Supa Qool DJ Quartermaine - Nightmare on Beat Street

http://www.mediafire.com/?4faj22o4ggj3fhn

I made this mix the weekend after Gucci Mane got his “Ice Cream” face tattoo. I wanted to listen to something that represented the exact opposite of where I saw the culture going, and revisit a time when Hip-Hop was truly a teaching tool.

The original idea was to drop it on the first day of Black History Month, but then I had an opportunity to rock in Paris and had to prepare for that trip. Couple months later, I realized I had forgotten about the mix, then low and behold, TV One airs an episode of “Unsung” featuring my favorite artist when I was a kid - Big Daddy Kane. As “King Asiatic Nobody’s Equal” is the first artist featured on the mix, I felt now was a good time to release it.

I came up with the title “Nightmare on Beat Street” as a play on “Nightmare on Elm Street”. The main character Freddy would kill his victims in their sleep and the only way to avoid this fateful outcome was to “Wake-Up”. I feel Hip-Hop (Beat Street) is in this situation now…

Supa Qool DJ Quartermaine - Nightmare on Beat Street

Word To The Mother(Land) - Big Daddy Kane

Words I Manifest - Gang Starr

Straight Out The Jungle - The Jungle Brothers

Grand Verbalizer, What Time Is It? - X-Clan

Rock Dis Funky Joint - Poor Righteous Teachers

Wake Up - Brand Nubians

The Ghetto - Rakim

A Bird In The Hand - Ice Cube

Build and Destroy - Boogie Down Productions

Fuck The Police - N.W.A.

Brothers Gonna Work It Out - Public Enemy

Drop The Bomb - Brand Nubians