Dope music, Rock the Bells recap, and two calls from a listener known only as ‘Big Gus.’

Playlist:

Skillz – Ghostwriter

Mac Miller – Kool Aid and Frozen Pizza
Action Bronson – Imported Goods
Planet Asia and Tri-State – Trouble **NEEDS RECORDED
Freddie Gibbs – Crushin Feelin’**NEEDS RECORDED

Skyzoo and Illmind – Blazin’ Speakers
1982 – Speakers on Blast f/ Cassidy
Black Milk – Deadly Medley
Wiz Khalifa – Supply

Nostalgia 77 – Changes

Same amount of songs, but a shorter episode from Pitts and Rec this week. That doesn’t mean it’s not dope, though. Peep game.

Playlist:

Prime – While I’m Dancing (remix) f/ Common

Freddie Gibbs – National Anthem
K-Os – Faith f/ Drake
Kali – Be Quiet
Bambu – Queen is Dead

Curtains – Letter to the People pt. 3
Danny Brown – S.O.S.
Blacastan – Life of a Tape
Andre 3000 – I Do

Lauren Hill – Reprocussions

Nice Rec and are back from our NYC trip, and give a rundown of what happened, in-between dope hip hop sets.
Playlist:

60 Second Assassin – Sword Style
J. Cole – Premeditated Murder
Slum Village – Scheming
K-Os – Zambony

Junk Science – Really, Man
Rick Ross – Super High
Aceyalone – Keep it True
Reks – Goddamn f/ Freddie Gibbs

Mayer Hawthorne – I Need You

1-2-3! It’s Mos Def and Talib Kweli, they came to rock it on to the tip-top, best alliance in hip hop! An hour-plus of some of the finest MC’s in hip hop, peep game!

DJ Nice Rec and I keep the focus on the mid-nineties in our third installment of R&B jams. Also, Rec got ICED during this episode!

Playlist:

Janet Jackson – That’s the Way Love Goes
Brandy – I Wanna Be Down
TLC – Creep
Total – Can’t You See f/ Notorious B.I.G.

Shanice – I Love Your Smile
Boyz II Men – Thank You
Aaliyah – Are You Somebody
Usher – You make Me Wanna

SWV – Weak
Toni Braxton – Un-Break My Heart
K-Ci and Jojo – All My Life

Seal – Kiss From A Rose

Nice Rec and Jerome got a little too drunk for this one! Nevertheless, we still rock to some new hip hop jams!

Shades of Brooklyn – Change

The Roots – The Day f/ Blu, Phonte and Patty Crash
Blu – Untitled
Marco Polo – Think of You Now f/ Saga
Red – I Should Tell Your Mama

Onra – The One f/ T3
Tunji – Towards the Future
Med – Classic f/ Talib Kweli
Copywrite – Forever and a Day

El-P – Baby (Death Mix) f/ Justin Bieber

Show Notes

It’s been a long time since we had a regular episode – this episode featured a long time friend yelling at us from outside during one of the mics. Oh yeah, it’s also got the hot jams.

SHOW NOTES

Playlist:

Jigmastas – Lyrical Fluctuations

Apollo Brown – Brainwash
Danny Brown – Guitar Solo
TiRon – 60901
Black Milk – Don Cornelius

Nappy Roots – Welcome to the Show
Asher Roth – G.R.I.N.D.
The Roots – Walk Alone
Jay Electronica – The Ghost of Christopher Wallace

Mayer Hawthorne – Held the Hand

Join us as we down our top 12 favorite songs of the aughts!

SHOW NOTES

Hit the jump for spoilers…

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J. Pitts and the gang countdown the best songs of the decade that was in the first episode of a two parter.

Show Notes

If you are the spoiler type, hit the jump to see our selections…

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Guest DJ Eric Zemba for this episode, as anyone familiar with his previous episodes knows, it is very instrumental.

Playlist:

Freddie Joachim – From yesterday

Madlib – Epsiode XVII (Interlude #1)

Freddie Joachim – New Way
J. Dilla – Give it Up
Guilty Simpson – Hood Sentence
Freddie Joachim – Run – Interlude Dilla

Madlib – Episode XXIII

Freddie Joachim – Mars feat Blu
Group Home – Suspended In Time
Gonjasufi – Duet
Bonobo – The Keeper

Koushik – Corner of your Smile
Flying Lotus – Do the Astral Plane
Eliot Lipp – See What It’s About
Dam Funk – Brookside Park
Madlib – CDP Assassins Pt 2&3