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Various - 5 Star General - 30-Mar-06 06:18 PM
One of the better mixtapes by Eminems DJ Green Lantern on Shady Records. Overall this gives you a good impression of Shady/Aftermath/Interscope-related artists and beats in 2005. This mixtape mostly uses verses of existing tracks on released albums over better or lesser known beats.
The Intro starts with the Till I Collapse beat which is a good opening banger and fades in a couple of other banging beats (Back Down, Still Tippin, The Next Episode). The artists the mixtape introduce themselves over the beats, getting you in the mood. The Game then opens the mixtape officialy with his verse of Westside Story over a banging beat.
Furthermore most beats have a good bounce in them, like Ashes (over Start From Scratch beat), Coast 2 Coast and Good vs. Evil (over Jesus Walks). It is surprising how many weak tracks there are on this mixtape, but Im Black by Styles P has a very weak beat and too lame lyrics. The remix of Do It Like Me is just a slown down version and is totally unnecessary.
Bump Js freestyle is a little out of line as it is quite oldschool, but 38 Special & Akons finishing tracks make this a topnotch mixtape.