Here’s another mixtape Dimez and I did from back in the day. Not sure the date when this dropped but I remember sitting in our kitchen recording it. The Top Gun series was geared more towords the ladies….R&B with a lil hip hop in it. Not my favorite series we did but there’s some quality blends on it.

We had two technic turntables and a mixer in the kitchen of the apartment we shared back then. I’m no DJ but I can hook up a blend and I remember trying countless joints out on Dimez and some would make it on to the mixtapes we dropped. If you hear an ultra hard thug ass beat with some R&B over it…chances are it was one of my joints lol. Not sure what happened on track 15 but it’s 17 minutes long. Must have got lazy and forgot to track shit out when I recorded it to CD.

This is a decent mix tho but for Dimez and myself it represents a time when things weren’t always going smooth. I know for Dimez it was a crazy time in his life and it’s kinda cool that we have this mix to reflect on what happened…good and bad. Came a long way from when this joint dropped that’s for sure.

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Back when Dimez and I owned Da Spot records Dimez dropped his own mixtapes. I think we did about 5 or 6 tapes (I was the enginer, lol). Crills And Bills dropped sometime in 1998. Obviously this wasn’t the cover we used and I don’t remember what the cover was because it was on tape as all the joints Dimez put out were on casette. Around this time Dimez was getting a ton of bootleg white label records as you can see by some of the cuts on the track list. The Jay-Z and Sauce money freestyle, the Mobb Deep and Noreaga bootlegs. We had a lot of “exclusives” and Dimez was getting them around the same time as most other mixtape DJs at the time. Its one of the reasons why Dimez’ mixtapes used to sell in our shop.

In ‘98 we also cop’d a Marantz CD maker. Basically a stand alone CD player/burner where you could record audio onto it, track it live and burn a master CD. This download is from the one CD we made. The audio was taken off tape tho so you hear the air and some of the cuts clip and sound pans on a few tracks. This was a time where mix CDs were fairly rare and just starting out. It was expensive as hell to press up CDs at this time and its why most whosale CDs could go for anwhere between $6 to $10 per CD. We sold mix CDs at this time for $20-$25 or two for $30-$40.

If you don’t like DJs talking on mixtapes this might not be for you, lol. We recorded all Dimez’ mixtapes in the kitchen of the appartment we rented back then. Sufice it to say much alcohol and weed was consumed and if you know Dimez he gets a little chatty when the booze is flowing. Hahaha.

Track List:

1. Intro
2. Inspectah Deck - R.E.C Room
3. E-Money Bags, Nature & Kool G. Rap - Friend Of Ours
4. Jay-Z Freestyle
5. Cam’ron ft. Charlie Baltimore - R.I.T.Z
6. Deadly Venoms ft. Wu Tang - One More To Go
7. Mobb Deep ft. Big Noyd - Shiesty
8. Kool G. Rap - On The Run ‘98 Blend
9. Nas ft. Noreaga - Triple Threat a.k.a Queens Style
10. The Lox - The Rawness
11.  Mobb Deep ft. Onyz - QB Meets South Suicide
12. Nature ft. Noreaga - Magic & Bird
13. 16 Bars Freestyle
14. Mobb Deep - Perfect Plot
15. Lauryn Hill & Faith - Lost One’s Blend / Love Like This Before Blend (Side b)
16. Tyrese - Nobody Else
17. Andrea Martin - Nobody Else
18. Keith Sweat ft. Eric Sermon & Too Short - Love Jones
19. Nicole Wray ft. Missy & Mocha - In Da Street
20. Mobb Deep ft. Big Noyd - Where Do We Go From Here
21. Mac 10 ft. Fat Joe & Big Pun - Let The Games Begin
22. Shaq ft. Fat Joe & Big Pun - Shaq Crack & Pun
23. Slick Rick - Why U Doing That?
24. Sauce Money Freestyle
25. Method Man ft. Street Life - Dangerous Ground

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