tbt

  Common sense. When you get a dope spitter from Chi-town and one of the greatest producers of all time on a joint together, you can expect great things. In the year ’99, Common linked up with DJ Premier to record a few songs for his album “Like Water For Chocolate“, and one of those joints is today’s Throwback Thursday…

I am, focused man! Hard to believe 13 years ago today Jay Z dropped one of the greatest albums of all time. Yeah, that’s right – thirteen years (because the fact that it is one of the greatest albums of all time can’t be contested)! The Blueprint was and is a great album from beginning to end and though you likely…

Taking it back to 2012 we dip into another one of my favourite trap classics. A track that helped cement my love for the genre: Tom Wrecks’ (1/2 of Thugli) rework of Nas – ‘The Don’. After the short intro “This for every ghetto in the hood…” The track comes with some serious energy. With sped and looped vocals, tweaked drums…

What’s the key to life? Money, Power, Respect has one of the most recognizable beats (if you’re a hip-hop head). This song is the title track from the The LOX debut album of the same name. Featuring the Double R (Ruff Ryders) head honcho and compadre DMX and then labelmate Lil’ Kim, this track is one of the hardest tracks from The…

Things you do. For this week’s throwback Thursday track, we’re taking it back to the summer of 2000. The track “Fall In Love” from Detroit’s Slum Village is one that really captures the hip hop and neo soul groove perfectly; courtesy of Jay Dee (J Dilla) who produced the head-knocker. The song comes from the groups 2000 release “Fantastic Volume…

It’s about to go down! As I was thinking about what track we would use for this week’s #tbt, I kept going back to the late 90’s era of rap. I reached out a ClassyVlassy to find out what he thought would be good. He mentioned a Jay track from the DJ Clue Professional series. I thought about it for a…

Hearing Every Rhyme. For this week’s throwback we take you back to the Chi-town streets in ’94. Common, or better known as Common Sense back then, dropped I Used to Love H.E.R. off of his sophomore effort entitled “Resurrection”. The album was entirely produced by No I.D. and I Used to Love H.E.R. has a really smooth beat. In regular 90’s…

  One for the treble, two for the bass. For this week’s throwback we’re bringing you a track that flew well under the radar even though it was intended to be a radio smash. This track dates back to the year 2000 before Mos Def adopted the alias and persona of Yasiin Bey. The track features the late Nate Dogg and Pharoahe…

Earlier this week J. Cole celebrated the 5 year anniversary of  his classic mixtape The Warm Up. Keeping that in mind we decided that it’s only right for this week’s Throwback Thursday to be a track from Cole from around the same time. After much thought we decided to go with ‘Good Game’.  The track dropped prior to The Warm Up and…

It’s Thursday and this week we’re taking it back to 2012 for a certified Trap classic. The song is ‘So Fly’ by Huglife (Dj Slink at the time). I wasn’t aware that he had changed his name and lost sight of the talented producer for quite some time. For a detailed breakdown of the name change check out the interview…