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Rah Digga feat. Rapsody - And Another One (Produced by 14KT)

From The Forthcoming Compilation "Jamla Is The Squad" 1/28/14 from Jamla Records

Talib Kweli, Elzhi, and Phonte - No Competition prod. by Khrysis

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FROM THE ALL NEW D.I.T.C. "THE REMIX PROJECT" DROPPIN' MAY 6, 2014
WITH REMIXES BY SHOWBIZ, LORD FINESSE, DIAMOND D., BUCKWILD, DJ PREMIER, 9TH WONDER, ALCHEMIST, BINK, MARCO POLO, O.GEE, APOLLO BROWN AND SPECIAL DOUBLE BONUS VERSIONS FROM SHOWBIZ AND 9TH WONDER.

SPECIAL DOUBLE VINYL WILL BE RELEASED THROUGH SLICE OF SPICE RECORDS

GO TO WWW.DITCENT.COM TO GET UP ON THE NEW WEBSITE.

Diggin In The Crates (DJ Premier Remix)f. Diamond D., Showbiz, A.G. & Lord Finesse

A selection from our second tape release: thrashflow.com/products/count-bass-d-begborrowsteel-cassette-dl-card

Next up for our second release is BEGBORROWSTEEL by Count Bass D. This was originally released by Count Bass D on CD in 2003 through his own imprint, CountBassD.com.  It was later released on February 21, 2004 as an EP on vinyl (JSV-001) with one bonus track and CD (OTCD-2038) with 4 bonus tracks, through Jazzy Sport/Octave. A worldwide release came later on RAMP Recordings (RAMP003) on Vinyl and CD which included instrumentals and 3 additional bonus tracks.

Count Bass D always intended BEGBORROWSTEEL to be released on cassette.  The original release in 2003 closes with the track, "Low Batteries."  The title is inspired by the moment a portable cassette player slows down because the batteries are running low.  We decided that it is only right to release BEGBORROWSTEEL the same way Count intended it to be released, so it ends with "Low Batteries."   

The tape comes with the original artwork from the 2003 CD release, a lyric booklet and a digital download card that includes all of the extra tracks from the later editions of BEGBORROWSTEEL. Finally there is one more bonus track for a total number of 8.

This is a limited run of 100 "steel" colored and hand numbered tapes.  

Side A:

01 Bullets Hit Brains
02 Doxology
03 The Mingus Sextet
04 Nina & Weldon
05 Gimme A Gig
06 Drug Abusage
07 Kumbuka Watu Penda Pesa (Part 1)
08 Kumbuka Watu Penda Pesa (Part 2)

Side B:

09 Des Fausses Impressions
10 Dollar Bill
11 Down Easy
12 New Edition Karaoke
13 Low Batteries

Additional tracks on digital download:

1 No. 3 Pencil
2 Body By Jake 
3 Canerow Waltz
4 Dwight'll Do Anything (Part 1) 
5 Dwight'll Do Anything (Part 2)* 
6 Full Blooded West Indian (Part 1) 
7 Full Blooded West Indian (Part 2) 
8 Like A Pimp

*previously unreleased
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Count Bass D - Dollar Bill

Slum Village | 5 Ela (1996) Remix

Zen Flex

Streets Keep Talking

Phife
‘Nutshell’
(Malik Taylor, James Yancey, Dion Liverpool)
Produced by J Dilla
Scratches by Dj Rasta Root
Smokin’ Needles Records 2016

Executive Produced by 
Dion Liverpool

Recorded by Jon Bonus at Side 3 Studios
Mixed by Morgan Garcia
Mastered by Michael Romanowski

From the forthcoming EP 
‘Give Thanks’ 
On Smokin Needles Records



Nutshell Dirty (Prod. by J Dilla)

KING (Prod. by The Key)

Free Download

CL Smooth - King (Max I Million Remix)

Rapsody-A Cold Winter ft. Freeway

Carte Blanche (Deluxe Edition)

Don't Nobody Care About Us

Professor @ Large

Key To The City

Produced by De La Soul
Mixed by Morgan Garcia



De La Soul "GET AWAY" feat. The Spirit Of The Wu (Dirty Version)

https://linktr.ee/wearedelasoul

De La Soul is back—but did they ever really leave? After delivering their seminal debut 3 Feet High and Rising in 1989 with the production genius of Prince Paul, the New York City-bred trio of Posdnuos (Pos), Dave and Maseo went on to further impact Hip Hop culture with five more groundbreaking albums: De La Soul Is Dead (1991), Buhloone Mindstate (1993), Stakes Is High (1996), Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump (2000) and AOI: Bionix (2001). But once the digital age exploded in the late ‘90s, De La Soul’s celebrated catalog was unavailable to stream. As the decades passed, the tight-knit group forged ahead anyway—touring the world, connecting with their adoring fanbase and making music on their own terms. Following 2004’s The Grind Date, De La Soul took a hiatus from making albums, but joined The Gorillaz on the track “Feel Good Inc” which won them a Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Collaboration.  In 2015, the group raised over $600,000 on Kickstarter from fans to independently release their album and the Anonymous Nobody, which was their first #1 on the Rap Albums chart, and was also nominated for a Best Rap Album Grammy.   

However, the demand for unreleased De La Soul music was palpable and the cry for access to the first six albums grew louder. Unfortunately, De La Soul was stuck riding a roller coaster of stalled negotiations, dashed hopes and dead-end conversations with their old label, and the group nearly gave up. 

"We have lived without the music up for long, these six albums haven’t been up—ever,” Pos says. “We got used to knowing they weren’t up.” In June of 2021, Tommy Boy Music was acquired by Reservoir, giving De La Soul’s catalog a new home.  In March of 2023, the six missing albums were finally available to stream.  But sadly, right before the catalog release, Dave, the beloved member of De La Soul, passed away. Though bittersweet, De La Soul preserves his legacy and the ongoing impact of their music. 

As iconic songs such as “The Magic Number”, found new life in the film Spiderman: No Way Home in 2021, De La Soul continues to resonate with a diverse population of people. 

As Pos notes, “We’ve noticed over the past several years of tour like, ‘Wow, there’s a father here with his child who also is here with their child. ‘We’re generational. To me, there’s nothing more gratifying than that. That means something. That’s telling about a group. What we were doing wasn’t just stuck to that time.”

“We really naturally been that group for everyone,” Pos says. “It was never about we’re just here for this community, that community, this set of people or these certain fans of Hip Hop culture. We see music as music. We’ve been very resilient, even being a group that didn’t have our music up [on streaming platforms]. We still had these beautiful opportunities through young people finding out about us through a commercial or Spider-Man. Now that it can all be there for people to gravitate to, I’m really happy about that.” 

De La Soul's impact on the musical landscape is immeasurable, with 3 Feet High and Rising widely regarded as one of the most influential albums of its era. Pioneering inventive sampling, playful lyrics, and eclectic beats, the album broke new ground and set a standard for creativity in the genre. Recognizing its cultural significance, the album was inducted into the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress.

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