Rare Nasty Nas

A creeping reggae beat that has that Thief's Theme energy, a 90s collabo revived in 09, another unreleased Nas single dropped like an anvil on your forehead by TFC.

Nas turns this beat into shredded cabbage.

NAS FT SPRAGGA BENZ - THIS IS THE WAY

Hustlers & Customers

Unreleased Lupe. Definitely some raw stripped down hip-hop prior to Lupe's hit-making attempts. With a little help from what sounds like the intro to Little Red Riding Hood.

LUPE FIASCO - HUSTLERS & CUSTOMERS

Illa/Dilla

When word first came that J Dilla's younger brother, Illa J, collected 15 of his older brother's beats for his new album Yancey Boys, I figured it would be a quick "thanks but no thanks." But after a few serious recommendations, and now a few spins, I realize that this album is not your everyday Dilla tribute. This one holds precious weight for a few reasons:

1) Illa had free range on Dilla's old beats from the 90s from Delicious Vinyl, which means a ton of top shelf unreleased Dilla beats you are guaranteed to have never heard before. Nothing recycled here.

2) Illa sounds almost exactly like his brother in voice and flow. This sounds like a brand spankin new Dilla album.

Sounds Like Love is one of the more beautiful unheard Dilla beats, comparable in vibe to his recent joint with Common and D'Angelo So Far To Go. Easily the track of the month. All Good features an unorthodox sampling of Burt Bacharach's The Look of Love.

ILLA J - SOUNDS LIKE LOVE (PROD J DILLA)

ILLA J - ALL GOOD (PROD J DILLA)

New Lauryn

?uestlove just dropped this old 8-minute unreleased Lauryn single on us out of nowhere. It's good too.

While you listen, check out Rolling Stone's article on the making of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, written in celebration of it's 10 year anniversary. The article includes the opinions of those involved with the project, many of whom are a surprise list of characters, including: John Legend, D'Angelo, and Rohan Marley.

LAURYN HILL - WORLD IS A HUSTLE

Gorgeous

New school heads want that new Kanye. Us fogeys want that old Kanye. How about some new old Yeez instead. Unreleased though some of you real heads will recognize this from that old Murphy Lee garbaggio.

KANYE WEST - GORGEOUS

Oxtopus

Basically the way more fresher African version of The Clipse's Grindin. The last track Dilla got on before he passed away, off of the Oxtopus compilation. Rare bird, this one.

J DILLA - OXTOPUS

It's a Cold World, But a Hot Summer

New unreleased Lupe Fiasco. I LOVE this jawn.

LUPE FIASCO - COLD WORLD

Touche, Lupe

I've collected a good chunk of rare Lupe off of a number mixtapes you probably don't have yet. Or maybe you do. Either way this is the material that got Jay and Kanye to get him noticed and finally get him on Late Registration. Every one of these songs is album-worthy, so don't sleep.

Really I'm getting this out of my system so I can take a break from posting for 12 hours or so and have a life. And also prevent a heart attack like all these other nutcase bloggers dropping left and right. Enjoy, Full Clippers.

LUPE FIASCO - MUCH MORE

LUPE FIASCO - WHERE I'M FROM

LUPE FIASCO - FAILURE

LUPE FIASCO - AND HE GETS THE GIRL


LUPE FIASCO - DOPE BOY


LUPE FIASCO - CHANGE

LUPE FIASCO - GORILLA

Pay Jay

Pretty soon the new J Dilla album Pay Jay will be dropping, which was an album recorded in 2002 under contract with MCA. It is an unusual album for Dilla, since he doesn't do any of the beats, but rather has important producers lace the tracks he rhymes over. Included on the boards are Madlib, Pete Rock, Hi-Tek, Supa Dave West, and Kanye West.

The above video a short documentary on the album, though you really don't get much more information than how many blunts were smoked in the studio (46).

I dropped that Trucks jawn on you last week, which is the first precursor to the album other than a new one that recently released produced by Kanye.

UPDATE: Here's the Kanye produced track.

Another new track off Pay Jay here.

J DILLA - PAY JAY (PROD KANYE)