Sunday 21 February 2016

An AZ deep cuts playlist 4 u

In much the same vein as last month's Grand Puba deep cuts playlist, here's a chronological journey through the nooks and crannies of AZ's catalogue that's ended up deeper than the Great Barrier Reef. Starting in 1995 with the O.G version of Your World Don't Stop and ending in 2013 with his last good single We Movin', I went against ya whole solar system and gathered up cuts from pretty much everywhere except the 8 official AZ albums. If Biggie had "more rides than Great Adventure" then Anthony "The Visualiza" Cruz must have more raps than Great Adventures and Adventures Of Super Rhyme combined innit.


Nearly 20 years on from 1997 and we still haven't got an unedited version of the Firm Biz (World's Famous Remix). Nas stans - where ya arses at when your help is required in somehow liberatin' that shit?

EDIT: DJ Step One found it! Added it to the playlist in place of the edited version.
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33 comments:

  1. Unknown21 February 2016 at 12:44

    Just Ice comp last week and AZ deep cuts to start this week life is good. Is there anyway to get a download link for this?

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  2. Kelvin Mack10zie21 February 2016 at 12:55

    Will set it to download on tuesday.

    Tryna maximise plays and get AZ up the Audiomack rankings right now.

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  3. Unknown21 February 2016 at 13:47

    Cool thanks

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  4. step one21 February 2016 at 19:37

    good work as always. I maintain that Red Magic is excellent though.

    as for the Firm Biz remix, it exists on a promo 12" but not one that seems to have made its way to the UK. I have the instrumental and dirty acapella so should probably just make DIY version (think I mentioned this ages ago and then never followed through as I was hoping a rip of the 12" would appear)

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  5. Kelvin Mack10zie21 February 2016 at 20:20

    Oh yeah I remember you saying about that now. Reckon it's time for you to give it a go, imo.

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  6. Anonymous21 February 2016 at 22:42

    Great list. Would love to see your selects for a comp of best album tracks, too.

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  7. REDLite22 February 2016 at 03:28

    This is great thank you

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  8. Kelvin Mack10zie22 February 2016 at 09:44

    Will return with a list of album tracks when I get time later.

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  9. Frank G22 February 2016 at 11:22

    Need that download!!

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  10. Kelvin Mack10zie22 February 2016 at 12:50

    Right, my AZ best album tracks playlist would probably look like this:

    Sugar Hill
    Rather Unique
    Gimme Yours
    Mo Money, Mo Murder "Homicide"
    Doe Or Die
    The Payback
    How Ya Livin'
    What's The Deal?
    SOSA
    I Don't Give A Fuck
    Problems
    Wanna Be There
    The Essence
    Fan Mail
    Never Change
    AZ's Chillin'
    The Come Up
    City Of Gods
    A.W.O.L
    I Am The Truth
    Sit 'Em Back Slow
    Animal
    The Format
    Game Of Life
    The Game Don't Stop
    The Hardest Part 2
    Dead End
    Feel My Pain
    The Calm

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    1. Anonymous24 February 2016 at 02:41

      Thanks for coming through on this, much appreciated.

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  11. L.A22 February 2016 at 13:52

    Great work here

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  12. Anonymous22 February 2016 at 17:31

    Need "ho happy jackie" in that album cuts list.

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  13. Dirt22 February 2016 at 18:48

    +2 for a download

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  14. fresh out of bloomies with the louis luggage22 February 2016 at 23:25

    nice one

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  15. Fred23 February 2016 at 14:57

    Good stuff, one of my favorites non-album cut with AZ on is this one though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg1vtBz0Zls

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  16. Kelvin Mack10zie23 February 2016 at 15:41

    Love Half-A-Mill's verse on that.

    "In the hovercraft, poppin' bubbly in the bubblebath
    Bitches blowin' suds up they ass
    Thugs and cash, Quiet Money - run for ya gats"

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  17. Kelvin Mack10zie25 February 2016 at 21:22

    Set this to download now.

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  18. Anonymous26 February 2016 at 10:44

    cheers my man!

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  19. xanax fantasia1 March 2016 at 22:02

    Hey for some reason whenever I download the comp from audiomack (i've tried a few times) it doesn't include "omega"

    otherwise great list!

    thanks so much

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  20. Kelvin Mack10zie1 March 2016 at 23:02

    I switched that for the CDQ version after I originally uploaded the playlist so that's probably why. Set it to let you download individual songs now you hopefully you can grab it like that?

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  21. xanax fantasia1 March 2016 at 23:35

    worked perfectly!!!!!!!!
    thank you!!!!!

    i felt a little ridiculous asking for another AZ deep cut when you had just given me 29 others but i really appreciate it lol

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  22. Kelvin Mack10zie2 March 2016 at 09:40

    No probs. Omega is a fave of mine, that's why I had to delete the o.g MP3 which cut out before the end and upload the CDQ version after I realised my mistake.

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  23. xanax fantasia2 March 2016 at 10:24

    yeah i am especially digging that one now. also the way they s-s-s-slow it down at the end of "fro the streets" melts my heart of ice.

    p.s. a lot of your old compilations seem 2 be down right now, any chance you could re-up that DB tha general one?

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  24. Kelvin Mack10zie2 March 2016 at 10:39

    I'll do it when I get home later. Check the DB post later this afternoon.

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  25. xanax fantasia3 March 2016 at 00:14

    yuuuuuussssss you have delivered once again.

    thank you so much.


    db tha general's music seems particularly hard to pirate

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  26. Christopher L. Johnson6 April 2017 at 18:37

    Man, I need this mix in my life. I have some of these tracks but there's plenty I don't, and AZ has been one of my favorite rappers ever since I heard him on Illmatic. Is this still available for download somewhere?

    Props and stunts.

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  27. Kelvin Mack10zie6 April 2017 at 19:09

    Set to dl.

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  28. Christopher L. Johnson6 April 2017 at 21:01

    Listen, man... I have two young boys that I love to death, but you are my favorite human being on planet earth right now. I have shitloads of music if you need anything in return. Rare Bay Area rap is probably my specialty, but I have thousands of albums that I own. You just say the word.

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  29. Jmil8435 December 2017 at 02:45

    love your work man. is there any way i can download this. i have an Audiomack account. I might need a step by step.

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  30. Jmil8435 December 2017 at 02:46

    I love your work. Is there anyway to download this. I have an Audiomack account but cant seem to DL it.

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  31. Kelvin Mack10zie5 December 2017 at 18:36

    Hmmm. It's set to download but I can't see where the download icon is now Audiomack have changed their design again.

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  32. Kelvin Mack10zie5 December 2017 at 18:37

    Nevermind, found it.

    Should work now.

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