[Revisited] CALL O' DA WILD - "Straight Out The Wilderness"

Back by popular demand! I've been getting crazy requests for a reupload of the Call O' Da Wild compilation that me and the homie Pattch82 put together back in 2011. There's not any additional songs or different sequencing on here as I always felt that it flows just like an album and features each and every song ever released under the name of Call O' Da Wild, along with both sides from Barron Ricks only 12" single. Since its been a while since it was originally posted I'm sure a lot of Lost Tapes readers missed it the first time around and this is definitely one compilation/album that fans of Cypress Hill, DJ Muggs and Soul Assassins do not want to miss out on. The reason I couldn't upload it before was that I had lost all of the songs and been on a hunt for a while to find the best versions of each songs, striving for 320 kbps though some are between 192 and 256 kbps as well. The only tracks I couldn't find in better than 128 kbps are the two songs from the singles "Andrews Ave." / "Urban Wilderness", but I'm on the hunt and as soon as I find them I'll update it. This compilation flows fantastiic and plays just like the Call O'Wild album  that DJ Muggs was supposed to executive produce but never materialized. Overall it sounds a whole lot clearer and better than the 2011 version that I uploaded so Merry Christmas all the Soul Assassins heads!

For those not in the know Call O' Da Wild was a Harlem duo consisting of emcees Barron Ricks and Angelo Campioni that DJ Muggs took under his wing in the mid-'90s and made them part of the Soul Assassins crew. Signed to the SONY label in '96/'97 after a series of soundtrack apperances and a trio of 12" singles, the plan was for Call to be the first group to record an album overseen and mainly produced by DJ Muggs outside of Cypress Hill. If you check out the booklet for Cypress' "Unreleased  & Revamped" EP (which features the Call O' Da Wild collaboration "Intellectual Dons") you can actually see an ad fo their album with the text saying coming soon. As evident by this collection of all their released songs prove that they made extremely gritty, hardcore and dark music, and by the time '97 or '98 came around when the LP was planned for release, its very likely that a major record label like SONY got cold feet due to artists like Pappa Diddy Pop dominating the airwaves. However the relationship between the producer and the group eventually had soured as well. "Call O' Da Wild broke up right after their album was finished for SONY, and they thought their were superstars before they record was even out... I have the DAT tape in a storage somewhere", the super producer/DJ told the Los Angeles Time in an article published in 1998. It's a real shame though considering how fantastic these tracks sound together; I'm glad we at least got forty minutes of these guys getting busy over hardcore beats mainly by Muggs, with some additional input by The Alchemist, Jerome Foster and Knobody/Sean C. Barron Ricks did however appear on several songs on Cypress Hill's "IV", including the hit single "Tequila Sunrise" so it's possible that the main beef was with Campioni.

All songs execurtive produced by DJ Muggs for Soul Assassins Music. All songs produced by DJ Muggs except track #1, "Sometimes the Neighborhood", produced by Jerome Foster and Sean Matthews, track #4, "Harlem River Drive", produced by The Alchemist, and track #6 produced by Sean C & Knobody. All songs are from either Call O'Da Wilds singles, the soundtracks for "Gravesend" ("Ninth Symphony") and "Bad Boys" ("Clouds of Smoke"), respecitvely. "New York Undercover" and "Runnin' Wild" are lifted from the first DJ Muggs' "Soull Assassins" compilation (though the latter only appeared on certain versions of the LP). Last but not least, the songs "Harlem River Drive" and "Rags to Riches" was first released on a solo single by Barron Ricks, released in early ¨98. So what you're waiting for'? Even if you had the original download the sound quality is much greater here so press play and TURN IT UP all my Soul Assassins. Peeace to Pattch82 once again too, as well as Supreemo for the artowrk.

01. "Sometimes the Neighborhood"

02. "Rurterrain"

03. "Intellectual Dons" (Ft. B-Real)

04. "Harlem River Drkv 

 05."Andrew¨s Ave."

06. "Clouds Of Smoke" (Ftl Wayne-O)

07. "Ragsto Riches" (Ft. Cypress Hill & Self Scientific')

08. "Urban Wilderness"

09. "New York Undercoverr"

10. "Ninth Symphony" (Ft. Cypress Hill)

11. "Runnin¨Wild (Outro)"

CALL O' DA WILD - "STRAIGHT OUT THE WILDERNESS"

BIG PUN - "Still Not A Player" [Demo]

Justice over @ 2DopeBoyz just posted this, so I figured I'd borrow it for The Lost Tapes as well since it's great to get to hear "new" ish by The Punisher. "Still Not A Player" is of course considered a real classic but to me I really prefer "Capital Punishment" without it since the only thing it manages to do is to annoy me. The original Minnesota mix though? Now that's another story completely... But back to this rough demo version which apparantly originally was dug up by DJ Soul and made the mixtape rounds. This version also features additional vocals by Cuban Link and is overall a cool listen. 

As a lil' bonus I also uploaded a related track which never made it to the final version of "Capital Punishment" though it most definitely should have - matter of fact, when I upload the album to my iPod I usually delete "Still Not A Player" and replace it with this track. "Wishful Thinking" features Big Pun, Kool G Rap, Fat Joe and B-Real going crazy over a hard to the core Showbiz production. A crazy posse cut if I ever heard one, and how this didn't make the LP is forever beyond me (it was placed as the B-side to the "I'm Not A Player" 12").

BIG PUN / FAT JOE / KOOL G RAP / B-REAL - "WISHFUL THINKING"

[Mixtape] SERIAL KILLERS Vol.1 (B-Real x Xzibit x Demrick)

I recently posted the full tracklist for "Serial Killers Vol. 1", one of the first real West Coast "super groups" in the last few years. Serial Killer's first endeavour as a group was their singles "The First 48", "Legends Never Die", and the newly released "Six Billion Ways" as well as the tracklist with its producers is definitely looking like they will be some serious heat on here (Statik Selektah, Sir Jinx, The Futuristics, Mo$$, Ill Bill, Bink! and G Rocka of Soul Assassins to name a few - I haven't had the chance to stream the project yet but I'm definitely excited about it. It's probably the first B-Real and Xzibit project that I've really been looking forward to hearing in severeal years. The whole album is now availbale for free via LiveMixtapes.com.

01. "First 48" [prod. Futuristiks & Sir Jinx]
02. "Wanted" [prod. G. Rocka & Medi]
03. "Dickies & Bandanas" (Ft. Kurupt) [prod. JRB]
04. "In The Sky" [prod. Ill Bill]
05. "Doctors In" (Ft. Hopsin) [prod. DJ Lethal & C-Lance]
06. "Whatever Cuz" (Ft. Goldie Locc) [prod. Green Lantern]
07. "Legends Never Die ft. Easy MoneyST (produced by: Statik Selektah)
08. "Worst Nightmare" [prod. Futuristiks]
09. "Get 2 It" [prod. Dublin Beats]
10. "Six Billion Ways" [prod. Ill Bill]
11. "No Coming Back" [prod. Ill Bill]
12. "Laugh Now" (Ft. Jon Connor) [prod. Nottz]
13. "Eaten Alive" [prod. BINK]
14. "Angels Come Calling" [prod. DJ Khalil]

B-REAL, XZIBIT & DEMRICK - "SERIAL KILLERS V.1" 

B-REAL x XZIBIT x DEMRICK are SERIAL KILLERS

Two of the West Coast's most influential emcees, Cypress Hill's B-Real and Xzibit joins forces with up-and-comer Demrick under the name Serial Killers. The newly formed unit will drop their first mixtape "Serial Killers Vol. 1" via LiveMixtapes.com on October 31. A few days ago they released the short but effective concept video "First 48" which is the Sir Jinx produced intro the album. Today another sick single hit the net via DJ Statik Selektah who produced the joint which is called "Legends Never Die" (featuring Ea$y Money). Peep the track below and up top you find the aforementioned video.