History of Hip-Hop 2008 (Mixed By Cosmo Baker) (right-click, save as)

Artwork by Rhek for Sharks and Hammers

Tracklist after the jump!

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Interview with Tittsworth:
http://brooklynradio.net/blog/interview-tittsworth

Titty Recall Mix ( . )( . )( . )
http://brooklynradio.net/the-rub

Sweden’s Let’s Mix site interviewed us about our Hip-Hop History series. Read the whole interview here (or below).

Hey Rubbers! You’ve done an amazing job compiling and producing the Hip Hop History mixes. How did you come up with this, slightly crazy, idea?

Ayres: Thank you! If I remember correctly, I had the idea for a series of hip-hop history mix CDs at first, but it just seemed crazy to try to dump that many CDs on the market place. Most of the years would have been double or triple CDs. But yeah, Eleven and Cosmo were both into the idea to do it and just give the mixes away on The Rub website and Brooklyn Radio. So we split it up between the three of us into years, like “I’ll take 1979, you do 1980, he does 1981…” and so on. It felt really ambitious but also once we got the bug, it was a project we had to do. And it is awesome now because it has found such a huge audience and people keep finding it and emailing about the mixes long after we first put them up.

How long did it the whole process take, from compiling the tracks, via laying out the order in the respective mixes to finishing the actual mixes?

Eleven: The mixes got longer the further we got into them. But they average around two hours. For each of those, there was three-four hours of tracking down and going through music, a couple hours of prepping to record, three-four hours of recording and touch up. So each show probably took at least ten hours. By the time we bring the project up to now, we’ll be 300+ hours in!

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History of Hip-Hop 2007 (Mixed By DJ Ayres) (right-click, save as)

Artwork by Rhek for Sharks and Hammers

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White Light #29 – DJ Ayres (mellow dubstep / electronic / chillout)

Plasmodium Mix #43 – DJ Ayres (All T&A Records: House, Techno, Club)

Flashing Lights Mix #6 (all types of dance music w. Jubilee & Nick Catchdubs)

History of Hip-Hop 2006 (Mixed By DJ Eleven) (right-click, save as)

Rick Ross – Hustlin
T.I. – What U Know
Chamillionaire ft. Krayzie Bone – Ridin’
Young Jeezy ft. Timbaland – 3 AM
Fat Joe ft. Lil Wayne & R. Kelly – Make It Rain
Lil Scrappy ft. Young Buck – Money In The Bank
Shawnna – Gettin’ Some Head
Cam’Ron ft. Lil Wayne – Suck It Or Not
The Game – One Blood
Ludacris – Money Maker
Yung Joc – Goin’ Down
Kelis ft. Too $hort – Bossy
Jay-Z – Kingdom Come
Lupe Fiasco – I Gotcha
The Game ft. Will.I.Am – Compton
Jim Jones – We Fly High
Jay Z – Brooklyn High
Young Jeezy – I Luv It
The Game – Let’s Ride
Jay-Z – 30 Something
Ghostface Killah – Be Easy
Busta Rhymes – I Love My Bitch
Snoop Dogg ft. E-40, MC Eiht, Goldie Loc, Daz & Kurupt – Candy (Drippin’ Like Water)
The Roots ft. Peedi Peedi & Bunny Sigler – Long Time
Nas – Where Are They Now
Jay-Z – Show Me What U Got
The Coup ft. Black Thought – My Favorite Mutiny
Nas – Hip Hop Is Dead
Black Eyed Peas – Like That
Spank Rock – Backyard Betty
Ludacris – Girls Gone Wild
Busta Rhymes – Touch It
E-40 – Tell Me When To Go
Pharrell ft. Gwen Stefani – Can I Have It Like That
Bubba Sparxxx ft. Ying Yang Twins – Ms. New Booty
DJ Khaled ft. Lil Wayne, Paul Wall – Holla At Me Baby
E-40 ft. Bun B – White Gurl
Too $hort – Blow The Whistle
Lloyd ft. Andre 3000 – You (remix)
Lupe Fiasco – Kick Push
Busta Rhymes – NY Shit
AZ – The Format
Jay Dee ft. Common – E=MC?
Ghostface Killah ft. Ne-Yo – Back Like That
T.I. – Why You Wanna
The Roots – Don’t Feel Right
P Diddy ft. Nas & Cee Lo – Everything I Love
Dilated Peoples – Back Again
Ray Cash ft. Scarface – Bumpin My Music
Obie Trice ft. Akon – Snitch
Clipse ft. Pharrell – Mr. Me Too
Jay Dee ft. Common & D’Angelo – So Far So Good
Snoop Dogg ft. Dr. Dre & D’Angelo – Imagine
Hi-Tek ft. Dion, Bun B, and Devin The Dude – So Tired
Lupe Fiasco ft. Jill Scott – Daydreamin’
T.I. – Ride With Me
T.I. ft. UGK – Front, Back
Field Mob ft. Ludacris – Georgia

I’m excited to be posting about the newest release from my latest venture, 11 Inch Records.

DJ Apt One is 1/2 of RCMP, 1/2 of the Philadelphyinz with our very own Skinny Friedman (who just dropped a great EP), 1/3 of Young Robots, and a dude who brings the heat. I’ll let Apt tell you more: “I’ve had a grip of disco cuts in storage for a time, waiting for the moment to show people that it’s ok to be deep as long as you stay funky.”  Now is that time!  Head over to iTunes, Juno, or Gigacrate to cop it while it’s hot.  (TurntableLab & Amazon, etc. links to follow shortly.)

And if you’re in New York this Thursday, July 15th, come through to join me in welcoming Apt One to FAM (at Von - 3 Bleecker Street in the basement) to celebrate this release.  We’ll be throwing down from 9PM – 3AM & it’s always free.

Photos by Sam Horine for the Village Voice view the whole set

See the whole set at Kenny’s Flickr