Assorted Donuts Nominated For Mixtape Of The Year At The Vibe Awards

Sneakers...

Came across this track earlier by Raekwon. When it was released the only sneakers I remember being retro'd were the Jordan's and Stan Smith's. Shout to Bobbito's Footwork. Outside of Fulton Mall, that was one of the only spots in New York City where u could find oversea releases.

Raekwon "Sneakers" 

Produced by Pete Rock

(Recorded in 1999)

Alife Sessions (August 2007)

Yesterday, the good folks at Alife let me rock out while two hip-hop legends (Q-Tip & Craig G) kicked a few rhymes... Moby was there also and got down on the one & two's. Big shouts to Matt Goias for reaching out and to Rob & Arnaud for letting me do the damn thing! Photo's jacked from freshnessmag.com (more coverage over there).

What You Know About Caron Wheeler?

Homegirl might not be the must attractive female on the mic but there is no denying how nice she is with the vocals! "Livin' In The Light" is one of my favorite tracks and I just did an edit of it.. This mix was originally produced by Afrika Baby Bam of The Jungle Brothers and was released in 1990. Enjoy!

Livin' In The Light (DJ Soul's Edit)

The Point x Undefeated x Nike

A few weeks ago, the good people over at Undefeated and Nike brought me out to Los Angeles to spin the World Love & 1thology party celebrating the 25th year of the Air Force 1. Here are some pic's from the party and a video of the crowd reacting to "Wipe Me Down" which I had no intention of playing. One of the highlights was playing the remix of "Mr Big Stuff" and then seeing Heavy D there. Big shouts to James, Eddie, Lena, Shoes & Errol for making it happen!

The New Dance Show (1992)

A few months ago, I came across this clip on youtube. Watching it for the first time I thought somebody either overdubbed the music or edited the dancing. Negative...

Titled "The New Dance Show", this was Detroit's verison of Soul Train where instead of playing the regular mix of r&b and soul music, a dj played a mix of miami bass, ghetto house, hip-hop , electro & techno (this mix would later be refered to as ghetto tech). Can somebody please explain to me why there aren't parties like this in New York?

Stretch Armstrong

Since I'm constantly categorized as a DJ associated with what's left of the New York hip-hop scene, once in a while someone will ask me, "What's up with Stretch?" Well for starters, he drives a Vespa (which was stolen but he found out who stold it and stole it back). He's still spinning but now you're likely to catch him playing house, electro and baltimore. If you're curious about what that sounds like, u can check out these two mixes he recorded live last week in Paris.

Oh yeah, he also has a blog titled Konstant Kontact that focuses on hip-hop from the 80's and 90's (which includes a bunch of shows from him and Bobbito on WKCR as well as other goodies)!

MTV lists Assorted Donuts as one of the 10 essential mixtapes of the year!

Earlier this year, I teamed up with ?uestlove's website
Okayplayer to drop this tribute mix to the late great J Dilla aka Jay Dee. Originally I was remixing tracks off of Donuts but when Kweli gave me his freestyle over an unreleased Dilla track and I mysteriously received a Notorious B.I.G. remix that Dilla had personally done, it turned into a bigger project. It's been about 5 months since we put it online as a free download and in that time the response has been tremendous (almost 50,000 downloads). I didn't personally know Dilla but was a huge fan of his production and music. To get props personally from his family and peers is a feeling that I can't put into words! There is no way I could've done this project without all the peeps who helped me and supported it. On that note I want to say THANK YOU to everybody who was involved! I would name names but I don't wanna forget anybody!

In case u missed it, here are the links once again.

Assorted Donuts (untracked version) 

1. Intro
2. Talib Kweli "Intro"
3. Notorious BIG "Kick In The Door" (J Dilla Remix)
4. Nas "Hope"
5. Ghostface "Whip Me With A Strap"
6. Jay-Z & The Escorts "Song Cry"
7. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles "A Legend In It's Own Time"
8. Jadakiss "Why"
9. Redman "The Saga Continues"
10. Big L "Put It On"
11. M.O.P. "Pounds Up"
12. Black Thought & Peedi Crack "Freestyle"
13. Black Thought Interlude
14. Kanye West Interlude
15. Busta Rhymes, Rah Digga & Young Zee "Freestyle"
16. Mos Def "Miss Fat Booty"
17. Ghostface "Beauty Jackson"
18. Notorious B.I.G. "Things Done Changed"
19. The Roots "Can't Stop This"
20. J Dilla "Won't Do"