The Wire Mixes Pt IV 'The Game Is Rigged'

The Game Is Rigged

The most recent of the wire mixes features Bodie 'I ain't goin nowhere, this is MY corner' Broades. Bodie has so many good lines in the series it was hard to find the right ones for the mix. He was one smart ass pawn for sure but it was a great shame that he never made it to be the king.

"I do it much better with twohands" - Bodie Brodaus

The Game Is Rigged

01 - Prove It (Feat. Guilty Simpson) - Foreign Beggars

02 - Top Rank - Sean Price

03 - About Me - Raekwon

04 - Bad Mufucker Pt 2 - Brother Ali

05 - 2004 Beat Original - Damu The Fudgemunk

06 - Rap Ambush - DOOM

07 - Think About It - O.C & A.G

08 - Oh Really (Feat. Talib Kweli) - KRS-One And Buckshot

09 - Shallow and Hollow - Reef The Lost Cauze

10 - Nobody Likes Me - Ed O.G, Diamond D & Kaze

11 - Woodstock (Feat. M.O.P) - Slaughterhouse

12 - Things Ain't The Same - Masta Killa

13 - Big Deal (Instrumental) - Reef The Lost Cauze

14 - Critically Acclaimed (Feat Lil Fame, Saigon, Sean Price) - Statik Selektah

15 - NY Times (Feat, Godfather) - Kool G Rap

artwork by Matt Lloyd: desastre.co.uk

Part 5 of the wire mixes is coming soon. Can you guess the character?

Got Mo Fierce

The Wire mixes PT III - Got Mo Fierce.

Slim Charles was a reletively small part in 'The Wire' but he was there from start to finnish unlike most of my other favorite characters. A man who knew to move with the times. This was called 'Sewing MAchine' due to the quote I found for the beginning. Now it's called 'Jus Got Mo Fierce'.

The Game Ain't Changed, It Jus Got Mo Fierce.

01 - Heltah Skeltah - The Art of Disrespekinazation

02 - Sadat X Feat KRS-One & Rahzel -Blow Up Da Spot

03 - Chester P - Suicide Switch

04 - Real Live - Real Live Sh__t

05 - Kid Cudi Feat Wale - Is There Any Love

06 - Cool Kids - Blackmags

07 - Ramson Badbonez - Blackmags Remix

08 - Phil Anastasia ft. Inspectah Deck & Sean Price - Symphonies

09 - Dark Sun Riders Feat Brother J - Dark Sun Riders

10 - Defari Feat Dialated - Behold My Life

11 - Busta Rhymes Feat Lil Fame - The Game Room

12 - Vast Aire - Tipping Dominoes

13 - Redman & Method Man - Dangerous MC's

14 - Az Feat The RZA - Doe Or Die Remix

15 - klashnekoff ft. Skriblah & Kyza - Sayonara

artwork by Matt Lloyd: desastre.co.uk

A Code

A Man Gotta Have a Code.

The second in my series of 'The Wire' mixes sees the finest of Baltimores natural police, The Bunk. The Bunk is strictly a suit n tie mutha fucka but he can mix it with the best of em.

1. MVP - Ludacris
2. Dearly Departed - DJ Babu Feat - M.O.P
3. M.U.G - O.C - Feat Freddie Foxx
4. A Million And 1 Budda Spots - Redman
5. It's Getting Hot - Artifacts
6. Down For The Kaz - Kazi
7. Violatin - Count Bass D
8. Yeah - Keith Murry Feat Busta Rhymes, Redman, Erick Sermon and Jamal
9. Hurricane - The Roots Feat Common and Mos Def
10. Me-O-Mi_o (Remix) - Casual
11. The Return Of Iron Man - Ghostface Killah
12. Get Er Done - Jake One Feat MF Doom
13. Dope Boy Fresh - Jay Z
14. Dumb Girl - Run DMC
15. Red Pill - Vast Aire Feat Karniege
16. Step Off - A Trak Feat Little Brother
17. The Matrix - Black Milk Feat Pharoahe Monch Sean Price DJ Premier

A Man Must Have A Code

artwork by Matt Lloyd: desastre.co.uk

The Wire Mixes Re Up Pt I

The Re-Up

It's a time for giving and at Christmas we all love to try to give away things that we have tried to give away before. So here are The Wire mixes from the last year or so. Yes, I am slow at doing them. I wish I could blame it on being a perfectionist but a few listens to the mixes will put paid to that theory. So, I have had a few requests to re them up and I am a generous soul.

Not only are they reed up but they are re mastered and they come with fresh new covers. What could be better.

I will add one mix every day till Christmas, kinna like an advent calender with Lil Fame and MF Doom behind the windows screaming at you about glocks and vats of urine.

The first mix is "Best Not Miss" The famous advice our main character, Omar, gave to Weebay about what happens when you come at the king. This was called 'Slow Flow' but we all listened to Stringer Bell's advice and are renaming our product. This was the first Wire mix. Part II tomorrow.






Best Not Miss

Track List

1 Mr.Slow Flow - Evidence
2 Snap Yo Fingaz (Instra) - Lil Jon
3 Fuck The Law - Dead Prez
4 Roc-A-Fella Billionaires - Freeway feat Jay Z
5 Gold Chain Music - Bumrush Brothers
6 At Your Door - Clipse Feat Roscoe P, Coldchain and Pharrell.
7 The Riddler - Methodman.
8 Beef - Mos Def
9 Come On Baby - Saigon
10 Hustle On - Keith Murray
11 Badman - Murs
12 Greenery - Quasimoto
13 Good Clothes - Little Brother
14 State Of Grace - Raekwon

artwork by Matt Lloyd: desastre.co.uk

More Twelve Inch Droppings

LL Cool J - Imagine That 12''
Head straight to the B-Side & don't look back

Little Brother - ...And Justus For All EP
Includes instrumentals!

Keith Murray - Rare Joints & Remixes EP
One or two ya might not have...

Just-Ice - History 12''
P-P-P-PREMIER-PREMIER-P-P-P-P-P-PREMIER

Juju & Bloody Moon - Aaahhhhh Punch You In The Face! 12''
AAAHHHHH it's the Nut!

Grand Agent - Every Five Minutes 12''
GA is nice. Lord Finesse on the B.

Erykah Badu - On & On Remix 12''
Same remix on Vinroc & Shortkut's classic "So Much Soul"

Ed O.G. - Work For It 12''
Edo definitely works for it and gets help from PR

Deams - The Legacy EP
Gang Starr posse w/ De La Soul, Jeru, Ice-T, etc.

Audio Two - On The Road Again 12''
Get Your Mother Off The Crack!

DJ Zeph - Shake It Down 12''
Boots Riley on A, Lyrics Born on B, acapellas for both

'My Head Nearly Exploded'

Wow.

I just got this posted on my facebook page. I felt it was worthy of the rapnerds.

Funk Droppings

For today, different flavor...don't worry, still lots of flavor

Wilson Pickett - Take A Closer Look At The Woman You're With 7''

Menahan Street Band - The Wolf 7''

Sharon Jones - How Long Do I Have To Wait For You 7''

Ernie & The Top Notes - Dap Walk 7''

Cut Chemist & Medaphoar - Blind Man 12''

LA Carnival - Blind Man 12''

More Twelve Inch Droppings

For that ass...

Skinnyman, Mongo & Chester P. - Lash Suttin' 12''
UK HOFers rhyming over Redman's "Smash Sumthin'"

Rick James - Loosey's Rap Remix 12''
The original Slick Rick with Shante & BDK!

Reflection Eternal - Back Again CDS
Nice to see these two together again...coulda been hotter

Rakim - Stay A While CDS
Includes dope remix of "The Saga Begins"

Mr. Complex - I'm Rhymin' 12''
Classic Complex

Mind Space - Life Is Foul 12''
Little known(?) record from Kool Keith's Funky Ass Records

Masters Of Illusion - Urban Legends 12''
Mighty Mi Remix + Inst included

Mama Mystique - Tremendous 12''
Featuring Q-Ball & Curt Cazal and remix

Hard Work Emcees Pt. 1 - Vast Kramer

Not hard working. Hard work.

This post is dedicated to my friend Ari, who forced me to give Vast Aire a chance and introduced to the term "hard work emcee".

Some rappers say things like "We spend cheese, in the West Indies
Then come home to plenty cream Bentleys"

but others say things like "The last cat who tried to see me, he now gotta touch braille"
or
"I'm that voice in the back of LL's head saying "You gonna let a weed plant do that?" yeah, I like to instigate"

Vast Aire is type 2. He's a beast on the mic but even Two Hands would have trouble getting a club bouncing to Cannibal Ox.

Here are a bunch of singles Vast has guested on, so get out the headphones and give guy a couple listens - one's not gonna do it.


Ace Lover - Area Code 1(212) 12''









Masai Bey - Paper Mache 12''









Oddjobs - Dry Bones 12''











Push Button Objects - Fly 12''









RJD2 - The Horror 12''










Techno Animal - We Can Build You 7''









The Heliocentrics - Sirius B Remix 12''









The High & Mighty - Take It Off 12''










The Majesticons - Majestwest 12''









The Presence - Woke 12''









Diverse - Big Game CDS










El-P - Dead Disnee 12''









Breez Evahflowin' - Give It Away 12''









Def Jux - Legendary Freestyles EP









Vast Aire - Da Supafriendz Remix 7''










Dutchmassive - The Ego Has Landed 12"










T-One - The Bedtime Single 12"










Loer Velocity - Break Out 12"

Ooops...sorry, Def Jux wants you to pay for their shit, so no links this time :(

Death of L.O.L

This is a funny remix by Farma G from the UK of the Jay-Z Tune.

Big up the Music from the corner blog. Farma G n Chesaches two of my long time idols.

For Drew who is finally feeling the UK Hip Hop.

Foreign Bangers

Fine, I admit it. Some UK hip-hop is ok.

I'm really feeling the Foreign Beggars & Guilty Simpson track featured on DJ Two Hands hot new mix "The Game Is Rigged", so I did some searching for some other Beggars stuff. I'm hard at work on a new mix so haven't given it all a thorough listen yet, but so far it gets the much sought after thumbs up from the Drizzle.

So well done, Dan - the Chesmonster might even show up on the new mix!




Foreign Beggars - Crypt Drawl EP
A1 Ode To Julie
A2 Crypt Drawl (Road) f/ Anik
A3 Beatflow Freakshow (Radio)
A4 On A Winter's Day (Radio)

Foreign Beggars - In It For A Minute 12''
A1 In It For A Minute f/ Graziella
A2 In It For A Minute (Instrumental)
A3 Black Hole Prophecies (Instrumental)
B1 Black Hole Prophecies (Jehst's Wild Wild East Remix)
B2 Black Hole Prophecies (DJ Vadim Original Mix)
B3 Black Hole Prophecies (Jehst's Wild Wild Eastrumental)

Foreign Beggars - Let Go 12''
A1 Let Go f/ Graziella & Wildchild
A2 Million Skill March f/ Dr. Syntax & Wildchild
A3 Cryin' Shame f/ Dr. Syntax
B1 Let Go (Dagstrumental)
B2 Million Skill March (Dagstrumental)
B3 Cryin' Shame (Dagstrumental)

Foreign Beggars - Seasons Beatings 12''
A1 Coded Rhythm Talk (Radio) f/ Task Force
A2 Evil Dr Hip Hop (Radio) f/ Dark Circle
A3 Dark Parts (Dirty)
B1 Dark Parts (Radio)
B2 Coded Rhythm Talk (Instrumental)
B3 Dark Parts (Instrumental)
B4 Coded Rhythm Talk (Accapella) f/ Task Force

Foreign Beggars - Slow Broiled Ilk EP
1 Slow Broiled Ilk f/ Oh No
2 Backdraft (Clean)
3 Hot Plate f/ Dubbledge
4 Slow Broiled Ilk (Clean)
5 Hot Plate (Clean) f/ Dubbledge

Foreign Beggars - Where Did The Sun Go 12''
A1 Where Did The Sun Go (Clean) f/ Anik & Tommy Evans
A2 Where Did The Sun Go (Instrumental)
A3 Pisstake Pictures (Instrumental)
B1 Pisstake Pictures (Dirty)
B2 Pisstake Pictures (Clean)
B3 Pisstake Pictures (Accapella)

Foreign Beggars & Noisia - Contact CDS
A1 Contact
A2 Shake It
B1 Contact (Noisia Remix)


And a little bonus:

Diversion Tactics - Dollars & Pence EP
A1 Pounds & Cents f/ Al-Shid, Huggy Bear & J-Zone
A2 Anecdote f/ Huggy Bear
A3 Militant f/ Al-Shid
B1 Pounds & Cents (Clean) f/ Al-Shid, Huggy Bear & J-Zone
B2 Pounds & Cents (Instrumental)
B3 Anecdote (Instrumental)
B4 Militant (Instrumental)

Diversion Tactics - No Consukuences 7''
A1 No ConsUKuences
B1 No ConsUKuences (Instrumental)

Re-ups

Since my man Two Hands is apparently a get-it-while-it's-hot kinda guy:


Gravediggaz - 1-800-Suicide 12''

Gravediggaz - Diary Of A Madman 12''

Gravediggaz - Diggin' Up The Future EP

Gravediggaz - Double Suicide Pack EP

Gravediggaz - Mommy, What's A Gravedigga Remix 12''

Gravediggaz - Unexplained 12''

Milk - Never Dated EP

Milk - Spam 12''


...and another re-up right here