Ok, so alot of these are pretty good choices for “decoding”. Who wouldn’t like to hear the stories behind “Early This Morning” and “Coming of Age”, or the inspiration for some of the lines in “PSA” or “Moment of Clarity”? But WHAT DO YOU MEAN no “You Must Love Me”?! What’s the point of even doing the book if you’re not gonna break down that song? Then again, I guess if we’re being realistic, how deep is Jay really going to get into anything that may have happened to inspire this music.

Public Service Announcement
American Dreamin’
Early This Morning
Coming of Age
Coming of Age (Da Sequel)
D’Evils
99 Problems
Ignorant Shit
Most Kings
Success
Renegade
Can I Live?
Fallin’
Big Pimpin’
Streets Is Watching
Operation Corporate Takeover
Moment of Clarity
Breathe Easy (Lyrical Exercise)
My 1st Song
Young Gifted and Black
Hell Yeah (Pimp The System)
Beware (Jay-Z Remix)
Blue Magic
This Life Forever
Meet The Parents
Where I’m From
Minority Report
Dynasty (Intro)
My President Is Black
Regrets
This Can’t Be Life
Soon You’ll Understand
Beach Chair
Lucifer
December 4th
History

I’m sure it’s no coincidence that some of these double as bonuses from his recent Greatest Hits album (“Young Gifted and Black,” “My President Is Black,” “Most Kings”).

So the story behind this track is that Lil Wayne and Drake had a session that ultimately fell into the wrong hands, somehow Drake’s verse from the beat session ended up on a song Sean Garrett had done, which leaked, but wasn’t official. Now he’s re-releasing it as a single to his album, but since the unauthorized Drake verse probably couldn’t get cleared, the new version features Roc Nation labelmate J. Cole.

#R&BDrama

Sean Garrett ft. J. Cole – Feel Love | Mediafire

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CuDi performs “Ghost” off Man In The Moon 2: The Legend of Mr. Rager at the Hippodrome in Springfield, Ma last week.

Props to Academy Printwear for the pristine footage.

In anticipation of his upcoming project with Celph Titled, Nineteen Ninety Now, Buckwild is dropping a 9 song vinyl EP called Buckwild Presents… that includes some unreleased remixes, including this revision of G Rap and Nozir’s “Fast Life”.

Robbie quotes Buckwild speaking about this version:

“I worked on this somewhat later then I should have. Even though I did the album version and it was the single, Salaam’s remix was chosen before I even turned this in. I was going to use it on the white label, but went with the Nas and AZ songs instead”.

Kool G Rap ft. Nas – Fast Life (Buckwild Remix)

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I initially ignored this in my inbox because I figured it was that same old remix of “Fast Life” that has been floating around forever, commonly mislabeled as a “Buckwild” remix (it’s actually Salaam Remi’s version).
Either way, imo none of these really improve on the over the top flashiness of the original Buckwild beat and how it fit with what G and Gnaz were rapping about.

Wow this is great. In this supplement clip to Gasface’s New York Minute documentary mini-series, Buckshot explains how Black Moon originally consisted of himself, 5ft, an MC named Finsta and DJ Evil Dee, who also spit at the time. So he pulls a video out the stash of them laying down some bars circa 1990 and we get to hear the verse that prompted the rest of the crew to suggest to Dee that he stick to making beats. Tell me young Buckshot’s verse wasn’t crazy though.

Previously: How Torae Met Dipset

Kanye explains to MTV’s Jayson Rodriguez that although he’s more famous as an artist and pop culture personality now, he’s still a serious problem behind the mixing boards.

Previously: Kanye West’s Runaway (Short Film)

Pilot Talk 2 touches down 11/23.

Previously: Curren$y – Pilot Talk 2 Promo #1

Shorty The Pimp talks about longevity, the growth of Hip-Hop, admits that his retirement was a publicity stunt, old man rap (this man is 44!), an album him and E-40 plan on doing together and a digital only project he wants to drop soon. Also includes a bunch of performance footage.

A new Snoop joint of unknown origin, reportedly produced by Scott Storch.

Snoop Dogg – Come Around My Way

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