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UNRELEASED: COMMON – STRANGE FRUIT (FEAT. JOHN LEGEND) (PRODUCED BY KANYE WEST)

Here’s some unreleased Common featuring John Legend and produced by Kanye West that didn’t make it to the final cut of Finding Forever, most likely due to the Nina Simone sample. Who knows. Dope shit though. Chicago run it! I love that the internet allows a venue for great songs that can’t legally make it [...]

MICHAEL JACKSON’S THRILLER SESSION DEMOS

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to see the stuff the French thought about giving America before they decided on the Statue Of Liberty? How about what your boy President John Adams had in mind for a crib before he had the White House built? Yeah, it’s that major. These are a [...]

MIXTAPE: DJ JAZZY JEFF X MICHAEL JACKSON – HE’S THE KING, I’M THE DJ

Up until now I’d avoided the flood of MJ dedication mixtapes, but when I heard that DJ Jazzy Jeff was putting together one I jumped at the opportunity to throw it on my iPod, and it doesn’t disappoint. So for those who still want to commemorate the King of Pop, Jeff x UNDRCROWN put together [...]

BLIND I PRESENTS THE NEPTUNES – DECEMVIR

Snoop Dogg – Pass It Pass It (Feat. Pharrell) (Advance Version)
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I’ve been working on this for a LOOOONG time and I finally completed another masterpiece. For those not in the know, The Neptunes are a record production duo consisting of Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, who are credited with [...]

CLASSIC: ST. IDES COMMERCIAL COMPILATION

Fuck Colt 45, St. Ides is for the kids! All jokes aside, St. Ides put together a super thorough promotional campaign back in the day with Dr. Dre to push their malt liquor sales to the then-blossoming hip-hop crowd. Looking back on it philosophically, it was a total brainwashing tool to get inner-city youth to [...]

WU-TANG CLAN’S DEMO TAPE (1992)

When it comes to the children, Wu Tang is for the children. Puffy is good, but Wu-Tang is the best. The Wu Tang Clan was very influential on my personal musical maturation and that moment at the Grammy Awards when ODB spoke so profoundly is part of the reason why this site is called Blind [...]

NASTY NAS’ 91 DEMO TAPE

I’ve had this for a minute but recently got a few requests to up it for the Blind I faithful. Nas was about 18 years old when he recorded most of the tracks that were to be featured on his demo tape. His lyrical prowess was astonishing for a 18 year old kid, but what [...]

THE BEST OF BAD BOY RADIO FREESTYLES (1997-2007)

Kanye & Common Freestyle (2005)
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Yeah, it’s that serious. A few days ago, I took my quest to find the elusive All About The Bad Boys track to Twitter in efforts to try and find it for my catalogue and the world’s pleasure. I was directed to Mr. Mike Love, [...]

CLASSIC MATERIAL: CHI-TOWN ALL-STARS – ALL ABOUT THE BAD BOYZ (MP3)

Happy Memorial Day! In celebration I’ma throw it back about 12 years ago with a super-rare joint that used to get heavy rotation the summer of ‘97 here in Chicago on WGCI. Mike Love and the Diz (aka the Bad Boyz) did a Chicago-superstar remix of P. Diddy & The Family’s “All About the Benjamins” [...]

TRAILER: BRUNO

Hilarious!

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