Artist	Song
Sage Francis	Rewrite
Blackalicious	Back to the Essence
RZA	Dead Birds
Pete Rock	Smooth Sailing
Eyedea & Abilities	Color My World Mine
Illogic	Angel
Cage	Agent Orange
RZA	Gangsters' Theme
Slug, Eyedea & Sole	Savior?
Mos Def and Talib Kweli	Another World (remix)
Exhaust	the black horns of H2T
Eyedea & Abilities	On This I Stand
Peanut Butter Wolf ft. DJ Design	Phonies
Adeem	Enticing(from a distance)
Eyedea & Abilities	Read Whiped in Blue
Hi Tek	Respiration (Instrumental)
Ice Cube	Today Was a Good Day

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i kinda go back and forth on if i like this mix or not...its a departue from what i normal do and carries almost the same feeling as my last folk mix, anyway these are songs of stuggle and redemption. the rza cuts are off the Ghost Dog OST and the Peanut Butter Wolf track i edited out the intro ("do you know what i hate most....phonies..AMEN") because it didn't fit, so the track just starts with the slow drum beat. I'm aware that Exhaust is more post-rock than hip hop, but it works really well there (i edited the ending footsteps and silence out of it). i credit Hi Tek for the Respiration instrumental because he produced it, but its the same track off the blackstar record sans the raps (nothing against the track though, its my favourite on the record, i just wanted the feeling of the song, the essence if you will) i closed the mix with one of my favourite songs back in my school days, because it an up note, but at the same it almost a false happiness, because ice cube never escapes the problem of where he is at, but just that one day was a good day. Eyedea & Abilities along with illogic are my favourite newish emcess, though i placed a couple to many Eyedea & Abilities tracks on there...they work well and are really great.

the title is the last line from Ellison's Invisible Man.

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