Straight, No Chaser Mixtape: Volume 2
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The Straight, No Chaser Mixtape: Volume 2 is a dope mix of spoken word poetry, hip hop instrumentals, and conscious, jammin art. It's about 40 minutes long, something you can listen to while you're riding in your car, studying, or just chillin online. We've been getting some amazing feedback since its release on May 19th. That date is the birthday of Malcolm X, a huge influence of this mixtape which you'll be able to tell about two minutes into the mixtape.
There is MUSIC on the mixtape. It's not just someone reciting poetry for 40 minutes. It's 2010 so you want be hearing about any roses or violets or butterflies or sunrises on this mixtape. What you will hear about is what it means to live in the bottom of society (in America) even when the president of America looks just like you. You will hear about saving money so that there are resources/institutions in the African American community that can respond when senseless deaths like those of Sean Bell, Oscar Grant, Julian Alexander occur. You'll also laugh throughout the mixtape as much of the poetry is backed up by some comedic geniuses. This seemingly odd addition of comedy only enhances the poetry. You'll also hear about what's wrong with the poetry/spoken word industry and by the end you'll realize that this mixtape is a step in a new direction for poetry.
Each beaten on Straight, No Chaser was chosen specifically for each poem and vice versa. It has Nas, Outkast, Common, RZA, Badu, and Timbaland beats. Your traditional mixtape, except it's spoken word poetry. Think No Ceilings by Lil Wayne or Trap or Die by Jeezy. Think hip hop with poetry replacing the verses. Simple as that.
This mixtape is a thank you to those who've supported 2 Pens & Lint and Christopher K.P. Brown's work in the past. It's also a way of inviting new ears to the work. There's no risk in listening for free. So click on the link below. Download, listen, burn it, copy it, share it. Enjoy.
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Check out this video for Harlem To Haiti (featured on the mixtape):
Tracklist:
1. 5 Bombs Intro
2. Excellence (to Common beat from Electric Circus)
3. Harlem To Haiti (Black Tomorrow Shit) (Produced by Okenna Oparah)
4. (WE)alth 2010 (to Triumph beat by RZA-WuTang)
5. The Massacre (to Timbaland beat for One Republic)
6. New Day Nefertiti (to Danger beat by Erykah Badu)
7. The Sweetest Taboo (to Street Dreams Remix by Nas)
8. Dancing With Scars (to Dear Mama beat - Tupac)
9. 25 To Life (to ET beat - Outkast)
10. Rhymes 4 A Riot (to Liberation beat by Outkast)
Snippets:
“We buy and sell on the block but never buy and sell stock, never flipped america’s lies
never realized how white parents buy their kids mutual funds and teach them about wall street
years before they can drive, behind, we find out ten years later
what they learn at age 18 we learn at 28 so the wealth comes to us at a much slower rate” (The Illness)
“Rhymes for a riot, revolution is on tour, and this ain't love jones, this ain't langston hughes, it's malcolm on hip hop, the panthers on poetry, marcus Garvey with a myspace page” (Dancing With Scars)
"This is for my bottom boys tryna hit it out the park, we got crazy vision, gripping spaldings after dark. They said that was the way, said the only way to make it in the USA was to run a few plays and be Jordan one day. That's what they told us, that's what they tell us, that's what they show us, that's what they sell us. Spit bars or grip bars, we filling cells up, not filling Yale up" (5 Bombs Intro)
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