah Fresh Fest Mix)
Nas ft. Lauryn Hill - If I Ruled The World (Imagine That)
Nas ft. Olu Dara - Bridging The Gap
MC Serch ft. Nas, Chubb Rock & Grand Puba - Back To The Grill
DJ Premier, Nas, KRS One, Kanye West & Rakim - Classic
Nas - You’re Da Man
Sixto Rodriguez - Sugar Man
Main Source ft. Nas - Live At The Barbeque
Chris Stein - Subway Theme (Wildstyle)

Nas & DJ Premier - Define My Name (acapella)

Outro: Huey Morgan / Jamz Supernova / Gilles Peterson

Bonus:
Nas ft. Ginuwine - You Owe Me
The Firm - Phone Tap

Most additional samples from 'Time is Illmatic' documentary.

Block Party mix curated & produced by BobaFatt
The Huey Show hosted by Huey Morgan
The Huey Show produced by Tom 'T-Bone' Whalley
The Huey Show logo by Jamie Groovement

Nas Illmatic 30 Block Party | BBC 6 Music

SomeThing Else

Kellen De Vos - GRAND SLAM [1] [WORD SALAD]

1. FOREVER SOLID (prod. Mustafa Khan & Sehmim Al)
2. Evil Strings, Pure Heart (prod. jyu)
3. Good Looking Rapper (prod. scejaytracks)
4. HIGH NOON CRAZY (prod. scejaytracks)
5. Love Matrix (prod. scejaytracks)
6. Same Guy Freestyle (prod. sussvarman)

Engineered by Zakari Moon & Zack SWS
Mixed & Mastered at Secret Weapon Sound
EP Cover Art by Ladon Alex
Tracklisting & additional art by Greg Martin and Helena Pinto
EP Photography by Adrian Hilts, Ethan NOEL Mitchell & Talijah Buckets
Evil Strings, Pure Heart music video directed by Ethan Noel Mitchell 

All songs written and performed by Rayhan.

Evil Strings, Pure Heart

Found this recording from a show me and Tahaj put on back in the early 2000's.....The highlight of the night was having *DJ Ta-shi* (Zulu Nation/Beat Knuckles) and *DJ Shortkut* (Invisibl Scratch Piklz/Beat Junkies/Triple Threat) comin through and rockin' it live on 4 turntables....I ran out of recording discs at the end which explains the abrupt cut off.....

As you can tell from the energy they're puttin down, they were f*cking rocking the place!!!.....people were going bonkers!!!  It was amazing to see their DJ communication and veteran skills in person....still inspires me to this day.....Enjoy...

DJ Ta-Shi and DJ Shortkut - *Live on 4 turntables*

Break Builders Vol 2
by DJ Zeph and DJ Platurn, Feat DJ Teeko

this is Vol 2 in a series of original breaks mixes. 
After finishing Vol 1, DJ Imperial and I had this idea to do a volume 2 using a sampler, and really blurring the lines between what was produced and what was played. When Imperial moved back to Sweden, and using a sampler seemed to be unnecessary with the editing options in what was then new- protools, I stepped up to do Vol 2 w/ one of my favorite DJ's and crate diggers.....DJ Platurn!!! 

Since the previous mix was predominantly live, and with this new concept, Platurn and I found that we were not in jeopardy of reinventing the wheel. We met up, and came to some conclusions...we wanted it to be B Boy/Girl friendly, we werent going to limit what we used to any category, and that we wanted to feature one of our favorite DJ's with the illest cuts DJ Teeko.

This format proved to be really hot, and i dont think we were the only ones to do something like this, but we were definately one of the first, and we were really proud of the end result. Being able to extend and overlap breaks indefinately really is a great way to approach a breaks mix. This is really proven in moments like the Olympic Runners kazoo mashup, or the Ramsey Lewis rock blend. By not limiting the selection to any categories we get edits of newer releases of classics like the Kenny Dope/J5 and its monster drums intro, but without all the excessive parts (the song lol). We also get DJ Teeko just murdering the cuts in moments like the Shadow/Cut Chemist numbers redo.

We had a lot of fun putting this down, and hope you enjoy listening/dancing...


Break Builders Vol 2 --- DJ Zeph and DJ Platurn, Feat. DJ Teeko

DJing since 1992.
BBC 6 MUSIC | Block Party Resident
SOHO RADIO | Fortnightly Friday 6-8pm
FIRST WORD RECORDS | Label Manager

*FACT Magazine: Readers 'Top 20 Unsung DJs' 2014

*BBC 1XTRA: "M1X It Up" Champ 2006

*WORLDWIDE AWARDS Label of the Year 2019 (First Word)

*MIXCLOUD Best Alternative Radio Show 2015 (Rough Trade)

*MIXCLOUD Top 100 Cloudcasts 2013: BAd BReaks


Go to my MIXCLOUD & HEARTHIS pages, there's LOADS more stuff over there! x

The Roots Block Party Mix | BBC 6 Music

BobaFatt

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