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Molemen VS MHz 70 Minute Freestyle

Here’s a legendary cipher than can only be found here at thecryptonline.com (i think? I couldnt find it on youtube ive had this 15 years). The legendary Molemen from Chicago team up with the incredible MHz from Columbus Ohio. They kill it for 70 minutes straight of battering beats and bars.

The Crypt Presents: Eastern Conference Records – Game Over (The Best Of E.C. 97-08)

Eastern Conference Records - Game Over

As you  may know Eastern Conference Records put out it’s last record in 2008 with The Best and Worst of Cage, since then the label has been assumed dead. I for one was a big Eastern Conference Records Fan and bought anything that dropped on the label. I’m not saying I held every release in to the highest respect, but I enjoyed quite a few joints off each album. This is my best of Eastern Conference Records album. I pulled joints from each full length album as well as some samplers and specials some hard to find some not so hard to find. These records are all OOP and a few of them are available via iTunes I suggest you copp some of their stuff if you enjoy the mixtape. And I hope I can help put some new heads on to what I thought was a good label for it’s time. The compilation is 76 tracks long and almost 5 hours of material, so this will give you lots of replay value. Enjoy.

#     Artist             Title
1    Tame One    Tame az It Ever Wuz
2    Smut Peddlers    Bottom Feeders ft R.A. The Rugged Man
3    Reef The Lost Cauze    Fair One (Feat Sean Price)
4    Copywrite    Badabing
5    Akinyele    Yo
6    Cage    Summer In Hell
7    High and Mighty    Rumble
8    Nighthawks    Count Crackula (Featuring Space)
9    Sub-Conscious    Freshman Friday
10    Weathermen    Let The Games Begin
11    High & Mighty    B-Boy Document ’99 (ft Mos Def And Mad Skillz)
12    Smut Peddlers    Red Light
13    The Weathermen    Beverly Crabs (Ft. Cage)
14    Vast Aire    Buck 50 Express
15    Eastern Conference Records    Gut You
16    Smut Peddlers    Bart Burnt Vs. Sherm Penn
17    High & Mighty    Crack The Egg (ft. Ruck aka Sean Price)
18    The High & Mighty    The Meaning
19    Reef The Lost Cauze    Live As It Gets
20    The Weathermen    React Shun (Ft. Jakki, Copywrite & Tame One)
21    Chief Kamachi & The Juju Mob    Never Walk Alone
22    Big Daddy Kane    The Jump Off
23    Cage    Underground Rapstar
24    DJ Mighty Mi    Nighthawks – Cop Hell (remix)
25    Eastern Conference All Stars    All In Together
26    The High & Mighty – Live form the Bullpen (Ft Cage & Tame One)
27    The High & Mighty     Cheese Factory (Ft Copywrite)
28    Leak Bros    Got Wet
29    The High & Mighty    You Don’t Wanna Fuck Wit (Feat. Havoc & R.A. The Rugged Man )
30    Smut Peddlers    Stank MC’s ft Kool Keith
31    Yak Ballz    Queens Life
32    The Weathermen    Chris Lighty (Ft. Vast Aire & Camu Tao)
33    Tame One    When Rappers Attack
34    The UN    It’s Over
35    Weathermen    5 Left in the Clip
36    Smut Peddlers    The Hole Repertoire
37    Cage    The Left Hand Path
38    DJ Mighty Mi    Vast Aire and Mr Eon-High Heat
39    Copywrite    Tower of Babel (ft Smut Peddlers)
40    Chief Kamachi    The Best (Feat. Guru)
41    The Weathermen    Come To Daddy (Ft. Cage & Camu Tao)
42    Vast Aire    Buttafly Knife
43    Tame One; Y@K Ballz    High Fidelity
44    High & Mighty    Last Hit (ft. Eminem)
45    Eastern Conference All Stars    Eastern Conference All Stars.
46    The High & Mighty    Dirty Decibels feat. Pharoahe Monch
47    Chief Kamachi    Still Searching
48    Akinyele    ak-nel the great
49    The High & Mighty     Standing Room Only (Ft Cage)
50    Smut Peddlers    One By One (ft. Cage And Mr E)
51    Yak Ballz    My Claim
52    High & Mighty    Hands On Experience (ft El-P And Bo)
53    DJ Mighty Mi    Cage – Crowd Killer (remix)
54    Tame One    Moment I Feared
55    Sub-Conscious    Berzerkowitz
56    Reef The Lost Cauze    Sound Of Philadelphia
57    The High & Mighty    More In Outs (Feat. Cage)
58    Chief Kamachi & The Juju Mob    Black Of Dawn
59    DJ Mighty Mi    Cage – Stargate
60    Kool Keith    Thug or What?
61    Smut Peddlers    My Rhyme Ain’t Done
62    The Weathermen    Fried Fish (Ft. Breeze Brewin, Tame One & Cage)
63    Cage    Among The Sleep
64    Copywrite    Holier Than Thou
65    High & Mighty    Star Destroyers (ft. Ruck aka Sean Price)
66    Leak Bros    Follow The Liters
67    Sub-Conscious    Overtime
68    Yak Ballz    Pimped Out f/ Cage & Bobby Atlas
69    Tame One    Toxic
70    The Weathermen    Volume (Ft. Yak Ballz)
71    High & Mighty    In-Outs (Featuring Cage)
72    Copywrite    June
73    Smut Peddlers    Medicated Minutes
74    Yak Ballz    Method To Madness
75    Nighthawks  N.R.A.
76    Cage    Ballad of Worms

Total Tracks: 76
Duration: 4h 51m 26s

Groove Shack Documentary

This is a documentary film on the Legendary Groove Shack in Columbus, where cats like RJD2, Camu Tao, Copywrite, Arrested Development, and our homie DJ Drastic got their starts. This trailer was not approved and didnt make the final cut but godamn it shows some very old and dope videos of some of Ohios best rippin’ it.  It also shows the late Camu Tao in which he didnt look very healthy. Get some more info HERE

Pre- Screening in Columbus at the Gateway Movie Theatre on High Street, next to the ugly tuna bar. Nov 18th

Groove Shack Documentary

This is a documentary film on the Legendary Groove Shack in Columbus, where cats like RJD2, Camu Tao, Copywrite, Arrested Development, and our homie DJ Drastic got their starts. This trailer was not approved and didnt make the final cut but godamn it shows some very old and dope videos of some of Ohios best rippin’ it.  It also shows the late Camu Tao in which he didnt look very healthy. Get some more info HERE

Pre- Screening in Columbus at the Gateway Movie Theatre on High Street, next to the ugly tuna bar. Nov 18th

Central Services (El-P + Camu Tao) – Forever Frozen In Television Time EP

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Camu Tao’s sole album King of Hearts is readying to drop in August for the release El-P has laced the world with an EP him and Camu made together. R.I.P. Camu Tao. pre-order with goodies HERE

DOWNLOAD: Central Services (El-P + Camu Tao) – Forever Frozen In Television Time EP

Central Services (El-P + Camu Tao) – Forever Frozen In Television Time EP

CS1

CS2

Camu Tao’s sole album King of Hearts is readying to drop in August for the release El-P has laced the world with an EP him and Camu made together. R.I.P. Camu Tao. pre-order with goodies HERE

DOWNLOAD: Central Services (El-P + Camu Tao) – Forever Frozen In Television Time EP

Smut Peddlers Live in Rhode Island Circa 2000 including crowd fights!!

Classic videos of the old Eastern Conference heads smashing it in RI on the eve of my 18th bday in 2000. Brawl happens in the 1st minute of the medicated minutes video, Cage’s stage presence and whole style was gully as fuck back then, he was the rawest.

Smut Peddlers Live in Rhode Island Circa 2000 including crowd fights!!

Classic videos of the old Eastern Conference heads smashing it in RI on the eve of my 18th bday in 2000. Brawl happens in the 1st minute of the medicated minutes video, Cage’s stage presence and whole style was gully as fuck back then, he was the rawest.

Camu Tao – King Of Hearts (tracklist/cover)

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Camu Tao, the legendary MC, producer, and singer, whose life was tragically cut short on May 25th, 2008 after a protracted battle with lung cancer, will have his debut solo album and final statement, King of Hearts, posthumously released on August 17, 2010 as a collaborative release between Fat Possum Records and Definitive Jux. Described by friends, peers and colleagues as “wild, proud, loving, tough, outspoken, spontaneous, and brilliant,” Tao was a creative powerhouse whose output was as staggering in its scope of influences as it was emotionally evocative. El-P describes King of Hearts as “raw, exciting and unlike anything anyone has heard.” Even newer school rappers feel the impact of Camu’s work, “These songs are so before their time it’s ridiculous” says Kid Cudi. Cage sums up the album as “a masterpiece in the making.”

Camu got his start in the late 90’s alongside RJD2 and Copywrite in Columbus, OH’s seminal hip hop group MHZ whose releases were issued by Bobbito Garcia’s legendary vinyl only label Fondle ‘Em Records. After dropping his cult classic solo debut 12-inch Hold the Floor on Definitive Jux in 2001 he went on to become a central fixture at the label, his distinctive contributions playing a key role in The Weathermen (his crew with Aesop Rock, Cage, El-P, Yak Ballz, Tame One and Breeze Brewin) and as one half of S.A. SMASH (alongside Keith “Metro” Lawson) on their 2003 Def Jux full length album Smashy Trashy. As a producer his brilliant contributions are evidenced on Cage’s seminal album Hell’s Winter, and The Perceptionists’ Black Dialogue, as well as appearances on Aesop Rock’s Danger, Fire & Knives, El-P’s Fantastic Damage and Collecting the Kid, Prefuse 73’s Surrounded By Silence, and many, many others.

At the time of his death Camu Tao was working on what his friends and colleagues anticipated to be his breakthrough solo record, King of Hearts, initially scheduled for release on Definitive Jux in 2008, but left incomplete in the wake of his cancer diagnosis. Pieced together from the demos and home recordings he left behind (which have subsequently earned him fans amongst such esteemed peers as Dangermouse, Kid Cudi, and many others), the new release offers a privileged view of a magnum opus in the making by a blossoming visionary who was denied the opportunity to bring his unique masterpiece to fulfillment. The record marks a departure from his former works, most notably as it finds Camu favoring a distinctively playful, semi-soul croon as well as the off-kilter and wild rapping that earned him a reputation among peers and fans as an innovative genius. Musically King of Hearts delves into realms of gritty, electropunk pop, alternately veering between the dark carnival-esque and the sublimely summery. Pleasantly disorienting electronic tones cascade and pulse as dense, propulsive beats build a solid foundation upon which Tao constructs immensely hooky and infectious choruses. Written and produced by Camu himself, King Of Hearts is the last vision of a criminally underrated talent in the midst of a major artistic breakthrough cut short before being fully completed.

Also prior to his death Camu Tao formed production crew and side project Central Services with longtime friend & collaborator El-P, whose long awaited 2004 debut EP Forever Frozen in Television Time has gone unreleased until now. In conjunction with the release of King of Hearts Definitive Jux will be issuing Central Services’ EP as a free digital download.

1. Be A Big Girl
2. Bird Flu
3. Death
4. Fonny Valentine
5. Actin A Ass
6. Get At You
7. Ind Of The Worl
8. Intervention
9. King Of Hearts
10. Major Team
11. Plot A Little
12. The Moment
13. The Perfect Plan
14. Play O Run
15. When You’re Going Down
16. Fuck Me Acapella