Grilled Steeze

Two young guns team up for another banger….
WALE & YOUNG CHRIS: SEARCHING: DOWNLOAD HERE (CLICK HERE)

Also, Wale & Colin Munroe hop on a Diplo remix of Don’t Go, which was featured on the Benzi/Diplo Paper Route’s Fear and Loathing in Hunts Vegas mixtape, which was illmatic.

PAPER ROUTE GANGSTERZ: DON’T GO (DIPLO FEATURING COLIN MUNROE & WALE): DOWNLOAD HERE (CLICK HERE)

So I’ve been TRYING to stay up on Seattle, and I’m telling you they have one of the best underground scenes anywhere. Hands down. So when my man Taybot shot me over his brand new mixtape, I was dying to check it out.

For those who haven’t heard, check out his dope freestyle for KEXP right HERE.

This tape really epitomizes the classic mixtape. With only 3 of the songs longer than 3 minutes, there are a lot of filler type tracks that Taybot uses to showcase his different lyrical styles. There are a few skits, and even a few features. It was produced by Phil + Numberman, who I’m not familiar with, but I’m sure they are out in Sea town somewhere. They lay down an interesting selection of beats, some of them drawing a Sabzi like feel, and even one that just reminds me of a older 90s west coast shit. Most of the songs share a jazzy kind of thing, which I’ll be honest gets a little old after awhile. Taybot rides the beats like he’s been doin’ it since he was born. One of my issues with the tape is the mixing. I feel like they beats are too loud and that they sort of drown out the rhymes at some points. Despite that, from a pair of producers I’ve never heard of, they lay down an interesting soundscape for Taybot to showcase his diverse rapping styles. Lyrically, he seems to draw from just about everyone in the game to some degree. On the song ‘Too Gutter’, he basically pays homage to all the rappers that he has drawn upon. This guy definitely has talent, I would love to see him with a little better mixing (nothing against Phil + Numberman, there are for sure some constant head nodders on this tape), and a bunch of the tracks get sort of convoluted about halfway through with random horns and stuff that just drown out the rhymes. Some things just sound out of place, there’s some M.O.P. kinds thing going on track 5 that I’m not down with (even though the rhymes are fucking crazy on that), and the vocals on the last track are not really my thing. The track with Scribes is just straight FIRE. But enough of the negative shit, just listen! I put up 5 of the best joints on the tape for you to listen to, and if you like it, please please PLEASE support this guy and actually buy a tape. More information is on his website (here) and his myspace (here).

1. New Dawn
2. What It’s All About: DOWNLOAD HERE
3. Dynamite
4. Get This Money
5. Jingle
6. Ride Wit Me Interlude
7. My Pain, Your Pain
8. The Fresco Feat. Praxis: DOWNLOAD HERE
9. Hold Tight
10. Caught in a Scam Part 1
11. Drunken Interlude
12. We Stay Fly Feat. Scribes: DOWNLOAD HERE (best track on the mixtape in my opinion)
13. Constant Heat: DOWNLOAD HERE
14. Caught in a Scam Part II
15. Fire Starter Interlude
16. Get Em Up
17. Never Be Done
18. Shit is Hotter Interlude
19. Keep Ya Head Noddin
20. Too Gutter
21. Small Town Vibe: DOWNLOAD HERE
22. Another Chance Feat. Sheldon Botler

For all you out in Seattle, be sure to check out the release party on August 16th:

A Muxtape is basically an online mixtape. Mixtapes are the shit. Therefore, I’m gonna keep an updated mixtape for you all to enjoy. All the music I put up there is Grilled Steeze verified by yours truly. Check out the Grilled Steeze Muxtape HERE, and there is also a link over to the right. I’ll try to change things up as often as I can…

This is the mixtape that came out with the Beat Kings DVD. Mathmatics hold down the tape while Statik Selektah blends the tracks. Tracks from The 45 King, Swizz Beats, DJ Premier, Pete Rock, Alchemist, Havoc, and more. Lots of Jay-Z and Mobb Deep on this tape, as well as some Termanology/Papoose/M.O.P. on a ‘Watch How It Go Down’ Remix, CL Smooth, just check it out! I haven’t been able to find the DVD anywhere but it looks really good, if anyone has it hit me up in a comment or email or something.

DOWNLOAD HERE

Yea I know this shit is old, but Dyme Def is the shit and this blog is new sooo.. yea i does what i does. The trio of Brainstorm, Fearce Villain, and S.E.V., in combination with producer Bean One= sickest shit on earth. Their debut album Space Music was one of the best of last year, and this mixtape keeps it going. They offered it for free to the internets, so download that shit! The mixtape has some guests, some big names like One Be Lo (YES BINARY STAR’S ONE BE LO), and, unfortunatley haha, Young Buck. Whatever, go get some.

1. Intro
2. 3BadBrothaaas
3. ComeFollowMe
4. Super90s Feat. SS Fresh
5. MyNuts
6. RudeBoys
7. TheGameNeedsMe (Remix)
8. ToTheLimit
9. SwaggerJackin’
10. BringItBack Feat. One Be Lo
11. Journey Feat. Darrius Willrich
12. FullOfMyself
13. ThatShit’sKnockin
14. Brain’sTheme
15. Juiced
16. Conscience
17. Don’tEverGo Feat. Choklate
18. WhatCanISay?
19. IGotYou Feat. Young Buck

DOWNLOAD HERE

This was a promo tape for The Ghetto Pop Life (in my opinion one of the greatest rap albums of all time), with unreleased freestyles from Jemini, remixes, snippets from Jemini’s ‘Scars and Pain EP’ (which I’ll put up soon enough), and samples of tracks from Ghetto Pop Life. The remixed Suzanne Vega and Nas tracks at the end of the tape were on Danger Mouse’s promo CDs (which I’ll also be blessing yall with soon enough).

Since this was a mixtape, it was originally one long track. I split it into 16 for you, to make it easier on the iPods and all that shit. I included the original, 36 minute track as well for all of you that are into shit like that haha.

1. Intro
2. Ghetto Pop Life
3. Don’t Do Drugs
4. The Only One
5. Exclusive Track 1
6. That Brooklyn Shit
7. What U Sittin On?
8. Omega Supreme [Remix]
9. Bush Boys
10. Exclusive Track 2
11. Copy Cats
12. Exclusive Track 3
13. Brookyln Kids [Ghetto Pop Mix Short Version]
14. Who Wanna Step II Dis [Remix]
15. Suzanne Vega: Tom’s Diner with 50 Cent’s ‘In The Club’ Beat [Danger Mouse Remix]
16. Nas: It Ain’t Hard to Tell [Danger Mouse Remix]

DOWNLOAD HERE