21 tracks is better than cutting 11 good songs to make a 10 song, 40 minute album with 3 radio singles and maybe 3-4 bangers left over.

Rather have the whole thing get release and let us sift through it.

Common Sense needs to take this advice.

Hardly 50 unreleased tracks. Just a triple CD of "Lost Masters" volume 1-3, with volumes 1 and 2 previously released years ago. I seem to remember Volume 1 being decent though. Anyone else experience some strange psychology when it comes to buying things like this? I already have volumes 1 and 2, so...

Wait, I always thought Dead Serious was censored - but I think they let a couple slip through.

Same for "business never personal", right?

I heard he was supposed to have another album called "The Man, The Icon" after that, but I think only a single by that name ever surfaced?

Roy thanks..I wish I had some music to share. I got hyped up and started digging around. I found this mix from Omid (Beneath The Surface). I'm DL'n it right now. It's supposed to be filled with a ton of rare west coast underground shit including MC Aces (acey&co pre fellowship), spoon, nonce.. ther...

I never had a copy of Vol 1, just Vol 2 - so I never wanted to buy that Vol 1+2 double CD - my patience pays off this time!

Can anyone up the Cold Chillin Xmas track?

Gennessee was the guy who was in 'double life' with l'roneous, right?

One of my friends said several Supernat albums were available in his and Zach Randolph's original home town of Marion, IN. Not sure if they were tapes or cds or if there were 2 or 3 albums.

Q-Tip didn't diss no damn body, he said something like "To them west coast haters we'll bust yo shit", niggas needing a hearing aid thought he said "To them west coast niggas, we'll bust your shit" and got they panties in a bunch. how does calling them haters rather than n***as make it not a diss? ...

http://www.sendspace.com/file/lq8nou

explicit version of school's in

My tape was awful quality as well.

I think we may have the same tape. Yep. I knew it was the same tape because the bonus tracks are "Oral Sex" and the KMEL freestyle. The Soul On Ice remix instrumental is also on there. haha, it's not quite the same tape then, I don't the soul on ice remix was out when I got it - mine has some rando...

Was there ever a crew with as high a profile as Natural Elements, that never even put out a CD release, group or solo? I was never up on them, probably for that reason, but I had a best of NE tape that was great - but I only acquired it around the end of my tape era. So I would love to see some kind...

I'll try to rip those at some point, but not sure when I'll get to it. I may have the school's in version on mp3 somewhere though. As for the Best Part demos, if anyone knows Andrew Ryall from Canada, he's the guy that had them - I remember the story now, he didn't want to leak them until the album ...

I remember I bought the tape for about 5-10 bucks from someone on rec.music.hip-hop. Started trading with that and built up everything from there. It turns out that guy had a slightly similar name, so a few years later I had to double check and confirm that I hadn't bought the tape from John Walker ...

I think we may have the same tape. I forgot that the demo of reelishymn and so forth aren't on most copies of the demo.

does anyone have the version of drama with the alternate verse (the one that is typed out in the liner notes), said something about xzibit in a line

There's the beatminerz Oral Sex from '98 or so, and there's the battlecat Oral Sex from '95 or so, the battlecat one has the same sample as Breakadawn. It was tossed in on the tape I had labeled soul on ice demo.

not sure if these are on the demo tape version you have
capital r a s
oral sex

I just looked at my tape and it has a kmel freestyle also, I think that was just him doing the lyrics to on earth

that was the first tape I started trading with like 12 years ago

I got digging through old tapes reminiscing, found an old "best of j-live" tape, looks like it's mostly posted here it also lists "gimme some more" with mike zoot "whether you do" with l fudge, mister complex (maybe the same as what would you do?") and the truth with poison - probably the same as th...

http://www.sendspace.com/file/qckxrr Here it is, enjoy, it's nice I remember I was looking hard for this, a guy who wasn't trading any more had it, I talked him into just dubbing the whole tape he had with this on it, and I sent him a couple extra copies of some pro basketball books I had, weird trade

Don't forget "longevity 2''. I liked the line about blowin up the spot like a bunch of dalmations, all named sparky and sitting on a powder keg Damn, a fourth version of "Longevity"? There was a promo tape out from Raw Shack back in 1997 which had "School's In/Longevity 2/Shiesty" on it. But they n...

Don't forget "longevity 2'' I liked the line about blowin up the spot like a bunch of dalmations, all named sparky and sitting on a powder keg I love J-live but the best material IMO was the later raw shack singlesand just before the best part - School's In was my favorite. I knew somebody who had a...

Just give us your address and we'll look for it

Man, that youtube clip is pretty close isn't it? I think we have 4 versions out there - sampler on ice version bootleg 12" version - similar to sampler version but slightly longer, no talking at beginning; no nas sample etc rhettmatic mixtape version - with the nas sample, but with the mixtape adlib...

Is there a real og version of scud missiles out there? Obviously there's the remake on Cater to the DJ, and there's a live version on This is the Life soundtrack

Actually, it's not quite as bad quality as I thought. But it's only 8 tracks, must be incomplete. Particularly I assumed "Scene of the Green" should be on the album and is missing.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/wzvhzq

I'll up Harvest for the World.

But it seems incomplete, and it is HORRENDOUS HORRENDOUS basically unlistenable quality.

anybody have a decent copy of Harvest for the World?

Is that really a demo version of I Got My Mind Made Up, or did someone do a (very good) job of pasting an a Deck a capella over the LP version? I know he's used that verse elsewhere. I thought the original version didn't have Pac, and maybe had Rage - and presumably wouldn't have Method Man's verse ...

Ooooh, it seemed like day 3 was only up there for 30 seconds or so, can anybody reup that?