The 93 Mixtape (mixed by Dazed) - A Peak Street x DFTC Project

In Peak Street’ Magazine’s humble, yet godddam correct, opinion - 1993 was a vintage year for hip hop. 36 Chambers, Doggystyle, Midnight Marauders, 93 Til Infinity, Bacdafuccup, Slaughtahouse, Black Sunday, Lethal Injection, Return of the Boom Bap, Enta Da Stage and Buhloone Mind State are just a hint of the classic albums which hit speakers in the nine-trey. Timeless music.

To pay homage to this most awesome of hip hop years, Peak Street put a call out to all Australian MC’s to drop some bars over some classic beats from the year 1993 for a mixtape. All heads had to do was track down an instrumental to one of their favourite joints that was dropped in that year and then lay down some bars worthy of it.

Some of the finest lyricists, both established and underground, answered the call with a huge number of tracks being submitted. After much careful deliberation from a panel of esteemed judges consisting of Chad Mann (Peak Street Designer), Ronan Hamill (Hippopotamus Rex Radio Presenter), Jim Steps (blogger from allaussiehiphop.com) and Shane Scott (Hip Hop journalist), the Peak Street Editor disregarded all their advice, gave the dopest tracks to Dazed to go and mix and then fled to Cambodia to meet Pegz and start a south-east Asian drug syndicate.

This new career move didn’t quite pan out though so months later he has returned and teamed up with Down For the Count Records to drop the best mixtape of this year. 

DOWNLOAD LINK

http://dftc.bandcamp.com/album/93-mixtape

TRACKLIST

1 April 4 Permalink

Peak Street 93 Mixtape Live Today!

That is right motherfuckers! After we spent the last few months unsuccessfully trying to get former Death Row Records artist Tray Deee out of prison and resurrect his rap career, we gave up and are now ready to drop The 93 Mixtape.

Thanks to some hard work and hustle from Dazed and Down For The Count Records, and us at Peak Street now attending our AA meetings on a regular basis, the mixtape is done and we’re gonna play the whole thing on Goonbag Radio today at 6pm regular Australian time. Tune in to hear me talk a gang of shit and to listen to some of the best rappers in Australia smash some of the best instrumentals from the year 1993. Can’t get much better than clasic beats and Australian hip hop together right?

Tracklist and download link will go live here after the show. Spread the word.

1 April 1 Permalink

‘I Got 5 On It’ with Purpose

Pagen Elypsis MC and young go-getter Purpose has got bars to spare. Plenty of them. Like more than Pentridge and Barwon combined. But does he have answers? We decided to throw him our patented ‘I Got 5 On It’ quiz and see what happened.

Frank Ocean or The Weeknd?

Tough one, I’m a Frank fan but I’d have to say The Weeknd. Put a lot of quality music out last year, enjoyed all of it. Dude can sing his ass off.

“Dead Presidents I” or “Dead Presidents II”?

“Dead Presidents II’. Original is good but Pt 2 is just classic. Reasonable Doubt is one of my all time favorite albums and that song is a big part of the reason why. 

360 or Kerser?

In the battle? 60. It was a good battle, but 60’s experience just rapping/clarity won it for me.

Deafness or Blindness?

Woooooow another tough one. Damn. Uh…. I think I’d go with Blindness. There’s so much in the world to see, but music can paint a clear picture in the minds eye. Plus then when I bump into people they’ll just feel bad instead of us fighting to the death.

Big L or Big Pun?

Big L. Both were amazing writers but me and my boys probably know all the words to every Big L song.

Purps just dropped the third installment in his If The City Had A Voice mixtape series which you can grab HERE. Be on the look out for his debut LP this year too.

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11 January 43 Permalink

‘I Got 5 On It’ with Dialectrix

If I could steal anyone’s flows and cadences in the game, it would most probably be from Dialectrix. Unfortunately I would waste all that amazing talent spittin about Burger Rings, Macgyver re-runs and longnecks. We decided to throw some questions with out ‘I Got 5 On It’ quiz.

Chester P or Jehst? 

Damn! Thats hard right off the bat! This to me all comes down to timing. Had I been asked this 3-4 years ago it probably would have been Jehst. Like many younger MC’s in this country High Plains Drifter was one of those seminal records that all those young ‘lyrical rapity rappers’ liked and I was definitely one of those dudes, yet I hated a lot of the dudes who overrated Jehst as they were usually pretentious hippy wankers for some reason.

All that aside I’ve always respected Jehst as a wordsmith. He’s got the ability to make me focus on his imagery rather then get lost in his word flow which is a rare and talented gift I reckon and his influence on Australian rappers is huge. Having said that Chester takes this in my books. He can be equally as convoluted and as esoteric as Jehst yet Chester has been more prolific and is far better at hitting home with conscious subject matter and has more of a sting to his bars when he’s passionate about what he’s talking about. To me Chester P is a mans rapper Jehst is more of a boys rapper and unfortunately I’m turning into an old man.

Streetfighter of Tekken?

KILLER INSTINCT!! CO-CO-CO-COMBO BREAKER!!!!!!!!! Um….. yeah…. Streetfighter hands down. My big bro is a die hard Tekken head and he’s swayed me over the years but Streetfighters unfuckwitable (unless Killer Instinct is involved!)

The Beatminerz or The Beatnuts?

I have more respect for the Beatminerz ‘cause of their crazy catalogue of history yet I’ve got more sentimental attachment to the Beatnuts as they were one of the first groups that got me into rap heavily and I copped their shit when it dropped rather then checkin them retrospectively like a lot of the earlier shit from the 90’s. If I was offered a beat by the two I would pick the Beatminerz though

Stress: The Extinction Agenda or Clear Blue Skies

You’re an arsehole! Shiiiiieeeeeet! Breeze and Pharaohe are both in my top 5. This is bullshit! As albums I would have to go with Stress.. overall but I think there are moments in Clear Blue Skies that I think are better. That “Damn-it-to-hell-again-I-feel-my-brain-swell-like-meningitis…” flow Breeze does is one of my favourite verses of all time and the album as a whole is stoopid! But Stress to me is more consistent with more classic tracks as a whole but… it would depend what mood I’m in I guess.

De Niro or Pacino?

Pacino’s done less cheese. He fucked it with the coffee ads but. Taxi Driver is one of my all time favourites and I like it better then Scarface that must make me an emo punk or something I’m just going to say De Niro on that alone fuck it.

Go make sure you vote for Dialectrix in the Triple J Hottest 100. He has his awesome Like a Version of “Buy Me A Pony” and the track “Priceless” with Pegz and Joe New. CLICK CLICK.

Next up is Adelaide’s Purpose.

Source: peakstreet.com

9 January Permalink

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8 January Permalink

‘I Got 5 On It’ with Vents

So we’ve started this new quiz called ‘I Got 5 On It’ which is basically 5 random questions where we give heads two options to choose from. They can answer any damn well way they please. First up is Golden Era heavy hitter and Stevan Segal of Australian hip hop - Vents.

Hit Squad or Def Squad?

Did Hit Squad even put out an album? I only heard the first Def Squad album and from that I only really played one song a lot (checkin me out?) so they win off that. Plus, Eric.

John Rambo or Rocky Balboa?

Rocky. Did you know Sylvester Stallone wrote and directed all of these? (thanks, Dr Bind) 

Coffee or Cigarettes? 

Well, I started smoking when I was… what? 10? 11? And I only got addicted to this other wonderful legal and incredibly addictive psychoactive drug CAFFEINE in the last couple of years. So, durrys.

Vin Rock or Phife?

Wow. Phife. Did you know Vin Rock is Mike Tyson’s cousin? And Treach is married to Pepa from the group Salt N Pepa? Or maybe they divorced by now. Is this the kind of ranting you were after, Dave? As long as the conversation stays on Reagan era cinema and 90’s rap, I can keep going like this forever.

Only Built for Cuban Linx or The Infamous?

Fuckkkkkkkkk. Shit; both really original, heavy, classic albums. I love both of these equally and it would be unfair to place them in a competition. But, since we’re doing that… shit… fuck… Infamous. Actually, Cuban Linx. No… Infamous.

Don’t forget to vote for Vents Uno in Triple J’s Hottest 100 by simply clicking HERE.

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7 January 6 Permalink

Australian Hip Hop Alcoholic Drinks

Australian hip hop has come a long way in the last few years, but in our esteemed opinion it still has a while to go if it wants to catch up with hip hop from the States. Sure we have some successful rappers nowadays, but rappers in the States don’t even rhyme anymore! Sure they may put out an album or a mixtape every now and again, but it is all about producing your own line of beverages these days.

Whether it is Diddy and Ciroc Vodka, 50 Cent and his Street King Energy Shots or Ludacris’ Conjure Cognac - spittin lyrics just gets in the way of poppin bottles and making paper.

Therefore here are a handful of drinks from Aussie rappers which we would like to see on sale at the bottle-o, or perhaps over the counter at Obese, sometime soon.

Kerser wouldn’t be the relentless lyrical beast he is without the Western Suburbs and beer, so his beverage should pay homage to both. Nothing like crackin open a longie of Eshays Lager while hanging with the lads at the park in Punchie, yelling at sluts, rollin cunts with boxcutters with your collar on ya Nautica polo up around your ears. 

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6 January 12 Permalink

Fuck ‘Supporting Australian Hip Hop’

I now hate this logo and everything it has come to represent. 

No that isn’t a straight up diss to every single MC, producer and DJ out there in Australia, nor is it a general proclamation that nobody should be supporting our local scene or even a goddam criticism of the graphic design. What it is a go at, is the abuse that the catchphrase and logo has suffered in the hands of fuckwits.

When the ‘Support Australian Hip Hop’ logo first appeared out of the Obese Records camp over a decade ago it was within the context of a local hip hop scene that was beginning to find it’s feet. There was no Hoods on NOVA. No Bliss & Eso rocking a mainstage. No Drapht scoring #1 records. Back then this logo was a mark of solidarity amongst a small community of artists. In a time when the music was still seen as a novelty by many outsiders it was defiant collective statement of identity. That this shit was real and warranted respect. It let people know that this scene existed and deserved recognition.

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