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Best Of VLS (Vol.5): "Clouds Of Smoke - 4/20"

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 02:00 PM PDT

Once again, you can find Volumes 1 and 3 of this series here on the blog. But Volumes 2, 4 and maybe a few future drops will be exclusive to the Skypager mailing list. You can sign up by clicking here or by typing your email underneath the Skypager to the right of the page. There's a few other things you might be interested in at the Skypager group, too. And you can also refer to the link above to the past volumes to see the list of VLS blogs that have been linked and scoured in the making of these compilations. I must give Crates Of AG another shout for posting that Ill Distracxion track that I had been looking for.

Okay, so I never really got into the 420 thing myself, but I know there are heads out there that might not mind a little 'get high' compilation. I figured I would meld some known weed cuts with some of the obscure tracks from them VLS blogs out there and the finished product is pretty heavy. The instrumental supplemental only contains beats for half of the songs on the compilation this time around. Sorry about that but I couldn't find the rest.

Clouds Of Smoke:

01. Top Quality - Magnum Opus

02. Nice N Smooth - How Many Blunts (Vin Roc Mix)

03. Boodah An Da Bandit - Brain On Drugz

04. Lord Digga - High Like A Bird

05. Call O Da Wild - Clouds Of Smoke

06. Mike Zoot - Live and Stink

07. 50 Grand - Max Mode

08. Chief Kamachi, Rahsheed, Rich Medina - J. Edgar Hoover

09. Ill Distracxion - Calm Wit Da Trom

10. Supernatural - Buddah Blessed It

11. Rubbabandz - Purple Rain

12. HDM - Real MC's

13. Izm Da Mad Soul - Who Lit Dat

14. Finsta Bundy - Feel The High

15. PHD - Kick That Shit And Get High (ft.KL[RIP])

16. Channel Live - Mad Izm (Buckwild 95 Remix)

17. Royal Flush, Channel Live, Mic Geronimo - Smoke Session

18. Diamond D - Never (ft. Sadat X & K. Terribul)

Previews:

Download Compilation Here

Download Instrumental Supplemental Here

Don't sleep on the links. There's some bonus downloads, videos[besides the 2 above], information, and overlooked posts. Enjoy.

--Verge

Editor's Note: Certain installments of the "The Best Of VLS" series were only made available to members of our Skypager Google Group/ Mailing List, so sign up here or at the pager in the sidebar.

Gang Starr - Non-Album Tracks Volume 5

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 03:00 AM PDT

Here is installment #5 of the Gang Starr Non-Album Tracks Series. This volume contains Guru guest appearances from between the years of 1995 and 2000. Stay tuned for volumes 6 & 7.

Gang Starr - Non-Album Tracks Volume 5
1. House Of Pain - Fed Up (Remix)
2. Ini Kamoze - Who Goes There
3. Buckshot Lefonque - Black Monday
4. EZD - For Da Love
5. M.O.P. - Salute II
6. N'Dea Davenport - Bring It On (Remix)
7. Afu Ra - Trilogy Of Terror
8. Everlast - Guru
9. Group Home - The Legacy
10. Group Home - Be Like That
11. AG - Weed Scented
12. Choclair - Bear Witness
13. D.B.D. - Unknown Song
14. Masta Ace - Conflict
15. Masta Ace - Conflict (Remix)
16. Masta Ace - Conflict (Illmind Remix)
17. D-Flame - Universal
18. D-Flame - Universal (Remix)
http://www.mediafire.com/?towezk4mro4

Preview:

House Of Pain - Fed Up (Remix)

EZD - For Da Love

Buckshot Lefonque - Black Monday

--Roy Johnson

Blog Building: Peace To The Blogs

Posted: 19 Apr 2009 06:17 PM PDT

Before I get to the main topic of this post, I'll hit you off with some thoughts and ideas:

Gang Starr Month is still in effect, and this week will be densely packed with Gang Starr related posts. Also, in last week's poll you chose "Soliloquy Of Chaos" as having the best lyrics out of the bunch. In this week's poll you'll be deciding who has dropped the illest cameo verse on a Gang Starr track, so head for the sidebar and cast your ballot.
Skypager is our Google Group/ Mailing List. Members get access to music downloads and new items that will not appear on the blog. Over 120 of you have joined, but I suspect that many of you are not aware of its features. It is both a Google Group and a Mailing List. Once you sign up you can choose to receive updates by mail or choose simply to visit the group directly, where you can click on "Discussions" and review any previously posted topic (meaning you can get those compilations that were posted before you joined). You can post messages of your own to the whole group (please don't spam) from there, or email the group. You have to sign up first to do any of this, though, so look for the pager in the sidbar and get to it, already.
To our friends on Twitter, if you like any of our posts, keep tweeting and retweeting them. And thanks for your support for us on followfridays - keep that up too!
A reader has alerted us to the fact that the embedded DivShare players, which we use with nearly every post, do not display in Google Reader. This is odd because they display just fine in the actual site feed. This is hugely inconvenient to our subscribers who use Google Reader, and if any one reading this knows of an alternative to DivShare (we like them because the players are compact and easy to embed and their deals on storage and bandwidth are great) or a fix to the problem, please let us know.
Are you keeping track of our a-alike blog, Steady Bloggin? Add them to your RSS Reader, or just check for their recent posts in the fancy dedicated widget in our sidebar.

Okay, now to today's business. I'd like to send a special shout-out to the blogs that have sent us the most traffic since we've been keeping track (three months). It may seem odd for us to show love to other blogs for a statistical reason, but it just so happens that our top blog referrers are blogs that we respect and check for on the regular. So, without further adieu, I'd like to direct the readers to these purveyors of that ol' blog bap:

It's Coming Out Of Your Speaker - They are temporarily de-funked, but their generous redirect to T.R.O.Y. has played a huge part in building our base in these competitive blogosphere. Thanks, duns, and we got your back when you return.

Cocaine Blunts - One of the most respected music blogs, period, and also among the most thought provoking. I rarely agree with Noz on contemporary music taste, but I fully support his notion that blogging should be about new ideas, first and foremost.

OhWord - My first home as a blogger. Rafi, if you're reading this, bring it back in full force.

Grandgood - If it wasn't for Ming-Tzu and co. I'd be even more clueless about contemporary rap than I am.

Wake Your Daughter Up - One of the first blogs out there to place a significant emphasis on throwback material and do it well.

Those are the top five, by far; following them are blogs like THIMK, When They Reminisce, Isako-Hardcore, Bust The Facts, Crystaline, CRDS, and others that regularly appear in our shared items. Props to all.

-- Thun