If we were giving out award here, the most ambitious award would go to Abstrakt Soundz, who not only remixed American Gangster, but remixed The Blueprint also — AND REMIXED THEM WELL.  My first listen to The American Abstrakt Fuck A Gangster gave me the impression of a whole new album.  Abstrakt really made […]

Here’s another hot British production of American Gangster from Irn Mnky of White Eyed Tigers Productions. He’s calling this one A Very British American Gangster.
A Very British Gangster uses samples from popular acts. Forgive me, as I am not up to speed with the music over there, but a lot of the samples […]

Street Radio (production duo J. Math & Jimi Kendrix) recently announced the release of their version of Jay-Z’s newest album, American Gangster, which includes all new production as well as new vocals from AZ, Lil Fame of M.O.P., Tre Williams, & Jimi Kendrix.
2007 was a good year for Street Radio, placing over 25 tracks with […]

I mentioned before that it’s really interesting to hear sounds from all over the world in these American Gangster remixes.  We’ve already heard concept albums from various ethnicities, but there’s always room for one more.  Insert Ethiopian Gangster remixed by SimpliBrown from Syracuse New York.
SimpliBrown used nothing but Ethiopian samples for this project.  Before you […]

I know this next one will be compared to American Zeppelin, which was released a couple of weeks ago.  This one is called Houses of The H.O.V.A. and was remixed by Dr. Watch from Bedstuy, New York.  Surprisingly, Dr. Watch had never heard the previous Jay-Z/Zeppelin project.  It’ll be interesting to compare the two.  This […]

Jigga meets Daft Punk; that’s the concept for this next remix album appropriately called Daft Gangster.  The project comes from DtheNextLevel out of D.C.
Belief it or not, this concept works!  Some of you may be thinking Daft who?  Daft Punk!  Remember Kanye’s “Stronger”?  Them samples were all Daft Punk.  DtheNextLevel takes it to the “next […]

Here’s one more for your collection — Soul on Rice Presents: Chinese Gangster.  This came to me from a cat who calls himself Anonymous Twist, hailing from Canada.
Another concept album, this remix project uses Chinese samples as the basis for the album.  Check it out; I think it’s pretty wicked.
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Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!  This one came out yesterday and is by Nukes who hails from London.  It’s called British Gangster.  This one’s a little different from the rest, but not in a bad way.  According to Nukes, “It is an amalgamation of euro-pop, hip hop and rock, fully composed by yours […]

Hey, I’m having a great time on vacation, but had to stop in and post one of the most anticipated American Gangster remix albums; American Racketeer by Beewirks. Thanks to Krome for sending it my way! Krome is responsible for the hot cover art and also sent me some alternative covers that were […]