DJ 3rd Rail & AMC - Big L mix (RIP 2-15-99)

60 minutes of Lil Mont Mont solo tracks and collabs with his DITC crew, bought to you by Chicago's DJ 3rd Rail & AMC.

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Big up to Diablo for this one.

Radio 1 Rap Show 19.02.99 with Rob Swift

Bit of a significant show this as Big L's death 4 days earlier is announced at the start....



Rob Swift is in the house promoting his album The Ablist with his MC Gudtyme



...and then there's a tribute to Big L with Max Glazer mixing up some of his best tracks. You also get Westwood interviewing L back in '95 where he drops a freestyle over Who Shot Ya

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Big L & OC on Westwood (1997)

Following on nicely from the last post, here's Big L and OC on the Radio 1 Rap Show from 1997. Only 17 minutes long but you get an interview and freestyle and Tim says 'younahmsayin' a helluva lot.
Thanks to The Expert for sending over the audio for this one. All donations are gratefully received!

Tim posted the freestyle on youtube a while back, which makes a change because in the last year he's been posting things I ripped myself and uploaded years ago, albeit in much better (ie straight from DAT) quality.

Big L, McGruff, I Born & CL Smooth - NY Freestyle (1999)

Picked this 12" up on the cheap the other day. Bit of a strange line up - CL Smooth had all but disappeared by 1999 and I've no idea who I-Born is. Also unusual for a record of this nature to come with a proper cover. I'm not sure if it was a legit freestyle session or copy and paste effort but its worth a listen anyway.

While we're on a freestyle tip, I zipped up 40+ of  'em for those who slept or suffered a hard drive crash. Most of them are my own rips that have appeared on the blog over the last 8 years but there's also a few others that I've found online over the years. Click HERE

Cookin' Soul remixes

I've known about Cookin Soul for a while but only just discovered that they're Spanish and that a bunch of their remixes are available on their Soundcloud page...

G Unit 'Stunt 101'

2Pac 'Old School'

Big L 'Put It On'

Mobb Deep 'GOD Pt III'

Crooklyn Dodgers 'Crooklyn'

If you've got time to kill go through the whole page. There's also their own original productions for the likes of Freddie Gibbs, YG, Currensy, Yukmouth and more. Good stuff.

Hard Drive Clearout

A few bits that I've found on other sites over the years that you might've missed (and the links are probably dead now anyway), things I ripped and never got round to uploading,  joints that don't really warrant their own post...

 Ice T, King Tee & Bango freestyle (Capital Rap Show 1989)
courtesy of  Irish Craig  (I think)

 Rakim acapella freestyle (early 90s ?)
no info on this and its only about 25 seconds long but still...

Main Source 'Looking At The Front Door' (alternative/demo version)
I think I got this from unkut.com a few years ago

Big L - Pre Game freestyle (1999)
Lamont over the Sauce Money banger

Children of The Corn - American Dream (alternative version)
this version appeared on a DJ S&S mixtape and features a slightly different Big L verse to the one that appears on the promo 12"

 OC - DJ Camillo freestyle (1998)
Nice OC freestyle off a Camillo mixtape. Pretty sure I got this one from Roy Johnson .

Kay Slay freestyles

Sorting through some CDs yesterday I found an old compilation of freestyles from Kay Slay mixtapes that I'd copped on a visit to Canal Street back in 2004. Here's the pick of the bunch...

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Tracklist
1- Big L, Black Rob, Puertorock & Bathgate
2- Cam'ron & McGruff
3- Capone N Noreaga
4- Da Ranjahz
5- Ghostface & Trife
6- Prodigy
7- Sauce Money

Thank you DJs....

Lots of good mixes have been hitting the blogosphere over the last few days. If you missed them here are some that need your attention:

Dope Big L tribute by NYC's DJ Soul here

Matthew Africa's 'Best of DJ Quik' here

and finally the ever reliable TROY crew hit you with 4 classic Mista Cee mixtapes. Get his Best of Method Man, Redman, Mobb Deep and Biggie sets here