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Some of DJ Wrex’s Greatest Hip Hop Songs from the 90’s to make you move. He’s taking you to the backyards where cops pull up when the party’s crackin.. From the West Coast vs. East Coast Rivalry with 2pac & Biggie and Bad Boy and Death Row to the whole Wutang cult following and much more. Head bobbing, dancing and just vibin out, 90’s hip hop at its finest.

House Party Tracklist
Biz Markie – Just A Friend
Luniz – I Got 5 On It
Eazy E – Boyz In Da Hood
The Pharcyde – Passing Me By
Jay-Z – Can I Get A
Blackstreet – No Diggity
Dr. Dre Keep Their Heads Ringin’
2Pac ft Dr Dre – California Love
2Pac Feat. JoJo – How Do You Want It
Big Pun – Still Not A Player
Wutang Clan – Triumph
Snoop Dogg – Gin & Juice
Wutang Clan – Triumph
Warren G – Regulate
Dr. Dre Feat. Snoop Dogg – Nuthin’ But A “G” Thang
The Notorious B.I.G. – Juicy
Naughty By Nature – O.P.P.
Arrested Development – People Everyday
Skee-lo – I Wish
Outkast – ATLiens
2Pac – I Get Around
The Notorious B.I.G. – Hypnotize
Dr. Dre – Let’s Get High
2Pac feat. Snoop Dogg – 2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted
The Notorious B.I.G. – Going Back To Cali
R. Kelly – Home Alone
Mariah Carey ft ODB – Fantasy (Bad Boy Remix)
Wyclef Jean – We Trying To Stay Alive
Montell Jordan – This Is How We Do It
Naughty By Nature – Hip Hop Hooray
Wrex n Effect – Rump Shaker
Method Man & Redman – Da Rockwilder
MC Breed & DJC – Ain’t No Future In Yo Frontin
Kriss Kross – Jump
Paperboy – Ditty
Outkast – Rosa Parks
ODB – Got Your Money
Snoop Dogg – Ain’t No Fun
Digital Underground – Humpty Dance
TonyToniTone – Let’s Get Down
The Notorious B.I.G. – Mo Money Mo Problems
DJ Kool Feat. Fatman Scoop – It Takes Two
Sugar Hill Gang – Jump On It
Vanilla Ice – Ice Ice Baby
The Beastie Boys – Brass Monkey
Bell Biv Devoe – Poison
Bobby Brown – My Perogative
Heavy D & The Boyz – Now That We Found Love

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Adam Yauch, one-third of the pioneering hip-hop group the Beastie Boys, has died at the age of 47, Rolling Stone has learned. Yauch, also known as MCA, had been in treatment for cancer since 2009. The rapper was diagnosed in 2009 after discovering a tumor in his salivary gland.

Yauch sat out the Beastie Boys’ induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April, and his treatments delayed the release of the group’s most recent album, Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 2. The Beastie Boys had not performed live since the summer of 2009, and Yauch’s illness prevented the group from appearing in music videos for Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 2.

Yauch co-founded the Beastie Boys with Mike “Mike D” Diamond and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horowitz in 1979. The band started off as a hardcore punk group, but soon began experimenting with hip-hop. The band broke big with their first proper album, Licensed to Ill, in 1986, and further albums Paul’s Boutique, Check Your Head and Ill Communication cemented the band as a true superstar act.

In addition to his career with the Beastie Boys, Yauch was heavily involved in the movement to free Tibet and co-organized the Tibetan Freedom Concerts of the late Nineties. Yauch was also directed many of the Beastie Boys’ music videos under the pseudonym Nathaniel Horblower. In 2002, he launched the film production company Oscilloscope Laboratories.

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/beastie-boys-co-founder-adam-yauch-dead-at-48-20120504#ixzz1tvFQvvyY

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DJ Wrex – Sages 9 (Right/CTRL Click & Save Target As to Download)

Sages Vol. 9 – Tracklist
1. Big Sean – Marvin Gaye and Chardonnay (feat. Kanye West and Roscoe Dash)
2. J. Cole – Mr. Nice Watch (Feat. Jay-Z)
3. J. Cole – Can’t Get Enough (Feat. Trey Songz)
4. Maino – Let It Fly
5. Jay-Z & Kanye West – Niggas in Paris
6. Game – Niggas in Compton
7. Big Sean – I Do It
8. B.o.B – Strange Clouds (Feat. Lil Wayne)
9. Chris Brown – Ladies Love Me (Feat. Justin Bieber)
10. DJ Khaled – I’m On One (Feat. Drake, Rick Ross and Lil Wayne)
11. Drake – Headlines
12. Ike Nice – I Get It In
13. Kreayshawn – Gucci Gucci
14. Beyonce – Party (Feat. Kanye West and Andre 3000)
15. Wiz Khalifa – No Sleep
16. T-Pain – Five O Clock (Feat. Lily Allen & Lil Wayne)
17. Rusko – Hold On (Feat. Amber Coffman) (Subfocus Remix)
18. Big Sean & Chris Brown – My Last
19. Bad Meets Evil (Eminem and Royce Da 59) – Lighters (Feat. Bruno Mars)
20. Frank Ocean – Novacaine
21. Audio Push – Radio (Feat. Mishon)
22. Kelly Rowland – Lay It On Me (Feat. Big Sean)
23. Sean Paul – Got 2 Luv (Feat. Alexis Jordan)
24. J. Cole – Work Out
25. Tyga – Still Got It (Feat. Drake)
26. Jay-Z & Kanye West – Otis (PeteDown Hype Remix)
27. Loverance – Up (Beat the P#$%y)(Feat. Iamsu and Skipper)
28. Tyga – Rack City
29. Ike Nice – Too Fresh
30. Lil Playy – Birthday Dress (Feat. Antonique Smith and Matthew Koma)
31. New Boyz – Better With The Lights Off (Feat. Chris Brown)
32. Asher Roth – Another One Down)(Feat. D.A. Wallach)
33. Lloyd – Dedication to my Ex (Feat. Andre 3000)
34. Fabian – Last Flight
35. Foster the People – Pump Up Kicks (Skeet Skeet Remix DJ Wrex Edit)(Feat. Kendrick Lamar)
36. LMFAO – Sexy And I Know It
37. Lil Jon – Drink (Feat. LMFAO)
38. Avicii – Levels
39. David Guetta – Wet (Feat. Snoop Dogg)(DJ Lesty Remix)
40. Afrojack & Steve Aoki – No Beef (Feat. Miss Palmer)
41. Chuckie – What Happens In Vegas (Feat. Gregor Salto)
42. Lil Wayne – How To Love

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Track Listing:
1.) Cosmic Knowledge ft. Popa Wu
2.) What A Trip (ft. Ras Zackary)
3.) 27 Miles
4.) Dead Willow Blues
5.) Let The Grass Grow
6.) Blessed (ft. Prince Po)
7.) I Know
8.) Popa?s Knowledge (ft. Popa Wu)
9.) Daily Hope
10.) Overcome (ft. Ras Attitude, Zack Walters of 3rd Alley)
11.) Necessarius
12.) Stay Positive (ft. Sublime, Led Zeppelin, KB07, Jah Works, Johnny Comic)

The Pier Album Rating:

Record Label: Mother Brain/Boss DJ

Group Background:

Hailing from South Bend, IN, Knowledgeborn07 has come a long way to become the artist you hear today. His early music influences include Beethoven, Mozart, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Sublime, Steve Miller Band, Pink Floyd, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Doors & Led Zeppelin? all the way to Beastie Boys, X-clan, Run DMC, Ice Cube, Slick RicK, Too $hort, Tupac, Mos Def & The Wu-Tang Clan.
Cosmic Knowledge, several notable appearances on the album include: Popa Wu (Senior Member of the Wu-Tang Clan), Prince Po (a member of the classic hip-hop group Organized Konfusion), P Tugz, Ras Zackary, Ras Attitude, Zack Walters (of the Long Beach based band 3rd Alley), and of course the Fluid Minds crew (John Gray, Frank Clayton, Christian Rogala, & GooZe). John Gray took the reigns as producer and engineer for the album, which is to be released on Fluid Minds’ independent label, Mother Brain Productions.

Album Review:
Unlike the majority of the records that come across the Pier?s radar, Knowledgeborn07 is decidedly not a reggae artist, at least not exclusively. There are hints of reggae skank smattered across Cosmic Knowledge, but overall the album might find a better home on the streets of the South Bronx than Kingston, or Def Jam rather than Studio One. However, it would be fair to add that although the album?s roots lie in hip-hop (and its best tracks) Knowledgeborn07 and producer Johnny Cosmic amalgamate a wide array of styles not normally associated with either reggae or hip-hop such as industrial, hard rock, and downbeat acoustic rock a la Radiohead on their more tender days in Cosmic Knowledge, an approach that produces some startlingly impressive moments and at other times derails the album?s consistency, especially for those who may try to listen to the album straight through in one shot.

As I mentioned earlier, Knowledgeborn07 and producer Johnny Cosmic are undeniably most home on the album?s straight-ahead hip-hop tracks, many of which stand-out as album highlights. Dead Willow Blues with its distorted guitar stabs and shifts between sung and rapped vocals presents an unrelenting anecdote of one man?s struggle to leave behind the Babylonian corporate system in pursuit of ?the most high? in both mind and lifestyle. Blessed produces a Franti-esque meditation with socially conscious lyrical subject matter akin to Dead Willow Blues, however the grooves bounces instead of shuffling, and the song generates a mellow mood wreaking of positive vibes as Knowledgeborn07 and Prince Po swap verses on finding truth and meaning in an ever-darkening world.

The amount of positivity emanating from Cosmic Knowledge lends the album an almost endearing quality; although there?s a misstep here and there (such as Necessarius and 27 Miles which both fall into the trappings of injecting melodic rock qualities into an album steeped in hip-hop and reggae to ill effect) the optimism and sincerity Knowledgeborn07 offers with nearly every take and every rhyming couplet. Whether decrying the socio-economic status quo or cheerfully crooning over Daily Hope, it?s Knowledgeborn07?s unwavering optimism in the face of a world drowning with injustices that help makes the album?s standout moments even more poignant.

While Cosmic Knowledge may not be Knowledgeborn07?s masterpiece, the album does provide a steady stream of respectable hip-hop tracks and New Age, rasta-influenced ponderings, courtesy of Popa Wu. Though the constant stream of social commentary may rub some listeners as preachy, fans of Michael Franti and other socially conscious hip-hop/reggae artists should find plenty of familiar ground in Cosmic Knowledge. Plus, you can download the album for free right here on The Pier?s home page or by CLICKING HERE. For the price of only a few minutes of your time, Cosmic Knowledge is certainly worth checking out, at least for Blessed, I Know, and Overcome.

Written & Reviewed by: Chris Castro

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