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1ST & 15TH MIXES: VOL 6 BO BLIZ “BEST OF REEF”

The 1st & 15th (Pretty Much) Mix Series is a series of mixes presented by Emynd & Bo Bliz on (or around) the 1st and 15th of every month.
Crossfaded Bacon Presents:
1st & 15th (Pretty Much) Mix Series
“Best of Reef”

For this month I wanted to put the spotlight on some CFB fam, Reef The Lost Cauze. When I set out to do this mix, I was reviewing a whole gigabytes worth of mp3’s of this motherfucker. REEF HAS BEEN RAPPING A LOT. I mean a lot since like 3rd grade. But really it seems like his modern rap career started with “The High Life”. What was that, 01? Something like that.

Anyways, I was moving back to Philly from PSU and making lots of beats around that time and we collabbed on his next album “Invisible Empire” (as did Emil/Emynd). Since then he’s been dropping solo albums, crew albums, solo mixtapes, producer collab albums- all types of shit. To do this mix I ended up cutting out any rapper collabs, I just wanted to focus on Reef. Reef is a MOTHERFUCKING VERSATILE ARTIST!!! I put his battle raps, his more personal tracks, his what’s going on type tracks… all that shit, and yeah, it wasn’t easy to cut joints out to make it roughly 70 minutes. I hope y’all feel the tracklisting, and more importantly I hope Reef doesn’t think I left anything off, or cut verses off he wanted on there. Doing these is definitely different and tougher when it’s your bol’s shit.

Enough talking… I’m rambling. Make it clear though… This guy is a fucking monster. If you hate on this dude because who he rolls with or who he is associated with, fuck what you heard. This dude is nasty on all types of tracks.

With or without this music shit, it’s an honor to call him my people.

GO COP “A VICIOUS CYCLE” Digitally or the CD.

COP “FIGHT MUSIC” WHEN IT COMES OUT.

Sorry Reef no gun shots.

DL THE BEST OF REEF!!!!

Tracklisting after the jump
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Top Billin Mixes

Some really dope mixes by our fine friends from Finland. First is DJ Anonymous’s Club-focused “Midwinter Party Mix” which is really good and you can download HERE!

Tracklisting:
6Blocc: Tru Love
6Blocc: Follow The Leader
Kid Sister: Pro Nails (Rusko Remix)
Joker: Do It!
DZ: The Fireman
Zomby: Rumours & Revolutions
Apple Productions: Segalizer
Johnny Blaze: Conga
DJ Booman: Funhouse
DJ Tone: Buggin
DJ Sega: Numbers
Lil Mama: No Music (’07 Starkey Remix)
Glitch: N2O Games
DJ Tone: Optimized Theme
Britney Spears: Circus (Diplo Remix)
Smoke & Mirrors: Love Is In The Air
Geeneus: In To The Future
Geeneus feat Katy B: As I
Mr Vegas: Round Of Applause (Matchstick Remix)
DJ Sega: Bad Boyz
DJ Anonymous / Top Billin: Money To Burn
DJ Booman: James’ Revenge
Pase Rock: Get Money Kids (Emynd Remix)
Alan Braxe & Fred Falke: Intro
Loost Koos: Helsinki! (Cielu Remix)
DJ Killer & DJ Murder: Pretoria Dance
DJ Mujava: Township Funk (Komposti Blend)
Alborosie & Shabba: Ting-A-Ling (Remix)
Michna: Swiss Glide
Kid Sister: Get Fresh
Kanye West: Champion (Cousin Cole Acid Dub Slow)

Next up is the Top Billin Crew’s “Night Runners” mixtape that they made to promote their new night and record label of the same name. Download that HERE!


Tracklisting:
01. DVAS – Forever
02. KA SO RE – Shoes
03. Yazoo – Don’t Go (Enrico Mantini and Gianluca)
04. DJ A-Trak – Say Whoa (Craze Remix)
05. Felix Da Housecat & Diddy – Jack U (Angello & Ingrosso Remix)
06. Riva Starr – Crazy Frog
07. HK119 – C’est La Vie (Rusko Dub Mix)
08. Destroy Disco – Fly Or Bounce
09. Bingo Players – Chop (Original Mix)
10. Sharkslayer – Bad Ding
11. AC Slater – Jack Got Jacked (Jack Beats Remix)
12. D Malice – Gabryelle Refix
13. TV Rock – Bimbo (Tonite Only Club Dub)
14. Roxy Music – Angel Eyes (Joey Negro Re-Edit)
15. Hot Chip – Touch Too Much (Fake Blood Remix)
16. The Hours – See The Light (Calvin Harris Remix)
17. Helsinki 78-82 – Project #2 (Island mix)
18. SymbolOne – Love Juice (Moulinex Remix)

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Thursday 12/11 Brotherly Love Concert

I’ve got a bunch of free tickets for this show on Thursday at the TLA. Some of Philly’s finest rappers will be on stage killing it for free early in the night: Freeway, Gillie, Joey Jihad, Reed Dollaz, Voka and E. Ness. Should be a dope way to start off your weekend.

Follow me on twitter and hit me with a message and I got you.

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Emynd “Reach Out”

This has been a truly huge record for me over the past year or so. It’s the one record I play of mine at nearly every single gig I’ve done over the past year. Regardless if it’s a hipster, House, or a hip-hop crowd, I’ve played it everywhere from Austin to Helsinki, and every single time I play it, it gets one of the largest reactions of the night. It’s fairly simple in its execution, but not quite as simple as some of the other Bmore Soul tracks that we all know and love. The drums knock, the synth lines add a nice touch that doesn’t let this song feel out of place next to other electronic stuff, and the sequencing really make this a dancefloor burner. When the dick beat kicks finally drop, expect hands in the air.

This should be seeing its way onto vinyl in the near future, but as of right now, here’s the mixed and mastered mp3 for your playing pleasure. Please feel free to pass it around and blog it as well.

Shouts to Starkey for the fine mixing and mastering job.

Emynd “Reach Out” (320 Kps)

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R.I.P. Odetta

Sad news. R.I.P. to one of my favorite folk singers. Below is her classic self-written song “Hit Or Miss.” Such a great song. Thanks to Ayres for hitting me with the mp3.

Odetta “Hit Or Miss” (320)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Odetta, the deep-voiced folk singer whose ballads and songs became for many a soundtrack to the American civil rights movement, has died at age 77, her manager said on Wednesday.

Douglas Yeager said Odetta passed away late Tuesday at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, after a decade-long fight with chronic heart disease and pulmonary fibrosis in her lungs.

“May Odetta’s luminous spirit and volcanic voice from the heavens live on for the ages,” Yeager said in a statement. “Her voice will never die.”

Odetta Holmes, born in Birmingham, Alabama, on December 31, 1930, told the Times in a 2007 interview the music of the Great Depression, particularly the prison songs and work songs from the fields of the deep South, helped shape her musical life.

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1st & 15th Mixes: Vol 5 – DJ Ayres “BEST OF JEEZY”

The 1st & 15th (Pretty Much) Mix Series is a series of mixes presented by Emynd & Bo Bliz on (or around) the 1st and 15th of every month.

Crossfaded Bacon Presents
1st & 15th (Pretty Much) Mix Series
Volume 5: DJ Ayres 12.01.2008
BEST OF YOUNG JEEZY

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This month, our friend DJ Ayres from The Rub in Brooklyn was kind enough to offer his services, volunteering a “Best of Jeezy” tape. Jeezy is easily one of our favorite rappers right now and Ayres does a great job representing Jeezy’s best known classics mixed splendidly with his lesser known rarities and guest appearances. Ayres was so excited about doing this mix, he actually threw on a Snowman chain and went on a photoshoot! So ill! But yeah, it’s a really listenable mix and we’re extremely pleased to present it to you today. Hope you enjoy it and please feel free to drop a few comments. Don’t forget to hit up The Rub in Philly at the TLA this Thursday or their epic monthly this Saturday in Brooklyn as well. Easily one of the best parties in the WORLD (no hyperbole!).

Tracklisting:
1. Gangsta Walkin (ft Dank)
2. We Can Play This Game
3. Put The Whip On It
4. Come Shop Wit Me
5. Ain’t I
6. Trap Or Die Intro
7. Thug Motivation 101
8. Gangsta Music
9. Don’t Get Caught
10. Talk To Em
11. Soul Survivor (ft Akon)
12. Go Crazy (ft Jay-Z)
13. Top Back Remix (TI ft Young Jeezy)
14. Grew Up A Screw Up (Ludacris ft Lil Wayne & Young Jeezy)
15. 4 Kings (Young Buck ft TI, Young Jeezy & Pimp C)
16. 3 AM (ft Timbaland)
17. J.E.E.Z.Y.
18. You Know What It Is
19. Go Getta (ft R Kelly)
20. Go Getta (Remix ft Bun-B & Jadakiss)
21. I Luv It
22. Hood Nigga (Gorilla Zoe ft Young Jeezy)
23. Diamonds (Fabolous ft Young Jeezy)
24. 5000 1’s (DJ Drama ft Jazze Pha, TI, Young Jeezy…)
25. I’m So Hood (DJ Khaled ft Ludacris, Big Boi, Lil Wayne…)
26. White Girl (USDA)
27. Out Here Grindin (DJ Khaled ft Akon, Rick Ross, Young Jeezy…)
28. Superstar Remix (Lupe Fiasco ft Young Jeezy & TI)
29. Corporate Thuggin (USDA)
30. They Know Remix (Shawty Lo ft Young Jeezy)
31. What They Want
32. Don’t Know You
33. Put On remix (ft Kanye West & Jay-Z)
34. Diamonds (Slim Thug f. Young Jeezy – DJ Ayres & Winslow Turner Porter III Remix)

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Pase Rock NEW SINGLE OUT TODAY!

Talented producer, DJ, and rapper (not to mention all around good guy and fashion icon) Pase Rock‘s new double A-Side single “Get Money Kids/So Fu**ing Disco” is available on iTunes today. You may have already downloaded the mp3s at some point if you’re as blog savvy as the rest of us nerds, but you most certainly do not have Emynd’s “Get Money Kids” Remix or XXXChange’s “So Fu**ing Disco” Remix. Well worth your hard earned dollars and extremely dope cover art as well!

COP IT ON ITUNES NOW!!!

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Vinyl will be available Februrary and I’m really psyched that the folks over at Dim Mak liked my remix enough to give it an official release. Shouts to the Fully Fitted Mafia as well.

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Kanye & Jeezy “Amazing”

Well… Definitely amazing, and kinda weird also. DL this but don’t forget to scroll down one post and grab Emil’s new 1st and 15th mix.

Kanye West ft. Young Jeezy “Amazing”

1st & 15th Mixes: Vol 4 – BEST OF BMORE CLUB RAP

The 1st & 15th (Pretty Much) Mix Series is a series of mixes presented by Emynd & Bo Bliz on (or around) the 1st and 15th of every month.

Crossfaded Bacon Presents
1st & 15th (Pretty Much) Mix Series
Volume 4: Emynd 11.15.2008
BEST OF BMORE CLUB RAP

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This month, Emynd brings you a live, one take mix of a bunch of his favorite Bmore Club Rap anthems, from his new track with Young Chris, his remix of Tittsworth’s “Drunk as F*ck” with Federation, to modern classics like Class’s “Stop Snitchin’,” Blaqstarr’s version of “Ryder Girl,” to the new 410 Pharaohs and Prinse stuff.

Tracklisting:
1. Emynd featuring Young Chris “We Don’t Give A …”
2. DJ Class “Stop Snitchin”
3. Debonair Samir & Mz Streamz “Tear It Up”
4. 410 Pharaohs featuring David Banner “Pull Shorty” (Remix)
5. DJ Class “I’m the Ish”
6. Prinse “F*ck ‘Em All”
7. Prinse “Go DJ”
8. Tittsworth featuring Federation “Drunk as F*ck” (Emynd Remix)
9. DJ Unk “In Yo Face” (Scottie B Remix)
10. Diplo featuring Rye Rye “What’s Up” (Original Version)
11. 410 Pharaohs “Hammer Dance”
12. Say-Wut featuring A-Ma-Zon and Jae Poet “Keep Rockin'”
13. Deboniar Samir “Booty” (Gutta Music Remix)
14. Scottie B featuring Wale “Elevators”
15. Blaqstarr “Ryder Girl” (K-Swift Version)
16. Cooli Hi featuring Blaqstarr “Take Down”
17. D’Vo and Storm “Dudes in Da House”

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Paper Route Gangstaz Drops Next Week!

Stolen from the Mad Decent blog, but it’s quality rap music over adventerous beats… one of which is mine!

racklisting:
01. Blaqstarr feat. Jhi-Ali – Stuntastic (prod by Diplo)
02. Jackie Chain feat. Jhi Ali – Rollin’ (Diplo Remix)
03. PRGz – Woodgrain (Emynd Remix)
04. B.O.S.S. feat. G-Side – Real Good
05. B.O.S.S. feat. X.O. – Naturalz Pt. 2
06. Big P.O.P.E. feat Wale – Don’t Go (Diplo Remix)
07. Dawgy Baggz feat. Money Addict & B. Dewitt- Travelin
08. Untamed feat Dawgy Baggz – Shotz
09. PRGz – Bama Gettin’ Money (Diplo Remix)
10. Mata feat Mali Boi, M.P. & Big P.O.P.E. – Streetz
11. Jhi-Ali feat Cooley Da Dude & Big P.O.P.E. – Alabama
12. X.O – Grind Baby
13. PRGz – Soul Glo (The Knocks Remix)
14. X.O feat Mali Boi & CeeCee – 100
15. Money Addict feat Pluck – Hood Celebrity (Diplo Remix)
16. Money Addict – Life, Money & Drugs (Diplo Remix)
bonus tracks ( $5.00 and over )
17. PRGz – Woodgrain
18. PRGz – Bama Gettin’ Money
19. PRGz – Soul Glo
20. Money Addict feat Pluck – Hood Celebrity
21. Amp G – Lookin Good

That ish drops Tuesday. For now, hit up Mad Decent blog and get the free tracks.

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Mad Decent Worldwide Radio #30: BOUNCE IT (RE-UP)

****THIS IS A RE-UP TO UPDATE THE DEAD ZSHARE LINK. THIS POST WAS ORIGINALLY POSTED JUNE 26, 2008.****


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Crossfaded Bacon and Mad Decent Records present
Mad Decent Worldwide Radio #30: BOUNCE IT

Mixed by Emynd

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I started listening to Bounce music about two years ago and, over the past couple years, have acquired a pretty extensive collection of CDs, MP3s, and records of this really rich music. For those unfamiliar with Bounce, it is a fairly unique strain of club-oriented hip-hop that originated in New Orleans sometime around 1991 with MC TT Tucker’s “”Where Dey At.”” Almost 20 years later, Bounce still dominates the urban club and block party scene in New Orleans with very little major label backing. Just as Baltimore Club is based on the Lyn Collins’ “Think” break and the Gaz “Sing Sing” break, Bounce beats are based on samples from The Showboy’s “Drag Rap” (aka “Triggerman”) and Derek B’s “Rock The Beat” drum break (more commonly known as “the Brown Beat”). The best club music seems almost always to thrive on calculated simplicity, and Bounce is no exception, relying on MC work that is based on simple call and response chants, straightforward rhyme schemes/patterns, and repetitive dance refrains. My buddy Noz has helped me learn a lot about this music and several years ago (right after Katrina), he put together a really great collection of earlier Bounce songs that you can download here. Also, the first podcast on New Orleans rap has got some good stuff on it as well.

In contrast to Noz’s collection of songs, I made my mix as an effort to put people onto some more recent New Orleans Bounce songs and artists that they likely aren’t very familiar with. As you’ll notice pretty quickly, I’ve kept the mixing and DJing to a real minimum and tried to move pretty quickly from song to song to fit in as much stuff is possible. There isn’t a real rhyme or reason for most of the selections on here. They’re mostly just a bunch of Bounce songs I really like, and I’m hoping some of y’all will enjoy this stuff enough to go and support some of these artists. I’ve provided links wherever possible to help make that search as easy as I could because a lot of these folks have a pretty strong presence on Myspace. Please hit these dudes up on their Myspace, support their events, and buy whatever you can from them.

Tracklisting:
1. Intro
2. DJ Jubilee “Get Ready, Ready!” (1997)
3. Chev “Picture This” (2004)
4. 5th Ward Weebie “5th Ward Weebie Part 3” (2003)
5. Peacachoo “Get High” (2004)
6. Kilo “Pop Dat Tattoo” (2008)
7. Peacachoo and Blaza ft Hot Boy Johnny “Danity Kane Remix” (2007)
8. Kane and Abel featuring 5th Ward Weebie and Hot Boy Ronald “Toot It Up” (2003)
9. 5th Ward Weebie “Dip It” (2008)
10. 10th Ward Buck “Drop & Gimme 50” (2007)
11. 9th Ward Tea “Pull A Muscle” (2008)
12. Peacachoo and Gotty Boi Chris “Cut It Up” (2006)
13. Sissy Nobby “Snake” (2008)
14. De Ja Vu “Abracadabra” (2005)
15. Peacachoo and Gotty Boi Chris “Blocka Blocka” (2007)
16. South Rakkas Crew and Emynd “Mad Again (NOLA Bounce Remix)” (2008)
17. Dime Gyrl Drell “They Mad” (2005)
18. Gotty Boi Chris ft 5th Ward Weebie “Where She At” (2005)
19. Gotty Boi Chris “She Make Me (Laaard!!!)” (2005)
20. Faster Boyz “I Ain’t Had Sex In A Long Time” (2004)
21. 10th ward Buck “Buck Hop” (2004)
22. Naughty “Walk With It” (2003)
23. DJ Jubilee “Where Y’all From” (2004)
24. 2 Sweet “Do Like I Told Ya” (1997)
25. Katey Red “Melpomene Block Party” (1999)
26. Willie Puckett “Doggie Hopp” (1997)
27. Partners n Crime “We Don’t Love Them Hoes” (1994)
28. DJ Jubilee “Back That A** Up” (2000)
29. Ricky B “Y’all Holler” (1996)
30. Lil Wayne & Curren$y “New Orleans Classic” (2007)

Track by track details after the jump.

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Emynd & Young Chris “We Don’t Give A …” Digital 12″

(Originally Posted November 9, 2008. Re-Upped April 20, 2010)

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPPPPP!

I’m re-posting this because many of you may have missed it when I posted it back in November of 2008, but it still sounds fresh as hell and I’m pretty sure the sharebee link below still works. This shit hard as fuck!

Today, Crossfaded Bacon is mighty proud to present the digital release of Emynd‘s newest Bmore Club track *We Don’t Give A …” with Rocafella and Def Jam recording artist Young Chris. A member of the Philly super group State Property and the hit-making duo The Young Gunz, Young Chris is one of Philly’s most versatile rappers, fully capable of making certified street shit as well as forward-thinking club jams. Emynd set out to make a contemporary sounding track that linked Philly’s tradition of percussion heavy club anthems (think Tuff Crew “My Part of Town”, Cool C “Glamorous Life”, Freeway “Flipside, and the Young Gunz “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop”) with Philly’s city-wide obsession with Bmore Club (often colloquially refered to in Philly as “Club” or “Party Music”). Chris wound up being the perfect rapper to effortlessly make that link a reality. Already getting support from a variety of DJs all across the globe, we fully expect this track to do big things both within Philly and elsewhere, and we encourage you all to distribute this track as freely as you like: post it on your blog, add it to your Myspace player, send it to your girl friend, remix it, or whatever.

And, as always, please feel free to hit us with your comments on it.

320 MP3s and even higher quality AIFFs are available below. Shouts out to Young Noz from cbrap.com for the Cool C “I Gotta Habit” cover art and even bigger shouts to US Dubstep king Starkey for helping mix this record and mastering it.

Emynd featuring Young Chris
*WE DON’T GIVE A …* Digital 12″

Produced by Emynd
Vocals by Young Chris
Recorded at Studio 609
Mixed and Mastered by Starkey @ The Royal Bank of Starkville

1. Emynd featuring Young Chris “We Don’t Give A … (Dirty)” (320 kps) – (AIFF File)
2. Emynd featuring Young Chris “We Don’t Give A … (Clean)” (320 kps) – (AIFF File)
3. Emynd featuring Young Chris “We Don’t Give A … (Instrumental)” (320 kps) – (AIFF File)

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1st and 15th Mix Series- Bo Bliz presents “Best of Project Pat”

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OK. It’s definitely a day later than “pretty much”. But its a monster mix and this dude is so sincere. Seriously… Grab this and ride around or drink liquor with your squad. I split it up into albums again. I stuck to the main studio records rather than mixtapes and put the hits on there. This means the club joints, the reflective joints (really), and the STREET bangers (of which there are a lot of).

No one is really fucking with this guy…

Bo Bliz presents “Best of Project Pat”

-bo bliz

Obama- Free mp3’s

I know I was in line at 6:35 am to get my vote in at 7:00 am when the polls opened at 30th & Master, North Philly, USA. It was a beautiful thing. In the birthplace of democracy in the western hemisphere the Obama support was overwhelming. My man Barry. It’s up to the people now, and our fucked up electorate college. Sheesh. Let’s do this.

Free mp3’s.

T-Pain ft. Kanye West “Therapy”

Vocoder madness… SHOCKING!!!! Gonna be a radio joint/warm-up the club joint. I like it.


M.I.A ft. Jay-Z “The Boys RMX”

OK this might have been out for a minute but is making the “urban” rounds a little late a la “Paper Planes” with a verse from Jigga. I didn’t have it ’til very recently, shoot me.


John Legend “Everybody Knows”

I love John Legend. Real talk. I don’t like to judge albums too quickly but I have to say that this one that I had been looking forward to so much might not be his best work. You should still cop, but this is one of better joints on there so take it as a little encouragement to grab that jawn. DO IT!!

Oh yeah, it’s soft like Emynd.

-bo bliz

T-Pain ft Lil Wayne “I Can’t Believe It” (“Bookshelf” Blend)



Emynd’s Lunch Break Beats is a series of club-friendly blends, edits, or beats Emynd produced on his laptop (usually while sitting in his car on some random side street in Wilmington, D-ware just after eating his WaWa lunch) while on his lunch break at his 9 to 5.

The whole series can be found here.

LUNCH BREAK BEATS #8:

T-Pain featuring Lil Wayne “I Can’t Believe It” (Emynd’s “Bookshelf” Blend)

Brendan Bringem bitched at me the other night trying to tell me I’m just a contrarian because I love “I Can’t Believe It.” He’s WRONG! The song is really charming and fun. T-Pain rhyming words together that hardly rhyme is just so damn likable (“Wisconsin” does NOT rhyme with “mansion” but it’s awesome). Wayne’s verse is atrocious and I’m not even really sure why I left it in this blend, but if you’re riddeming this up with the other joints from the Bookshelf riddim, you really shouldn’t have much trouble mixing out before Wayne gets his horrible on. By the way, I guess I should say a few words about this blend, right? Well, it works! There’s a few sour notes here and there, but nothing anyone in the club will notice and for the most part, it’s in key and gives this song a more energetic feel. Quite frankly, the Bookshelf riddim is my favorite damn riddim ever so I love throwing stuff on top of it. Hope you find it useful and comments are welcome as always!

T-Pain featuring Lil Wayne “I Can’t Believe It” (Emynd’s “Bookshelf” Blend):
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