Live at the Nokia Theater.  Thank you to Alex of Killer Beez Promotions for the video.

S.O.U.L is starting various mixtape projects with a bunch of DJ’s over at his website, and this is the first mixtape from the series.  DJ Books brings you the best of the Juice Crew, highlighting their classic joints from the past with music from all the members.  Enjoy this great release.

Download: DJ Books – The Juice Crew: Master of the Symphony

Track listing after the jump.

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Peep Mickey Factz tearing down UCLA (rocking our ill “Hold Shift, Press 4″ aka “Make Dollas” tee) with his latest track “Alpha”, produced by who other than Precize himself …

(Thank you to Hype Beast for the picture)

You can get your Radio Raheem on in 2009 with this great iPod Boombox brought to you by Lasonic.  You can purchase this boombox over at Honeyee.

I wonder if you need 20 D batteries to make it work?

Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek talk about their brand new album, and what a commitment it is to take on such a task of collaborating for a project.  They also speak on the late great J Dilla, and what type of inspiration he was to both of them.

Brand new mixtape from DJ Honda, mixed by DJ Shu-G to help promote the brand new DJ Honda album, hIV which drops on August 5th.  This mixtape contains classic and new joints from DJ Honda, and should keep you satisfied until the album drops.  Thank you to 2DopeBoyz for the heads up on this release.

Download: DJ Honda – Street Sampler (Right Click and Save)

Track listing after the jump.

Previous: DJ Honda Feat. Mos Def – Magnetic Arts

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Found another DJ Whoo Kid mixtape in my mixtape collection that I thought all of you would enjoy.  Hosted by Tracy McGrady (and real hosting this time as well), DJ Whoo Kid gives you a lot of great bangers on this mixtape that you could definitely ride out to today.  This mixtape has 36 tracks on it, and I wanted to specify that as I have seen people put out a version with only 28 tracks.  This mixtape rip right here is the real deal coming straight from the CD.  Enjoy.

Download: DJ Whoo Kid – SVA Live 2003 (Hosted by T-MAC)

Track Listing after the jump.

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Big Chew over at Rap Mullet [dot] com has reviewed Journey To The West giving it 3 tapes out of 4.  Here is what Big Chew had to say about the mixtape:

I’m in the mood to journey west people, on some Oregon trail type shit but with a uzi and some bandana’s, maybe a couple of Mexican chics (no racial).  You should know what Hevehitta and Unexpected bring to the table mixtape wise and if you don’t you must not really be a mixtape head.

Good lord that “California Triumph” freestyle from Jay Rock is concrete hard. That’s that music that makes you scrunch up your face like you just smelled a bloody tampon. I don’t think Eazy E gets his just due. That unreleased “Black Ni99a Killa” is dope. It def sounds dated but damn for those of us around when he was dropping this type of music it’s the shit. Can’t front on E’s story telling ability. The project got jewels on it too people. You know that rare shit you def won’t hear much anywhere else. Ice Cube’s “You Don’t Want To Fuck With These” is that high energy Cube and Dre and Snoops “Hoe Hopper” brings you into that pre-Chronic day and time. My only beef is MC Eiht was reduced to only a St. Ides commercial. MC Eiht got some classic cold ass track man. Def would have liked to hear old boy get some more shine. I never ever get tired of listen to Nipsey Hussle’s remix of “Hussle In The House. One of the better posse cuts to drop in the last couple years IMO.

I’m looking at the tracklist after the fact and I gotta give props cause the shit is a well balanced mixtape. You got your new “west” so to speak with Jay Rock and Nipsey Hussle which is a solid foundation in and of itself. Then you got your old with 2 Pac, Ice Cube, Dre and them which is the other part of the foundation. If I had to call it I’d say it’s a very calculated mixtape that was executed with crazy detail and an ear for that “g” shit.

You can dowload the CD here or if you would like to purchase a copy please go to: Mix Unit | Mixtape USA | Aris Mixtapes

I gave you part one of this series a couple of days ago, and now here is part two for you to enjoy.  More classic freestyles by your favorite artists! Thanks again to Killah Beast for the hook up!

Previous: Tony Touch – Power Cypha Pt.1 (2 CD)

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Unfortunately this is a RADIO RIP but at least we know how crazy this joint sounds.  This track features Inspectah Deck, Method  Man, Ghostface Killah, and it’s produced by the late great J Dilla.

Update: I have updated the download link with a CDQ / Clean version

Download: Raekwon – House of Flying Daggers