(CHECK OUT) (NEW MIXTAPE) The Best of A Tribe Called Quest Mixed By DJ M-Rock , Grand Opening & New Saturday Residency at F-Stop ..Submitted By: DJ M-Rock

MIXTAPE: The Best of A Tribe Called Quest
DOWNLOAD IT HERE: http://hulkshare.com/tyx0gxa48pl7

(DJ M-Rock's Words Below)

I'm the biggest Tribe fan so it brings me a lot of pleasure to drop this mix.  I haven't followed their solo acts much, but I watched them like a hawk growing up.  In fact, the first piece of music I personally got my own hands on was their first album from the public library.  I can talk all day about this group, its emotional for me in fact, because my fav. genre is hip-hop and after midnight marauders, hip-hop split into underground and pop, and I found both styles were trying too hard.  Slum Village for example were so gangsta lyrically that it wasn't believable, and on the other hand Jay-Z was the same thing.  Plus hustling and bitches are not interesting (Tribe talk about women instead).  Both Slum and Jay were hot but as for vibe and lyricism, I'm a lower-middle class kid and other than musical skill, I didn't relate deeply to any of this shit.

However I did relate to Tribe.  Tribe's music is honest, it doesn't have commercial appeal and it succeeded because these brothers were close and very gifted, far from the average.  They got paid as a group and didn't fight over cheques.  When they started falling off, the beats got mathematical and sample-free, they went soft as they brought J-Dilla in, who's ironically one of the rawest producers ever.  I can even hear Tip mentioning his friends during Phife's verse in "1nce again", an ignorant thing on his part, a lack of chemistry that was all over the last 2 albums.  I relate to all of this because I fell off as a tablist, wasn't a team player myself towards the end of that phase in my career.  With that in mind, this mix is none of those wacker moments, it's the straight rawness of Tribe, the group that wrote classic verses on the bus (buggin' out) or kept verses from their childhood (Tip wrote Bonita at 14).  Go watch the movie, by the way, it's incredible.  This mixtape took 3 weeks which is why M-Rock Mondays have been nothing, and now that it's done, I hope you all really enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it. 

DOWNLOAD IT HERE: http://hulkshare.com/tyx0gxa48pl7

And even more significant for me than this tape  is the next step that's happening in my career.  I left Thompson Hotel's rooftop lounge a month ago to join Muzik, possibly one of the biggest clubs in the entire country.  I didn't want to leave but Muzik was offering a whole new thing for me.  I was playing with a house DJ and over the past weeks I realized I want my own night, something between what my man Tabs has at Parkdale Drink and the boutiques I play.  This Saturday is the grand opening of Nyood's new club, F-Stop (a camera term for points of distance, I think) and I'm proud to say I'm their official Saturday night DJ.  Muzik and Thompson have been supportive of me in making my next steps and I am so appreciative.  The guys who ran Nyood combine musical sensibility with swank and design in a way where friends of mine from New York prefer Nyood to what they have out there.  At Pravda, I get to lounge it out, at Nyood I do urban hard, and F-Stop's just the next level.  I look forward to playing for you guys.  Much love and thanks to my clients, my supporters and my fans.

All aside, the Kanye tape is at 17,000+ since January, I'm nominated for a Stylus DJ Mixtape award, I just pitched a hot beat for a Ciroc commercial and I'm happy.

Here are my dates for this week:

NYOOD
Every Friday 10pm-3am (big club night)
1096 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M6J 1H9
($10.  Style code.  Live remixes, Urban meets Eclectic, scratching, Everything except blatant top 40)

F-STOP
Every Saturday 10pm-3am (even bigger club night)
420A Wellington St. W, Toronto, ON
($10.  Style code.  Live remixes, Urban meets Eclectic, scratching, Everything except blatant top 40)

PRAVDA
Every Monday, 7pm-12am (A very nice place that I get to play non-club music at :)
44 Wellington Street East, Toronto, ON M5E 1C7 (see map)
No cover, Style code, lounge and pub music.

THOMPSON HOTEL Rooftop Lounge
Tuesday May 10th, 2011 - Exclusive Industry event
550 Wellington Street West, Toronto, ON M5V 2V4

Peace sign,
M

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