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Who Put Together Bad Meets Premo?
Before PRhyme was an album, someone pulled twelve Royce Da 5'9" and DJ Premier records together and gave the collection a title. Nobody knows who compiled it. That is part of what makes it a collector piece.
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French Montana and Max B Are Keeping the Streets Alive, and They're Calling It a Mixtape
French Montana did not have to call it a mixtape. He could have said project. He could have said album. He called it a mixtape. That is a value system.
ICEMAN: From the Crate to the Ice
They buried the release date in a 25-foot block of Toronto ice. We go back to the crate, back to Room for Improvement and So Far Gone.
Before the Ice: Drake's First Mixtape and the DJ Who Said Yes
February 14, 2006. A 19-year-old on the Degrassi set called a Southern DJ who hosted tapes for Lil Wayne.
They Met in College on Long Island. Now They're on Hot 97.
Kast One on the Bronx fire escape, the LIU dorm room, and the night at Gleason's.
Eli's Rotation
Every week, my 15-year-old son Eli picks the track that's got his generation talking. This is what's on repeat in the halls, the group chats, and the car rides home from school.
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Last week: Barretta - fryday
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Lil Wayne & DJ Drama
Three Philly kids moved to Atlanta and changed hip-hop forever. DJ Drama, Don Cannon, and Lil Wayne built the tape that made the "best rapper alive" claim impossible to argue with.
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DJ Premier and Royce Da 5'9" put fifteen years of collaboration on record with "U Looz" — one of the tracks that made the Bad Meets Premo tape an archive document before PRhyme ever had a release date.
PRhyme (DJ Premier & Royce Da 5'9") - U Looz (Official Music Video)