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If you haven’t heard by now, Mick Boogie and Terry Urban have been hard at work for the past week or so on mixing some of Jay’z vocals over the great instrumentals of Coldplay, with the help of a legion of up and coming producers including 6th Sense and Remot. This just dropped as a free download this morning, so make your way over to the site when you can and give it a listen. I’m going through it right now, and I have to say it’s pretty dope. The complete tracklisting is as such.

1) Intro (produced by Mick Boogie & Terry Urban)
2) Public Speeding (produced by Cookin’ Soul)
3) Know My Place (produced by The Amps)
4) Never Changing (produced by nVMe)
5) Miss Trouble (produced by Judah)
6) Back At My Place (produced by Remot)
7) No Love Coming Home (produced by The Kickdrums)
Lost Part 1 (produced by Coldplay)
9) A Spy’s Prayer (produced by nVMe)
10) Science Is Ignorant (produced by Gooch)
11) The Reverse Fix (produced by Mick Boogie & nVMe)
12) Hola Blanco (produced by Garbs Infinite)
13) Take The Hill (produced by nVMe)
14) Lost Part 2 (remixed by Mick Boogie)
15) Cold Success (produced by 9th Wonder)
16) What If We Cry? (produced by Remot)
17) Beach Chair (produced by Coldplay)
18) Falling In Shadows (produced by 6th Sense)
19) Life of Clocks (produced by Terry Urban)
20) X-Y-Z (produced by Hasan Insane)

I was browsing through the internet this morning when I came across a link for Notorious B.I.G.’s Ready To Die, The OG Edition. Supposedly this was the debut Biggie wanted everyone to hear, if it wasn’t for those damn sample issues. This basically means that even if you own a copy of Ready To Die, you’ll want to check this out. Some of the tracks are actually better than the originals and along with the unreleased demo tracks and freestlyes at the end, this will definitely be worth your time. Tracklisting is as follows. (I’ll place the links for the mixtapes at the end of the entry)

01.  Intro (Original Version With Uncleared Samples)
02.  Things Done Changed (Original Version)
03.  Gimme The Loot (Never Before Heard Uncensored Version)
04.  Machine Gun Funk (DJ Premier’s Version)
05.  Warning (Original Version)
06.  Ready To Die (Original Version With Different Beat)
07.  One More Chance (Original Version With Uncleared Sample)
08.  Fuck Me (Interlude)
09.  The What (feat. Method Man) (Original Version With Unheard Lyrics)
10.  Juicy (Pete Rock’s Version)
11.  Everyday Struggle (Original Demo Mix)
12.  Me & My Bitch (Original Version With Different Beat)
13.  Respect (Original Extended Edition)
14.  Friend Of Mine (Original Demo Version)
15.  Whatchu Want (Unreleased Original Version)
16.  Suicidal Thoughts (Pete Rock’s Version)
17.  Come On (feat. Sadat X) (Unreleased Original Version)
18.  Who Shot Ya? (Original Demo Mix)
19.  For The Macs & Dons (Unreleased Track)
20.  Pepsi Freestyle (Unreleased Track)
21.  Biggie Got The Hype Shit (Unreleased 1991 Demo Track)

So going along with the spirit of the whole Notorious B.I.G. thing, I figured I would up you guys some Biggie related mixtapes I spin on the regular. This first one is a mash up by DJ Doc Rok of Biggie’s rhymes over some Hendrix sampled beats. Strange concept at first, but it sounds surprisingly nice. Tracklisting is as follows

01.  Intro
02. Party and Bullshit - Foxy Lady
03. Nasty Boy - Purple Haze
04. Things Done Change - If 6 Was 9
05. Notorious Thugs - All Along The Watchtower
06. Hypnotize - Wild Thing
07. Dead Wrong - Fire
08. Who Shot Ya - Cocaine
09. Young G’s - Voodoo Child
10. Juicy - Are You Experienced

The second mixtape I have for ya’ll is a very nice mashup of Jay-Z and B.I.G. There’s a bit of Dj blabber to be found and some of the collabo mix choices are questionable, but if you can get past that, this is a pretty solid mixtape. If only the actual supergroup The Commission would’ve done something before Biggie’s untimely death, that would’ve been nuts.

01. New York New York (ft Alicia Keys)
02. Roamin Thru NY (ft Akon)
03. Can’t Stop The Reign (ft Rakim and Tupac)
04. Ride (ft Kool G Rap and Fabolous)
05. Big Playas (ft Ma$e, Foxy Brown and Aaliyah)
06. Interlude (RIP Aaliyah)
07. Can’t Fade Us (ft Nas and Quan)
08. Interlude (The Commision Takeover
09. Oh My Lord
10. I Love The Dough (ft Angela Winbush)
11. Big Cruisin (ft Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg)
12. I Dare You
13. Interlude (Comin Up With Kane
14. Makin Moves (ft Big Daddy Kane)
15. Interlude (Making Of Brooklyn’s Finest)
16. Brooklyn’s Finest
17. The Commission (ft Shyne and Lil Kim)
18. Interlude (Battling DMX)
19. If You (ft DMX, Jadakiss, and Styles P)
20. Young Gangstas (ft Big L)
21. Interlude (When Biggie Died)
22. Feel It In A Dream (ft Black Rob and Phil Colins)
23. Outro
Ready To Die (OG Edition):  http://rapidshare.com/files/133739916/DJ_Semi_And_The_Notorious_B.I.G.-Ready_To_Die__The_O.G._Edition_-_Bootleg_-2008-Xplode.rar.html

Biggie Hendrix Experience:  http://rapidshare.com/files/133923631/Dj_Doc_Rok_-_The_Biggie_Hendrix_Experience.zip.html

The Commission:  http://rapidshare.com/files/133934508/Jay-Z_And_Notorious_BIG_-_The_Commission.zip.html