Just a preview of the mixtape that should've came out on Christmas day. I hope its a classic like part one was. A couple beats you will hear Fab spitting over are Popular Demand, Say Something, Cigar Music, & Roger That.
Sidenote: Harlem!
Dom O Briggs comes together with RockTheDub, DWND and Toy Sldrs to release his 4th full length project Always Inspire(d) EP. Features include fellow Dope League members JohnNY U. and ScienZe while production comes from Sir Flywalker, H2, BackPack NY, Stephen Spencer, Pat Streater, Go-Z and The Stuyvesants. Click the image to listen and download.
#AlwaysInspired
“It was super easy. I did it in two days. Lasers was almost all done… the super ‘I’m the best MC’ — lyrical — there’s wasn’t really room for that on this album. I was like, ‘Let me give my fans that. Let me let them know that I’m still capable of that. Let me show MTV I’m hot too.’ Kept it short. I felt, if you’re nice, you don’t need an hour. You don’t need one hour and 35 minutes. You don’t need 100 freestyles every week. You need a nice demonstration of what you’re capable of doing very effectively, and you step back. Leave you wanting more. Sometimes the best part of the movie is the trailer.” - MTV.
“We never did a whole joint together,” Green said about how the project came together. “We was like, ‘When we do it, it’s gonna be groundbreaking.’ Nobody never did nothing like this before. It’s groundbreaking. Normally, when people do these types of things, they pair up and do a mixtape. This is more than that. This is a collaboration. It’s a mixtape feel, ’cause it’s me and him, but it’s really got an album feel. I produced half of the joints. Then I put on my executive-producer hat, called up the homies. They came through with some fire joints.”
Scram Jones, the Alchemist, Buckwild, Statik Selektah, Dame Grease, Vinny Idol and Poobs all added beats.
“I don’t like to do real songs on there, ’cause the producers be wanting their money,” he told DJ Scoob Doo about beat jacking. “So I just do sh– that’s already out. It’s easier. N—as be like, ‘You killed that n—a on his own song.’ That’s not the intentions. No, I did not kill nobody on their song. I like the song. That’s why I liked it. I didn’t kill them. I ain’t even rapping like them. I killed their song though.”
A leak of the mixtape popped up early last week, but Weezy wants everyone to know that it wasn’t the official version — he recorded more records, such as “Single,” the mixtape title track and a unofficial remix to BeyoncĂ©’s “Sweet Dreams,” for the proper version.
“I got great producers and great friends that gave me great beats,” Wayne said. “I went in and did four or five new songs.- MTV
Willie the Kid took it back home to cook this one up. The A-Town transplant ventured back to Gun Rule a.k.a. Grand Rapids, Michigan, to connect with Head Debiase for The Fly. The two grew up together and wanted to revisit that essence they had when they came up, focusing on the lyrical side of things.
“He’s been the same fly dude since back then,” Debiase said of Willie. “We came up together, but I look up to him a lot ’cause he’s a real wise dude, just like his brother. With The Fly we just wanted to put out some good quality street music. That’s what we gonna go and that’s what we gonna keep doing. A lot of people know Willie from DJ Drama, but this whole tape is based on lyricism … he’s not just about party stuff and the club. That’s cool, but he’s about hip-hop.” - MTV