DJ Joel - Intro To Tha Summer, 2014

The streets have been waiting, and now it's here!

1. Freddie Gibbs - G Like Dat
2. Clyde Carson - Do That Ho (feat. D-Lo)
3. YG - Bicken Back Being Bool
4. Freddie Gibbs - High ft. Danny Brown
5. 9th Wonder - No Competition ft. Talib Kweli, Elzhi, Phonte
6. Isiah Rashad - Ronnie Drake (ft. SZA)
7. SZA - Babylon (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
8. Schoolboy Q - Grooveline Pt. 2 (ft. Suga Free)
9. Skeme - Ain't Perfect (feat. Wale)
10. Eligh - Refuge
11. Big K.R.I.T - Mount Olympus
12. The Grouch - My Best Teacher
13. Curren$y - Mo Money ft Juvenile, Young Roddy
14. Curren$y - Stove Top
15. Skyzoo - Truthfully
16. O.C. - Ymi
17. Nas - The World is Yours (Cookin' Soul remix)

Get SOME!

Review: Freddie Gibbs - ESGN

I've been a fan of Freddie Gibbs since first hearing the DJ Skee x Gibbs Midwestgangstaboxframecadillacmuzik album back in 2009. Since then, Gibbs has come and gone from a label deal with Young Jeezy, made EPs with Madlib, and released a lot of great music.

For his latest retail release, Gibbs went back to the independent route and put out through his own imprint. In comparison to Baby Face Killa, this album is very one-track-minded. Whereas BFK had a variety of songs, flows, and production styles - ESGN is a focused shoulder fired missle of gangster rap.  This album is probably only for the seasoned Gibbs fan. The album contains many guest features from people you've probably never heard of, and probably didn't want to. I'd recommend deleting and/or trimming any song via iTunes that features "Lil Sodi." That being said, there are few gems mixed in here and there, including "Eastside Moonwalker," "F.A.M.E.," "Paper," and "Lose Control."

To me this album should have been given away as a freebie as it's diluted with guests etc; and Baby Face Killa should have been retail offering. But that's just me.

My rating: 6/10
 

DJ Joel - Rap N Bullshit, Vol. 1

I've been meaning to make this mix for a while now. Songs with a heavy sampling of R&B, and a little funk/soul for good measure. In the words of Ras Kass, "Hip-hop smoothed out on the R&B tip, with a pop feel appeal to it..."

1. Saafir - Broad Minded
2. Mobb Deep - Where Ya Heart At
3. Game - All That Lady
4. Ras Kass - Understandable Smooth
5. Keak Da Sneak and San Quinn - Hood In Me
6. Kendrick Lamar - Blow My High
7. Masta Ace and Ed OG - Reminds Me
8. Mos Def -  Brown Sugar
9. Kidz In The Hall - Mi Amor
10. Nas - Can`t Forget About You
11. Terrace Martin - Makings Of You
12. AZ - Love Me
13. Kendrick Lamar - Poetic Justice ft. Drake
14. Young Gully - Tonight
15. Drake - Teach You A Lesson

GET SOME!!!

DJ Joel - Intro To Tha Summer 2013

1. Action Bronson & Kool G Rap - It's A Queens Thing
2. N.O.R.E. - Built Pyramids ft. Large Professor
3. Yelawolf - Rhyme Room ft. Raekwon & Killer Mike
4. Slum Village - Forever
5. Ras Kass - I Love This Show
6. J. Cole - Forbidden Fruit ft. Kendrick Lamar
7. Chance The Rapper - Pusha Man ft. Nate Fox & Lili K
8. De La Soul - Get Away
9. Termanology - Men Of Respect ft. Wu Tang Clan
10. Fizzyology - Hustler’s Ringtone ft. Bun B 
11. Big K.R.I.T. - My Trunk ft. Trinidad Jame$ 
12. TI, Young Jeezy - All Gold
13. Black Hippy - U.O.E.N.O remix
14. Devin The Dude - Rollin ft. Freddie Gibbs, Starlito, Killa Kyleon & Propain
15. Wiz Khalifa, Curren$y - Revenge and Cake (Cookin Soul Jetmix)
16. Terrace Martin - Somethin Else ft Problem
17. Dom Kennedy - Nothin Like Me
18. Schoolboy Q - Hell Of A Night
19. Talib Kweli - Delicate Flowers
20. Drake - Girls Love Beyonce ft. James Fauntelroy
21. Tony Royster JR - Every Girl

GET IT HERE!!!

Weekly link roundup for 3/15

Pretentious skating in the Big Apple

Philadelphia Experiment:

10 best curb roll-offs:

http://www.jenkemmag.com/home/2013/03/08/10-best-curb-roll-offs-of-all-time/

Busenitz Curb Your Enthusiasm:

Mike York, Icon of low impact skateboarding:

http://quartersnacks.com/2013/03/ayo-for-yayo-a-salute-to-mike-york-an-icon-of-low-impact-skateboarding/

DGK West Coast extras:

Link roundup for week ending 3/8/13

5 tips on being the cool guy:

http://www.jenkemmag.com/home/2013/03/04/5-more-tips-for-being-a-cool-guy/

Indoor TFs:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323549204578318531157382710.html

Chrome Ball big USA city profiles in the 90s

http://chromeballincident.blogspot.com/2013/03/chrome-ball-incident-876-sixty-seconds.html

DGK bonus footy:

Joel Meinholz Hopps commercial

GX1000 Puerto Rico

NEW Scott Johnston footy

Link roundup for week ending 3/1/13

Frozen In Carbonite Review of Pretty Sweet, Parental Advisory, and how old is too old to listen to ignorant hip-hop: 

http://frozenincarbonite.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/physical-graffiti/

Kalis interview: 

http://www.vice.com/read/josh-kalis-still-has-it

Skateboard and anti-skateboard architecture:

http://99percentinvisible.org/post/41291736390/episode-71-in-and-out-of-love

Silas in Tokyo: 

Shawn Powers video:

Girl films re-edit:

SkateLine:

Dam Funk Dublab mix:

http://dublabmedia1.net/audio/podcast/01_31_13_dam_funk_mix.mp3

Best of 2012 (mixtape)

Here is a compilation of my favorite tracks from 2012, in some particular order. Enjoy and Happy New Year!

01 - Alchemist - Yacht Rock Side A
02 - Freddie Gibbs - Deep (Prod. Madlib)
03 - Alchemist -  The Kosmos Pt.4 - Moon Probe (Feat. Big Twinz 2)
04 - Action Bronson -  Randy The Musical
05 - Roc Marciano - Nine Spray Ft. Ka
06 - Big Boi -  CPU (feat. Phantogram)
07 - Schoolboy Q - Sacrilegious
08 - Dom Kennedy - P H (Prod By DJ Dahi)
09 - Casey Veggies - Life Rhymes (Feat. Jhene Aiko) [Prod. By FreshChuck]
10 - Terrace Martin - Its Real ft. Punch
11. Ab-Soul - Illuminate (feat. Kendrick Lamar) (Prod. Skhye Hutch)
12. Kendrick Lamar - Sherane a.k.a Master Splinter s Daughter (Prod. By Tha Bizness)
13. DaVinci - Fuck Everybody But Me (Prod. Keyes)
14. Curren$y - Sixty-Seven Turbo Jet [Prod. By Harry Fraud]
15. Azealia Banks - 1991
16. Nas - A Queens Story (Prod. Salaam Remi)
17. Raekwon - 86 Feat. Altrina Renee
18. Clyde Carson - Ballin
19. Freddie Gibbs - On Me f. Problem (Prod. DJ Fresh)
20. The Jacka - Boomin System (Ft. Bo Strangles)
21. E-40 and Too $hort - Do You Remember? (Feat. Kurupt & Battlecat)
22. Ras Kass - 2999 ft. Kurupt
23. The Coup - The Guillotine
24. Game - Ali Bomaye (feat. 2 Chainz and Rick Ross)
25. 1982-  Live It Up (Feat. Lil Fame)
26. Show and AG - God Is 4 Us
27. Skyzoo - The Cost Of Sleep
28. Nas - Stay
29. Freddie Gibbs - All I Know
30. 8Ball and MJG - We Buy Gold ft. Big K.R.I.T.
31. Kirko Bangz - Mind Went Blank

GET THIS NOW!!!

Intro To Tha Summer, 2012

1. Clyde Carson - Night Call
2. Action Bronson & Riff Raff - Bird On A Wire
3. Show and AG - That Nigga Crazy
4. Ab-Soul - A Rebellion (feat. Alori Joh)
5. Meek Mill - A-1 Everything f. Kendrick Lamar
6. E-40 - Catch A Fade (Feat. Kendrick Lamar And Droop-E)
7. De La Soul - Pop Life
8. Ras Kass - Elevator Music
9. Big K.R.I.T. - Cool 2 Be Southern
10. Stalley - Party Heart (Feat. Rick Ross & 2 Chainz)
11. DJ Premier & Bumpy Knuckles - Turn Up The Mic Feat. Nas
12. Nas - Daughters
13. Strong Arm Steady - Classic
14. Casey Veggies - Thoughts Weigh (Feat. Raheem Devaughn)
15. Kendrick Lamar - The Recipe feat. Dr. Dre
16. Curren$y - Capitol Ft 2 Chainz
17. Rakim - We'll Never Stop

Intro To Tha Summer, 2011 (mixtape)

I started making these mixes back in 1997...on cassette. Yep, I was one of the last people to get a CD player.

Tracklist:

1. Snoop Dogg - The Weed Iz Mine (Ft. Wiz Khalifa)

2. Curren$y - Jetsgo

3. Trademark Da Skydiver & Young Roddy - On Point remix

4. Terrace Martin - Thirsty f. Kendrick Lamar & CyHi Da Prynce

5. Big K.R.I.T. - Get Right

6. Talib Kweli - Friends & Family

7. Strong Arm Steady - Blow My Horn Ft. Kurupt

8. Snoop Dogg - Take U Home (Ft. Too Short, Daz And Kokane)

9. Cormega - Intermission

10. Reks - Face Off Feat. Termanology

11. Raekwon - Crane Style (feat. Busta Rhymes)

12. Pharoahe Monch - The Grand Illusion (Circa 1973) Ft. Citizen Cope

13. Mobb Deep - Love Yall More

14. Lil B The Based God - Base For Your Face ft. Jean Grae & Phonte

15. Lupe Fiasco - Coming Up (Feat. MDMA)

16. Estelle - Break My Heart f. Rick Ross

17. Rah Band - Messages From The Stars

18. Keak Da Sneak & DJ Fresh - Bonus

19. Dom Kennedy - On The Way Home

20. DJ Quik - So Compton (feat. BlaKKazz K.K.)

21. DaVinci - Clean Ass Whip ft. Quinn

22. Pep Love - Cant Nobody Do It Like Us

23. The Game - Supastar (Feat. Ashley Cole & Mike Epps)

Best of 2010 in hip hop

Here are my favorite tracks from 2010...enjoy!

http://www.sendspace.com/file/m44xf6

Quim Cardona was once awesome...

I like how his board is painted black - I'm guessing Organika did not sign off on this endorsement...
http://www.ridenss.com/#/videos/quim


To get even more stoked, check, "LA skating is much more surf style skating, you know, haoli style... east coast is where raw street skateboarding is":
http://www.ridenss.com/#/videos/tom_joe

--
Joel

Case of the Mondays...

This sounds dope, except it's a party on a Sunday night that goes until 4am?? Kind of presumptuous to assume that just because you like Reggae, you don't have to wake up early on a Monday? I'm just saying....

Top 12 Hip Hop Albums of 2009

Here you go...my personal favorite albums of 2009. Yeah, it's 12. Please make comments. Agree/disagree?

1. Skyzoo - The Salvation
   This album had constant replay value since it's release. Pretty much solid front-to-back, with the exception of the track "Mr Popularity." Skip...
   
2. Drake - So Far Gone (mixtape)
   This one is a no-brainer. This "mixtape" was classic and introduced those nonbelievers to Drake (myself included). After getting this I went back and got everything else I'd missed. My first impression of this album was that it was what Kanye was trying to do with 808s and Heartbreaks, but didn't do nearly as well (singing, emotions, mellow beats, and raps).
   
3. Cormega - Born and Raised
   For me it doesn't get any better than Cormega for gritty, honest, true school NYC raps. I am still amazed an album like this can be released in 2009. A definite throwback in the best way. Cormega finally got the beats all right, and had minimal guests (all sharing his true school NYC ethos).
   
4. Saigon & Statik Selektah - All In a Day's Work
   Statik Selektah is definitely my favorite and most consistent producer of the past year plus. I never really paid attention to Saigon until he teamed up with Statik and here he shines. The few other tracks I've heard from him were always "eh," but this is superb.
   
5. Ghostface Killah - Wizards of Poetry
   I have to admit I slept on this album at first thinking to myself, "Ghost and R&B? No thanks." But after listening I remembered why Ghost is so dope. The deal with this album is the rhymes all revolve around the topic of females and relationships in general, but are definitely not sappy. Think more along the lines of Wildflower. The production is semi-smoothed out, but raw, like Ghostface.
   
6. The Jacka - Tear Gas
   This was the #1 bay album of the year, hands down. With dark production (think the opposite of hyphy) and the most-varied guests I've seen on any album. Devin the Dude, Cormega, E40, Zion I, Freeway,...need I say more?
   
7. DJ Quik and Kurupt - Blaqkout
   DJ Quik is one of the top 5 producers of all time and on this album, he's teamed up with the very talented, but generally lyrically lazy Kurupt. On this album though, Kurupt sounds inspired and rejuvenated a bit by the presence of Quik. The album is very well rounded with songs to ride to as well as songs you could hear in the club (if they played stuff besides whats on the radio). Quik continues where Trauma left off to push the limits of his production range with tracks like "9 times out of 10," but also gives you the smooth funk you love on tracks like "The Appeal."
   
8. Souls Of Mischief - Montezuma's Revenge
   This one came out at the end of 2009 as a sleeper, but a certified banger. The production is handled solely by Prince Paul (Gravediggaz, De La Soul). At first this sounds like an odd pairing, but after one listen, all doubts are set aside. This album bangs from front to back with energized and witty lyrics from Phesto, A-Plus, Opio, and Tajai. And with Prince Paul on the production, even the skits are worth not skipping (see Morgan Freeman). The Souls manage to sound rejuvenated and seem to have aged very well unlike some of their counterparts.
   
9. The Grouch - Three Eyes Off The Time
   This EP is a collaboration between the bay areas own DJ Fresh and Living Legends The Grouch. I remember when I met DJ Fresh back in 2004 when I was living in San Jose. He was working at Circle A skateshop, DJing between customers. He told me that he had just gotten back off of the Nas "God's Son" tour. Having just met him I kinda wondered if he was full of shit. Guess not. DJ Fresh provides lush beats for Grouch's ever conscious, but fresh delivery. The production is very melodic and rich...it sounds bay area, but also with influences of J Dilla and other east coast producers.
   
10. Wale - Attention Deficit
    Wale provided one of my favorite mixtapes with his Seinfeld-themed album called "Mixtape About Nothing" in 2007. Now in 2009 he finally released his full length debut. The album he delivered is great with solid production, thoughtful lyrics, and original concepts. Unique for a major label debut.
    
11. Royce Da 5'9" - Street Hop
    This album is amazing...and amazingly slept on. I'm not sure the deal. It sounds like it wasn't mastered entirely and the cover looks very last-minute. The tracks are all original (not mixtape) and features production on a few tracks from DJ Premier and other top shelf producers. Royce definitely flexes his pen game on this album with amazing concept and storytelling tracks (listen to "Part of Me" and "On the Run").
    
12. Termanology - Time Machine
    With Term's sophomore release he mostly sticks to the script with production from Large Professor, Statik Selektah, and Fizzy Womack among others. The standout tracks are "Time Machine" produced by Large Pro and "Nothing Iz Real" - a great track featuring a downtempo sample from the group Zero 7.
    

Also, after reading a few other peoples lists for 2009, I have to admit that I have not heard these albums: Brother Ali - Us; Wiz Khalifa; The Cool Kids.

Eric "G"(Squad) producing tracks on Skyzoo debut

The young dude Eric G from back in the day is apparently crushing the motherfucking game lately. He's on Skyzoo's debut album with 2 tracks, alongside the likes of 9th Wonder and Just Blaze.

So hyped:
Interview: http://www.nodfactor.com/2009/07/27/60
Album: Skyzoo "The Salvation"

Ras Kass, Biography part I

Biography of John Austin: Episode 1 from Ras Kass on Vimeo.

I see dead people

Dope new shit from Term:

Casual, San Quinn, FTC

Dope:

"Off the Pacific" TD Camp ft Casual & San Quinn from Hella Records on Vimeo.

Quik and Kurupt on a Camel

New Goapele video

This here is known as FIRE. Looking forward to seeing her live on Friday in OAKLAND.

Milk and Honey - Goapele from goapele on Vimeo.