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LUKE VIBERT – BONAFIDE BEATS

Luke muthafunkin’ Vibert! The doode who made one of my favorite tracks that I ever put on a NKD…

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Well the good folks over @ Bonafide Magazine have been putting out a series entitled Bonafied Beats, and for Vol.6 they called on the talents of Luke Vibert. The schitt is like hoppin in a DeLorean of 1.21 gigawatts to late 98/early 99. In Bonafide’s words…

Fresh from carbonite, the next mix in the Bonafide Beats series is certified vintage, having been in storage since Prince was partying in 1999. Washing up on the silicon shores of Luke Vibert’s hard drive some ten or more years since it was made, this mix captures the vibrancy of underground hip-hop on the cusp of the new millennium. With the ‘golden-era’ fast disappearing in the rear-view mirror, here we see one-time independent outfits such as Company Flow and Slum Village take a breath and prepare to dive deeper, making way for Fiddy and co. to lurch in and plunder all that glamour and gold offered up to the new millennium ‘gangster’ rappers.

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Tags: A TRIBE CALLED QUEST, Company Flow, DJ SPINNA, Doug E. Fresh, Gang Starr, GRAND PUBA, HMM, J-TREDS, KOOL KEITH, LUKE VIBERT, NKD, ORGANIZED KONFUSION, PACEWON, PHAROAHE MONCH, POLYRHYTHM ADDICTS, Q-TIP, RAHZEL, SCREWBALL, SIR MENELIK, SLUM VILLAGE, SOULS OF MISCHIEF, THE BROTHERS, TRUCK TURNER

DIRTY MONEY, FILTHY DOLLARS

Perfect name for a new $ compilation, don’t you think? I decided to put together a little something for those out there looking for some new music, a bit of old classics, and some “other” thrown in between. Enjoy! Tracklisting after the jump.

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Tags: $, Artifacts, Blind I Compilation, Bone Thugs N Harmony, Brown Audio, C.R.A.C. Knuckles, Company Flow, Dead Prez, Dirty Money Filthy Dollars, ELZHI, GZA, Jazmine Sullivan, Lloyd, MADVILLAIN, MGMT, One Chance, Stacy Epps, TALIB KWELI, Thenativesoul, X.O.