Artist	Song
Jimi Hendrix/Al Pacino/Curtis Mayfield	Overture
Gil Scott-Heron	Sex Education Ghetto Style
Musical Youth	Pass the Dutchie
Ghostface Killah	Child's Play
Rudy Ray Moore	Dolemite Vs BDK (recut)
Muddy Waters	Mannish Boy (Electric Mud version)
James Brown	Super Bad
Cappadonna	Slang Editorial
Franco Micalizzi	Dark Suspense
Lalo Schifrin	Magnum Force Theme
Cappadonna	Milk the Cow (cut down)
GZA feat Ghostface Killah	Investigative Reports
Donny Hathaway	The Ghetto
Keith Hudson	Black Belt Jones
JJ Johnson & His Orchestra	Harlem Clavinette
Nas	One Time for Your Mind
Wu-Tang Clan	One Blood (inst)
Funkadelic	March to the Witch's Castle
Big Moe	Sippin' on Codeine
DJ Screw	Wreckin' Classics Track 06
Bill Laswell	Rated X
Miles Davis	Tatu Part 1
Wu-Tang Clan	Diesel
Yes	Heart of the Sunrise (intro)
<>	On the Corner
Ghostface Killah	Impossible
Wu-Tang Clan	I Can't Go To Sleep
Curtis Mayfield	Right on for the Darkness

Comment:

When I gave this to my friend Ron, he sent me this review:

"Long Money Blues: The Life and Death of Rollie Washington", takes the listener on a journey into the ghetto and tells the story of a small time
hood who becomes a player and pays the price for a life of crime.
The album starts off with a gorgeous oveture by Jimi Hendrix, Al Pacino and Curtis Mayfield which sets the stage for Rollie's humble beginnings in the
ghetto. With tracks by the Wu-Tang Clan, Rudy Ray Moore, James Brown, Donny Hathaway and Lalo Schifrin, Sweet sketches an engrossing storyline that pulls the listener into the dark underworld of the ghetto life. In the third and final act, Sweet adds tracks from Yes, Miles Davis, Bill Laswell,
Isaac Hayes to his arsenal to tell the untimely outcome of the big-time Rollie.

Sweet is the moral backbone here.....he uses tracks familiar and not-so-familiar to weave an aural tapestry to tell the tale of what the everyday man faces in the ghetto. Sweet exposes the saddest truth ....that the young impressionable man growing up in the ghetto can choose between trying to make a decent honest life or be entranced by the flash and immediate financial gain of the criminal life...and by choosing the latter, faces the consequences that follow a life of crime. This is Sweet's forte--he has told a similar story in "Cold Blooded I"--but not as concise and beautifly tragic as here in the sequel.

John L. Sweet is the Iceberg Slim of the mix......."

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