Jay-Z & DJ Premier - 7:18 (320 kbs)

Ahh Yeeaahh,  Jay-Z over DJ Premier's beats, read about this project here & here

What happens when you take Jay-Z’s most lyrical and personal verses & juxtapose them with DJ Premier’s most dark and precise works? The result is 7:18. This mixtape is a love letter to the hiphop we grew up listening to. This is for the people who grew up analyzing the b-side of every Gangstarr and Group Home single. This is for the people who listened to Jay’s “A Million And One Questions” a million and one times.
This is music you should only listen to wearing Carhartt jackets and wheat Timbs. Do not listen to this album at a beach under a palm tree. This is music for a cold, grey day. Preferably enjoyed in a 1994 white Lexus. This is raw and uncut Brooklyn hiphop in it’s prime. A tribute to two of the best who ever did it, and in a way only we could bring it to you. We hope you enjoy this as much as we enjoyed putting it together.


1. Intro
2. The Ruler’s Home
3. Inna City Success
4. Living Encore
5. All For The Crazy
6. Me Or Hovito
7. You Know Betrayal
8. Fire Back
9. Lucifer’s World
10. Hov I’m Living
11. Mostly The Baby
12. Drug Dealers Wassup
13. Same Day No Games
14. Wall Of Threats
15. Watch Format
16. Zone Cake
17. Original Diamonds
18. The Real Takeover
19. Rite Hand Announcement
20. Moment Of Change
21. Hello Crooklyn
22. December Theory
23. Crazy Wishing
24. Suspended Moments
25. Clean Magic
26. Perverted Queen
27. The Bounce Remains
28. Me Or The Lyrics
29. Make Em Cry
30. Thousand Hearts
31. Ignorant Time
32. Ex Feelin
33. My 1st Outro

DJ Matman - Jay-Z 'Reasonable Doubt' 20th Anniversary Mixtape (320 kbs)

This coming week marks the 20th Anniversary of Jay Z‘s ‘Reasonable Doubt’. With a rap career dating back to 1989 including stints as side man to mentor, Jaz, features for the likes of the Dame Dash managed Original Flavor and Big Daddy Kane, Reasonable Doubt (released June 25th 1996) arrived late in the rapper’s career for a debut LP. With production from DJ Premier and Clark Kent, plus features from Mary J Blige and Notorious B.I.G it sits stylistically somewhere between the dominant underground sound of the mid 90s and the emerging sound pushed by labels such as Puffy‘s Bad Boy records which would come to define popular hip hop and R&B into the late 1990s. At the intersection between those sounds lies a varied selection of sample material.

For this exclusive mixtape produced in association with Wax Poetics, former DMC champion DJ Matman delivers a selection of album tracks, alternate versions, interview snippets and of course original sample material.

Tracklist:

1. Isaac Hayes – ‘The Look Of Love’ (sampled in Jay- Z – ‘Can I Live’)

2. Jay-Z – ‘Can I Live’

3. The Stylistics – ‘Hurry Up This Way Again’ (sampled in Jay-Z – ‘Politics as Usual’)

4. Jay-Z – ‘Politics As Usual‘

5. Hamilton Bohannon – ‘Save Their Souls’ (sampled in Jay-Z – ‘Cashmere Thoughts’)

6. Jay-Z – ‘Cashmere Thoughts’

7. Ahmad Jamal – ‘Pastures’ (sampled in Jay-Z feat Mecca – ‘Feelin’ It’)

8. Jay-Z feat. Mecca – ‘Feelin’ It’

9. Hubert Laws & Earl Kugh – ‘It’s So Easy Loving You’ (sampled in Jay-Z – ‘Regrets’)

10. Jay-Z – ‘Regrets’

11. Nas – The World Is Yours (Q-Tip Remix) (sampled in Jay-Z – ‘Dead Presidents’)

12. Jay-Z – ‘Dead Presidents’

13. Lonnie Liston Smith – ‘A Garden Of Peace’ (sampled in Jay-Z – ‘Dead Presidents’)

14. Snoop Dogg feat Daz Dillinger -‘Murder Was The Case’ (sampled in Jay-Z – ‘D’Evils’)

15. Jay-Z – ‘D’evils’

16. Allen Toussaint – ‘Go Back Home’ (sampled in Jay-Z – ‘D’Evils’)

17. John Kaizan Neptune – ‘Blue Wind’ (sampled in Jay-Z ’22 Twos’)

18. Jay-Z – ’22 Two’s’

19. Brother Brother – ‘Hey What’s That You Say’ (sampled in Jay-Z ‘Friend or Foe’)

20. Jay-Z – ‘Friend Or Foe’

21. Eddie Henderson – ‘Inside You’ (sampled in Jay-Z feat Memphis Bleek – ‘Coming of Age’)

22. Jay-Z feat Memphis Bleek – ‘Coming Of Age’

23. Ohio Players – Ecstasy (sampled in Jay-Z feat Notorious B.I.G – ‘Brooklyn’s Finest’)

24. Jay-Z feat Notorious B.I.G – ‘Brooklyn’s Finest’

25. The Whole Darn Family – ‘Seven Minutes Of Funk’ (sampled in ‘Jay-Z feat Foxy Brown – ‘Ain’t No Nigga’)

26. Jay-Z feat Foxy Brown – ‘Ain’t No Nigga’

27. The Four Tops – ‘Ain’t No Woman’ (sampled in ‘Jay-Z feat Foxy Brown – ‘Ain’t No Nigga’)

28. Marcus Miller – ‘Much Too Much’ (sampled in Jay-Z feat Mary J Blige – ‘Can’t Knock Hustle’)

29. Jay-Z feat Mary J Blige – ‘Can’t Knock Hustle’

30. Meli’sa Morgan – Fool’s Paradise (sampled in Jay-Z feat Mary J Blige – ‘Can’t Knock The Hustle’)

31. Jay-Z feat Mary J Blige – Can’t Knock The Hustle (Fool’s Paradise Remix)

32. Jay-Z feat Mary J Blige – Can’t Knock The Hustle (Live at Madison Square Garden)