He's my Asian brutha from anutha mutha, &
I'm talkin' about BumSquad's own, DJ
Fatal. Fatal reppin' Southern Cali&
Rowland Heights is back with NAS
"Hip-Hop Is Alive." Did you read that? "HIP-HOP
IS ALIVE."
I asked DJ Fatal what his concept was behind
makin' this NAS cd & his response was, "The
concept of my Nas mix cd is the idea that
Hip-Hop is suppose to be fun. I feel that
people take it too serious now a days. I
had fun making my mixtape which is a
compilation of remixes I made over older and
newer Nas tracks to give them a new vibe.
Nas made a bold statement when he said
"Hip-Hop Is Dead" but as one reaches the end
of his album, Nas contradicts himself with
an acappella track called "Hope." I remixed
that track for the first track on my mixtape
and called it "Hip-Hop Is Alive." I choose
this title because I feel thats what Nas
really wanted to say. He just flipped it
for the shock value. Hip-Hop is indeed
alive, we just have a lot more to choose
from now. Of course back in the day Hip-Hop
was live and fresh because it was something
new... It was the birth but as it grows
older, it changes just like everybody else.
So of course Hip-Hop today is not gonna be
the same as back in the day. We cant expect
all the new artist today to sound like them
back in the day because thats what we love.
The problem is if they did sound like them
back in the day we would be quick to hate on
them and say they are biting. We don't need
another Afrika Bambaataa, Grand Master
Flash, Grandwizard Theodore, Kurtis Blow,
Big Daddy Kane, KRS-One... etc. Just be
yourself and have fun with it."
Here's what Fatal drops on his 1s & 2s
"NAS":
Hope
I Can
Revolutionary Warfare f/ Lake
Classic f/ Kanye West & KRS-One
One Mic f/ Notorious B.I.G.
Made You Look
Got Urself A Gun
Rule f/ Amere
Nas Is Like
Stillmatic
John Blaze
The Flyest f/ AZ
U Gotta Love It
Warrior Song f/ 2 Pac & Che'nelle
No Ideas Original
You Know My Style
Yup, yup, "Hip-Hop Is Alive" thanks to NAS &
DJ Fatal puttin' it down on his latest cd.
NAS fans will love this cd. 2 thumbs up to
Fatal on this one.
You can peep DJ Fatal on Myspace:
www.MySpace.com/DjFatal
or at:
www.djfatal.com
You can also hit up Fatal at:
909. 800-8887
You can hit me up with your latest mixtape
news and/or events at:
nastynes1@aol.com or at:
nastynes1@tmail.com...
I'm in like Chris Brown's performance
at this years MTV's "VMA"
awards & I'm out Foxy Brown. See ya
in 1 year!...
