LISTEN: Cool Kids - That's Stupid (The Mixtape):

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LISTEN: Jay Electronica - What The F*ck Is A Jay Electronica (Full Mixtape)

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WeDoItRight compiled and mixed a bunch of Jay Electronica tracks. Tracklist below.

01. Spark Em Up (Intro)
02. Renaissance Man
03. My World (Nas Salute)
04. Extra Extra
05. Abaracadabra
06. Uzi Weighs A Ton
07. A Prayer For Michael Vick and T.I. (We Love You Family)
08. Dimethyltriptamine
09. Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge)
10. Bitches And Drugs
11. Trolley Stop
12. Hard To Get
13. Girlfriend
14. Be Easy
15. Dealing
16. Get Em
17. Victory Is In My Clutches
18. Somethin To Hold On To
19. I Feel Good
20. So What You Sayin
21. Walk With It Ft. Lil Flip
22. Katrina The Levees Broke

LISTEN: 5th Flow - They Callin My Name

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Houston's 5th Flow are coming up strong and have dropped their new mixtape Quarter To A Half from which I posted the first track 'They Callin' My Name' for download above (or stream it in the SDSU player). If you dig, download the full mixtape from the second link. Dope track.

LISTEN: Jay-Z - Classic Gangster (Full Mixtape)

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I swore to not post any more Jay-Z/American Gangster mashup albums anymore, but with a cover like that how could I not post this one?



Jay-Z - Classic Gangster
01. Jay-Z vs. Ice-T - Intro
02. Jay-Z vs. Boogie Down Productions - Pray
03. Jay-Z vs. The D.O.C. - American Dreamin’
04. Jay-Z vs. Big Daddy Kane - Hello Brooklyn 3.0 feat. Lil Wayne
05. Jay-Z vs. Kool G. Rap - No Hook
06. Jay-Z vs. Public Enemy - Roc Boys (And The Winner Is)…
07. Jay-Z vs. A Tribe Called Quest - Sweet
08. Jay-Z vs. Slick Rick - I Know
09. Jay-Z vs. Beastie Boys - Party Life
10. Jay-Z vs. Eazy-E - Ignorant Sh*t feat. Beanie Sigel
11. Jay-Z vs. Too $hort - Say Hello
12. Jay-Z vs. D-Nice - Success feat. Nas
13. Jay-Z vs. Run D.M.C. - Fallin’
14. Jay-Z vs. Eric B. & Rakim - Blue Magic
15. Jay-Z vs. N.W.A. - American Gangster
Props to BrooklynBodega.

LISTEN: Fabolous - Hand On My Glock (LA The Darkman And Willie The Kid)

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DOWNLOAD Fabolous - There Is No Competition [Full Mixtape] (MP3)

LA The Darkman kills it on this new track off of Fabolous's new DJ Drama helmed mixtape There Is No Competition, which actually has a bunch of excellent tracks.

LISTEN: G-Unit - Return of the Body Snatchers (Full Mixtape)

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50 Cent is back at his mixtape game with the latest in the long long list of G Unit mixtapes. I'm not in a rush yet to listen myself, because I'm still blasting that new Re-Up Gang/Clipse mixtape. (download/listen that one here).

LISTEN: Re-Up Gang - We Got It 4 Cheap Vol. 3 (Full Mixtape)

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SDSU's Mixtape Of The Week: As you all know Clipse + Sandman + Ab Liva = Re-Up Gang and Vol. 3 The Spirit Of Competition is the continuation of the excellent We Got It For Cheap mixtape series. And you get it for free. That's real cheap. And it's really good.

LISTEN: Donny Goines - Off The Books (Full Mixtape)

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DOWNLOAD Donny Goines - Storytelling (MP3)
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SDSU favorite Donny Goines is back with a brand new and excellent mixtape. Download 'Off The Books' above. Tracklist below.



Donny Goines - Off The Books
1. DJ Bedtyme 357 Intro
2. Storytelling
3. Cast ya votes
4. Don't be Blinded
5. Take a walk wit me
6. RE-Verse
7. Hip Hop's Lazarus
8. Before you Jump
9. Where I come from
10. Alarm Clock
11. Your Son does
12. My Occupation
13. If you don't know
14. Anit no Love
15. Foverever my Bitch
16. Encore
17. Spazz out

LISTEN: Benja Styles & JDS - Streets Of Philadelphia (Full Mixtape)

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Download this Philly oriented Benja Styles mixtape above. Tracklist below.


Benja Styles & JDS - Streets Of Philadelphia
1. Gillie Da Kid Ft. Peedi, Freeway, & Bump - Get Down On The Ground (Remix)
2. Peedi Crakk Ft. Black Thought - Here Comes The Boss
3. Beanie Sigel - Bout That
4. E Ness - We Hustlin
5. Young Chris - Them Niggaz Hate That
6. Jakk Frost - Greene
7. Freeway - Spit That Shit
8. E Ness - Gangbusters
9. Cassidy Ft. Bone Thugs & Eve - Cash Rulez
10. Peedi Crakk - Back To The Loft
11. Beanie Sigel Ft. Styles P - You Aint Ready For Me
12. E Ness - Around The Way
13. Freeway Ft. Lil Wayne - Step Back
14. Cassidy - Will Never Tell
15. Young Chris Ft. Junior Reid - Run To The Roc
16. Jakk Frost - V.I.P.
17. Peedi Crakk - Angel Of Mine
18. Beanie Sigel Ft. Ozzy Osbourne - Judgement Day
19. E Ness - Zone Out
20. Young Chris Ft. Lil Wayne - How We Roll
21. Beanie Sigel Ft. Jay-Z - Gutted
22. E Ness - A U Right Ok
23. Peedi Crakk - Brand New Start
24. Peedi Crakk - Nobody Knows
5. Keyshia Cole Ft. E Ness & Amina - Shoulda Let You Go (Benja Styles Remix)2
26. Aarun Aegis - Like Her
27. Cyssero - Dolla Bill
28. Ybeez - Talk That
29. Fev Eligante - In Your Eyes

LISTEN: Guru - Knowledge ft. Lord Tariq + Jazzmatazz The Timebomb (Full Mixtape)

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Guru is about to come back with the fourth volume of his Jazzmatazz series soon (watch the first video for 'I'm Jazzy' featuring Slum Village). In the meantime there's the fantastic The Timebomb (Back To The Future) mixtape to carry you over. Download the whole thing above including stand out tracks 'Knowledge' featuring Lord Tariq and 'State of Clarity' featuring Common. You can listen also to the latter in the new SDSU music player in the column next to this one. You will get a big smile on your face when that bass line rolls in. Tracklist below. Props to Shake for the audio.

Guru's Jazzmatazz - The Timebomb (Back to the Future)
01 Intro (Don Gurizzy)
02 Knowledge ft. Lord Tariq
03 7 Grand Ya'll ft. Solar
04 For Ya Mind ft. Zion I
05 Peace! ft. K-Born, Highpower & Solar
06 State of Clarity ft. Common (Solar Remix)
07 Who Got It On Lock ft. Doo Wop
08 B-Boy Kamikaze ft. Tony Touch & Doo Wop (Diaz Brothers)
09 Too Slice ft. Yungun
10 So What It Do Now ft. Aceyalone
11 We Got That ft. Nature & Solar
12 Jazzy Wayz (7 Grand Exclusive)
13 Stand Up (Some Things'll Never Change) (Reggae Mix) ft. Damian Marley
14 Hot Like That ft. Medinah
15 No Need for Stress
16 Back to the Future ft. Caron Wheeler & C.Knowledge (Digable)
17 Assasino ft. Young Pablo
18 The Game Needs Me ft. Blue Scholars & Common Market
19 Feed the Hungry (Solar Remix)
20 Can't Stop the Movement (7 Grand) ft. Ms. Camille

LISTEN: Lil' Wayne - The Leak 2 (Full Mixtape)

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Lil' Wayne is single-handedly keeping twelve recording studios in business. After dropping The Leak EP (download here), there's now the bootleg The Leak 2. It's very...Weezy. Lets leave it at that. Tracklist below. In other bizarro news Weezy says he's a writing for Dr. Dre.

Lil' Wayne - The Leak 2
01. I Took Her
02. Poppin For The Paper ft. Cassidy & Sean Paul
03. Brand New
04. When They Come For Me
05. Crack House ft. Fat Joe
06. Do What We Do
07. Gossip
08. Step Back ft. Freeway & Small World
09. Time To Give Me
10. Miami Vice (The Life) f. Currency
11. Money Pussy Weed
12. Rider
13. Need Some Quiet Time
14. I Like It ft. Boo & Mack Maine
15. Trouble
16. One Night Only
17. Ask Them Hoes
18. Money Cars Clothes
19. Some Say
20. We Come About It

LISTEN: Game Rebellion - Under the Brooklyn Bridge (J.Period Remix)

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A SDSU exclusive. Brooklyn's Game Rebellion and J Period have teamed up for the Searching For Rick Rubin mixtape. Download it in full here or stream it here. The mixtape pays homage to Rick Rubin's diverse catalog by replaying some of his tracks (yes with live instruments). Download above the J Period remix to stand-out track 'Under the Brooklyn Bridge' which interpolates Red Hot Chili Peppers's 'Under The Bridge'.

LISTEN: Praverb - The Gospel Is Free (Full Mixtape)

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DOWNLOAD Praverb - Praverb - Da Grind (MP3)


Praverb collected a few of his freeverses and some new material into the excellent The Gospel Is Free mixtape. Stand out track 'Da Grind' is a great example of what I believe is the emerging group of 'New Reality MC's'. Genuine and real, and coming from a point of study and love for the art form. The ones working hard, no longer hung up on bragging about their platinum records or jewelry, since that won't be happening much anymore either and people are more and more over it. And that doesn't mean this new class of rappers is necessarily of the backpack kind. They are more diverse and come from all ideologies. They have more in common with the 1980/90's class of MCs before the big money came in. "Those first week sales don't mean nothing/especially when your album is full of filler cousin/see me man, i work a 9 to 5 coz rap dont pay the bills/im trying to stay alive, survive and grind/rely on this mind to seek direction coz we fall short when we see perfection". (From 'Da Grind')

LISTEN: Jay-Z/Ghostface Killah - American Ironman (Full Mixtape)

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Rafi just just posted yet another American Gangster, but this time with an extra interesting angle. Cali's DJ Chong Wizard combined Jay-Z rhymes with Ghostface Killah's beats, and vice versa. Makes me wish Jay-Z would ask for some RZA beats sometimes. Download above a highlight, Ghoistface Killah over the 'Success' beat, as well as the full mixtape.

LISTEN: Lil' Wayne - The Leak (Full Mixtape)

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And when I say full mixtape, I mean all 5 songs that Lil' Wayne included on this mini mixtape of The Carter III turn-downs. At points he sounds like someone impersonating Weezy, at others just like he's upped his purple dosage. Some of these tracks are pretty decent though. Tracklist below.


Tracklist:
1. I’m Me
2. Gossip
3. Kush
4. Love Me Or Hate Me
5. Talkin’ About It

LISTEN: Rhymefest - Man In The Mirror (Full Mixtape)

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This one's been floating out there for a few days already, but I hadn't gotten a chance to listen yet and I'm pleasantly surprised with Rhymefest's latest mixtape 'Man In The Mirror', presented by Mark Ronson. Tracklist below.


1 The Cipher (Rhymefest & Michael Jackson)
2 Can’t Make It (Rhymefest) [prod. by Best Kept Secret]
3 “Thriller” Skit
4 Get Up (Rhymefest ft Wale)
5 Dancin’ Machine (The Jackson 5 ft Rhymefest)
6 Flip It Skit
7 Never Can Say Goodbye (Rhymefest ft Talib Kweli) [prod. by Best Kept Secret]
8 Mike The Mentor (Rhymefest ft Michael Jackson)
9 No Sunshine (Rhymefest) [prod. by Emile]
10 Caught Up Skit
11 Foolin’ Around (Rhymefest ft Dres) [prod. by Mark Ronson]
12 Set The Mood
13 Breakadawn (Rhymefest ft Daniel Merriweather & alpha.)
14 Windbreaker Skit
15 Higher Intro
16 Higher (Rhymefest)
17 Mark vs. Mike
18 All That I’ve Got (Rhymefest ft Ghostface Killah & Mary J. Blige)
19 Maybe Tomorrow (Michael Jackson)
20 Sunshine Skit
21 Coolie High (Camp Lo ft Rhymefest)
22 Family Reunion (ft Tito, Randy, Mike & Rhymefest)
23 Much Love Skit
24 Man In The Mirror (Rhymefest ft Michael Jackson)

LISTEN: Jay-Z/Alpha-Bet - Alpha Gangster (Full Mixtape)

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DOWNLOAD Jay-Z/Alpha-Bet - Pray Remix (MP3)

I know you've seen many of these Jay-Z/American Gangster remix albums come by already, some better than others, and this ones comes recommended from yours truly. It's remixed by Detroit producer Alpha-bet (D-12, MTV scoring and a bunch of video games). Some of it is more raw and crude than most of the remixes, but inside of that aesthetic there is true love for music easily shining through. And it grooves. Truly. Check out the whole thing streaming below, or download my personal favorite 'Pray' and the whole thing above. Another SitDownStandUp first.

LISTEN: Atmosphere - Strictly Leakage (Full Mixtape)

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Props to Ant and Slug of Atmosphere for Strictly Leakage: a free mixtape of "thirteen songs to chase away the winter doldrums." They can be seen playing chess in front of a fireplace below.

LISTEN: Joe Budden - Mood Muzik 3 (For Better Or For Worse)

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Here it is, the long-awaited Mood Musik III by Joe Budden. On 'Talk 2 'Em' he goes in hard against Jay-Z. "campaign's going full throttle like a waste (?)/if you're focused pa, get a bottle to the face/for you the times are rough too/coz ain't nobody buying your albums but you/but sales aren't everything/ i hear you lost it/still rap alright but your ill's exhausted/fuck your punching money/put your ego to the side/and maybe it's time to study your understudy/i mean, are we hustling or are we grown up/every time i hear you you're changing your tone up/when the new generation think about Jordan/all they remember is when Iverson crossed him/take off the blazer, loosen up the tie/n*gga fell in love and super man died/[...]/the new generation won't forget you we promise/we'll always pay homage/but lets get one thing understood son/every ump call ain't a good one" I am ambiguous about this diss. One the one hand he's not really saying anything new, and the line "and maybe it's time to study your understudy/i mean, are we hustling or are we grown up/every time i hear you you're changing your tone up" sound lie vintage Jay and basically mirror some 'Takeover' lines. On the other hand I understand where he's coming from and think Joe could've been let go so much earlier from his dead-end contract.

LISTEN: Tragedy Khadafi Mixtape - Stray Shots (Full Mixtape)

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Tragedy Khadafi released a new mixtape by the name of Stray Shots. Perhaps a shout out to TSS. Via GrandGood.