Artist	Song
Outkast	Gasoline Dreams
Handsome Boy Modeling School	Rock n Roll (Could Never Hip Hop Like This)
A Tribe Called Quest	Midnight
DJ Shadow	Organ Donor
Blackalicious	Deception
Eminem	I'm Back
De La Soul	Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey)
Jurassic 5	Quality Control
Public Enemy	You're Gonna Get Yours
The Roots	Concerto Of the Desperado
Mystikal	Danger (Been So Long)
Timbaland & Jay-Z	Lobster and Scrimp
Black Sheep	Strobelite Honey
Dr. Octagon	3000
Mos Def, Q-Tip, and Tash	The Body Rock
Deltron 3030	Positive Contact
Wu-Tang Clan	Do You Really (Thang, Thang)
Outkast	Wheelz Of Steel

Comment:

A hip-hop mix made for a friend of mine who wanted an introduction to the genre. I was pretty stumped in my approach to introducing my friend the wonderful world of hip-hop. So, I decided to include what I thought to be some of the best work of current artists that I knew he was somewhat familiar with (i.e. Outkast, Jay-Z, Eminem) along with others that I thought he needed to hear like Blackalicious, Deltron, Handsome Boy, Dr. Octagon (whew! theres a lot of Automator on this disc, huh?) I don't know if this works as an introductory sampler, but I think it definitely works as a mix of top notch beats and rhymes. At the end of the Jurassic 5 song, there's a cool little instrumental with a sampled speech about getting into a "time machine" that segues perfectly into the Public Enemy song. I'm pretty damn satisfied with this one and I retained a copy for myself.

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