DJ Kid Slizzard Presents: For The Weed Smokers (Mixtape, 2010)
I feel compelled to share almost all of what KS does over at Twankle & Glisten (because I’m a reposter, not a blogger), but these cassette mixes are especially great. This is the fifth installment in the T&G mix series, and will undoubtedly serve as my weekend soundtrack to exploring the Bay.
Many of these tracks, like “Roll Something,” “Coughee,” “Smokin’ Chicken,” and “Bammer Weed,” we used to play heavily when I was growing up (though I was forced to covertly buy rap CDs/cassettes when out from under my parents’ “No Parental Advisory” rule) , so the nostalgia here is pretty thick.
But really, Slizzard says it best:
My love of rap music and my preference for the rap music in this blog over the rap music not in this blog – comes from weed. When I was a teenager weed was like an iron and rap CD-Rs were like secret messages lemon juiced on paper. It seemed there was an evolutionary biology behind it, a perfect synchronicity. Rhythm’d tricks of sensation like smoke and mirrors, the non-linear flow of Mr. Show segues, samples that float like disaffected memories over a field of bass and slang – a drugged language…
Well, fuck. I can’t explain it to you, you feel it or you don’t.
-$M
(via T&G)
Dude’s Get Buck mixtape is always in my rotation