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With the release date for Jay-Z's upcoming Kingdom Come less than a month away, there have been a handful of mixtapes released in the past couple of weeks attempting to capitalize on this. While there isn't really any way to go wrong with a collection of Jay-Z tracks, the best of the pre-Kingdom Come mixtapes comes from Cleveland's Mick Boogie.
Released last week, Superman Returns...Hov Is Back has a bit of everything from Jigga's catalog: post-"retirement" releases like his live 44 4's freestyle, some hard to find collaborations with Biggie, a few remixes of classic songs like Allure and snippets from various interviews. While the new material, including a version of Dead Presidents that features Coldplay's Chris Martin singing the hook and Nas dropping a verse along with Jay, has most people checking for the mixtape right now, its the remixes that make the tape worth picking up. If the steady leak of tracks from Kingdom Come weren't enough to hold you over until November 21st, this mixtape is definitely worth picking up. Here are a couple of tracks from the tape:
Hov Is Back (Chemical Kickdrums mix)
Hov and Big -- The Commission
You can buy Hov Is Back at mixunit. For more of Mick Boogie's work, hit up his official site and his myspace page.
Mixtape djs aren't the only ones who are trying to make a name for themselves off of Jay these days. Jim Jones, the capo of
First, Jim put out the song Alarm, claiming that Jay-Z ripped off the idea for the Show Me What You Got video from his own We Stay Fly video. As I mentioned before, the video for Show Me What You Got is essentially a remake of the earlier video for Money Ain't a Thing, so Jim's claim doesn't hold much weight.
Jim Jones' latest diss track, Kingdom Done, features some audio from Dame Dash. Its hard to tell when Dame's audio was actually recorded (it could be a couple of years old for all I know), and while Jim Jones continues to diss Jay, Dame doesn't really mention him in the audio. Its possible Dame's reacting to the just-leaked Lost Ones, where Jay has the line:
Heard motherf's saying they made Hov
Made Hov say, "Ok, so make another Hov"
Ultimately, Jim Jones lacks the lyrical ability to trade barbs with Jay-Z. This beef is interesting only as an example of a blatant attempt to promote album sales (though The Game is doing it a lot better than Jim these days).
10/27/2006 10:53:14 AM posted by Fresh