Dr Octagon
December 1, 2023
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Organized Konfusion – Stray Bullet
Brother Ali – Need a Knot
Juggaknots – Clear Blue Skies (remix)
Oddisee – You Grew Up
Blahzay Blahzay – Good Cop, Bad Cop
The Pharcyde – Officer
Slick Rick – Children’s Story
Black Star – Children’s Story
Kwame the Boy Genius – The Man We All Know and Love
Kwest The Madd Lad – 125 Pennies For Your Thoughts
Black Sheep – Similak Child
Tha Alkaholiks – 2014
Count Bass D – T-Boz Tried to Talk to Me!
Ice-T – Midnight
Beastie Boys – High Plains Drifter
Jeru the Damaja – You Can’t Stop the Prophet
K-Solo – Your Mom’s In My Business
Ice Cube – My Summer Vacation
De La Soul – Millie Pulled a Pistol on Santa
Lost Boyz – Renee
Dr. Octagon – Blue Flowers
Justin Warfield – B-Boys on Acid
G. Love & Special Sauce – Cold Beverage
Tricky – Lyrics of Fury
Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy – Television, The Drug of the Nation
Dream Warriors – My Definition of a Bombastic Jazz Style
Lucas – Lucas With The Lid Off
MC 900ft Jesus – Truth is Out of Style
The Goats – Typical American
mc Paul barman – I’m Fricking Awesome
De La Soul – Bitties at the BK Lounge
Guru – Le Bien, Le Mal (feat. MC Solaar
Urban Dance Squad – Deeper Shade of Soul
Beastie Boys – So What’cha Want
Pete Rock & CL Smooth – All the Places (Places and Spaces)
Black Moon – Buck `em Down (Wind Parade)
Main Source – Looking at the Front Door (Think Twice)
The Roots – Silent Treatment (Da
Beatminerz Remix) (Wilford’s Gone)
Porn Theater Ushers – Me & Him (The Runaway)
Big Daddy Kane – Raw 91 (Rock Creek Park)
World Renown – How Nice I Am (SID Remix) (All I Ask)
Kurious – I’m Kurious (Mysterious Vibes)
Da Lench Mob – Lord Have Mercy (Dreaming About You)
Nas – New York State of Mind (Flight Time)
The Beatnuts – Props Over Here (Wee Tina)
3rd Eye & The Group Home – Ease Up (Blackjack)
Shyheim – One’s 4 Da Money (Cristo Redentor)
Latee & Mark the 45 King – Putin’ on the Hits (You and Music)
Guru feat. Donald Byrd – Loungin’ (The Emperor)
Tha Alkaholiks – Likwit
Xzibit – Paparazzi
Sadat X – Hang ’em High
Mad Rap – Da Whole Kit & Kaboodle
Wu-Tang Clan – Da Mystery of Chessboxin’
Raekwon – Criminology
Mobb Deep – Survival of the Fittest
M.O.P – Ante Up
Big Pun – I Ain’t a Player
deadprez – Hip Hop
Delinquent Habits – Tres Deliquentes
Cella Dwellas – Good Dwellas
Funkmaster Flex – Loud Hangover (feat Akinyele & Sadat X)
Pete Rock – One MC One DJ (feat. Skillz)
Tung Twista – Mista Tung Twista
Kurious – Spell It With a J
Funkdoobiest – Bow Wow Wow
Leaders of the New School – A Quarter to Cutthoat
Ghostface Killah – Daytona 500
Casual – That’s How It Is
Tha Alkaholiks – Make Room
King Tee – Ruff Fhyme
Milk – Get Off My Log
Big L – MVP
Black Moon – Who Got Da Props?
Redman – Can’t Wait
Mannish – Jive U The Mann
Disable Planets – Graffiti (feat. Jeru the Damage)
Jurassic 5 – Thin Line (feat. Nelly Furtado)
The Roots – Clones
Organized Confusion – Stress
Prime Minister Pete Nice – Rat Bastard (feat. Beatnuts)
MC Serch – Here it Comes
Al Tariq – Do Yo’ Thing
Psycho Les – Ba Ba Barz (feat. RA The Rugged Man)
Erick Sermon – Hostile
PMD – Rugged-n-Raw (feat. Das EFX)
Phife – Nutshell
Q-Tip – Breathe & Stop
Pharaohe Monch – Simon Says
Prince Po – Bump Bump (feat. Raekwon)
Sadat X – The Lump Lump
Grand Puba – 360 (What Goes Around)
MC Ren – Kizz My Black Azz
Ice Cube – AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted
Willie D – Goin’ Out Lika Soldier
Scarface – I Seen A Man Die
The Nonce – Mix Tapes (1926 Sunday Night Remix)
Cypress Hill – Illusions (Q-Tip Remix)
Funkdoobiest – Rock On (Buckwild Remix)
Tha Alkaholiks – Daaam! (Buckwild Remix)
A Tribe Called Quest – Scenario (Remix)
Black Sheep – The Choice is Yours (Revisited)
Show & AG – The Next Level (DJ Premier Remix)
Method Man & Redman – How High (Remix)
Redman – Blow Ya Mind (Remix)
The Fugees – Nappy Heads (Remix)
Beastie Boys – So What’cha Want (Soul Assassins Remix)
Black Moon – I Got’Cha Open (Remix)
Das EFX – Freakit (Remix)
Missy Elliott – Get Ur Freak On (feat. Nelly Furtado) (Remix)
Craig Mack – Flava In Ya Ear (Remix)
Heavy D & The Boyz – A Bunch of… (feat. 3rd Eye, Biggie Smalls, Busta Rhymes, Guru, Rob O)
Flavor Unit MCs – Roll Wit Tha Flava (feat. Treach, Chip-Fu, Freddie Foxx, Queen Latifah, Heavy D, D-Nice)
D&D All Stars – 1,2 Pass it (feat. DJ Premier, Mad Lion, KRS-One, Smif-n-Wessun, Doug E. Fresh, Jeru the Damaja)
De La Soul – Sh. Fe. MCs (feat A Tribe Called Quest)
Main Source – Live at the BBQ (feat. Akinyele, Joe Fatal, Nas)
Heavy D & the Boyz – Don’t Curse (feat. Kool G rap, Grand Puba, CL Smooth, Big Daddy Kane, Pete Rock, Q-Tip)
The D.O.C. – The Grand Finale (feat. NWA)
West Coast Rap All Stars – We’re All in the Same Gang
The Beatnuts – Off The Hook (feat. Big Pun & Cuban Link)
Key Kool & Rhettmatic – E=MC5 (feat. LMNO, Voodu!, Meen Green, Ras Kass)
L-Fudge – What If? (feat. Talib Kweli, Shabaam Sahdeeq, Mike Zoot, Skam2?)
Shabaam Sahdeeq – 5 Star Generals (feat. Eminem, Skam2?, Al Skills, Kwest Tha Madd Ladd)
Busta Rhymes – Flipmode Meets Def Squad (Jamal, Redman, Keith Murray, Rampage the Last Boy Scout & Lord Have Mercy(
M.O.P. – Ante Up (remix) (feat. Busta Rhymes, Teflon, Remy Martin)
A Tribe Called Quest – Scenario (feat. Leaders of the New School)
Bahamadia – 3 tha Hard Way (feat. K-Swift & Mecca Starr)
Gang Starr – I’m The Man (feat. Lil Dap & Jeru the Damaja)
Mic Geronimo – Men vs. Many (feat. Royal Flush & O.C.)
Lord Finesse – Brainstorm (feat. KRS-One & O.C.)
Raekwon – Verbal Intercourse (feat. Ghostface Killah & Nas)
Ahmad – Come Widdit (feat. Ras Kass & Saafir)
Crooklyn Dodgers (Special Ed, Masta Ace, Buckshot) – Crooklyn
Kool DJ EQ – Three Emcees (feat. Xzibit, Del, Casual)
Mad Skillz – Xtra Abstract Skillz (feat. Large Professor & Q-Tip)
Keith Murray – How’s That (feat. Redman & Erick Sermon)
2Pac – Last Wordz (feat. Ice Cube & Ice T)
Eternia & MoSS (feat. Rah Digga & The Lady of Rage)
Pharoahe Monch – Assassins (feat. Jean Grae & Royce the 5’9”)
R.A. the Rugged Man – The Dangerous Three (feat. Masta Ace & Brother Ali)
Public Enemy – Burn, Hollywood, Burn (feat. Ice Cube & Big Daddy Kane)
The Coup – Fat Cats, Bigger Fish
Organized Konfusion – Hate
GZA – Shadowboxin’ (feat. Method Man)
Akinyele – Checkmate
Das EFX – Hard Like a Criminal
EPMD – Headbanger (feat. K-Solo & Redman)
Lost Boyz – Beast from the East (feat A+, Canibus, Redman)
Mobb Deep – The Realest (feat. Kool G Rap)
Diamond D – Check One, Two
Fugees – How Many Mics
The Roots – Ya’ll Know Who
Big L – Da Graveyard (feat. Lord Finesse, Jay-Z, Party Arty, Grandaddy I.U.)
Chino Xl – No Complex Content
Common Sense – I Used to Love H.E.R.
NO I.D. – The Real Weight (feat. Dug Infinite)
Chi-Ali – Funky Lemonade
Doctor Dre & Ed Lover – Back Up Off Me!
Frankie Cutlass – Puerto Rico
dj honda – Out For the Cash (feat. Common, Fat Joe, The Beatnuts)
The Beatnuts – Reign of the Tec
Rough House Survivors – We Came to Get Wreck
Atban Klann – puddles of H2O
Blood of Abraham – Stabbed By the Steeple
MC Ren – Mayday on the Front Line
Johnny P – Ghetto Youth
M.O.P. – Stick To Ya Gunz (feat. Kool G Rap)
Fat Joe – Flow Joe
Artifacts – C’mon Wit Da Git Down
Man Digga – Man Digga Comin’ Through
Down South – Lost in Brooklyn
Real Live – Real Live Shit
Double XX Posse – Not Gonna Be Able to Do It
Kenny Dope feat. Mad Racket – Don Da Da (Gangsta Mix)
Nubian Crackers – As Them Talk (feat. Don-T)
Mad Skillz – The Nod Factor
Junior M.A.F.I.A. – Get Money
OFTB – From Jackin’ to Rappin’
DFC – Things In The Hood (feat. Nate Dogg)
RZA – Wu Wear – The Garment Renaissance (feat. Method Man & Cappadonna)
A Tribe Called Quest – Peace, Prosperity & Paper
Dawn Penn – No No No
Shabba Ranks – Trailer Load-A-Girls
Skeeta Ranx – I Like
Capleton – Wings of the Morning (feat. Method Man)
Mad Lion – Shoot to Kill
Buju Banton – Champion
Terror Fabulous – Action (feat. Nadine Sutherland)
Ganjah Posse – Stay Listen to Me (Punani Remix)
Whitey Don – Artical pt. 2 (feat. Phife Dog and Chip Fu)
Brand New Heavies feat. Jamalski – Jump `n Move
Super Cat – Dem No Worry We (feat. Heavy D)
Vicious – Freaks (feat. Doug E Fresh)
Patra – Queen of the Pack
Wayne Smith – Under Mi Sleng Teng (DJ Muggs Remix)
Mad Cobra – Flex
Show & AG – Got tha Flava (feat. Party Arty, D Flow, Wali World, Method Man)
Notorious B.I.G. – The What (feat. Method Man)
Busta Rhymes – Woo Hah (remix feat. ODB)
Tha Alkaholks – Hip Hop Drunkies (feat. ODB)
SWV – Right Here (Ol Skool Mix feat. Wu-Tang Clan)
Funkmaster Flex – Nuttin But Flavor (feat. Charlie Brown, Biz Markie, ODB)
Big Daddy Kane – Show & Prove (Scoob, Sauce Money, Shyheim, Jay-Z, ODB)
Gang Starr – Above the Clouds (feat. Inspectah Deck)
7L & Esoteric – Speaking Real Words (feat. Inspectah Deck)
N-Tyce – Hush Hush Tip
Tash – Rap Life (feat. Raekwon)
Spice 1 – Hard to Kill (feat. Method Man)
Shaq – No Hook (remix feat. RZA, Method Man)
Mobb Deep – Eye For An Eye (Nas, Raekwon)
Sir Mix-a-Lot – Posse on Broadway
Run-DMC – Peter Piper
King Tee – Bass
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien – Catch a Bad One
DJ Magic Mike & MC Madness – Lower the Dynamite
2 Live Crew – Move Somthin’
Yaggfu Front – Busted Loop
Ice Cube – Wicked
Redman – Time 4 Sum Akshun
Beatnuts – Are You Ready?
Company Flow – Vital Nerve
Conscious Daughters – Fonky Expedition
Lost Boyz – Jeeps, Lex Coups, Bimaz & Benz
Digable Planets – 9th Wonder
De La Soul – The Bizness (feat. Common)
Masta Ace – Born to Roll
De La Soul – A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturday
Nikki D – Daddy’s Little Girl
Nice & Smooth – Sometimes I Rhyme Slow
Brand Nubian – Slow Down
Smif-n-Wessun – Wrekonize
Akinyele – In the World
Young Zee – Everybody Get
Poor Righteous Teachers – Shakiyla
Erule – Listen Up
Public Enemy – He Got Game
Maestro Fresh Wes – Stick To Your Vision
Mellow Man Ace – Mentirosa
Nas – It Ain’t Hard to Tell
A Tribe Called Quest – Solid Wall of Sound
Camp Lo – Lucini AKA This is It
Special Ed – I’m the Magnificent
N2Deep – Back to the Hotel
Nemesis – Temple of Boom
Run-DMC – Here We Go (Live at the Funhouse)
Sweet Tee & Jazzy Joyce – It’s My Beat
Dana Dane – Cinderfella Dana Dane
DJ Quik – Tonite
Poor Righteous Teachers – Mi Fresh
Smoothe Da Hustler – Broken Language (feat. Trigger The Gambler)
Nine – Whatcha Want?
Joint Ventures – It’z The Joint
Twin Hype – Do It To The Crowd
Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock – It Takes Two
Da Bush Babees – Swing It
The Whooliganz – Put Your Handz Up
Da Youngstas – Every Man 4 Theyself (Remix)
Blahzay Blahzay – Danger
The Mexakinz – Phonkie Melodia
Brothas Unda Madness – Take a Look Around
Miilkbone – Keep it Real
Cella Dwellas – Advance to Boardwalk
Gravediggaz – Defective Trip (Trippin’)
Jeru the Damaja – Come Clean
Anotha Level – Phat-T (feat. Pharcyde)
Bushwackass – Rough, Rugg’d & Raw
Xzibit – Paparazzi
Originoo Gun Clappaz – No Fear
Fab 5 (Heltah Skeltah & OGC) – Leflah
Gang Starr – The Illest Brother
Ugly Duckling – The Pike
Fat Joe – The Shit is Real (DJ Premier Remix)
Das EFX – Microphone Master (Dome Cracker Remix)
De La Soul – Stakes is High
Jeru The Damaja – One Day
Dilated Peoples – Pay Attention
Arrested Development – Ease My Mind (DJ Premier Remix)
Notorious B.I.G. – Come On (feat. Sadat X)
Black Moon – Black Smif-n-Wessun
Mic Geronimo – For the Family
Positive K – Night Shift (Remix)
Tha Alkaholiks – Next Level (feat. Diamond D) (Buckwild Remix)
Schoolly D – PSK,What Does It Mean?
DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince – Brand New Funk
Kool Moe Dee – I Go to Work
Boogie Down Productions – Jack of Spades
KRS-One – Outta Here
Ms. Melodie – Communication
D-Nice – Crumbs on the Table
Casual – I Didn’t Mean To
Souls of Mischief – That’s When Ya Lost
Fu-Schnickens – Ring the Alarm
Keith Murray – Get Lifted
A Tribe Called Quest – Award Tour
Too $hort – In the Trunk
Spice 1 – Trigga’s Got No Heart
E-40 – Sprinkle Me (feat. Suga-T)
Stop the Violence Movement – Self Destruction
Top Quality – Magnum Opus (March 1991)
DJ Shadow – Organ Donor (June 1991)
Mobb Deep (TKA Poetical Prophets) – Shook Ones Pt. II (July 1991)
Common Sense – Soul By The Pound (October 1991)
The Notorious B.I.G. – Unbelievable (March 1992)
Saafir – Light Sleeper (August 1992)
8-Off – Alize for Dolo (November 1992)
Artifacts – Wrong Side of the Tracks (April 1993)
Fesu – Ya Don’t Stop (May 1993)
Mad Skills – Nod Factor (August 1994)
Mr. Complex – Visualize (February 1995)
Jigmastas – Beyond Real (July 1995)
Capone & Noreaga – Stick You (October 1995)
J-Live – Longevity (November 1995)
Notorious B.I.G. – Big Poppa
Keith Murray – The Most Beautifullest Thing in This World
Da Brat – Funkdafied
Common Sense – Breaker 1/9
Naughty By Nature – Hip Hop Hooray
Chino XL – Rise
Ice Cube – Man’s Best Friend
KMD – Who Me?
Doug E Fresh & The Get Fresh Crew featruing Slick Rick – The Show
Big Boi featuring Andre 3000 & Raekwon – Royal Flush
Queen Latifah – Black Hand Side
Boogiemonsters – Honeydips in Gotham (Monster Remix)
K-Otix – Falling Behind I
Black Sheep – Without a Doubt
Public Enemy – Shut `em Down (Pete Rock Mixx)
Teenage Fanclub & De La Soul – Fallin’ (Judgment Night)
The Roots – The Good, The Bad, & The Desolate (High School High)
Souls of Mischief – Get the Girl, Grab the Money, and Run (A Low Down Dirty Shame)
Gang Starr – Gotta Get Over (Taking Loot) (Trespass)
Eric B. & Rakim – Know the Ledge (Juice)
Notorious B.I.G. – Party & Bullshit (Who’s The Man?)
Method Man, KRS-One, Prodigy & KAM – Bulworth (They Talk About It While We Live It) (Bulworth)
Mobb Deep – Rare Species (Modus Operandi) (Soul in the Hole)
Above the Law – Freedom of Speech (Pump Up The Volume)
Nas – Halftime (Zebrahead)
O.C. & Organized Konfusion – You Won’t Go Far (New Jersey Drive)
Pete Rock & CL Smooth w/ YGz – Death Becomes You (Menace II Society)
Public Enemy – Fight the Power (Do the Right Thing)
Speakers on Blast – Skyzoo
I’m Innocent – Murs
Let’s Go – Tonedeff
I F-cking Hate Rappers – PackFM
Ready to Roll – Oddisee
It’s Funny (ft. Joell Ortiz) – Eternia & Moss
Best@It (ft. Freeway & Joell Ortiz) – Brother Ali
Microphone Preem (ft. Slaughterhouse) – Prhyme
Peep the Steeze – Hex One
3 Lyrical Ps (ft. Styles P & Prodigy) – Sean Price
Dead in the Middle – Demigodz
We Should Be Rocking (ft. Donwill, Aeon, Lee Sissing) – Von Pea
Real Detroit (ft. MarvWon) – The Left
The Black Renaissance (ft. Black Thought) – Sa-Roc
Kwest Tha Madd Lad – 101 Things to Do When I’m With Your Girl
Tha Alkaholiks – DAAAM!
Mad Lion – Take it Easy
Nas – NY State of Mind
Ras Kass – Remain Anonymous
Suave – Make Way for the Boogeyman
Ten Thieves – It Don’t Matter
Scientifik – Jungles of da East
Peanut Butter Wolf – The Chronicles (I Will Always Love H.E.R.)
DJ Shadow – The Number Song
Rasco – The Unassisted
7L & Esoteric – Watch Me
Cunninlynguists – Thugged Out Since Cub Scouts
Boogie Down Productions – You Must Learn
Herbie Hancock – Rockit
Beastie Boys – Rhymin’ & Stealin’
Run-DMC – Run’s House
LL Cool J – Jack the Ripper
A Tribe Called Quest – Check the Rhime
Gang Starr – Just to Get a Rep
Geto Boys – Do it Like a G.O.
Poor Righteous Teachers – Rock Dis Funky Joint
Wu-Tang Clan – Protect Ya Neck
Pharcyde – Passin’ Me By
Souls of Mischief – 93 til Infinity
Pete Rock & CL Smooth
November 18, 2023
Pete Rock and CL Smooth had made quite a name for themselves with their debut
