I’m still eagerly waiting for the release of “Doe Or Die 2”, but I guess this AZ comprehensive mix by DJ Books (The Visualizer) will hold me down until then…

Turn the motherfucking volume up a couple notches…

TRACKLIST-

01. Life’s A Bitch Verse
02. The Vizualizer Speaks
03. Problems (Thief Mix)
04. Ho Happy Jackie
05. Sosa
06. The Come Up
07. Murda On The Daily feat. Cormega
08. Whips N Kicks feat. Raekwon
09. Executive Decision feat. The Firm
10. The Hardest feat. Styles P
11. Take It Off
12. How Ya Living feat. Nas
13. Mo Money, Mo Murda feat. Nas
14. The Essence feat. Nas
15. Let’s Toast
16. Love Is Love feat. Half-A-Mil & Nature
17. The Format
18. Sit Em Back Slow feat. M.O.P.
19. Feel My Pain
20. Sugar Hill
21. Phone Tap feat. The Firm
22. The Payback
23. New York feat. Raekwon & Ghostface
24. Uncut Raw
25. Living The Life
26. I Am AZ
27. Serious feat. Nas
28. VI (Professional Style) feat. Nature & Cormega
29. My Niggas
30. Rather Unique
31. Rather Unique (2010)

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I’m quite sure I posted 1-5 from FB’s “Used” sample source mixes, so it’s only right that I give number six a post as well…

All you Hip Hop junkies can play “Name That Tune” for over an hour if your in that type of mood..

HAHA..

Take a listen trooper..

AG, Showbiz, and O.C. took time out recently to chop it up heavy with H.H.A to discuss upcoming projects, why Showbiz decided to stop rhyming on tracks, the loss of Big-L, new DITC material, etc…

” HHA: I had talked through email to you manager Jason, and he said you all had gotten together for a beat listening session. Were you guys all in the room at once?

Show: Yeah, that was nice, that was nice.

O.C.: Yeah yeah, we had a lot of those since then.

HHA: Have you guys gone in the lab together and recorded the songs, or is it more you are doing it on your own time?

A.G.: The time we had came together, the times we have come together as one in the studio, we basically liked the beats together and picked beats to use for the project together. You know, as ideas come along we run then by each other, so it’s just a work in progress and we definitely knocking it out, but right now we got the O.C. and A.G. Oasis Part II, we got the Show and A Mugshot, and we’re going to throw another Mugshot album out before the Mugshot album comes out. So we in the studio a lot, and we’re recording a lot, and we’re doing everything at the same time: The Diggin’ shit, the Oasis shit, the Show and A.G. shit, the O.C. shit. So, like O said, we just working, and nothing has a particular title right now; it’s just work and we’ll figure it out where it goes as it goes along like Show said.

HHA: Are all the members in the unit right now, or is Fat Joe still not involved?

Show: Nah, Fat Joe’s not involved right now.

HHA: So it’s all the other members of the crew now?

Show: Yeah, everybody’s involved

HHA: Will we hear more of (Lord) Finesse on the D.I.T.C. stuff in terms of rapping? It’s been a while since we heard him.

Show: The question remains. Hold that to the question remains. Finesse is going to get back on the mic but it’s been a long time that he had an album out, so he’s going to get on when he’s ready to shake his ass; he’s going to get on and do what he do. Til then, we holding it down for him “.

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The limited edition vinyl keeps dropping and I’m not complaining one bit…

This time around Sergent Records gives Kukoo The Bag of Bones the hundred and fifty press treatment…He was involved with one of Mista Sinista’s groups the “Cliffhangaz” (Curry Chicken Head still gets burn around these parts) and the “Insane Psycho Home” crew that dropped a solid EP in the early 2000’s..

COP HERE…

This new project from Compton rhyme slinger Columbo Black (Scrap Mettle) has some serious heat on it..His rhymes are descriptive, multi dimensional, and original…

If your looking for some 2012 Hip Hop morale – you just found it..

“Way Of The Gun”

“Expressions” featuring D.Valentine.

“Cruise”

After a brief hiatus – Preemo is back on deck with Sirius Radio for his Live From Headquarters jump off..I don’t have the playlist for last weeks show, but I do have a download link so consider yourself lucky…HAHA..

Take a listen..

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Some of you cats traded in your B-Boy gear for medium size “TAP OUT” shirts….We don’t get down like that over here on the BATTLEFIELD, we keep it grizzly 365/24-7…

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Awwwwww man, take a look at this Super Rockin Mr. Magic Tee by the good folks over at Rec Room….I’m going to cop one of these joints on general principle…If your thinking along the same lines, scoop one of these bad boys up while you still can..

Rest in Power John “Mr.Magic” Rivas (March 15th, 1956 – October 2, 2009)

PEEP….

And while your at it – I highly suggest that you check this Mr.Magic podcast page that pays homage to his legacy..It is loaded to the brim with old “Rap Attack” broadcast…

DONT SLEEP…

“The American Way” finds the Rebel INS (Inspector Deck) hitting us with his best material in years….If this is any indication of what he has been cooking up lately – count me in JACK !!!!!…

Fresh off a three year prison bid for attempted murder, the don gorgon “Ninjaman” speaks his mind on this very thorough forty five minute interview…

The dancehall community has been hit hard lately with some of it’s biggest stars falling victim to incarceration (Busy Signal, Mavado, Vybz Kartel, Elephant Man, and Buju Banton to name a few)….

Salute to the DON for trooping through his stretch…

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After “Ka” left Natural Elements he was in a group called NIGHTBREED with a cat named Kev…

Not to be confused with the other Nitebreed that rocked more of a horrorcore steez (“Meditations on Death” is my favorite cut from THAT crew, go track that one down if you know what’s best for you)…

Anyway, if you carefully listen to “Grief Pedigree” you can tell that Ka has put in a lot of work with his pen game…The NIGHTBREED material isn’t half bad, but you can definitely hear a Mobb Deep influence in their approach…

All cuts produced by Charlemagne..

“Long Time Coming”

“Two Roads Out the Ghetto”

WHEW !!!!

These official “Art Of Rap” tees by your boy Slick (Dissizit) are no fucking joke…

I’m not exactly sure when these are going to hit the market, so check Slick’s blog periodically to stay in the know..

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Late last night I gave that Masta Ace & Doom “Son Of Yvonne” joint a listen (the official release date is not until July 17th – HAHA)..

As much as I wanted to dismiss this album as another marketing scheme gimmick, I actually enjoyed the project from front to back…

Sure I have heard those “Special Herbs” beats hundreds of times, but Ace breathes new life into those productions with well thought out concepts, parables, clever song writing, and unpredictable bars…

HIP HOP BATTLEFIELD TOP PICKS…

“Slow Down”

“I Did It”

“Home Sweet Home”

DJ Spinna supplies us with a session of certified body rockers on “Brazilian Funk Mode”…This initially dropped in 2003, so if you missed it the first go-round here is your chance to scoop up this batch of goodies..

Catch a groove!!!

TRACKLIST-

01. baoba
02. periscopo
03. hipnose
04. meu balanço
05. mentira
06. esperar pra ver
07. se o mundo acabasse em mel
08. malandro
09. tio macro
10. cala boca menino
11. bananeira
12. tudo que voce podia ser
13. eu reu me condeno
14. whistle stop
15. ei voce psiui
16. bairro negro
17. na boca do sol
18. tema da zorra
19. caça a raposa
20. psicose
21. barumba
22. zanzibar
23. black soul brother
24. assim nao da
25. mexerico da candinha
26. tanga
27. na na hey hey
28. voo cego

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It is obvious that DJ Day crafted these beats around the vocals..Some cats just slap the accapellas over any old beat and call that shit a remix…..HAHA..

Take a listen to these and get your motherfucking mind right…

Nas – “It Ain’t Hard To Tell” DJ Day Remix…

Jungle Brothers – “What Planet, What Station” DJ Day Remix..

DJ Boba Fettucini splashes the set with “Amazing Spidey Breaks”..

Most beat tapes I hear lately put me fast to sleep, but this joint caught my attention with heavy drums, well crafted samples, interesting segues, etc….

Check in homeboy..

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