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feel-good 2013

NBA Street

Eight tracks of underground-’90s hip-hop — the canon that soundtracked street-ball culture and the NBA Street video-game franchise that crystallized the aesthetic. Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth open with the boom-bap-with-jazz-samples blueprint; Lords of the Underground bring the hardcore-East-Coast peak; Dilated Peoples drop in for the underground-’90s-to-’00s bridge; Benzino closes the run with the Boston-rap legacy moment. Short, deliberate, and entirely about a specific era and feel rather than a broad survey — the kind of mixtape that lives on a thumb drive in someone’s glovebox and never gets replaced.

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Tracks (8)

  1. 1 They Reminisce over You - Remastered Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth 4:47
  2. 2 Chief Rocka Lords Of The Underground 4:07
  3. 3 Live On Stage Dilated Peoples 4:42
  4. 4 Rock the Party Benzino 3:48
  5. 5 React (feat. Redman) Erick Sermon & Redman 3:38
  6. 6 The Choice Is Yours Black Sheep 3:31
  7. 7 Just Blaze, Bleek & Free Memphis Bleek & Freeway 4:15
  8. 8 Here We Go (feat. Q-Tip) Chiddy Bang & Q-Tip 3:22
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