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I sometimes would spend hundreds on music ██ within a week. Over this period of time I gained hundreds of ██ CDs...most of these albums (95%) were all underground hip ██ hop; many of which are now out of print. I loved the art ██ work, layouts, disc image; and I always loved to have the ██ track listing, liner notes, bios and album credits. ██ ██ I eventually really got into instrumental Hip Hop. This, at ██ first, was hard for me to get into because I always wanted ██ to hear rapping over beats; but after listening To Hip Hop ██ for almost two decades.... at this point in time (2000) ██ things started to become redundant. The mainstream was doing ██ a lot of commercialized rap/pop music at this time, most of ██ my all time favorite Mceez were not really doing anything ██ that was my particular cup of tea and hearing the same ██ watered down similes & punchlines in the under ground, ██ really had an effect on me. So it eventually became easier ██ to listen to instrumental Hip Hop and it soon became a ██ central cornerstone in my daily listening sessions. In ██ ways...instrumental Hip Hop started to seem like Hip Hop in ██ it's purist form during this time; because you never had the ██ rapper's egotistical perspectives involved with the art ██ form. The instrumentals speak for them selves; and that ██ allows one to think and admire the music. ██ ██ This took place between 2000 and 2007. In these moments I ██ heard things in Hip Hop that I never heard before and that ██ caused me to view Hip Hop music in a way....that eventually ██ changed my life. for this 7 year period I came across beats ██ and instrumentals that I always wanted to use someday. Some ██ of these beats never had rapping over them in the first ██ place; but they were some of the dopest I had ever heard and ██ wanted to some day write a little to them. ██ ██ After a while everybody and they grandma were doing ██ mixtapes. Then I started to hear a lot of underground ██ mixtapes with production from the mainstream (Nothing wrong ██ with that. To each his own.)....that always kinda tripped me ██ out though, because the underground needs all the love it ██ can get, had all these dope instrumentals left untapped and ██ has some of the best producers that I had ever heard. ██ ██ So....in 2007 I decided to do The Black Lab Mixtape! It ██ would be a mixtape with a concept; in that....we would only ██ use our favorite beats from the underground and at the same ██ time alert people to our favorite producers that influenced ██ us...as a collective. ██ ██ So this mixtape ended up being unorthodox in a few ways: ██ ██ (1) Usually mixtapes are comprised of the newest beats that ██ just dropped; but we were gonna use beats from any and all ██ years.s ██ ██ (2) Usually mixtapes have beats that were songs of ██ rappers....beats that had already had recent songs over ██ them; but we were planning on also using a variety of beats ██ taken from Instrumental albums as well, that never had ██ vocals over them originally. ██ ██ (3) Usually mixtapes are more about the rappers and their ██ vocals...but this mixtape has a concept that showcases the ██ dope producers, that Black Lab Felt should be brought above ██ the radar. ██ ██ (4) finally...mixtapes are usually comprised of ██ instrumentals that are available or can be found on singles ██ and the internet. Three of these tracks I have never seen ██ instrumentals for...EVER. I actually imported the original ██ songs off of CD and chopped the instrumental parts from the ██ song and rebuilt the beats. ██ ██ In the summer of 2008, before Ricky Pharoe moved to ██ Cali...he came and recorded a Mixtape track for himself ██ called, "Get Lost". I was like, "hey...I was gonna use that ██ beat on The Black Lab Mixtape!" Ricky was like, "Use it on ██ The Black Lab Mixtape." So Get Lost was technically the ██ first song ever recorded for The Black Lab Mixtape and it ██ was recorded in the Late Summer of 2008. All the rest of the ██ recordings were done between the summer of 2009 and the end ██ of 2010; but almost all of these recordings were done in ██ 2009. ██ ██ What your left with, is a mesh of styles that represent the ██ producers who inspired them. A collage of kaleidoscopic ██ textures, that paint a mural of Hip Hop from the perspective ██ of The Underground. This mixtape truly embodies the hart and ██ soul of The Black Lab and captures the very essence of the ██ soundscapes that we would like to craft for ourselves and ██ present to open ears. We wanted to bring to the forefront ██ MCing, in it's Purest form...no catchy hooks...just raw ██ uncut rhyming carried out in the tradition of The Wu-Tang ██ Clan; and some of our other all time favorite Mceez from the ██ East coast in the mid 90's, that laid a foundation for What ██ The Black Lab does and represents . You have one Mc after ██ another sounding off and most times where there would ██ usually be a chorus or scratching...we left it empty...so it ██ would have a raw feel and allow the true rugged vibe of the ██ music that inspired us, to play it's part. ██ ██ In the end...it's raw, grimy, warm, vintage and reeks of old ██ dusty records; and the worn down turn tables that play them. ██ Its back bone consists of chopped breaks & dated samples. It ██ captures sounds and moments...to recycle and resurrect them ██ for todays youth and for generations to come. Its drums are ██ hard and heavy. The concepts are deep and passionate. It ██ resonates the very frequency of a movement...but uses the ██ elements of Hip Hop as its voice and vehicle. From the 12 ██ bit sound of the SP1200 to the sample pads of The MPC 2000; ██ It stands for something much more then ourselves and carries ██ on a grand tradition, that was started by the children of ██ the civil rights movement. Its a beautiful family tree, with ██ many colored leaves, all diverse in shade and tone. It ██ contributes to our lives and becomes the very air we breath; ██ But BENEATH THE SURFACE...is where it all began and it's ██ roots will always run deep in the hart of the underground. ██ credits ██ released 01 January 2013 ██ All tracks recorded, engineered, edited, mixed & mastered by ██ Jewels Hunter in The Black Lab. All additional recording By ██ Graves & Phreewil in The Black Lab. Scratching on track (1) ██ by Graves33. ██ ██ All songs were written and performed by the artists ██ involved, between the end of 2008 and the end of 2010. ██ ██ PRODUCTION: Track (1) Blatantly hijacked from Blood of ██ Abraham's 2005 release entitled, "Eyedollartree". ██ ██ Tracks (2 & 19) Produced by Blockhead and taken from his ██ album, "Music by Cavelight". ██ ██ Track (3) Produced by Alias and taken from his instrumental ██ album, "Muted". ██ ██ Tracks (4 & 5) Produced by Jel and taken ffrom his ██ instumental Album called, "Green Ball 2-The Proud Parent of ██ a US Marine". ██ ██ Track (6) taken from Ayentee. ██ ██ Track (7) Produced by DJ Premier and blatantly hijacked from ██ Gang Starr's. "Step in the Arena" ██ ██ Tracks (8 & 9) Produced by DJ Shadow. Track (8) was taken ██ from his 1996 release entitled, "Endroducing....." and track ██ 9 was taken from his instrumental album, "Preemetive ██ Strike". ██ ██ Track (10) Produced by Sixtoo & Stigg (Villain Accelerate). ██ Taken from there instrumental album, "Maid of Gold". ██ ██ Track (11) Produced by Factor. Taken from the album ██ entitled, "Chandeller". ██ ██ Track (12) Produced by Stigg. Taken from vinyl. The beat was ██ originally from a Sebutones (Sixtoo & Buck 65) song. ██ ██ Track (13) Produced by Buck 65. Blatantly hijacked from his ██ album entitled, "Language Arts" ██ ██ Tracks (14, 15 & the hidden track) Produced by Jel. Taken ██ from his instrumental album. "Green Ball". ██ ██ Track (16) Produced by Thavius Beck. Taken from his album, ██ "Give Us Free". ██ ██ Tracks (17 & 20)) Produced by Maker. Track (16) taken from ██ the instrumental bonus disc off of Glue's album, "Catch as ██ Catch Can". Track (20) Taken from his solo album called, ██ "Honestly". ██ ██ Track (18) Produced by Controller 7. Taken from his ██ instrumental album, "Left Handed Straw". ██ ██ ██ ▓██ ▓██ ▒██ ░██ ░██ · ▒ ██ ▓ ██▓▄▄ ░ ▄ ▄▄ ▄███▓▒░ ░ ░ ░ ░ ░▒▓█▓ ▓ █▀ ░▒ █ ▓ We Have NO Public IRC ░ █ ▒ channel and offer no ░ ██▒ ░ files. If you like this ▄ ▄██░ : release, support the ██░ artist and buy it...... ██ · ██ ██▓▄ ▄▄ FTD Group Info ▒▓█▓ ░▒ ░ Fuck the Dumb .. bringing you e-beefless hiphop since 2000. ░