Over at BrooklynRadio.net, The Rub have taken the opportunity to present a history of hip hop beginning with 1979. They’ve just started up again and are have just released Volume 14: 1992. DJ Eleven runs through over 50 tracks in just over 2 hours ranging from Gang Starr to Dr. Dre to Redman, Too $hort and so many more. I can’t recommend enough to subscribe to this podcast if you haven’t already.

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Keeping it on a New York rap tip, the big homey Eleven just released this mix he did for Brooklyn Radio. Its an hour long tribute to Brooklyn and features everyone you would think should be there. Check the tracklisting:

Jay-Z – Where I’m From
M.O.P. – Welcome to Brownsville
Gang Starr – The Planet
The Notorious BIG – Warning
Jemini The Gifted One – Brooklyn Kids
Jeru The Damaja – Brooklyn Took It
Smif N Wessun – Bucktown
MC Lyte – Kickin’ 4 Brooklyn
Divine Force – Holy War
Ol’ Dirty Bastard – Brooklyn Zoo
The Dead Crew – The Projects
Smif N Wessun – Home Sweet Home
Roy Ayers – We Live in Brooklyn
Mos Def – Brooklyn
Jay-Z feat. The Notorious BIG – Brooklyn’s Finest
Fabolous feat. Jay-Z & Uncle Murda – Brooklyn
Stetsasonic – Go Stetsa
Cutmaster D.C. – Brooklyn Rocks The Best
Divine Sounds – Do or Die Bed Stuy
Joell Ortiz feat. Big Daddy Kane – Brooklyn (remix)
Gang Starr – The Place Where We Dwell

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Shout out to the big homie DJ Eleven for putting me on to this.

I got to peep it in P.R. in January, but it gets better every time. As the chorus says, most rappers are aiiiight in one language, he’s nice in two.

Check out Eleven’s mixtape Winter Sadness. Chilled out jams to go with your Winter blues. Now that its March, its a good mix to just chill and watch the snow melt with friends. Yeah, this is incredible and I’ve only made it track 2.
Download part 1 here (ends with Sade track 11)

Full tracklisting:

1. Etta James “Stormy Weather”
2. The White Stripes “In The Cold, Cold Night”
3. Corrine Bailey Rae “Til It Happens To You”
4. Alice Smith “Dream”
5. K-Os “The Rain”
6. Gladys Knight “And This Is Love”
7. Bruce Ruffin “Rain”
8. Ken Boothe “Ain’t No Sunshine”
9. Bauhaus “Bela Lugosi Is Dead”
10. Ann Peebles “Can’t Stand The Rain”
11. Sade “King Of Sorrow”
12. D’Angelo “The Root”
13. Smokey Robinson “Quiet Storm”
14. James Brown “Down And Out In New York City”
15. Genius feat. D’Angelo “Cold World” remix
16. Average White Band “Stop The Rain”
17. Eddie Kendricks “Date With The Rain”
18. Outkast ”13th Floor / Growing Old”
19. Spirit “Ice”
20. Ghostface feat. Mary J. Blige “All That I Got Is You”
21. Bobby “Blue” Bland “Ain’t No Love”
22. Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson “Winter In America”
23. Lee Moses “California Dreamin’”
24. William Bell “I Forgot To Be Your Lover”
25. Smokey Robinson “We’ve Come Too Far To End It
Now”
26. Kool & The Gang “Winter Sadness”
27. John Legend “Refuge (When It’s Cold Outside)”

Buy Winter Sadness or any of Eleven’s other mixtapes here. PS. Canadian Bacon is free with the purchase of any two mixtapes. I recommend the whole catalog well all of those that aren’t sold out :).

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I’ve been sitting on this for much too long. This mix is absolutely perfect for the next few days with temperatures hitting 100 across the country. Global warming in full effect. Hopefully you have air conditioning and won’t have to suffer too much. Right, so back to the music. This is a great mix with all of your summertime favorites mixed effortlessly together. As I sit here, I can almost feel the sand on my feet, taste the fresh mojitos and feel perfectly relaxed in my hammock…

Tracklisting:
1. Sam Cooke “Summertime”
2. Bob Marley “Sun Is Shining”
3. Devin The Dude “Lacville 79”
4. The Isley Brothers “Summerbreeze”
5. The Originals “Sunrise”
6. Freddie Hughes “Sarah Mae”
7. Ahmed “Back in the Day”
8. Quincy Jones “Summer in the City”
9. Outkast “West Savannah”
10. Main Source “Just Hanging Out”
11. Smokey Robinson “Cruisin”
12. EWF “Sun Goddess”
13. Hi-Tek & Common “Sun God”
14. Wiiliam Devaughn “Be Thankful For What You Got”
15. Brand Nubian “Wake Up (Reprise in the Sunshine)”
16. Commodores “High on Sunshine”
17. De La Soul “Sunshine”
18. Naughty By Nature “Feel Me Flow”
19. Eugene “Here Comes The Sun”
20. Kool & the Gang “Summer Madness”
21. Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince “Summertime”
22. Beyonce & Ghostface “Summertime”
23. Pete Rock & CL Smooth “Take You There”
24. Bill Withers “Lovely Day”
25. Blackbyrds “Dreaming About You”
26. Sade “Kiss Of Life”
27. De La Soul “Pass the Plugs”
28. Raphael Saadiq “Skyy, Can You Feel Me?”
29. War “Summer”
30. Digital Underground feat. 2Pac “Same Song”
31. Osibisa “Sunshine Day”
32. Stevie Wonder “A Place in the Sun”
33. Marvin Gaye “Got To Give It up”
34. Bob Marley “Is This Love?”
35. Sanchez “Here I Am”
36. Roy Ayers “Everybody Loves The Sunshine”

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