The premise of this mixtape is pretty cheesy. Buckshot and KRS-One made an album called Survival Skills (with spectacularly bad cover art) which no one really cared about. The Survival Kit mixtape features Duck Down artists and friends paying tribute to Buck and KRS by reinterpreting their songs.
And yet, the mix is solid. The younger cats did a great job of channeling Black Moon and KRS-One’s early 90s vibe. Admittedly, underground rappers like Sha Stimuli, Chaundon, and the Kid Daytona never impressed me much, but they all mastered their contributions.
Skyzoo and Torae need to do an album together. I’m bringing that up at the next Duck Down box social. Oh you weren’t invited to the box social?
Download: Duck Down Surival Kit
Track list after the jump
1) Survival Kit Intro by DJ Sherazta
2) Gotcha Opin Original (Re-Mix) – Tanya Morgan (Prod. by: NVME)
3) South Bronx (Re-Mix) – Cause, The Kid Daytona & Chaundon (Prod. by: NVME)
4) Buck Em Down (Re-Mix) – Christian Rich (Prod. by: NVME)
5) Sound Of Da Police (Re-Mix) – Diz Gibran & Shawn Chrystopher (Prod. by: ILL TAL)
6) Shit Iz Real (Re-Mix) – Ruste Juxx (Prod. by: NVME)
7) Step Into Our World (Re-Mix) – Team Facelift & Jade (Prod. by: ABADDON)
8) Talk Shit (Re-Mix) – Torae & Skyzoo (Prod. by: NVME)
9) MC’s Act Like They Don’t Know – Sha Stimuli, Promise, J.A.M.E.S. Watts, Fashawn (Prod. by: NVME)
10) I Got Cha Opin 09 – Kardinal Offishall & Buckshot (Prod. by: Havoc of Mobb Deep)
11) Past Present Future – KRS-ONE, Buckshot, Melanie Fiona
& Naledge of Kidz In The Hall (Prod. by: 9th Wonder)
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