The Mad Rapper – Appreciate The Hate: The Mad Rapper Chronicles Volume 1.

Hosted by the homie Statik Selektah, Appreciate the Hate is a NY mixtape in the classic sense of the word. It’s got hot verses from every underground NY rapper who’s never gonna blow and genuinely funny skits (the blogs one made me smile). On top of that, the tape is very polished and leaves the annoying DJ shit at the door. It also features the Joell Ortiz murder victim, "Brooklyn Let’s Go!".

The Madd Rapper/D-Dot’s relevance to NY hip-hop is often overlooked and at the end of the tape, there’s a bunch of his OG shit: rare Bad Boy tracks, the "Stir Crazy" track with Eminem and even "How to Rob". This tape is like a trip through old New York.