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Been working intensively on the first of the Owen/j3 collaborations. Below is the tentative cover although I’ve already changed it. I’ve been doing most of the work up to this point (about 2 hours is already done) because Owen and I can’t ever seem to meet up. So I just started working the mix through in Audacity and, well, it’s about 75% done at this point.

The mix brings together both rap, rock, film, funk and Tom Brokaw in celebration of the genre that blew the whole game up: Gangsta Rap. I’ve always been reluctant to use such a term only because I always found it as a horrible stereotype and oversight because, over time, media channels were just lumping any rapper with a parental advisory sticker on the front a “gangsta rapper” when you could put on any rock record back then and hear worse (i.e. Appetite for Destruction). But I wanted the mix to, firstly, be dope and listenable and, secondly, either parody the mass misconceptions of the genre or simply exploit them. As to say, “You thought “Cop Killer” was bad? Try this.” This ain’t your little brother’s mix. This is for the adults. This is for the aging hip hop head. This is for the dude that complains about nothing being dope anymore. This is for that cat that fell out of love with hip hop. This is for you if you haven’t heard “New Jack Hustler” in ages.

It probably will time near two and a half hours after it’s completed. At that length, I had thought that it would be dope to have my own Wizard of Oz/Dark Side of the Moon thing goin’ except I would sync up mine with American Me. Oh, and it’s not called Gangsta Gangsta, but rather Gangsta Boogie.