Mixtape Weekly

starrynight · 03-18-2011, 09:48 AM

The last video when I posted was G.O.A.T. , Apple and Going Crazy feat. D12. Says content is blocked, maybe it is only blocked in some countries then.

djchameleon · 03-18-2011, 10:51 AM

yeah it's blocked for me as well. They took it down for copyright reasons. I will try to find another one.

djchameleon · 03-26-2011, 11:52 PM

The mixtapes I want to discuss this week are Pusha T's Fear of God, Red Cafe's Above the Cloudz and the XXL 2011 Freshmen Mixtape.

Pusha T Fear of God

I love this mixtape as a whole but my favorite tracks on here are Feeling Myself, Raid, Touch It and Alone in Vegas(outro).

Raid features 50 cent and Pharrell. I was a bit shocked to hear that 50 cent still has some shred of talent it has been so long since he has shown it really on his own damn albums.

Red Cafe Above the Cloudz

When I stumbled across this gem, I had no idea who Red Cafe and I'm going to assume that most of you don't either so I will give a little bio from Wikipedia on him.

Quote:

Red Café is from Brooklyn, NY rapper of Afro-Guyanese descent. He has been called " Dead Red" all his life, a nickname inherited from his father. He often refers to himself simply as "R" on songs he appears on by saying "It's R." Red Cafe began his career in a group called Da Franchise (or as often referred to Franchise) with Bed-Stuy artist Gravy and Flatbush rapper Q Da Kid appeared on many Whoo Kid and Kay Slay mixtapes under Franchise. Due to disagreements between the three, they split up and went separate ways.

In early 2006, Red Cafe was to release his first major-label debut I Got a Story to Tell, on Capitol Records in conjunction with Mack 10's Hoo Bangin' imprint, set to include singles "Bling Blao" featuring Fabolous and "Diddy Bop". Also believed to be on that album were his songs that received radio play "Jeep ****", which features Fabolous & Paul Wall and the remix of "Diddy Bop" which features Fabolous, Kardinal Offishall, Coco Chanel and Curren$y. However this never eventuated. Red Cafe has also contributed to the Coach Carter soundtrack.

He has also ghostwritten for many popular rappers over the years. As an underground rapper, his work is not internationally recognized, though he has been rapping on the circuit since the late 1990s. Red Café signed with several major labels over the years, including Arista in 2003, Capitol Records, and RCA, but circumstances dictated that albums were not released. Red commented "I just kept running into jams where the people who believed in me they lost their positions, or just the tables turned while I was at the company and you know things change and I wasn’t able to get the support that I needed".

Red Café released a mixtape with DJ Envy, The Co-Op, on October 9, 2007 with distribution by Koch Records. Remy Ma was featured on the album, while Cafe's new song "Paper Touchin Remix" features Fat Joe. Red Café signed to Akon's Konvict Muzik label in 2007, with his major-label debut album, The Shakedown, announced as due in 2008. In 2009, Red Café signed to Bad Boy Records, with The Shakedown still unreleased.

Highlights of this mixtape would have to be: Faded feat. Rick Ross, Mariott and Put it in the Air.

I wouldn't have minded if he called Mariott, "World So Cold" instead but there are many songs with that title already I think.

All throughout this mixtape, there are audio clips from movies and before the clips are introduced he uses the signature HBO sound and I love that.

If I rated albums, I would definitely have to give this a 5/5.

djchameleon · 03-27-2011, 06:14 AM

2011 XXL Freshman Class

This year’s frosh class includes Big K.R.I.T., CyHi Da Prynce, Diggy Simmons, Fred the Godson, Kendrick Lamar, Lil B, Lil Twist, Mac Miller, Meek Mill, YG and Yelawolf.

I will list each artist and then their best track off of the mixtape but if there is a better song they did that wasn't on the mixtape. I will post that instead.

Big K.R.I.T.

CyHi Da Prynce

Diggy Simmons

They didn't include a track with Diggy by himself so I went and pulled up this song off of his Airbourne mixtape.

Fred the Godson

Kendrick Lamar

Lil B

Lil Twist

Mac Miller

Meek Mill

YG

Yelawolf

djchameleon · 03-27-2011, 06:20 AM

From this mixtape, I found a few artists that I may follow to see how they do but my favorites are Yelawolf. I have his debut LP and it's pretty great.

I like Diggy Simmons based off of his tracks that I have heard in the past.

Cyhi Da Prince is top notch in my books and I will be look more into any solo tracks that he has available.

YG, Kendrik Lamar and Fred The Godson are ones that I'm going to keep my eye on.

Everyone else I thought was pretty meh and so so.

djchameleon · 04-10-2011, 07:04 AM

This week's latest offering of mixtapes will be All Madden 15.5, Meek Mills Maybach Milly and Wale No Days Off

All Madden 15.5

I like the way this mixtape starts off with a nice track from Em.

50 Ways as in 50 ways to leave your lover.

This mixtape is pretty solid except for a weak track here and there but lame guys like Tony Yayo. Actually, I think he is the only one with a weak track. Everyone else is pretty much on point.

Eminem – 50 Ways (DJ Fonzy World Premiere) (Classic!!)
2.Lil Wayne Feat. Rick Ross – If I Die Today (Prod. By Polow Da Don) (DJ Fonzy World Premiere)
3.Pusha T Feat. Rick Ross, AB-Liva – I Still Wanna (G.O.O.D MUSIC AND THE BO$$)
4.Red Cafe Feat. Lloyd Banks, Fabolous – The Realest (Shakedownnnnnnnnnnnnn)
5.E-40 Feat. Bun B, Slim Thug – That Candy Paint (I Got U Bay Area)
6.Travis Porter Feat. Gucci Mane, Yo Gotti – Make It Rain (Remix) (Prod. By Fki)
7.Lil Twist – At The Moment (Prod. By Lex Luger)
8.Meek Mill – Professional Money Getta (Maybach Music)
9.Ya Boy Feat. Gucci Mane, Gudda Gudda – Cocaina Final (DJ Fonzy Hood Pick)
10.Wiz Khalifa Feat. Young Jeezy, Chevy Woods – Homicide
11.Young Jeezy Feat. Lil Wayne – Ballin (Prod. By Lex Luger) (DJ Fonzy World Premiere)
12.Tony Yayo Feat. 50 Cent, Shawty Lo, Roscoe Dash – Haterz (NYC To ATL) (World Premiere)
13.French Montana Feat. Princess – Skeeted On Em (Prod. By Bangladesh) (Fire!!!)
14.Tolly Feat. Juicy J, Chevy Woods, Mac Miller – Bands
15.Cyhi Da Prynce – All A Dream (2011 Freshmen Team) (Chi-Town I See U)
16.Dr. Dre Feat. Swizz Beatz – Chillin (Prod. By Swizz Beatz) (Detox Comin Soon)
17.Rick Ross Feat. Wale, Wiz Khalifa – Retrosuperfuture (Prod. By J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League)
18.Chamillionaire Feat. Short Dawg – Passenger Seat (DJ Fonzy Xclusive)
19.Pusha T Feat. Kanye West – Touch It (We Vibin Now)
20.Red Cafe Feat. French Montana – Black Roses (EA SPORTS IT’S N DA GAME)
21.Ray Cash Feat. Karyzie Bone

This is the track listing just in case you are curious to see all the artists that are on it.

Meek Mills Maybach Milly

I want to keep an eye on these up and comers so I thought I would give his mixtape a listen and he didn't disappoint. There is something about his delivery that I love. The stand out tracks on this tape that I love was when he was freestyling over some of my favorite current beats.

Kill 'Em and Black and Yellow. There are two really good songs, one he features Rick Ross and Wale and on the other one it features Freeway.

The first one is named Pandemonium and the second is called Get Ready.

Based off of those two vids I guess he's the feature on the two tracks but the way it's listed on the mixtape he makes it seems like they are the features lol.

I have always liked Freeway though.

Wale No Days Off

I feel like this was the best mixtape I listened to this week.

All of the tracks were just freestyles though but I love the beats once again that he was freestyling over and I just like Wale overall as a whole. Not all there seems to have be a few new songs but yeah all of the tracks I liked were freestyles.

I'd give this five stars out of five if I rated these mixtapes which I think I might start doing.

Next week I will be going back to the classics and reviewing some must have mixtapes.

djchameleon · 04-27-2011, 08:16 AM

This week I'm going to be covering a few classics.

Chamillionaire Mixtape Messiah

This album was the one to start his series. The Mixtape Messiah series went all the way up to 7. Most of what you hear in this mixtape though is him going at Mike Jones' throat. They were beefing pretty hard when this mixtape was released.

There is this hilarious interlude where he mixes Roots into the way that Mike Jones always calls out his own name.

He also had a beef with Lil Flip which you can hear in this song.

If people would listen to his mixtape series they would see that he is much more than just a ringtone rapper like most people think he is.

Lil Wayne Dedication 2

DJ Drama really hooked Wayne up on this one and it was one of the best albums of '06 even though it was a mixtape.

Some of my favorite tracks off of this album are SportsCenter, Georgia Bush and Welcome to the Concrete Jungle.

You can hate Wayne all that you want to but this is a must listen to.

I feel like this next tape SHOULD be a classic because 9th wonder and Wale is pretty magical.

Wale/9th Wonder Back to the Feature

Well as you can tell this mixtape has features of every track.

I'm going to post a track listing so you can get a sense of how great this mixtape is then I'll post my favorite songs from it.

# 1.Wordplay f. Currensy & Tre (prod 9th Wonder)
# 2.Cyphr f. Young Chris, Freeway & Beanie Sigel (prod 9th Wonder)
# 3.Chillin (Catch vs 9th) f. Lady Gaga
# 4.Tito Santana f. Joe Budden (prod 9th Wonder)
# 5.5 Minutes f. Skyzoo (prod 9th Wonder)
# 6.Life's A Bitch f. Talib Kweli & Joell Ortiz (prod 9th Wonder)
# 7.Night Life f. Young Chris & Tre (prod Mikey Mike)
# 8.Sweatin Out Weaves f. UCB
# 9.Hot Shyt f. Peedi Peedi, Black Thought, Tu Phace & Young Chris (prod Ritz)
# 10.Wonder Why f. Big Sean, Ken Starr & Mike Posner (prod 9th Wonder)
# 11.Pot Of Gold f. Daniel Merriweather (prod Mark Ronson)
# 12.Sharp f. Torae & Kingpin Slim (prod 9th Wonder)
# 13.Warwick Avenue f. Duffy (prod Mikey Mike)
# 14.The Sun f. Memphis Bleek (prod 9th Wonder)
# 15.Rather Be With You (Vagina Is For Lovers) f. J Cole & Currensy (prod 9th Wonder)
# 16.Goodbye f. Jean Grae (prod 9th Wonder)
# 17.Say It Again f. Royce Da 5'9 (prod 9th Wonder)
# 18.Talkin Shyt f. Bub B & Dre (prod Cool & Dre)
# 19.Nothing To Worry About f. Peter, Bjorn & John
# 20.Rhyme N Reason f. Tre (prod Warren G)
# 21.Um Ricka f. K'Naan (prod Mark Ronson)
# 22.New Soul f. Yael Naim (prod BKS)

I love how this song starts, he says it's for true hip hop lovers and if you aren't just turn on your radio like he's basically saying go listen to that mainstream crap that's being played on it.

I do like some mainstream though even though I know they aren't up to par with most underground artists.

djchameleon · 06-19-2011, 10:53 AM

This week I'm going to talk about Nicki Minaj's The Unknown Woman, Lupe Fiasco's Extra Lasers, T.I.'s Crime Pays and J Cole's The Album Before The Album

The Unknown Woman

Majority of this mixtape is tracks from Pink Friday but there are about four of five new tracks they added to it.

The standout tracks are the ones were she attempts to diss Lil Kim. She starts out on her a little bit on the remix of Til the World Ends and continues with the track called Tragedy. She delivers more subliminal type disses that she's known to do. I usually don't mind subliminals but when you are in a heated beef like this you might as well go harder than that because if she gets asked she can just say she was talking about someone else instead of Lil Kim.

This track was pretty decent as well.

Extra Lasers

Since I'm a pretty big Lupe Fiasco fan, I suggest you download this and listen to the whole thing but I will select a few tracks that I had on repeat after hearing this for the first time. I can't wait til Food and Liquor 2 comes out. I hear he's currently working on it.

The quality/sound picks up after the first 10 seconds or so.

Crime Pays

I really like this mixtape because it's almost the opposite of Nicki Minaj's in the sense that it has a few tracks from his last album but majority of the tracks is either new material or remixes over other songs.

These tracks broke my replay button

I like the sanford and son sample of their theme song on this but I had no idea until today that these two songs came from B.O.B.'s mixtape which I should probably get and review a tiny bit next week.

The Album Before The Album

This mixtape felt very official like it wasn't supposed to be a mixtape and more of album release material. I like the overall feel of the album and it's pretty smooth but tbh I didn't feel like any of the tracks really stood out but I will give you two songs from it.

djchameleon · 07-14-2011, 01:15 AM

This week I'm going to talk about Jean Grae's Cookies or Comas, Chiddy Bang's Peanut Butter and Swelly and Young Jeezy's The Real Is Back.

Cookies or Comas

This mixtape was really put together well and I enjoyed it immensely. My favorite stand out tracks are Uh Oh, Live Up, Assassins and Killing Em. Uh Oh was actually on Talib Kweli's Gutter Rainbows. If you haven't heard that album yet, I highly recommend that you do check it out. Overall I would have to give it a 5/5.

Peanut Butter and Swelly

When I stumbled across this, I just knew that I was going to be in for a treat and I wasn't disappointed. Granted the first two tracks were a bit of a weak opening to it but everything after Heatwave is just full of win. I'll just pick two of my favorites instead of posting youtube videos of the whole mixtape lol. Another 5/5 with Chiddy Bang.

I need to find out the sample that is used for heatwave. I know it and it's on the tip of my tongue but I just can't think of it.

I could see this one being overplayed on the radio, Train just tends to do that.

Yeah, I remember when he said this during his run for the freestyle record for the guinness book of records.

I really loved this track because it has some dubstep elements to it.
well I found out why it has dubstep elements, It's the track they sampled, Flux Pavilion's - I can't stop.

The Real Is Back

Listening to this mixtape, just reminded me that I don't necessarily like Young Jeezy all that much outside of a few singles here and there.
I don't think I have even listened to a regular full album of his. If you are a fan of Young Jeezy, then you may like this but other than that I'd give it a 2/5

I don't know why but I kept listening to this one track.
I don't want to call it the stand out track but maybe it's a bit more accessible than the other tracks on the mixtape.

the main reason I like this track is probably the beat and also Fabolous but that's about it.

djchameleon · 09-04-2011, 07:56 AM

I'm going to start this back up, I finally have internet at my place and it's the weekend so the best time to do my write ups.

This week I'm going to cover Cyhi The Prynce's Royal Flush 2 and Royce Da 5'9" The Execution.

Royal Flush 2

This mixtape is so high quality that I would pay for it. He definitely should have made this his debut album.
I love how the concept of this mixtape is. He breaks it up into four areas.
He describes himself as the Prince of Spades, Hearts, Clubs and Diamonds.
You get the more street stuff under Spades, Hearts of course is for the ladies, Clubs is supposed to be club/dance type tracks
and Diamond is more introspective.

I'm going to post one or two songs from each suit of cards, he also has an interlude to transition to the next suit
and they are like the best interludes, one of them I remember hearing from Coming to America, it has a very tribal beat to it.

Spades:
I really love the whole spades section and it's really hard to just pick two but I will do it anyways.

Bulletproof.

He samples bulletproof from whatever singer's name is and I love how he will stop his rhyme to use her voice for the "bullet" then go back into it.

Thousand Poundz

When I first heard this I was hooked within the first few seconds of this track and it just kept my attention throughout with Pill and Pusha T jumping on the track later on.

Hearts:
Hearts starts off nicely like he's doing tracks for the ladies but by the end of it, he's a straight up douchebag and chicks wouldn't like that **** at all lol.
I'll give you an example of how it starts and the final track of the hearts suit.
New Girl

Sunday Morning

See it comes off pretty awkward by the way he starts out and then by the end of it he's calling dude's girl easy.

Clubs:
The clubs section is not how I expected it to be. Sure the songs he has talks about being in a club and dancing but the
tracks are just so chill that I would definitely never request or play them in a club atmosphere.

Dance

Fighting In the Club

Diamonds:

I think this section is pretty tied with Spades on how well it was executed but I might give this suit the slightly
better edge for the production. I really love all the smooth jazz samples and horns used in it.

Woopty Doo

Beautiful Mind

The Execution

The Execution comes across as one of those mixtapes that takes a few tracks from an album mixed with a few unreleased tracks or older tracks from other works but it's Royce so you can't go wrong with these songs. They also have alot of features from Slaughterhouse members and other artists.

Writer's Block.

This song was so good that he made an official video for it.

This song is actually a Joell Ortiz track that they put on Royce's mixtape but it's still a hot one and one of the stand out tracks.

Fabolous, Lloyd Banks & Royce Da 5'9"

Remember The Titans

I wanted to show off just Royce's verse since he has the best verse off of that track. Remember the Titans is actually a Joe Buddens track featuring Fabolous, Lloyd Banks & Royce Da 5'9"

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03-18-2011, 09:48 AM	#1 (permalink)
starrynight Music Addict Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 937	The last video when I posted was G.O.A.T. , Apple and Going Crazy feat. D12. Says content is blocked, maybe it is only blocked in some countries then.