*VVIXTAPE* #1: REAPER

Instrumental: Solid-Snake4444. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2Nes74UOEw
Mix: Way Raps. https://www.instagram.com/wayraps/?hl=en
Artwork: Almon Hardtmann. https://www.instagram.com/iamalmon/?hl=en

Original:
Logic feat. Eminem
CODM (2019)
Prod. By Bregma

REAPER

*VVIXTAPE* #2: LET ME RIDE

In ’75 P-Funk blew minds with the Mothership Connection. In ‘92 a guy named Dre sampled it in the west coast classic Let Me Ride. In ’17 the incredible Sly5thAve dropped an orchestral rendition and in ’18 the incomparable Stro Elliot remixed it into a jam. I wanted to add my two cents…

Mix: Way Raps. https://www.instagram.com/wayraps/?hl=en 
Photo: Neda Nightingale. https://www.instagram.com/nedanightingale/?hl=en

Artwork: ArtworkByMatt https://www.instagram.com/artworkbymatt/?hl=en

Original:
Let Me Ride [Stro Elliot Remix]
Sly5thAve, Stro Elliot feat. @jimettarose
2018 (single)

Let Me Ride (VVIX)

*VVIXTAPE* #3: SOMEBODY

Hip-Hop is the truest American art form. Born in oppression, raised in revolution, survived in struggle.

Like Jazz or the Blues, these most improbable of artistic arcs are only made possible by the audacity of their pioneers – those geniuses in the shadows – from whose honest sacrifice and perseverance erupted into the mainstream zeitgeist the beauty and brilliance of once hidden truths.

May GOD bless the legends, like the indelible Nas and Lauryn Hill, who we affectionally call teachers, grateful they continue to teach.
For me, a devoted study of the high sciences runs directly through Esco’s pen, which seems only to become more intricate and meaningful with age and experience.

KD2 is a revelation. Hit-Boy is a beast. Nobody is a classic. As Hip-Hop ascends into its rightful place as ‘fine art’, this music continues to bring me home to where I’m supposed to be…to a place I always feel like Somebody.

Mix: Way Raps. www.instagram.com/wayraps/?hl=en
Artwork: Almon Hardtmann. www.instagram.com/iamalmon/?hl=en

Original:
Nobody 
Nas feat. LaurynHill
Prod. By Hit-Boy and Corbett 
King's Disease II (2021)

Somebody

*VVIXTAPE* #4: DON'T I LOOK FINE

"God can help you..."

Mix: Soulgood Kid. https://www.instagram.com/soulgoodkid/
Artwork: Belkis Ayón, Sikán con chivo

Original:
Tookie Knows II
Schoolboy Q, Traffic, T.F.
Prod. By Nez, R.I.O.
Blank Face LP(2016)

VV.I.X