Now I don’t do that many mixtapes, I think I may have like 5 or 6 to my credit. Maybe because I just dont really get inspired to spit over whats hot right now and leak it to the world. I feel like doing something special when I do something, something that will stand out from what else is being done at the moment. Picture me rapping over Lollipop right now?? LOL, aint happening homie! So I came up with this idea to do a mixtape series on decades of music. I had to start with the 90’s cuz that music influenced me the most. And when I started pulling songs it was a zillion, I couldn’t decide on which ones that I wanted to do. So these songs are me paying respect to the cats who inspired me. I still get in the car and pick a week where I just listen to one artist all week whenever Im in the car so I can remember how I felt when I first heard those songs. Like last week I listened to Eric B & Rakim all week long, every song, every album. It helps to inspire me ya know? I can’t get inspired by what I hear on the radio. I titled the songs by their initials so you wont know what I did over until to hear the actual song, so check it out, ride with it (it plays perfect in a ipod) vibe to it and hopefully I can make you feel the way I felt while making it. Shout to Cannon & J. Period for making it with me…look out for future volumes cuz I can do these joints all day long!! LOL! Make a playlist and rock out to…
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.maxiM
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Hey yo Skillz, I just started to download your mixtape now so I ain’t heard it but I want to say the biggest thank you!!!
Back in the days we (me and my friends in France) started to rock that “From where” shit and I personally still ain’t got the answer: from Jupiter?!? From where, dayme!!!!!
You’re one of the only MC, I mean MC, I repeat, MC on the planet who makes the crowds scream, laugh or go crazy anytime you drop a goodamn bar live and direct.
Every Rap up is a funky way to remember how fucked up the business is, but how good the game can get sometimes…
And I ain’t into no dickridin’ shit, in other words, damn, you’re one of the few… The MILLION DOLLAR BACKPACK will be one of my ten classic Hip Hop albums. And it already is, ’cause I just know “Crazy world”, “Sick”, “So far so good” (feat. Common, chill travel music), and especially “Don’t act like you don’t know” when you met Freeway from the Roc!!!!!!!!!! It’s fire!!!!!!!!! “All you gon’ see is the back of your eyelids”
Thank you man.
One Love from France and Italy (Venice, bitches), I’m doin’ my best to let the world know about the real and the raw.
PS: And the freestyle you did with Q-Tip and Common live on stage at the Norva is… !!!
(Everybody cop “Rising down” it’s a mastapiece, bitches!!!)
PurpleZoe
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Grazi.
Cinq
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Yo,
This mixtape is hot. This is the music that made me as well. Dude, I definatly feel what you are doing and I am responding because I read on your myspace that if people did not respond you would keep it moving. It was unheard of before to be in contact with an artist like this but now that we can people do not even want to respond. You are making great music and have great ideas. Keep up the work cousin.
Peace,
Cinq
Hawkes
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Word can’t wait to check this out bruh, you should freak some of your old joints redo the Head Nod joint, or Vowel Movement
Dj D Chris
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“Picture me rapping over Lollipop right now?? LOL, aint happening homie”…lol definitely aint happening…downloading it now, already know its fire!
DJ SAO
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SKLIILZ, GOOD IDEA..ON THE 90’s Tip\ DOWNLOADING MIXTAPE..NOW
CANT WAIT to Check it,,
AND STILL WAITIN ON THAT ALBUM!!!!
Jacob
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“I still get in the car and pick a week where I just listen to one artist all week whenever Im in the car so I can remember how I felt when I first heard those songs. Like last week I listened to Eric B & Rakim all week long, every song, every album. It helps to inspire me ya know?”
That’s bugged out cuz I do the exact same shit…I was starting to think there was something wrong with me…..Sometimes I get stuck on an artist for like a month(pause). But there ain’t no music like HIP HOP MUSIC from 1986-1996…That decade of music is the shit and I will be 80 years old still bumpin some “Born To Roll” in my whip…………..
Korey
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nice
iGotOnMyBackpack79
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the mixtape is official my nig. i will definitely be buying your album this summer. the right way. you know? actually going to the record store, grabbin’ the album off the shelf and giving the employee behind the counter my hard earned money.
Skeptik
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real big… just found ya blog, its a good read homey!! always spin your music on my podcast.
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