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On Friday February 7 2014 as Dj Premier was in Detroit performing at Dilla Day, I was filling in for Premier on his Sirius/Xm radio show "Live From Headqcourterz". Being that it was what would have been J-Dilla's 40th birthday I did an all Dilla set in my second hour honoring the late great Producer/MC/DJ. 
James "Jay-Dee", "J-Dilla" Yancey died in 2006 at the young age of 32 from cardiac arrest after a long battle with a rare blood disease.... 

He was one of the music industry's most influential and respected hip-hop artists. 

J - Dilla Tribute - Dj Finesse NYC filling in for Dj Premier on Live From Headqcourterz

I've never listened to as much music on my headphones as I have the last two and half years since my daughter was born.  In fact, I've become quite the headphone connoisseur, purchasing five different pairs of headphones in the last year.  I've got monitoring headphones, deejaying headphones, walking around the house headphones; I even have a pair of headphones that fit me just right for when I'm laying on the couch just listening to music.  That's pretty much what I do.  When done doing honey-do's and daddy-do's, I put on my headphones, listen to music, and search for inspiration for my next mix.  The problem I had for months was the actual "mixing" part of the equation.  I kept wasting my precious free time napping instead of mixing.  Enter: coffee.  The key ingredient to the equation is coffee because those wonderful brown beans have kept me awake and mixing.  The Beats serve as the inspiration.  The Headphones allow for hearing the inspiration while Lil Mixes sleeps.  And the Coffee keeps me awake enough to create.  


Beats, Headphones, & Coffee

THE DANGER COMPILATION MIX NO TALK

DILLA DAY LIVE MIXTAPE

When @evboogie from @upnorthtrips proposed the idea for a mix celebrating the 20th anniversary of Ironman, we couldn't resist, considering that Ghostface might be our favorite rapper ever. 

Since Ironman was the last of six Wu-Tang albums produced entirely by Rza, we widened the scope of the mix in order to pay homage to his legendary run in that classic Wu-Tang era.

Artwork by @rhek

The Iron Age

UpNorthTrips presents The Iron Age (A Mix by Its Overture)

To honor a masterpiece in Hip hop music, I have put together this mix to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Stunts, Blunts, & Hip Hop by Diamond & The Psychotics Neurotics.

TRACKLIST:

Diamond & The Psychotic Neurotics - Intro
George Benson - Footin' It
Diamond & The Psychotic Neurotics - Freestyle (Yo, That's That Sh...)
Sly & The Family Stone - You Can Make It If You Try
Diamond & The Psychotic Neurotics - Lunch Room Chatter
The J.B.'s - Gimme Some More
Diamond & The Psychotic Neurotics - What You Seek
Tower Of Power -Sparkling In The Sand
Diamond & The Psychotic Neurotics - Sally Got A One Track Mind
Diamond & The Psychotic Neurotics - Sally Got A One Track Mind (Two Track Beat Down)
Diamond & The Psychotic Neurotics - Sally Got A One Track Mind (Showbiz Remix)
Weather Report - American Tango
Diamond & The Psychotic Neurotics - K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Stupid)
Earth, Wind, & Fire - Bad Tune
Diamond & The Psychotic Neurotics - Feel The Vibe
Rare Earth - Keepin' Me Out Of The Storm
Diamond & The Psychotic Neurotics - Pass Dat Shit
Lee Dorsey - Get Out My Life Woman
Tanya "Sweet T" Winly - Vicious Rap
Diamond & The Psychotic Neurotics - Best Kept Secret (45 King Remix)
Three Dog Night - I Can Hear You Calling
Diamond & The Psychotic Neurotics - Best Kept Secret (Extended Mix)
Baby Huey - Hard Times
Diamond & The Psychotic Neurotics - Red Light, Green Light
Jack Bruce - Sam Enchanted Dick: Sam's Sack/Rill's Thrills
Diamond & The Psychotic Neurotics - Step To Me
S.S.O. - Faded Lady
Diamond & The Psychotic Neurotics - I Went For Mine
Flaming Ember - Gotta Get Away
Diamond & The Psychotic Neurotics - I'm Outta Here
Diamond & The Psychotic Neurotics - I'm Outta Here (Remix)
Watsonian Institute - Virgina's Pretty Funky 
Diamond & The Psychotic Neurotics - A Day In The Life
Diamond & The Psychotic Neurotics - You Can't Front
Brethren - Outside Love
Diamond & The Psychotic Neurotics - Check One, Two
Mike Bloomfield & Al Kooper - Stop
Kleeer - Intimate Connection
Diamond & The Psychotic Neurotics - Confused
Diamond & The Psychotic Neurotics - "*!*!" What You Heard
Donny Hathaway - Magnificent Sanctuary Band
The Billy Cobham - George Duke Band - Almustafa The Beloved (Live)
Diamond & The Psychotic Neurotics - Stunts, Blunts, & Hip Hop

Diamond & The Psychotic Neurotics "Stunt, Blunts, & Hip Hop 25 Mix"

Q-TIP mix on ADWL Radio April 11,2018

In 1998 the divide within the rap game was at its most glaring. On one side of the stage stood the jiggy, “shiny suit era” mainstream rappers, with CD sales on their mind, expensive tastes, and a penchant for fly cars, clothes, money, cash and hoes. At the other end of the stage was the underground, “backpack”, independent scene, where rappers and crews still made time for college radio, performed small venue shows, and aimed more for putting out records on vinyl  than for selling CDs in stores. A strange state of affairs was that this was a year where the dichotomy of Hip Hop was at its furthest split. And then an album dropped and something happened. The deep chasm between the mainstream and the underground was filled, but not by much.

Yesterday marked the fourteenth anniversary of Black Star’s debut album. It was a higly anticipated release celebrated and critically acclaimed album immediately from the moment it dropped. It gave a celebrity face to the indy movement that was going on, and did it’s best to bridge the gaps between the polar-opposite movements that were co-existing inside of Hip Hop’s genre. Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star, was the second full-length album on Rawkus Records and was the epicenter for the NYC underground movement.

Last week the good folks at Complex tackled another famous list by profiling 50 Best Rawkus Records Songs. Inspired by the idea honor Mos and Kweli’s epic release, and the label that birthed it, we figured it was our turn to pay respects as well. Sticking more to Rawkus released vinyls, which was the essence of the movement, we put together a list of 14 of the dopest B-Sides from Rawkus records.

Rawkus Records B-Side Bangers

25 Years ago today Raekwon dropped his game-changing 'Only Built 4 Cuban Linx'.  I've had this date circled on my project calendar since January.....If I only recorded 2 tributes out of all the classics released in 1995, OB4CL & Mobb Deep's 'The Infamous' were the absolute Must-Do's.  Those masterpieces were like artistic cousins and quickly became the soundtrack to that summer.  To say this album was important is a HUGE understatement.  It was monumental, and arguably the apex of the Wu solo catalog.
This LP cemented Rae & Ghost as a dynamic duo as they formed their own clique-within-the-clique, effortlessly passing each other the baton over RZA's cinematic production.   Weaving intricate stories of street tales mixed with 5%-er knowledge, this project played out like a feature film.  Vividly spit in their coded slanguage, you felt like you were right there next to them on the island of Staten.  I tried to maintain the original feel of the LP, while adding some original samples + blends to switch things up a bit.
Since the album is more pka The Purple Tape, I'm dropping this tribute cassette-style with 2 separate sides. 

SIDE B coming soon.....

Artwork by @BeddoArt  Check out + follow his page for more 🔥 hip hop and comic-related illustrations.
He's also kindly donated some prints to give away, so stay tuned for that later this week.....

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Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 25th Anniversary Tribute Mix [SIDE 1] (Mixed by DJ Filthy Rich)

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