Masta Ace, the man is a legend, plain and simple. In a career that has spanned three different decades, Ace is still at the top of his game and like Jordan (at least the first time) could be going out while he is in his prime. Not many "Old School" artists still have the ability to grab the younger audience present in todays music. From the Juice Crew to the INC (FUCK MURDER INC! unorginal bastards) to GMC (what?? You ain't heard?) Ace has evolved and and grown with the industry better than anyone from the 80's.
As you can probably tell, Ace is my favorite artist, and has been since the classic and EXTREMELY underated "Slaughtahouse" dropped, so it was only natural that I drop some of his stuff soon after starting this little hobby of mine.
The first track is from the Slaughtahouse 12". The remix of "Style Wars" is in my opinion a better version of the orginal that apperead on the "Slaughtahouse" LP. With horns and a "hut one, hut two, hut three, that is the sound when it's time to go to war" that gets you amped as Ace rips it like only Ace can.
The second song, "Spread It out" can be found on "Hits U Missed Vol. 1" which I'm not totally sure where you currently find it at, maybe on the newly remoldeled http://www.m3hiphop.com/. It's something different from M.A., kind of a bounce type flavor to it, that samples "The Simpsons Theme". It kind of grows on you and Ace spits rapid fire lyrics.
The third song is "Keep Livin'" which was the B-side to the only single released from the shelved Big Beat album. It features Gemini, or Jemini, from Jemini and Dangermouse fame.
Not For Long (NFL) is probably one of my top 5 Ace songs. It features J-Love on the beats, and to this day, I've never understood why he hasn't produced any tracks for any of Ace's albums. Ace displays some good old fashioned story telling with this track. The strings are melodic and you get sucked into the story, although short and sweet.
The last track is also found on "Hits U Missed". "Cars" featuring Spunk Bigga was the only single released by Big Beat from an album that got shelved. It stays with the "Sittin' On Chrome" flava that sounds more west coast in flavor than his other offerings. It's not my favorite by any means, but here it is for you "Sittin' On Chrome" fans.
Masta Ace- Style Wars (remix)
http://rapidshare.de/files/8746408/Masta_Ace-_Slaughtahouse_12__05-style_wars__remix_-jce.mp3.html
Masta Ace - Spread It Out
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WQXHLVQL
Masta Ace feat Gemini & Villano
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VE7R83VO
Masta Ace- N.F.L (Not For Long)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4MD2S3DQ
Masta Ace feat Spunk Spigga - Cars
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PH2FCYVI
Posted by Travis aka Glavet
12/06/2005
Ain't U Da Masta??
Get Your Shine On
It's funny, I've spent most of the past year re-earthing up jewels from the past. Stuff I haven't heard since the mid 90's I've found this year. Diggin' for that hard to find, obscure as a mormon in a porn convention type shit. I've gotten into the old stuff so much that I've slept on alot of the newer stuff this year. This blog for the most part is dedicated to the rare and obscure type stuff as well.....but I'm also going to give some light to some of that new stuff out there that deserves the shine.
One thing about the internet, it's brought light to tons of music that might not otherwise be heard. Some for the good, most of it for the bad. I'm not real big on checking the millions of myspace, soundclick, and mp3 sites out there and very rarely give a listen the posted music I find on the message boards. This year though, I've ran into several artists that standout amoung the muck clogging the internet these days. One such artist is Lexicon from Queens, New York and his Sinistah Circle brethren.
Not to be confused with the Lexicon from the West Coast, this Queens MC holds true to tradition and drops a very worthwhile mixtape that ranks right up there with the top releases of the year. He comes correct on the majority of the mixtape and shows why he is starting to show up on tracks with the likes of Reef tha Lost Cause and Thirston Howl.
I hooked up my two personal favorites from the mixtape "The Vague Clarity Mix" along with a posse cut also found on the album to give the crew some shine was well. "Beautiful" is one of my favorite songs of the year. It reminds me alot of the Masta Ace track by the same name, but thats not a bad thing at all. "Hungry" is dark track but with real issues, which is why I like it so much. Lex comes off as a New York version of Supastition on this, airing out his trials and tribulations of life and trying to make it in the music biz.
For more info and Lexicon and The Sinistah Circle, check out http://www.sinistahcircle.com/ or check out these reviews.
http://bombfirst.com/reviews/lexicon.htm
http://www.shotgunreviews.com/reviews/music/hiphop/#lexiconvaguemix
http://www.spitkickers.com/pop_fspit.htm
http://latinrapper.com/artistsseptember3.html
(LINKS ARE FIXED)
Beautiful
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KOSQWQNO
Hungry
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DSJOG9HA
Conglomerate Rap
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HHC7CUHZ
