TragicallyInept

Back when all the mashups of Jay Z's album The Black Album were flooding the internet, it was hard to find a good one. DJ Dangermouse's The Grey Album (using The Beatles White album) is generally looked at as one of, if not the best out there. I'd suggest this could be a close second.

DJ Noodles and Nic Balz put out this gem of a mashup, and surprisingly it didn't get much attention. Using Jay's accapellas from The Black Album (and some from Jay's MTV Unplugged show) with the music of Nirvana's MTV Unplugged they created an actual mixtape that bears listening to more than once or twice.

All the links online I've found were dead, so I fortunately got my hands on a copy of this, thanks to a friend of mine. Feel free to share this with anyone you think might like this.

DOWNLOAD MIXTAPE HERE: (MEDIAFIRE)

01. Encore b/w "About a Girl"
02. Intro b/w "H to the Izzo"
03. Dirt of your Shoulders b/w "Lake of Fire"
04. Change Clothes feat. Pharell b/w "Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam"
05. What More Can I Say? b/w "All Apologies"
06. P.S.A. b/w "Come as you Are"
07. Threats b/w "Plateau"
08. 99 Problems b/w "The Man Who Sold The World"
09. December 4th b/w "Pennyroyal Tea"

Back in 1996 during a visit to the Potomac Mills Mall near DC I bought my first hip hop mixtape, DJ Billy Bill's "Best of the Best Volume 1". Several months later it got stolen from me and for the last 15 years I've been looking for it. Now, thanks to the one and only Tapemasta, I now have it again. He was kind enough to rip it from his original tape and send it to me, and I felt like sharing it today with those of you on this board that loves that classic mid-90's hip hop.

To this day it remains my favorite mixtape of all time, and I hope you guys like it as well.

DOWNLOAD MIXTAPE HERE (Mediafire)

NOTE: This is split tracked and tagged for Itunes.

DJ Billy Bill Presents: Best of the Best Volume 1 (1996)

(features the following DJ's doing sets: Chill Will FTE, Bigg Premiere, DJ Phili, Doggtime, Rello & Jadel and Dexterity)

01. DJ Chill Will Intro
02. Busta Rhymes - Woo Ha! (Blend)
03. Martin Lawrence - Everybody Wanna Be a Gangster
04. Monica - Before You Walk Out My Life (Blend)
05. TLC - Diggin On You (Blend)
06. Erick Sermon - Bomdigi (Blend)
07. DJ Outro
08. Ghostface - Motherless Child
09. DJ Shoutouts
10. D'Angelo feat. AZ - Lady (Remix)
11. The Fugees - Ready or Not
12. MC Lyte feat. Xscape - Keep On Keepin On
13. Lost Boyz - Renee (Remix)
14. Mad Skillz - Freestyle
15. Soul For Real - If You Want It (Blend)
16. Patra - Dip and Fall Back (Blend)
17. The Fugees - Freestyle (Live)
18. Holly Canada - You've Been Mean To Me (Blend)
19. Groove Theory - Keep Trying (Blend)
20. DeBarge - I Like It (Blend)
21. Stephanie Mills - Something In The Way You Make Me Feel (Blend)
22. Raphael Saadiq - Ask of You (Blend)
23. Monica - Before You Walk Out My Life (Blend)
24. Jay Z feat. Foxy Brown - Ain't No...
25. Busta Rhymes feat. ODB - Woo Ha!
26. Buju Banton - Sensimilla Persecution

Okay now that I'm back on the forum, I thought I would post up my blog for those of you who might want to check it out.

I post a variety of stuff on there, all my own content. I don't just post a video or something and give a link back to the original, or post a song and a quick description.

I basically just write on topics that interest me, whether it's movies, music, politics, religion, sports, hip hop, whatever. Plus there's album reviews I've done and interviews I have been fortunate to have done.

The link is in my signature, and I figured I would post up a couple links to items that you may or may not dig.

Thank you very much, and I'd love to know what you think of what you see.


1. Interview with actor Shawn Doyle (Big Love, 24, Endgame) http://www.searching...ve-endgame.html

2. Album Review: John Legend + The Roots "Wake Up!" - http://www.searching...ts-wake-up.html

3. Interview with "Rench" from the hip hop/bluegrass band "Gangstagrass", who did the theme song to the FX series "Justified" - http://www.searching...ngstagrass.html

4. Editorial: Criminalizing Homelessness - http://www.searching...melessness.html

Okay this is kind of weird. I posted on my blog a story last year (or maybe the year before) about Jeff being kicked out of a club for playing hip hop. (insert Uncle Phil throwing Jazz out the house joke here).

And now whenever I check my feedjit page to see all the places my blog hits are coming from, there's always a TON of hits coming in on that article by people searching google for "DJ Jazzy Jeff Homeless" or "Is DJ Jazzy Jeff Homeless?"

Now I figured this could be one of a couple things.

1. This could be born out of a rumor. I remember plenty of people I know telling me that Will left Jeff behind when he got famous and Jeff was broke or whatever. Now we know that's not how it went down, but for some reason there are still those who believe that. And so I thought maybe it came from that.

2. Perhaps early in his life he was homeless, and he mentioned it in an interview or something, and that's where the searches are stemming from.

Anyone know anything about this? It drives me CRAZY seeing that all the time and not knowing what the heck it's about. lol.

Thank you very much. Been awhile since I've been here. Good to be back.