New York City… the birthplace of hip hop. The city itself is divided into 5 boroughs… Manhatten, Queens, The Bronx, Staten Island, and Brooklyn; all five bringing their own unique flavor to the artform. This brand new mixtape series, what I’d like to call NYC: The Five Boroughs, is something that I have been mulling over since late last year. I finally got around to completing one of the tapes… Brooklyn.
Starting off with a tape dedicated to Brooklyn was an easy choice, as there are so many dope emcees who rep the borough. And when I say ‘rep’, they rep it to the fullest. Jay-Z, Biggie, Mos Def, Big Daddy Kane, Talib Kweli, M.O.P… the list goes on. We have compiled a tape of hip hop’s hottest BK Anthems and hope to complete a tape for each of the other 4 boroughs. Hit the jump for the complete tracklist and link…
If anyone has any recommended tracks for a Volume 2 or tracks to include in the other boroughs’ tapes, feel free to comment.
- Fabolous + Jay-Z + Uncle Murda – Brooklyn
- Big Daddy Kane – Brooklyn Style…Laid Out
- MC Lyte – Brooklyn
- Jay-Z – Brooklyn (Go Hard)
- Mos Def – Brooklyn (OG Version)
- Jeru The Damaja – Brooklyn Took It
- Crooklyn Dodgers – Crooklyn
- AZ – You Aint From Brooklyn (Interlude)
- Beastie Boys – No Sleep Till Brooklyn
- Jay-Z + The Notorious B.I.G. – Brooklyn’s Finest
- Da Bush Babies – Brooklyn Movements
- Roy Ayers – We Live in Brooklyn, Baby (Interlude)
- Smif-N-Wesson – Home Sweet Home
- M.O.P. + Busta Rhymes – Brooklyn
- Masta Ace – Brooklyn Masala
- Crooklyn Dodgers ‘95 – Return Of The Crooklyn Dodgers
- The Notorious B.I.G. – Where Brooklyn At (Interlude)
- Joell Ortiz – Brooklyn Bullshit
- Mos Def + Jean Grae + Memphis Bleek – Brooklyn In My Mind
- ODB – Brooklyn Zoo
- Jay-Z – Hello Brooklyn 2.0
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dope mixtape series
Can’t wait for the Queens version of this series.
Man you know how long this has been sitting in the que. We started talking about this late last yr. I’m glad u finished it Kev.
Yo I was thinking about this and here it is…where is the Planet from Gang Starr and that lil Kim song there are mad songs about Brooklyn!!!
joey
Great concept. Great tape. And I agree with Menlo D. Queens will be tight. Though so will the Bronx… damn they all will be sweet!
Although, anybody else who can’t stand Jay-Z’s Hello Brooklyn 2.0? AG is consistently in the system but that song just angers me.
boo @ no digable planets. the blowout comb album is as BKLYN as it gets.
I was in NYC a couple of weeks ago and guess what ? I couldn’t go to East Brooklyn because some broad told me they will kill me ! I said yo i come from a place much harder than Brownsville or Bedstuy but nevertheless, she was like ‘yo you white, you aint from here so i can guarantee you an ass beatin minimum !’ I was like yo i ain’t white I’m from north africa, which makes more african than any of them black brothers in the hood, but what is even more important is that I’ve been in brooklyn so many times in my mind thx to hiphop that I really need to see bk from the inside ! At the end I went to do white dude stuff : shop on flatbush, went on brooklyn heights and ate some pizza at grimadil’s ! Fuckin white skin !
Next time i go to BK i should holla at Kweli or Mos ! For real !
True Story
i wanna hear them all. Uptown to Boogi down. Queenz is gonna bang
Gangstarr, “The Place Where We Dwell”
"Welcome to Brooklyn, New York City…"
Dope concept, dope tape, KN on fire!!
Would Staten be anyone but Wu? If I remember right the Diggs 2, INS and Dirt aren’t even from there… Plenty of Ghost material to choose from though.
Keep up the good work!
Yo I got one for Manhattan…
Naughty by Nature – Uptown Anthem
And lots of stuff by Big L, ‘Street Struck’ and ‘Danger Zone’ maybe
NBN are from Jersey right?
Yeah,
That track is from / for Juice about some kids from Harlem…
Does it count then I wonder? Subject of the song or provenance of the performer.
This is dope ! KN rules !
What’s happening whit Good Morning Mixtape ?
man kn drops some bombs
Can’t wait to hear all 5! My manz KMT(IC) Slim (Kemetic Slim) did sumtin similar
Don’t Sleep! Check out KMT(IC) Slim’s BK/Medina mix
http://hotfile.com/dl/10474375/aef3901/Medina_a.k.a_Brooklyn.zip.html
Queens
http://hotfile.com/dl/10577019/fe7920c/Queens_N.ow_whY._C.ee.zip.html
Bronx/Pelon
http://hotfile.com/dl/10582446/93c2a00/Pelon_aka_da_bronx.zip.html
Mecca/Harlem
http://hotfile.com/dl/10584102/97602c6/Mecca_NYC.ee.zip.html
NYC (N.ow whY. C.ee)
http://hotfile.com/dl/10524038/1ef4f35/N.ow_whY._C.ee.zip.html
I know he has Shaolin and a Strong Island mix b.u.t I lost da links. If ya want other cities (chi town, L.A….they all go hard) Let me know!!!
One!
Props on those Peace!
You can put Fabolous – brooklyn (feat.Jay-Z and Uncle Murda) for Volume 2
Ohhhh, sorry ;( I didn’t see that in the tracklist.
No bucktown??? There’s should be a lil more duck down on this listing.
Great Tape would’ve love to have seen “Borough Check” on there by Digable Planets, but that uses the Roy Ayers sample so you brought it back to the essence. Also, I know you have M.O.P. on this list,, but I would gonna w/ home sweet home feat. Lord Have Mercy- that track is a beast! Kev, you any acapellas of these?