DJ Nice Rec mixed a whole hour plus of those brothers from L.A.-The People Under the Stairs! We got real drunk during the course of this episode so be forewarned, hilarity ensued!

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It’s a New Year, and we are getting started right with a new regular episode filled with that hot shit. Peep game!

Big Pun – You Came Up

X.O. – 1.10.10
The Grouch – I Love this Game
Dumbfoundead – Different Galaxies
Blackalicious – E2METRO

Jay-Z – Young, Black, Gifted freestyle
J. Cole – I Get Up
Guilty Simpson – Before the Gifted
Reflection Eternal – Just Begun f/ Jay Electronica, Mos Def, and J. Cole

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The year two thousand and nine is over, done, finito. J. Pitts and Nice Rec countdown the best fourteen songs from the year that was.

Full countdown and awards breakdown after the jump:

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Following in the tradition of last year, here is special jazz-themed episode for your listening pleasure. Enjoy!

Neal Creque – Help Yourself
Sam Tres – Nao Identifcado
The Visitors – Glad to be Sad
Space Walk – On the Way, Antibes
Lightmen Plus One – Cold Bair
Catalyst – New Found Truths
Starlost – Grandfather Clock
Birthright – India
Eric Kloss – Waves
Lonnie Liston Smith – Aspirations

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