Category Archives: The Clean Up Hour

The Clean Up Hour, Mix 318

What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour — a look back at the first four months of 2005. when the first video was ever posted on Youtube, the world watched the fallout of the Game and G-Unit’s beef, and I was just a 10 year old punk who listened to hip hop and kept up with video game news.

Tracklist:

The Game – Put You On the Game
C-Murder, Curren$y, & Mac – Camouflage & Murder
Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Drag-On, Jae Millz, Cardan, The Lenox Ave Boys, & Terra Blacks – Move Back
50 Cent, Lloyd Banks, & Tony Yayo – We Gonna Hit Yo A** Up
Papoose – F*** Da Hip Hop Police
Nickelus F – MORE CRACK PLEASE
Chamillionaire – Switch Styles
Freddie Gibbs – Get Blowed
Yelawolf – Pistol N The Air
Proof – Oil Can Harry
BLUEPRINT & CJ the Cynic – Kill Me First
Mike Jones, Paul Wall, & Slim Thug – Still Tippin
Brooke Valentine, Big Boi, & Lil Jon – Girlfight
Amerie – 1 Thing
Will Smith – Switch
Z-Ro – Mo City Don
Pimp C – Young **********
50 Cent – Ryder Music
Zion I & Gift of Gab – Stranger In My Home
Rapper Big Pooh & Murs – Now (Remix)
Wiz Khalifa & Kev da Hustla – Life of a Hustla
Buck 65 – Abandoned Cars
Edan – Fumbling Over Words That Rhyme
Aesop Rock – Facemelter
Busdriver – Cool Band Buzz
Boom Bip – One Eye Round the Warm Corner
Pete Rock – Midnight and You
Beanie Sigel & Bun B – Purple Rain
Nickelus F & Drake – AM 2 PM (Unreleased Version)
jawed – me at the zoo
BONUS:
Chyna Whyte & Ying Tang Twins – What They Want
DJ Drama, Willie the Kid, Stat Quo – Gimme That (Freestyle)
Redman, Icarus, & Saukrates – Deeper Cover
WC – Theif’s Theme
Geto Boys & Z-Ro – When It Get’s Gangsta
Kool Keith – G-Strings
The Alchemist, Nina Sky, Prodigy, & Evidence – Hold You Down (KDAY Remix)

See y’all next time!

The Clean Up Hour, Mix 317

What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour — the first ode of the year to 2010. We’re going back to the first four months, when the first iPad released — decimating humanity in the process — and I read the XXL Freshman list, which set off a domino effect that would forever impact me.

Tracklist:

B.O.B – Don’t Let Me Fall
Wiz Khalifa – We’re Done
DJ Khaled, T-Pain, Ludacris, Rick Ross, & Snoop Dogg – All I Do Is Win
Yelawolf & Bun B – Good To Go
Red Cafe & Fabolous – I’m Ill
DJ Kay Slay, Uncle Murda, Mistah F.A.B., & Grafh – Kay Slay’d Em
Jay Rock – Real Bloods
Earl Sweatshirt – EARL
Nipsey Hussle – When They Talk About Me
E-40 & Gucci Mane – Whip It Up
Pac Div & Pill – Birds
Game & Pharrell – It Must Be Me
MellowHype, Tyler, the Creator, & Mike G – BlaccFriday
Das Racist – Rainbows in the Dark
Mike G & Earl Sweatshirt – Stick Up
Snoop Dogg & Kid Cudi – That Tree
CyHi – Teach-Her
Asher Roth – Trash Minutes
Method Man, Raekwon, & Ghostface Killah – Miranda
Ludacris & Trey Songz – S*x Room
Cypress Hill, Pitbull, & Marc Anthony – Armada Latina
Brotha Lynch Hung & G-Macc – I Tried To Commit Suicide
Childish Gambino – B***h, Look At Me Now
Ayomari & TiRon – Just a Dreamer
Dom Kennedy – Me Again
Stalley – Babblin
Lil B – TV to the Internet
Excerpts from Diddy’s 2010 New Year’s Party
DJ Khaled, Diddy, Busta Rhymes, Nicki Minaj, T-Pain, Swizz Beatz, Fabolous, Jadakiss, & Fat Joe – All I Do Is Win (Remix)

See y’all next time!

The Clean Up Hour, Mix 316

What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour — the first of the year’s odes, this one to the first four months of 2015. In some ways, they feel a lifetime away, and in others, we’re still stuck in them.

Tracklist:

H3H3 – DJ Khaled.exe
Lupe Fiasco – Mural
Action Bronson – Actin Crazy
Rae Sremmurd – No Type
Drake – No Telling
Earl Sweatshirt – Facust
Hodgy Beats & Domo Genesis – New Balance
Future – March Madness
ILOVEMAKONNEN, Rome Streetz, & Rich the Kid – No Ma’am
Flatbush Zombies & A$AP Twelvyy – Half-Time
JPEGMAFIA – I Used To Be Into Dope
Big Sean – Platinum & Wood
Julian Malone – Empower
Mac Miller – Days
Tinashe & Iamsu! – Worth It
Heems – Pop Song (Games)
Ludacris & Miguel – Good Lovin
Wale & Jeremih – The Body
Logic & Big K.R.I.T – Top Ten
Michael Christmas – ADHD
Open Mike Eagle – Dark Comedy Late Show
TUT – Highs & Lows
Audio Push, G-Eazy, & Hit-Boy – Bonfire
T-Pain – Need to be Smokin
Boogie – Further
Jazz Cartier – Too Good To Be True
Kendrick Lamar – u
Joey Bada$$, Maverick Sabre & Dyemond Lewis – On & On
Mr. Muthafuckin Exquire – Generation Gap (Snippet)
Tyler, the Creator – 2SEATER
EMIL – Monday
Kid Cudi – love.
Kevin Abstract – Drugs
Laura Groves – Mystique
Curren$y & Styles P – Alert

See y’all next time!

The Clean Up Hour, Mix 315

What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour — the show’s 69th All Things Considered, which makes the case for the enigmatic, charismatic, one-of-a-kind Ghettosocks.

Tracklist:

The Getaway
Whatchuknowboutme?
Ice Wine
Stop!
Voltron Kicks
Tech Wall
He’s the DJ I’m the Rapper ’08
City Life (feat. Loe Pesci & Classified)
LIVE AT THE APOLLO (skit)
Bring Some Wine (feat. Loe Pesci)
Youth In Asia (feat. WOLVES)
Koala Laundry
Evict Bush
Fish Pond Bombs
Grapez
Antelope Freightbuster
After the Smoke Clears
Cathedral (feat. Apt)
Ctu Commies
Dreams of Hawaiian Sophie
Stolen Kicks (feat. PH)
Baby Penguin Again
Once Got Busy (Burger King Bathroom)
A Song About Breakdancing
The Mustard Station (feat. Jeff Spec, Timbuktu, Moka Only, & Muneshine)
Pink Lemonade (feat. Apt)
Cap (feat. Moka Only)
Her Favorite
Roofless
Lapping the Sun
Value Village
I Don’t Sing
Outside
Smoove Regardless (feat. Ambition & Justo the MC)
Nautical (Swamp Thing & Ghettosocks)
All In (feat. O.C. & Moka Only)
Fantasy Island (Swamp Thing & Ghettosocks)
Sorry Excuse for a Human
Reflections
Truth to the Light (feat. Birdapres & Timbuktu)
Out for Treats

See y’all next time!

The Clean Up Hour, Mix 314

What’s up, y’all? Here is this week’s Clean Up Hour:

Tracklist:

Mobb Deep – The Start of Your Ending (41st Side)
Run DMC, Pete Rock, & CL Smooth – Down With the King
Lloyd Banks, Swizz Beatz, Fabolous, Ryan Leslie, Pusha T, & Kanye West – Start It Up
TI & Just Blaze – I’m Talkin To You
The Neptunes, The Clipse, & Ab-Live – Blaze of Glory
Eminem – 8 Mile
Tyler, the Creator & ScHoolboy Q – THE DARK STAINS OF DARKESEE LATIFAH PART 6-12 (REMIX)
Ab-Soul – B.U.C.K.O Jr.
Wiz Khalifa & Too Short – On My Level
Curren$y, Harry Fraud, Conway the Machine, & Rome Streetz – Money Magnet
Benny the Butcher & Westside Gunn – Vader
LEP Bogus Boys & Lupe Fiasco – ZOMBIE LAND
Wale – Freedom of Speech
Jack Harlow & 2forwOyNE – SYLVIA
Jack Harlow – ICE
Drake & PARTYNEXTDOOR – $PIDERMAN $UPERMAN
Drake, Andre 3000, & Lil Wayne – The Real Her
JPEGMAFIA – Whole Foods
Malci – Tetsuo the Iron Man
Omen & J. Cole – Things Change
Skotch Davis – Don’t 4get 2 Remember
Kid Cudi, Krayzie Bone, Layzie Bone, & Steve Aoki – I JUST WANNA GET
The Away Team, Laws, & Big Remo – Paid
D-Sisive, Birdapres, & Cadence Weapon – The Unknown
Calz – If We Make It
John Wells – whole world burnin down
T-Fire – Say a Prayer

See y’all next time!

The Clean Up Hour, Mix 313

What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour — diving right into the music tonight!

Tracklist:

Three 6 Mafia & Project Pat – Roll Wit It
Boldy James & Antt Beatz – Brick James
Drakeo the Ruler, Krispy Life Kidd & Ketchy the Great – Engineer Scared
Fat Joe – ****** Get Killed Foe Less
Gangrene – Take Drugs
Outkast & Slimm Cutta Calhoun – High Schoolin
Niko B & Kirbs – miniclip
Doechii – BOILED PEANUTS
Guru – The Traveller
Quentin Ahmad DaGod – Roaches in my Ashtry
Ant – I Was Always a Collector
Boldy James & V Don – Mrs. Porter
Curren$y, Harry Fraud, & Bruiser Wolf – Zack Morris Phone
Previous Industries & Pep Love – West Coast Video
Ant – Day After 2010
Playa & Magoo – Derby City Interlude
Guru & Erykah Badu – Plenty
Guru – When You’re Near
Ant – Just Didn’t Fit in 2004
Specifics – Craig’s House
Cool Swim – Bedroom Raps
Brother Ali – Handwriting
Ant – Rhodes, Birds, and Wind
Specifics – Lampin
Men I Trust- I Don’t Like Music
HEBL, Zoodeville, & Slug – Valencia
The Avalanches – Tonight May Have To Last Me All My Life (MF DOOM Remix)
Guru, Common, & Bob James – State of Clarity
R.A.P Ferreira – barbados gooseberry, kiwi
Dear Nora – Hung Up
Kevin Abstract – Seventeen
Serengeti – 14
Skyzoo & The Other Guys – The Freedom Dance
Andre 3000, Carlos Nino, Alex Cline, & Pablo Calogero – “This is Where my room used to be”

See y’all next time!

The Clean Up Hour, Mix 312: The Six Year Anniversary Mix!

What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour, which marks six years of the show in spectacular fashion! From the poignant to the tasteless, tonight’s show has it all to celebrate six years of the program that moves you into Friday — and the weekend — on the right note. Thanks, as always, to CKMS for not kicking me off of the air just yet, and to everyone who tunes into the show, willingly or unwillingly.

Please note that tonight’s mix requires an advisory for more listener discretion than usual.

Tracklist:

Drake – Keep the Family Close
Chet Hanks – White Boy Summer (skit)
Eminem – Insane
Eminem – Brain Damage
Vargskelethor Joel – Sex in Minecraft 5
Beastie Boys – No Sleep til Brooklyn
Eminem – Business
Eminem – Just Lose It
D12 – My Band
D12 – Purple Pills
Eminem – Criminal
Skinbone – 100 Miles
Cam’Ron – Get It In Ohio
Yelawolf & Gucci Mane – I Just Wanna Party
Chet Hanks – White Boy Summer Skit #2
DJ Drama, Wale, Tyga, & Roscoe Dash – So Many Girls
five nights at freddy’s skit
Niko B – I Had a Fist Fight With an Emo Outside Subway
Vic Mensa – Down On My Luck
KYLE – Fruit Snacks & Cups of Patron
Childish Gambino – III. Telegraph Ave (“Oakland” by Lloyd)
Chris Rock, Ali LeRoi, & Wanda Sykes – Porno PSA
Chris Rock & Gerald Levert – No Sex
pami – pity dirty
JENNIE, Kali Uchis, & Childish Gambino – Damn Right
Q-Tip & Raphael Saadiq – We Fight/We Love
Q-Tip, Kanye West, & Consequence – We Fight/We Love (Remix)
Janet Jackson & Q-Tip – Got ‘Til It’s Gone
Julian Malone – Afterschool Thunderstorms
Edgar the Beatmaker – Feotus
Atmosphere – Wooden Ships (feat. PNS)
DJ Shadow – Six Days
Birdapres – Not Home (North Rd.)
R.A.P Ferreira – One Lonely Owl
Eminem – It’s Okay
De La Soul & Atmosphere – Millie Pulled a Pistol on Santa/Millie Fell Off the Fire Escape (Storybook Vol. 1 Mix)
Michael Christmas – Banner 18

See y’all next time!

The Clean Up Hour, Mix 311

What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour — the show’s seventh dedication mix to the late Nipsey Hussle. RIP Nip — the marathon continues.

Tracklist:

Things Ain’t Been the Same
Karma (Freestyle)
I Be Killen Um
Alert (Hit-Boy & Nipsey Hussle)
Neighborhood Superstars (Slim Thug, Nipsey Hussle, & Yo Gotti)
No Reason (DJ Mustard, Jeezy, Nipsey Hussle, RJ, & YG)
You Broke (YG & Nipsey Hussle)
Same **** (The Game, Ty Dolla $ign, & Nipsey Hussle)
**** a *****(The Game, Nipsey Hussle, Joe Moses, & Elijah Blake)
Chun Li (Wale & Nipsey Hussle)
This Plane (7 Days a Week)
Rimpau’s Finest
THUGGIN (feat. Lil Boosie & Lil Cali)
I’m From (feat. Cuzzy Capone)
Bucketheads
LINE IT UP
Bullets Ain’t Got No Name
A Million Bucks (DJ Kay Slay [RIP], Troy Ave, Vado, Fatman Scoop, Nipsey Hussle, & Rocko)
One Hunnit
Nothern Lights (Blanco, Nipsey Hussle, & Kokane)
Skurr (Nipsey Hussle & Bino Rideaux)
Picture Me Rollin (feat. Kent Jamz)
Keyz 2 the City 2 (feat. Teeflii)
Don’t Take Days Off (feat. Dubb & Tai Phillips)
Tommy Gunz (feat. Young Brodee)
If You Think I’m Bluffing
Girl Scout Cookies (Blanco, Dorrough, & Nipsey Hussle)
We Ride
H-Town (feat. Dom Kennedy, Cobby Supreme, Teeflii, & Skeme)
No ***** Like Me (feat. Trae the Truth)
Tha Mansion

See y’all next week for the show’s sixth anniversary special!

The Clean Up Hour, Mix 310

What’s up, y’all? Here’s tonight’s Clean Up Hour — the 68th All Things Considered, which makes the case for Toronto MC Abdominal. With an incredible discography, it’s time to get familiar if you ain’t already!

Tracklist:

My Name is Abdominal
Abdominal Workout
Behind the Scenes
Fast Food [Fry Antics]
Still Hungry
Urban Hermit
T.Ode (feat. Notes to Self)
Pedal Pusher
Panic Attack
Balance Both (feat. Chali 2na)
Forged From Hardship (Dutty Moonshine Big Band Remix)
Inoutro
Interlude
The Best Posse Cut You Ever Heard (feat. Dan-E-O, D-Sisive, Fatski, Kamau, The Grand I Am Perial, Esoteric, & Arcee)
Abcapella
Train of Thought (feat. Obe One)
While You Sleep
Sock Hop
Courage (feat. my mom)
Elizabeth
Open Relationship
Reflective Meditation Rhymes
Walk Left/Stand Right
Outta Left Field
Broken
These Boots
The Vinyl Frontier

See y’all next time!

The Clean Up Hour, Mix 309

What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour, where I eulogize my truck.

Tracklist:

OG Maco – 5AM in LA
El Snappo & 1900Rugrat – Chicken (Remix)
Nas – Blue Benz
03 Greedo, Kenny Beats, & Freddie Gibbs – Disco S**t
Cousin Stizz & Smino – Nokia
Fat Ray, Danny Brown, & Black Milk – Just Say No
Spice Programmers & Chuck Strangers – EAZY E
Niko B – boarded the plane
6ix & Logic – WMD
Michael Millions, Fly Anakin, & Nickelus F – Blacksugar
Reason, Kota the Friend, & D’anna Stewart – Stuck On Moments
homeless beats – propsei freestyle
Love, Ulysses – Green Line Shawty
Buck 65 – Digger’s Song
Yy & Birdapres – Tape Surgery
Hodgy Beats – D00rs
JPEGMAFIA – either on or off the drugs
Drake, PARTYNEXTDOOR, & Yebba – DIE TRYING
serengeti – vanessa
R.A.P Ferreira – when my eldest daughter asks how old I am
Party City Machine Guns – What’s the Word
Madvillain – One False Move (“Great Day” Demo)
Break Bread – If I Do Say So Myself
Stalley, Curren$y, & MadeinTYO – Count Your Blessings
THEY. – Never Change
Legit – Figure 8
Nas, Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley, & Stephen Marley – Leaders
JID – 2007
Substanial – Ain’t No Happy Endings
Midicronica – Pillow Jam
Nujabes – World Without Words
Nujabes – The Space Between Two World
Uyama Hiroto – Walk In The Sunset
The Pollyseeds, Terrace Martin, Robert Glapser – Funny How Times Flies

See y’all next time!

The Clean Up Hour, Mix 308

What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour — world’s topsy turvy, eh?

Tracklist:

The Koreatown Oddity – HELLLOOO???
Heems, Lapgan, & Cool Calm Pete – Baba Ganoush
YG & Nipsey Hussle – FDT
YG, G-Eazy, & Macklemore – FDT Pt. 2
Busta Rhymes & Killer Mike – I Won’t Lie Down
Flying Lotus x Krayzie Bone – Meditation Medication
Mr. Mutha****in Exquire – Holy Day
Reason & Hit-Boy – Cross the Waters
Blu, Fashawn, & Exile – Smack
Party City Machine Guns – Rap Music From Party City
Heems & Mr. Cheeks – Bourdain
Casual & Mr. Town – Sushi
John Wells – I think God coming
Serengeti – get em
Keor Meteor – Bill Clinton (remix)
Westside Gunn & Stove God Cooks – 055
Boldy James, Chuck Strangers, & Maxo Kream – Whale Fisting
Stalley & Le$ – Spoiler Kits
Nujabes, Pase Rock, & Substantial – City Lights
Terrace Martin – Albion Way
Mount Eerie – I Spoke With a Fish
Wale – The Followers
Nujabes – Beat Laments the World
Nujabes & Pase Rock – Old Light (Voice from 93 Million Miles Away)
Boogie – J#M#SH#
THEY. – Drive-Thru
Drake & PARTYNEXTDOOR – GREEDY
Nujabes – Horizon
MGK – BMXXing

See y’all next time!

The Clean Up Hour, Mix 307

What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour — the show’s 67th All Things Considered segment, in which I make the case for Canadian Funk-Hop band, God Made ME Funky. With six fun albums across a ten year span, I want to give the group some props, even if I only discovered them recently!

Tracklist:

Basslude
Won More Time
We All Fall Down
Bringin’ It Back
ComeOnUpToGetDown
Phantastik!
Where We Play
Funky Fly N’ Free
The Jam
Too Shy
U Can Do It
FeeeLit (feat. Eternia)
Swagger Stance
Cybersects
Digital Life
Everybody Get Up
Beating Machine
My Day (feat. Moka Only)
Bartenda
Saga
Get Down
Spotlight
Peace, Love
Subway
Summer Love
Feels Like Music
Ur Own Way
I’ll Fly Away
Delancy
U Stepped
The Future
Double Dutch Bus Rmx

See y’all next time!

The Clean Up Hour, Mix 306

What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour — the first “general state of things” ramble of the year.

Tracklist:

Tyler, the Creator – THAT GUY
Childish Gambino, Amaarae, & Flo Milli – Talk My S***
Benny the Butcher & Lil Wayne – Big Dog
Larry June, 2 Chainz, & The Alchemist – Bad Choices
The Alchemist, Action Bronson, & Big Body Bes – Minnesota Fats
LL Cool J, Rick Ross, & Fat Joe – Saturday Night Special
Killer Mike – Ain’t No Love Freestyle
Kendrick Lamar – reincarnated
JPEGMAFIA – Bloodline Freestyle (2022 Demo)
The Weeknd – Baptized in Fear
Vince Staples – Government Cheese
Rapsody & Alex Isley – Loose Rocks
Westside Gunn & Brother Tom Sos – HEALTH SCIENCE
Wavy Bagels, Driveby, & Fatboi Sharif – Struggle Meal
Redman – Jersey
Drake – NOKIA
Bluestaeb, Melodiesinfonie, & S. Fidelity – Summertime In ’92
Niko B – just call me
Bass is Base – Straws Stix and Bricks
PM Dawn – So On and So On
Adeem – These Earthly Things
Charles Hamilton – Acne
John Wells – sun in my eye
Mac Miller – Shangri-La
Alfred Banks – A Beautiful Song
Michael Christmas – See You Later
John Wells – honor my mans (live)
MIKE – Then we could be free…
Boldy James & Sir Michael Rocks – No Façade
Keor Meteor – Gum and Hair
Big Sean & Charlie Wilson – Break the Cycle
Drake – GIMME A HUG
Freddie Gibbs – On the Set
Conway the Machine & Raekwon – The Red Moon in Osaka

See y’all next time!

The Clean Up Hour, Mix 305

What’s up, y’all? A bit early this week due to some work demands, here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour — the show’s final ode to Trugoy the Dove of De La Soul who, along with his brothers in rhyme, gave us one of the best Hip Hop groups of all time. RIP.

Freedom of Speak (We Got Three Minutes)
The Corner
Freestyle (Dat S**t) 2006
Ghetto Thang (Ghetto Ximer)
Buddy (Native Tongue Decision) [feat. Jungle Brothers, A Tribe Called Quest, Queen Latifah, & Monie Love)
Property of Spitkicker.com (feat. Roc Marciano)
The Bizness (feat. Common)
Stiz & Stonz (feat. Tito of The Fearless Four, Grandmaster Caz, Whipper Whip, LA Sunshine, & Superstar)
My Writes
3 Days Later
Church
Who Do U Worship
Must B The Music
The Sauce (feat. Philly Black)
Down Syndrome
Do As De La Des
Me Myself And I
Itz Soweezee (Hot) [De La Remix]
No Over Till the Fat Lady Plays the Demo
I Can Do Anything (Delacratic)
Pass the Plugs
Trouble in the Water (DJ Honda & De La Soul
Stay Away (Pete Rock, Rob-O, & De La Soul)
Leave Your Cares Behind
In the Woods
Just Havin a Ball
Plug Tunin (Last Chance to Comprehend)
Stakes Is High (DJ Spinna Remix)
Freedom Train
Keepin’ The Faith
Freedom of Speak (We Got More Than Three)
Bigger (feat. Choklate)

See y’all next time!

The Clean Up Hour, Mix 304

What’s up, y’all? Here is this week’s Clean Up Hour — the show’s fifth ode to People Under the Stairs. Salute to Thes One, RIP Double K, Forever the P!

Tracklist:

Swan Fever
Step Bacc
Drumbox
Redeemer
My Boy D
Stoned Youth Truth
Bobby in the Hood
Yehaw Partystyles
You Lied
Stars in the House
Death Of A Salesman
Lord Radio & Hale Bop
Double K – Livin’ A Mean One (The New Gangsta Gangsta)
O.S.T (Remix) [feat. Odel]
Listen
Hardcore
Bloquera – Fiesta
Too Much Birthday
The Love
Kaos & Thes
Jamboree pt. 1
Jamboree pt. 2
LA Song (Sensitive Mix)
Roundabouts
After These Messages
Umbrellas (God Forgive Me)
The Aesthetics Crew & L.A. Mike – Timmay!
Sonic Riders
The L.A. Song
The Breakdown
Thes One – Survivor Syndrome (We did it for Mikey)
Thes One – Sparrow
Thes One – Italian Balconies

See y’all next time!

The Clean Up Hour, Mix 303

What’s up, y’all? Tonight’s mix is the 66th All Things Considered — this time, I’m making the case for Grand Analog, the Canadian hip hop band whose small discography contained many a great record — time to get familiar if you ain’t already!

Tracklist:

LMAO
I Play My Kazoo
Get Live and Go
Magnifico
I’ll Walk Alone
Rap Sheet (This Day On) [feat. Saukrates]
The Great Rhyme Dropper (feat. Shad)
Her Daddy (Don’t Like Me)
4am in Parkdale
Electric City (feat. Shad)
Ballad of the Beast (feat. Shad, Len Bowen & DJ Dopey)
Around This Town
Not Enough Mondays/Crunch (feat. Nester Wynrus & Len Bowen)
Mutations (feat. Posdnous)
Human Beans
Mixtapes: the Slow Ride
Love is a Battlefield
Take It Slow (Spaces & Places)
Sittin On Sunday
Trip the Light Fantastic (feat. Maylee Todd & Len Bowen)
Ride On/Oshiya Dub (feat. Clairmont the Second & 2oolman)
Simmer Me Down
People People
Howl (Like Wolves)
Quiet Life (feat. Steven Mulcare)
Light So Bright (feat. Cadence Weapon)
Lion Head

See y’all next time!

The Clean Up Hour, Mix 302

What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour — straight into it with just some minor political talk.

Tracklist:

Busta Rhymes – Salute da Gods!!
Redman – Fat Shirley (Skit)
Redman & Method Man – Lalala
Your Old Droog – What Else?
LEGIT & Alex Wiley – Stanley Cup
A Tribe Called Quest – The Hop
your best friend jippy, Guilty Simpson, & Phat Kat – Secret Agents
Spectacular Diagnostics & Chester Watson – Curse
Logic – French Dispatch
Boldy James, Conway, Styles P, & whothehelliscarlo – Hidden in Plain Sight
Roc Marciano & The Alchemist – Street Magic
Casey Veggies & Dom Kennedy – Road Runnin
Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Tom Petty, & Jelly Roll – Last Dance With Mary Jane
Fu-Ten – 5 AM
Serengeti – smooth jazz
Smino & Bun B – Ms. Joyce
J.U.S – save the princess
Julian Malone – The Ghost of Biggie Smalls
Boldy James, RichGains, & Double Dee – Days Go By
Brian Nasty & Wiki – Good Boy
CunninLynguists – When Your World Falls Apart
Julian Malone – Win Some Lose Some
Kendrick Lamar – heart pt. 6
R.A.P Ferreira – up-to-date mythology
Serengeti – lake mead drive
J. Cole & Bone Thugs-N-Harmony – Miles
Serengeti – What Its Like
Home Brew – Drinking In the Morning
SkyBlew x DJ Reimei – Wander x Wonder
Buck 65 – 15 Minutes to Live
R.A.P Ferreira – inna brand new year exploring the intangible newness of the same old thing.stylin on track 5 of the 1994 batch of beats from jon doe dba the illustrious j dilla
Drake – Fighting Irish Freestyle (LQ)
Mac Miller – 5 Dollar Pony Rides

See y’all next time!

The Clean Up Hour, Mix 301

What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour, in which I introduce one more year-end list — my discoveries of 2024. A bit of a diverse offering of projects, singles, etc., that I discovered, or finally got around to checking out, from various years prior to 2024 (with one exception).

Tracklist:

Themselves – opening of [This About the City Too…]
J Dilla – Fire Wood Drumstix (feat. MF DOOM) [Jay Stay Paid]
UrfavGrannie – Crackheads [UrfavGrannie]
DJ Polo – Down Like That (feat. Back 2 Back, Kasia, Roxanne Shante) [Polo’s Playhouse]
Molemen, Buck 65, & Sage Francis – Follow Me [Ritual of the… Revisited & Remastered]
The Black Eyed Peas – Weekends (feat. Esthero) [Bridging the Gap]
The Streets – Soaked By the Ale [Fit But You Know It Singles 1 & 2]
Prince Paul – I Want You (I’m an 80’s Man) (feat. Bimos) [Itstrumental]
Cymande – Brothers on the Slide [Cymande’s first three albums]
Henryk Debich – City [City]
HARRISON – Like When We Were Kids [Birds, Bees, The Clouds & The Trees]
Stolen Idols – Busy Port [Moonlight Offerings]
Hideo Shiraki – Deux Step [Plays Bossa Nova]
DJ Vadim – Headz Still Ain’t Ready [USSR – The Repertoire (Theories of Verticality)]
Koichi Matsukaze Trio & Ryojiro Furusawa – Lover Man [At the Room 427]
J Dilla – 9th Caller
Rahzel – Suga Sista (feat. The Roots) [Make the Music 2000]
Masaru Imada Trio +1 – Blue Road [Planets]
The Black Eyed Peas – Positivity [Behind the Front]
Lewis Black – Vince Gill, Amy Grant, and Me [Lewis Black Discography up to 2010]
idialedyournumber – The Home We Built Is Gone [Hourglass]
DJ Shadow – You Can’t Go Home Again [The Private Press]
Minji – looking for mice
QUASAR – I Never Thought I’d See the Day [QUASAR discography]
Daniel Koestner – Lazy River [Donut County OST]
idialedyournumber – Part Two
Nacht Plank – Winters Thrill [Friends Within the Darkness 3]
Thomas Brunet – Gardens of Plenty [Chants of Senaar OST]
Zoo Kid & Rago – Watch Over Me

See y’all next time!

The Clean Up Hour, Mix 300

What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour, in which we finish the top 50 of 2024 with selections #25-1. Also, for the first time in the history of the show, I forgot to turn down the background music volume when I was talking, and did not realize until it was too late! I poked around and think I can still be heard fine, but apologies in advance if I’m wrong on that.

Albums are listed in square brackets!

Andre 3000 – Tunnels of Egypt [Moving Day]
ThorHighHeels – equip the estrogen materia in a last bid to save the planet [willems house]
Dom Kennedy – LEANIN [Class of 95]
Keor Meteor – Carl Lewis [Ski Masks Extended/Korv Kiosk/Wurstelbox/36 Paymets/15 Car Pile Up/Short Music Tape 4]
LL Cool J – 30 Decembers [The Force]
Lil B – The Clerk Has Blood On His Hands [The Book of Flame]
Yelawolf – Goodbye Mornin [War Story]
Redman – Pop da Trunk [Muddy Waters Too]
NxWorries – Where I Go (feat. H.E.R.) [Why Lawd?]
RiTchie – Looping [Triple Digits [112]/Quiet Warp Xpress]
Jay Worthy – Can’t Do That [Affiliated 2/Magic Hour/Time After Time/Tonite Show 2
King Krule – Whaleshark [SHHHHHH!]
Ka – Bread Wine Body Blood [The Thief Next to Jesus]
Logic – Interstellar (feat. Lucy Rose) [Ultra 85]
TiRon & Ayomari – Who The F**k Do You Think You Are? (feat. The Potash Twins) [The Adventures of TiRon & Ayomari]
R.A.P Ferreira – the poem presents a glimpse [The First Fist to Make Contact When we Dap/OUTSTANDING UNDERSTANDING]
Jahmiu – IDKLIFEISWEIRD [Almost Forgot How to Swim]
Common & Pete Rock – Wise Up [The Auditorium Vol. 1]
Tyler, the Creator – Hey Jane [CHROMOKOPIA]
Niko B – dagenham to barking [dog eat dog food world]
ScHoolboy Q – Germany ’86 [BLUE LIPS]
Serengeti – they made it [KDIV/mixtape/Palookaville]
John Wells – SCARED 2 SAY DIE (Live) [That Much Bread On Me – EP/whole world burnin’ down (deluxe)]
Blu – Precipitation [Love (the) Ominous World/Los Angeles/Out of the Blue/abc/Royal Blu/Other Shades of Blu(e)/The Original Color Blu(e) (Demos)/Back Home Again/Good GOD (the Bonus Songs)/California Soul]
Michael Christmas – Snooter (feat. Lungs & Phiik) [Unsexy]

See y’all next time!

The Clean Up Hour, Mix 299

What’s up, y’all? We’re kicking the new year off right by bringing the best of 2024 into the new year with us — #50-26, next week will be #25-1.

Tracklist (albums are in square brackets):

Childish Gambino – Yoshinoya [Bando Stone and the New World]
Your Old Droog – Roll Out [Movie]
moonsailor – waterpoort [SCHiM Original Soundtrack]
Brian Nasty – Anyday, After Wednesday [Anywhere, But Here With You]
Ab-Soul – Don Julio 70 (feat. Fre$h) [Soul Burger]
Wavy Bagels & Driveby – Outside [A Carfull]
Shad & 14kt – A Day in the Life [Reel Speakers]
Matt Champion – Code Red [Mika’s Laundry/Slint’s Favorite – EP]
Heems – DAME [LAFANDAR/VEENA]
Westside Gunn – I Know Verdy [HWH 11/Still Praying]
The Marias – Real Life [Submarine]
Previous Industries – White Hen [Service Merchandise]
Classified – Slippin [Luke’s View/The Relux]
ShrapKnel – Sataday [Nobody Planning to Leave]
Nickelus F – The Shining Light [Mmcht]
Asher Roth & Heather Grey – What the Heck?! [Temporary Heaven]
Tinashe – Getting No Sleep [Quantum Baby]
Mount Eerie – November Rain [Night Palace]
Vince Staples – “Radio” [Dark Times]
dear Maryanne – Natty Ice [And Nothing Bad Happened]
Attic Ocean – Young Again [Retriever]
Travis Thompson & Nima Skeemz – Real Hustlers [My Wonderful, Horrible Life]
Spice Programmers – Roaches in the car tray (feat. Solute) [Transatlantic S**t 2]
Cousin Stizz – Wit Me or Not [GABOS – Game Ain’t Based on Sympathy]
Action Bronson – Hideo Nomo (feat. Julian Love) [Johann Sebastian Bachlava the Doctor]

See y’all next week to finish the list off!

The Clean Up Hour, Mix 298

What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour. As is tradition, we begin three weeks of list with this year’s worst of list, in which 15 albums — as well as five political and cultural entities — get put under my ever-critical scope.

Heads up that, like the music I usually play, I do use language and phrasing which warrants language and content disclaimers — listener discretion is advised.

There’s a small mix after I finish rambling:

Wavy Bagels – San Juan

R.A.P Ferreira – culture jammer

Serengeti – One Tweet Away

Oddities – Coming Down (feat. Esthero)

Deus Ex – Dark Age Ending

Nas – New World

Thanks to everyone who contributed to 2024 being a great year for The Clean Up Hour — looking forward to 2025. Until then, see y’all next time!

The Clean Up Hour, Mix 297

What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour — the 65th All Things Considered, in which I make the case for Sixtoo, another east coast Canada MC who set an incredibly high bar on every front, and whose hard-to-find discography should not be lost to time.

Tracklist:

Intro
Funny Sticks
Funny Sticks Reprise
Open Letter to Hip Hop
No Chorus (feat. Little T, Nathan the Alien, Papa Grand & Checklove)
Detriment’s Lament
Sebutones – 01/29/2020
Bricklayers Union/Karmic Retribution
Two Strikes
Sebutones – Viral Pneumonia
Beat Breaker’s Block
Me
Search Engine
Graffiti on the Wall
Paper People
Part3
One World Lost
Spiritual Jigsaw
Season Don’t Change
Fluke
In Their Place
Sebutones – Flux Capacity
Molemen & Sebutones – Game
This One Goes Out to Gary and Stacy (Edit) (feat. P-Love)
Jet
The Peach
A to Zero
Sebutones – To Mock a Killing Bird
Sultry
Work in Progress
5am

See y’all next time!

 

The Clean Up Hour, Mix 296

What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour — the year’s final ode to 2004, a year when an energetic yell could cost you your political career, and I was in the midst of losing all innocence by learning more bad words and consuming too much media. Byah!

Tracklist:

Nas – Intro
Nas – A Message to the Feds, Sincerely, We the People
Fabolous – Breathe
Eminem & D12 – One Shot 2 Shot
Trick Daddy, Twista, & Lil Jon – Let’s Go
Nas – Thief’s Theme
TI – U Don’t Know Me
Lil Jon & Ice Cube – Real ***** Roll Call
Snoop Dogg & Pharrell – Drop It Like It’s Hot
Ja Rule, Fat Joe, & Jadakiss – New York
Cam’Ron, Syleena Johnson, & Kanye West – Down and Out
The Game, Kanye West, & Ludacris – Whole City Behind Us
Papoose – Mixtape Murder
Guerilla Black & Beenie Man – Compton
Young Buck, Chingy, & Lil Flip – Baller (Remix)
Chingy & CIB – Where Da ‘Git It Gurlz At?
MF DOOM –  *** Cakes
De La Soul – Come On Down
Jean Grae – Style Wars
Heiruspecs – 5ves
Devin the Dude – ***** Keeps Smoking Up My Bud
Ludacris & Bobby Valentino – P***in All Over the World
Trick Daddy, Ludacris, & Lil Kim – Sugar (Gimme Some)
Mos Def – The Panties
Nelly & Tim McGraw – Over and Over
Talib Kweli, Common, & John Legend – Ghetto Show
Eminem – Yellow Brick Road
Xzibit – Back 2 the Way It Was
Green Day – Jesus of Suburbia
K-os – Crabbuckit

See y’all next time!

The Clean Up Hour, Mix 295

What’s up, y’all? Here is tonight’s Clean Up Hour — the final ode, of the year, to 2009. The fall, specifically, when Kanye interrupted Taylor Swift at the VMA’s, setting into course a domino effect that has resulted in the collapse of western civilization as we know it. What can one say?

Tracklist:

Jay-Z & Luke Steele – What We Talkin About
Drake, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, & Eminem – Forever
Clipse, Pharrell, & Cam’Ron – Popular Demand (Popeyes)
Kid Cudi – Soundtrack 2 My Life
Lil B – I’m God
Snoop Dogg & Soulja Boy – Pronto
Mike Posner, Big Sean, & Freddie Gibbs – Bring Me Down
Birdman, Drake, & Lil Wayne – Money To Blow
New Boyz – You’re a Jerk
Lil Wayne, Drake, Jae Millz, Gudda Gudda, & Mack Maine – Every Girl in the World
Usher & Plies – Hey Daddy [Daddy’s Home]
Timbaland & Drake – Say Something
Wale, Gucci Mane, & Weesney of Backyard Band – Pretty Girls
Gucci Mane – Wasted (feat. Plies)
Gucci Mane, Lil Wayne, Jadakiss, & Birdman – Wasted (Remix)
Red Cafe & OJ da Juiceman – Wasted [MopMix]
50 Cent – OK, You’re Right
Eminem & Dr. Dre – H**l Breaks Loose
Tyler, the Creator & Earl Sweatshirt – ***Milk
Joell Ortiz – Taking My Ball
Pill – Afro-Sheen
Lil Wayne – DOA
Fashawn – Lost in New York
Ghostface Killah & Lloyd – Goner
Mac Miller – Travellin Man ’09
Drake – Fear
Raekwon, Inspectah Deck, & Masta Killa – Kiss the Ring
Wiz Khalifa – The Thrill

See y’all next time!

WaSun: EARTH MOTHER – Album Review⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Always by WaSun

The Underground King of Toronto

With previous heavy hitter releases, and re-release of Prison Notebooks, WaSun’s latest, is in his words, his best album: EARTH MOTHER. Getting into the tracks, the overall vibe is of a soft beach and warm sand. I am in love with this album. To the soul of the broken-hearted,  this album hits home.

WaSun wrote a personal album, about his life. The hardship he describes via this album can only be felt by listening to the songs. Tell me which ones you listen to on repeat. currently mine is Always.

Old School Hip Hop and social justice movement is WaSun’s background and life. He is a modern warrior for us all. Support his album, released by TAOT RECORDINGS – Shout-out Righteous – Shout-out: Street Hop & DJ Carmelo. This is the album we all need to nurture our hurt wounds and find the strength to move on. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Album of a lifetime. Epicness surpass WaSun’s new release EARTH MOTHER-find it on streaming platforms. Support this GREAT, CANADIAN! Torontonian, multi heavy-hitter albums – check out Prison Notebooks, Comrade Music, What Must Be Done –