Drayzee Says: It's 'Em Summer Days Volume 3

Recently we blessed you with G-Funk California.

If that was not much for you, than try to digest this load of dope summer tracks from all over The States, alloted in 3 volumes, made by member of philaflava forum and owner of his own blog, Drayzee, http://drayzee.blogspot.com/.
Drayzee was just kind enough to allow us to use his own work and to represent it via T.R.O.Y. Blog.
Thank you Drayzee for this massive work.


"Drayzee Says: It's 'Em Summer Days" is a compilation based on g-funk/gangsta/jazz/funk music. Too bad it's not summer yet, however this project will certainly give you that summer vibe. I hope this will bump in your speakers 6 summers from now. The first volume contains more "party-like" songs, the second volume will contain more gangsta/cruisin' stuff, jazz & funk, and the third one will be for you to just chill on. I also used some St. Ides commercial once per 8-9 songs, just to give you the feeling that there still is a dope radio on earth bumpin' this.

1. Eazy-E - Radio

2. Brownside Feat. Eazy-E - Drama On The Eastside
3. DJ Quik - Can't Fuck Wit A Nigga
4. O.F.T.B. - Crack 'Em
5. Loon-E-Toon And DJ Mike Tee - Inglewoodz Finast (Smooth Mix)
6. Westside Connection - Hoo-Bangin'
7. Ice Cube - Ghetto Bird
8. N.W.A. - Alwayz Into Somethin'
9. Watts Gangstas - Watts Riders
10. Funkdoobiest - Wopbabalubop (ft. B-Real)
11. Dr. Dre - Bitches Ain't Shit
12. Compton's Most Wanted - N 2 Deep (Ft Mr. Scarface)
13. Above the Law - V.S.O.P.
14. RBL Posse - Livin That Life
15. Juvenile Committee - Juvenile Thang
16. Young Gangstas - Driven By Revenge
17. Mac Mall - Sic Wit Tis
18. Above the Law - Never Missin' a Beat
19. 2Pac - The Streetz R Deathrow
20. Da Lench Mob - Guerillas Ain't Gangstas
21. RBL Posse - Don't Give Me No Bammer
22. Battlecat - Out Here
23. DJ Yella - Dat's How I'm Livin' (Feat.B.G. Knocc Out)
24. Eazy-E - Tha Muthaphukkin Real ft. MC Ren
25. MC Eiht - You Can't See Me f. Tha Chill
26. Tha Dogg Pound - It'z A Good Ass Day
27. Dr. Dre - Let Me Ride
28. Lil 1/2 Dead - Back In The Day
29. Cypress Hill - Throw Your Hands In The Air (Feat. Erick Sermon, MC Eiht, Redman)
30. King Tee - Dippin' (Remix)
31. Vontel - Loungin
32. G-Lo - Smooth
33. Crimies - Love For The City Of Hub
34. A - 1 Swift-Bring The Praiz
35. Foesum - Listen To The Sound
36. Above The Law - Kalifornia (feat Kokane)
37. DJ Quik & Kurupt - Do You Know
38. 2 - Def-We Party
39. Realite - Gangsta Gangsta
40. L.A.Z. - Bigga Than Nine
41. Dazzie Dee - Unda Da Table (feat. Dolemite)
42. Geto Boyz - Geto Fantasy
43. Above The Law - Livin' Like Hustlers (G-Mixx)
44. Compton's Most Wanted - Hood Took Me Under
45. Tha Dogg Pound - New York, New York
46. DJ Pooh - Who Cares (ft. Kam)
47. Above The Law - Black Superman
48. Eazy-E - Boyz N Tha Hood (G-Mix)
49. Maniac - Deep Enough
50. 2nd II None - I Can Tell
51. Legit - No Pannies
52. Oppazet - Oppazet
53. Juice - Eastside
54. T.I.P. - Get Down
55. Sean T - Get Gone
56. Roscoe - Smooth Sailin'
57. Swoop G - Simpin' Into Pimpin'
58. Mr. Criminal - Sounds Of Summertime (Remix)
59. Compton's Most Wanted - Music To Driveby
60. MC Eiht - All For Tha Money
61. Big Tone - The Skrilla
62. S.S.P. - Weekend
63. Magic Mike - Love 4 My Homies
64. Mr. X - Any Ole Sunday
65. Mad CJ Mac - Come Take A Ride
66. Ice Cube - It Was A Good Day
67. Playya-1000 with The D'kster - The Layback
68. Fo' Clips - Hold On
69. Watts Gangstas - Fuct In The Game
70. Mac Mall - Ghetto Theme
71. FLEXX - OG Ridaz ft Young Dre
72. Dream Warriors - The Era Of "Stay Real"
73. Big 50 - Deez Street
74. Changing Faces - Keep It Right There (DeVante Swing Remix Instrumental)
75. G-Ism-Strips
76. Mac Mall - Crestside
77. M.C. Eiht & L.A. Nash - Professional Stone Crooks
78. Silky Slim - Tha Playa's Realm
79. Lil Fly - Rag Top
80. Krucked M Age - Da Show I Want You Party Over
81. Young Ed - Find A Way
82. N.E.S. - We Can Roll
83. Psycho Gangster - Psycho Gangster - About My Money
84. Fat 4 Ever - Excercising My P Thang
85. B.O.M. - Times At There Hardest
86. Ray Luv - Last Nite
87. O.T.R. Clique - Streets Deeper Than The Grave
88. Cal - Luv-Life Of A Playa
89. Christopher Williams - Dance
90. Wicked Minds - California
91. Azim - 4-D Funk
92. Cellski - Last Song ft Young Ed
93. Maniac Lok - Summer Jam
94. Mr. Peebodie - Sahloo
95. One Gud Cide - Remember Me

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The Bridge is NOT Over pt. 1

This is not a collection of hip hop instrumentals. It isn't a collection of beats with played instruments like De La Soul's "I Be Blowin", nor will you hear sample-rich beats with layered pieces meshing harmoniously like the Cunnylinguists perfectly executed Remember Me [Abstract Reality]. None of these work alone. They are part of the song, "musical bridges" that usually join two halves of songs.


I'll start this off chronologically(and then proceed to completely lose respect for father time).

1. RUN DMC - RAGTIME

Run DMC were pretty much breaking ground with each song they made on their first three albums, sometimes to amazing success. On the other hand they tried a few experiments that didn't even dent hiphop's history. Mixing hiphop with a Big Band sound was one of those. After hearing "Ragtime" though, I personally would not mind hearing more of these experiments ;)





2. DIGITAL UNDERGROUND - NUTTIN NIS FUNKY

Although "Same Song" would fit MUCH better in this compilation of instruments wildin' out over hiphop tracks, I fuckin' hate the organ sound they used on that track. Instead, "Nuttin Nis Funky" provides a great slow galloping beat for a very hiphop-ish instrument to freestyle with tranquility: The turntable. DJ Fuze is by far my favorite DJ, so I place this track on a pedestal with a plaque under it that says "DJ's: You Will NEVER Make Nuttin Nis Funky".





3. BRAND NUBIAN - CLAIMIN' I'M A CRIMINAL

One thing I would never have expected was Brand Nubian + acoustic guitar solos...





4. DJ QUIK - ONLY FOR THE MONEY

Dj Quik showed you how classy and musical he could be on his second album "Way II Fonky". In between his gangbangs, his late nite pimpin' and his soulglo-spraying, he managed to find time to really add to his tracks with instruments.




5. MC EIHT - STREIHT UP MENACE

And now for his one time biggest enemy, MC Eiht. Yup no G, just like Quik said "you aint got no G in you". When I heard "Streiht Up Menace", I figured that this would be the sound of his first solo album. I was wrong.



6. TOO SHORT - ONLY THE STRONGEST SURVIVE

Also on the Menace II Society album, we have a Too Short track, produced by the Dangerous Crew who have more than earned their bragging rights with their talented musicians to add mad depth to their tracks. Did that just read bork bork? Sorry let's let the music speak for itself!





7. D-NICE - STRAIGHT FROM THE BRONX

With his sophomore album "To The Rescue", he pulled a Kool G Rap on us with this track. They are the same in the respect that they both utilize fake instruments played by keyboards, in this both cases being a cheesy casio-sounding saxophone.





8. KOOL G RAP - STREETS OF NY

And now for the original 5-cent sound of that jazz musician trying to impress you for some change. With those minor piano chords, I'm impressed, here's 10 dollars, buy yerself a flask of moonshine.






9. EAZY-E - EAZY STREET

All Eazy E fans know that he's probably funnier than he is a cold hearted killer and this freestyle "skat" leaves NO doubt behind.





10. FREESTYLE FELLOWSHIP - INNERCITY BOUNDARIES

South Central, LA, home to another gang-riddled area, gave birth to another hiphop act influenced by jazz-skatting: Freestyle Fellowship. This Daddy-O produced track (crazy huh?) lifted the whole album by 100 cool points when he made the four MC's flow over this all-instrument played track.




11. GOLD MONEY - NOTHING

I was just mentioning this album in the Pee Wee post I did. It's the longest in this list at 3:41, and it's also the most unique. I say this because it's obviously jazz, but its got this funky backbone that makes your head bop hard. The drums are tremendously Digital Underground, and make you realize that, yes, they had their clappin-snappin sound 15 years before it got overused ad-nauseam in so many 2000ish hit songs.

I have more to come, but if anyone can help me identify more of these, I would love to actually blend these together in the future.

MC Eiht - Straight Up Menace (Uncut)

You may own the Menace II Society OST, or even the Streiht Up Menace 12" but I'm sure that no one has this version that I'm about to lace y'all with. The album version still has the explicit lyrics and everything but one thing that is being muted is when MC Eiht says the word "Japs" when he's talking about the corner store being owned by the Japanese people. Straight ripped from the movie's end credits where it's only available, this rare version has the word "Japs" fully uncut. The word was definitely removed from the final version due to it being a racial stereotype but I'm sure that a lot of heads have been looking for this rare uncut version. So Enjoy,



"I'm kickin' it with the homies and they got the straps

Off to the corner store, owned by the fuckin' Japs"





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-- Thomas V