‘Old School’- it’s a term thrown around to mean the original idea/theme, or that it’s an activity not seen these days. And I’ve found a mixtape with tracks so aptly described as Old School, I wish I had mixed it myself.
DJ Smoke has dusted off his ‘first love’ tracks of Hip Hop/Rap and blended them together for an 80-minute reminder so perfect, I almost cried with nostalgia (and yes, grown men cry, just look at the Miami Heat). Check out this brilliant effort from his Daily Dose series titled ‘Hip Hop 101: Old School Flavor’.
Artists who started this shit (and never got the thanks) include Marley Marl, DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince, Gangstarr, LL Cool J, Ice Cube, Wu-Tang Clan, Eric B & Rakim, Public Enemy, Biz Markie, Snoop Doggy Dogg - actually, I could just continue to state the entire playlist.
This mixtape is pure royalty of Old School tracks will give you nothing but flashbacks to summer cruises with your crew, ball pick-up games, barbeques & the occasional mixer with the opposite sex.
5 outta 5 for this blast of classic tracks. Tracks that we all know the beats, all know the lyrics & all wish (at one stage or another) that we were THAT artist.
Bunk 27.03.11
DJ Smoke - Hip Hop 101
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