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HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAMES DEWITT “MC SILK | JAY DEE | J DILLA | DILLA DOGG | DIL WITHERS” YANCEY!!!

Today we celebrate the birth and amazing career of the G.O.A.T. Jay Dee (J Dilla) born James Dewitt Yancey. Every year I have been making these posts & it still is crazy to me, but let’s not even go there… instead let’s all celebrate the life & musical career of a musical legend that many of were blessed to watch & listen to his growth. He changed the game with his many styles & approach. He made everyone around him work much harder because of his dedication to the basement. He will forever hold a special place in all our hearts & ears as well as history. D2S homie DJ Haylow made this video montage of Dilla as well as the 1st  Dilla tribute mix he did that you can grab after the jump! LONG LIVE DILLA!!

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DJ HAYLOW – INFLUENCE N INSPIRATION

D2S’s own DJ Haylow made this mix of songs to honor Reverend Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. It’s a super dope collection of some of the dopest songs that are full of Empowerment! No more words. Just DL & share with your peoples. Track list & DL after the J…

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2010 GRAMMY NOMINEES

All year long we’ve been making our projections about who would be nabbing all the Grammy nominations. Now, The Recording Academy has revealed their list. Check it out and let us know what you think. Don’t you wonder who the Hell is actually on these voting committees?

Agree? Disagree? Which songs/albums made your personal soundtrack? Who was slept on? Over-hyped?

DO Tell.

List after the jump.

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BLAKROC & DD172….

As the recent publicity surrounding Mos Def, Jay Electronica and Curren$y’s collaborative-side-group Center Edge Territory reached a feverish pitch in the viral music world, questions arose around the studio where said collaboration and countless other secret musical rendezvous are rumored to have occurred. Alas, Mr. Damon Dash, a very familiar face in the trend-setting music mogul world has been behind it all, providing artists with the DD172 space in Tribeca. DD172 seems to be a new hot-spot for brainstorming sessions, musical vanguard, and almost certainly a long, raucous line of eager artists wanting in to create their own masterpieces. For this is how musicians work. We are historians at heart, purists of our art form, and suckers for atmospheres where our creativity can flow at ease. Dash and DD172 have recently partnered up with rock group The Black Keys and artists like Mos Def, Zoe Kravitz, Raekwon, ODB, RZA, Ludacris, Pharoahe Monch, Billy Danze of M.O.P., Om’Mas Keith of Sa-Ra, Tash and more, to create the BlakRoc project, of which we recently posted a video clip on the site. Chicago-bred video mavens Coodie & Chike have spearheaded the coverage of the project as well as Creative Control. Pretty much a creative mash of great proportions! We’ll see what fruitful creations come from this space in the future, but one thing is presently sure: the future is bright for ideas of this magnitude, and I hope it spurs more individuals to create workspaces and projects similar to this one. Great music!

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VIDEO: Q-TIP | NORAH JONES – LIFE IS BETTER

Shout out to Soul Culture for the look. I’ve always appreciated this song & the visuals for it are pretty fly.

eNjOy!

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ILLVIBE COLLECTIVE PRESENTS: THE BEST OF THE NATIVE TONGUES MIXTAPE VOL.1

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DJ RASTA ROOT-THE REST OF DILLA VOL. 1

Today, DJ Rasta Root released “The Rest of Dilla” Vol 1.

“I feel like my strength is mixing and blending, so that what you will get; one seamless blend from start to finish. No gimmicks, no talking, just DILLA” Root said.

You can play this mix from start to finish. Nice selection. Link after the jump.

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FOOTAGE: Q-TIP IN CHICAGO

I had the pleasure of attending Tip’s show with Z-Trip at the House Of Blues this past week and had a blast. Fader got some great footage and a quick interview with the Tipster, as he spoke about the development of the new hip-hop acts and his perception of it all. He even shouts out Hollywood Holt. Check it out!

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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, who was one-half of the Bad Boys on WGCI during their heyday,and he threw me the oop of all oops with the record. I, being the gentleman that I am, threw it to my homie Andrew over at FSD and let him run wild with it. A few days later, Mike hits me with THIS gem. Ridiculous collection of freestyles recorded on the radio show from artists like Common, Crucial Conflict, Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz, Fat Joe & Big Pun, Flipmode Squad, Twista, Juvenile, Brand Nubian, Outkast, Juice, Profound, Q-Tip, Da Brat, Shyne, 50 Cent, Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco, and the list goes on. Basically it’s classic material and a must to have on your computer if you love hip-hop music in any sense. I should really start charging for connectin the dots like this, I’m a motherfuckin music blog wordsmith motherfucking lyrical genius! Mr Mike Love has some more to say on the topic after the jump, along with a link to download The Best Of Bad Boy Radio Freestyles. Don’t act like I never gave you nothing, internet!
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LV’S AND AUTOTUNE 2

The Smoking Section featured a nice mix tape with all of Kanye’s latest musical musings all rolled up into one download-able mix tape called LV’s And Autotune 2. Glad somebody did it, I didn’t realize he had so many current joints out. Partake and check the track listing after the jump!

Download Kanye West – LV’s & Autotune 2 (RS)

01 Diamonds
02 Poke Her Face (Feat. Kid Cudi, Common, Lady Gaga)
03 We Fight, We Love (Feat. Q-Tip, Consequence)
04 Maybach Music 2 (Feat. Rick Ross, T-Pain, Lil Wayne)
05 Flight School (Feat. T-Pain, GLC)
06 Amazing (Remix) (Feat. The Dream, Young Jeezy, Christina Milian)
07 Imma Be Iight (Feat. Lil Wayne, Joe Young)
08 Doing Girls Wrong
09 Knock You Down (Feat. Keri Hilson, Ne-Yo)
10 Walking On The Moon (Feat. The Dream)
11 Go Hard (Remix) (Feat. Lil Wayne, Jay-Z)
12 I’m The Shit (Remix)
13 Oprah Story
14 Kinda Like A Big Deal (Feat. Clipse)
15 Ego (Remix) (Feat. Beyonce)

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