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Every Friday Night on The BEAT 94.5 FM in Vancouver. You can listen live at THE BEAT.COM. Straight Goods with Jay Swing & me with special guest DJ Starting From Scratch. SGz is the longest running PURE hip hop show on commercial radio or in other words...

The most devastating two hours on radio.

Here's the show in four segments:

 Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

THROWBACK MIX... STARTING FROM SCRATCH CLASSICS

Showbiz & AG feat. Diamond D - Still Diggin'

LL Cool J - Eat 'Em Up L (Chill)

Notorious B.I.G. - Machine Gun Funk

A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders

Da Bush Babies feat. Mos Def - Love Song

Da Bush Babies - We Run Things (remix)

Red Hot Lover Tone - Give It Up

Craig Mack - Get Down (Dilla Remix)

Tha Pharcyde - Devil Music

Masta Ace - Sittin' On Chrome (remix)

Mobb Deep feat. Big Noyd - Give Up The Goods (Demo)

Mobb Deep - Survival Of The Fittest (remix)

Red Life - Yagga Yaw Yaw

Erick Sermon - Hittin' Switches

Redman feat. Erick Sermon - Watch Yo' Nugget

Das Efx feat. EPMD - Cummin' At Cha

De La Soul - Oodles Of O's 

Shouts out to a crew called Quest in the video. (Click on their name!)

He's still better than 90% of this other crap that's coming out. I'm not mad at this one at all.

50 Cent

"Flight 187"

Drake comes home. To quote my man Big C who was at the Drake show last night - "This Drake kid is the Truth. 20 years in the game. I have never seen such home town love for a MC." and "Let's not even start about the stupid amount of Woman in this place! They are fighting each other. Crazy!" For some bonus Drake, here is the no DJ/tagless version of the Weezy reference track he did.

Drake

"Take You Down"

This shit is so ill to me. Drake in Houston performing "November 18th" in front of a sold out crowd at a Bun B show. The ill shit is how the crowd sings every word. Check Drake's reaction when he starts rapping. He just kind of stops and looks up in amazement at the crowd. Pretty crazy considering Drake doesn't even have an album out (he just signed to Atlantic) and he was far from home. The "November 18th" remix with Cool Kid Chuck Inglish is below if you missed it. DJ Screw RIP.

Drake feat. Chuck Inglish

"November 18th"

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Canadian songstress Melanie Fiona rocking acapella with a mean beatbox via the Human Orchestra, Kenny Muhammad. Her voice is great, no additives. I love this song. Studio or acoustic, she gives it right!!!!!!!!!!!

In case you missed it:

Melanie Fiona

"Give It To Me Right" feat. Busta Rhymes & Raekwon

Another new Weezy track. Not sure where it's from or how official it is because I'm losing track of all these new Lil Wayne joints.

Lil Wayne

"Fix My Hat"

I like Rhymefest mixtapes. I fucked with the Michael Jackson one for sure. This one is good too. Straight jiddacked from Steady Bloggin'.  (via twitter actually) Standout track is the battle against Big Daddy Kane.

Rhymefest vs Big Daddy Kane

(produced by Scram Jones)

 Rhymefest - The Manual (Mixtape)

01 Who is Che? [Intro] 

Personally ripped by me for you. This bootleg came out in 1996 and features Rakim's best unreleased material. It all sounds like it was supposed to be on the Don't Sweat the Technique album (which is rumoured to have been co-produced by Large Professor, can anybody corroborate that?) My cut on here is "Hypnotic", straight b boy badness but the whole record is > all rap 2001-present.

Also, I saw Biz Markie pick this up at BASSIX (r.i.p.) record store back when Biz first came to Vancouver in 1996.  

Enjoy!

Eric B & Rakim

Unreleased Classics Vol. 1

A1 - Everything's Cool

A2 - Hypnotic

A3 - You Don't Fool Me

B1 - Don't Sweat the Technique (Original Version)

B2 - Complicatem (Pass The Hand Grenade Pt2)

A Compact Disc Quality version of a song off Jadakiss' Mixtape with Green Latern. A nod to 2DBz once again. This one is nice for some chill listens.

Jadakiss

"Kiss My Ass"