Metal Lungies

I’ve been listening to this over the past few days, it got lost in the holiday week shuffle to be posted. And, yeah we have been on a mixtape kick as of late. While this may not be up to par with the other exclusive laden tapes, and we might not like some of the material, serving as the the prelude to Free At Last, this tape deserves some playtime. Especially if you are a fan of the bearded lyricist monster that is Freeway.

Tracklisting:

1. Live Free Die Hard (The Opener) Feat Jae Ellis
2. Big Spender Feat Jay Z
3. Freezer So Cold
4. Money In The Bank
5. SmokeN That
6. Code Of The Streets
7. You Don’t Know Feat Mad Skillz
8. Make It Better
9. BuckTown (Home Of Philly)
10.Animal Instinc
11.Wipe Me Down Remix Feat UGK & Foxxx
12.You Already Know
13.Track Star
14.Philly To Where ever
15.Suck Me Off
16.We Want Freeway(Produced By Shane Boog’s)
17.Think It Over
18.Yhall Still Hate Me Now Feat Small World & Sun NY
19.Hit The Club Up Feat Jak Frost
20.Rocafella Family
21.Magazines
22. Life of a Philly Gangsta
23. True Honey Buns
24. Polictics 2007

Download Link.

If you haven’t peeped this yet, you should be gettin’ it, while the gettin’ is good. It should go without saying as to why this particular mixtape, put together by The Empire, is more worthy of attention than any of the other Wayne mixtapes that have flooded the market recently — shit, it’s right there in the title. The main purpose of any mixtape is typically to build up anticipation for, and give people a quick glimpse of, an upcoming album. Simply put, there aren’t many albums more anticipated than Wayne’s Tha Carter 3, and there’s no better way to give fans a glimpse of that album than by providing some rough cuts made during the ongoing recording process.

Tha Carter 3 Sessions was discussed by Wayne last week on MTV.com, and though he doesn’t drop any track names, he mentioned that a song produced by Kanye West that’s “out there” is something that he wants to save for the album, and everything else “probably wouldn’t have made” the album. The Kanye track in question would appear to be “Did It Before”, the first song on this mixtape, which has Wayne spitting a sex rap (about women — no homo, for y’all insecure folk) and rhyming every bar with the track’s title, coming off as equally impressive and lazy, humorous and grating. One of the roughest of the rough cuts on here, it’s not all that surprising that Wayne’s planning on keeping this one — with a little fine-tuning, to both the beat and the lyrics, it could be a standout track on the actual album.

Read the rest of this entry »

I just came across this, on the Clinton Sparks page. He has put up his whole stash of mixtapes he has ever done up for free download, gee I wonder if the DJ Drama raid has anything to do with this. There is definitely some stuff you should grab for your mp3 stashes, that is of course if you already don’t have them.

Here are the ML approved CS mixtapes:

• “SmashTime Radio” The Shade 45 Edition
• The Return Of Tha Yardfather
• The Awakening
• New Crack City
• Touch The Sky
• The Clipse & Re-Up Gang: We Got It 4 Cheap, Vol. 2
• Anger Management 3
• We Got It 4 Cheap Vol. 1
• Get Familiar Vol. 7

*The We Got It 4 Cheap series would be recommended even if it cost double the price of a retail cd.

Did I miss anything? Let me know in the comments.

Also, I would like to see Clinton’s bandwidth bill.

More and more I have been interested in the work of Tenessee rapper, Project Pat. As many of you know, Pat is signed to Hypnotize Minds and was released from prison in July 2005 after serving time for assault charges. Now why would I choose to profile Project Pat, you ask?

Well, I was listening to some old mixtapes earlier today and I came across my copy of God’s Plan. While I was listening to it I could not help to notice one of the standout tracks on the record, 187 Ya Yo. This Tony Yayo freestyle reminded me of a talented gangster rapper who has long since dissappeared and been replaced by this travesty. But throughout it all I could not see any reason why this perfectly good MC turned into the crap he is today.

My only explanation: Tony Yayo had his rap ability raped out of him in prison. Now, many will try to say that the downward trend has effected the entire Guerilla Unit and Tony’s prison stint has nothing to do with the lack of quality in his recent music. I deny this simply based on the fact that 50, Lloyd, and Buck can still ryhme as hard as they used to, but they have changed their style for a more commercial, less threatening, demeanor. Tony, on the other hand, has changed his style, but has lost a notable amount of rap abilty.

Examine the evidence:

187 Ya Yo (Tony Yayo Pre-Prison)

Curious ft. Joe (Tony Yayo Post-Prison)

This brings me back to my original topic, Project Pat. After his prison term it seems that Pat’s rap ability has actually improved. This is especially evident in his already impressive punchlines. Now, Pat has never been a lyrical behemoth but he has always been a rapper who can motivate a riot when necessary. His new material is no exception and makes me wanna tear it up even harder.

Long Story Short. Cop that new LP, Crook By The Book, when it comes out.

I didn’t really need to go into the whole Tony Yayo thing……thats just been buggin me for a minute.