The Audacity of Dope

And Cocktail was in the studio last night.  Fine in person too?  Check!

In the past few weeks, I’ve been hearing about this project from a bunch of the people involved and it sounded ridiculously dope.  Now that VH1’s Hip-Hop Honors have aired, Mick dropped the mixtape for y’all to enjoy.  DO NOT SLEEP ON THIS.  Tracklisting below (producer in parenthesis).

1. Introlude: MC Serch & Mick Boogie
2. Children’s Story: Kidz In The Hall (Double O)
3. Everything’s Gonna Be Alright: Freeway & Young Chris (Kickdrums)
4. How I Could Just Kill A Man: Netic of Game Rebellion (M Phazes)
5. Cypress Hill speak…
6. Hits From The Bong: Alchemist & Evidence (6th Sense)
7. The Bizness: Rapper Big Pooh, 6th Sense, & Butta Verses (6th Sense)
8. Life Is Too Short: Fashawn (Ab)
9. Breakadawn: Tanya Morgan f/ Ragen (6th Sense)
10. Naughty By Nature speak…
11. Uptown Anthem: Marky and Phil Nash (Ab)
12. The Show: Daytona (4 Korners)
13. Insane In The Brain: Izza Kizza (Kickdrums)
14. Too Short speaks…
15. Short But Funky: Mistah FAB (6th Sense)
16. Mona Lisa: Mickey Factz & Jade (Precize)
17. De La Soul speak…
18. Stakes Is High Part 1: U-N-I (6th Sense)
19. Buy You Some: A Pinks & Emilio Rojas (M Phazes)
20. Dirt All By My Lonely: Skyzoo & Mazzi (6th Sense)
21. Stoned Is The Way Of The Walk: Joell Ortiz, Scram Jones, & Loot (6th)
22. Interlude: MC Serch & Mick Boogie
23. Hand On The Pump: Torae (nVme)
24. OPP: Pacific Division (M Phazes)
25. Lick The Balls: Donny Goines & Chip Tha Ripper (nVme)
26. Ego Trippin’: Asheru & The Els (The Els)
27. Stakes Is High Part 2: Talib Kweli (eJones)
28. Freaky Tales: Ra The MC (Judah)
29. Hip Hop Hooray: AP (6th Sense)
30. Hey Young World : 6th Sense (6th Sense)
31. Outrolude: MC Serch & Mick Boogie

Download here.

If you can’t figure out the theme behind the tape, slap yourself and hit The Smoking Section for more information.  I was at Jake One’s album release party all night, so I missed the Hip-Hop Honors.  Did anyone see it?  Was it dope?  Why am I not even interested in watching it on my DVR?

Shrug.  I’ll just bump this tape instead.

Oh, you didn’t know that Hyph gets down with indie rock?  Well, you’re right, I don’t really…but I’m trying to learn!  There’s too much good music out there to be trapped listening to just hip-hop and R&B.  In fact, I’ve been meaning to make a Lykke Li post for like a month now, I’ll get on that soon.

Anyway, I’m posting the new video from the Grand Archives up for 4 reasons.  First of all, it’s a dope track from the hometown.  Secondly, the legendary Sub Pop Records just had their 20th anniversay over the weekend and I heard it was crazy.  Third…alpacas!  Lastly, and most importantly, the star of the video is none other than Upendo, aka J. Moore‘s son!  So let’s get this straight: before he’s 10 years old, Upendo’s drummed with ?uestlove, told jokes with Dave Chappelle, made beats, released an album as part of Beyond Reality, and now he’s in a video featured on VH1?  Wow.  Little man is destined for big things.