Playlist: 10/29/09 - Halloween Theme

Date: 10/29/09
Note(s): In preparation for the Halloween weekend, we decided to pick songs that somehow displayed a scary or spooky element.

01. The Pharcyde - 4 Better or 4 Worse
02. Boogie Monsters - Old Man Jakob's Well
03. Immortal Tecknique - Dance With the Devil
04. Notorious B.I.G. - Suicidal Thoughts
05. Gravediggaz - 1-800-SUICIDE
06. DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Nightmare on My Street
07. Method Man - Mr. Sandman Feat. Carlton Fisk, Inpectah Deck, RZA & Blue Raspberry
08. Ol' Dirty Bastard - Drunk Game
09. Funkadelic - You Scared The Lovin' Out of Me
10. Bootsy Collins - Countrackula
11. Parliament - Dr. Funkenstein
12. Bootsy Collins - Bootzilla
13. Geto Boyz - My Mind's Playing Tricks on Me
14. Ras Kass - Interview With a Vampire
15. Gravediggaz - Diary of a Mad Man
16. Tricky - 2nite Is a Special Nite Feat. Gravediggaz
17. Michael Jackson - Thriller

Playlist: 10/22/09 - Family Trees, Vol. 1: Native Tongues

Date: 10-22-09
Note(s): Volume 1 in a series designed to explore family/crew associations in music. This week's featured family was non-other than the legendary Native Tongues Collective.

Originally founded by Jungle Brothers, De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest in the late 1980's; the crew grew to a large number of associate, extended and peripheral members including Black Sheep, Chi-Ali, Fu-Schnickens, Monie Love, Queen Latifah, Leaders of the New School, Common, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Da Bush Babees, Truth Enola, & Slum Village.

The songs selected for this show were those that included at least two of the different members/crews from Native Tongues.

01. Jungle Brothers - Black is Black Feat. Q-Tip
02. De La Soul - Buddy Feat. Jungle Brothers & A Tribe Called Quest
03. De La Soul - Description Feat. Q-Tip & Prince Paul
04. Jungle Brothers - Doin' Our Own Dang Feat. Q-Tip & De La Soul
05. A Tribe Called Quest - Scenario Feat. Leaders of the New School
06. Black Sheep - Intro
07. Black Sheep - La Menage Feat. Q-Tip
08. De La Soul -  A Roller Skating Jam Called Saturdays Feat. Q-Tip
09. De La Soul - Fanatic of the B-Word Feat. Mike Gee & Dres
10. Chi-Ali - Let The Horns Blow Feat. Dres, Trugoy, Fashion & Phife
11. Fu-Schnickens - La Schmoove Feat. Phife
12. A Tribe Called Quest - 1, 2, Shit Feat. Busta Rhymes
13. De La Soul - Sh.Fe.MC's Feat. A Tribe Called Quest
14. Busta Rhymes - Ill Vibe Feat. Q-Tip
15. Da Bush Babees - 3 MC's Feat. Q-Tip
16. Da Bush Babees - The Love Song (Remix) Feat. De La Soul & Mos Def
17. De La Soul - Stakes Is High (Remix) Feat. Truth Enola & Mos Def
18. Jungle Brothers - How You Want it We Got it - Feat. De La Soul & Q-Tip

Playlist: 10/15/09 - Creative Writing, Vol. 1

Date: 10-15-09
Note(s): Volume 1 in a series designed to explore concepts in Creative Writing at The Barbershop. Songs selected were those that displayed elements of Narrative, Metaphor, Personification, and Time & Meter.

Narrative - A story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.

Metaphor - A figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in "She's a brick house."

Personification - The representation of a thing or abstraction in the form of a person, as in "Rhythm is a dancer."

01. Slick Rick - Children's Story
02. Special Ed - The Mission
03. There'z A Partee Goinz On - Kwame & A New Beginning
04. Jeru The Damaja - You Can't Stop The Prophet
05. Jeru The Damaja - Revenge Of The Prophet
06. Public Enemy - Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos
07. J-Live - Them That's Not
08. Organized Konfusion - Invetro
09. NaS - Fetus
10. NaS - I Gave You Power
11. Organized Konfusion - Stray Bullet
12. Hue of Intuition - Her
13. Common - I Used To Love H.E.R.
14. D'Angelo - Shit, Damn, Motherf*cker
15. The Pharcyde - Otha Fish
16. Abstract Rude & ATU - Slow Light
17. NaS - Rewind

Playlist: 10/08/09 - ThaiMex Hosting Solo

Date: 10/08/09
Note(s): Wide-ranging mix. Santanna in chatroom but not present. ThaiMex flying solo.

01. The Pharcyde - Bullshit
02. A Tribe Called Quest - The Chase, Part 2
03. Aceyalone - The Guidelines
04. Curtis Mayfield - Kung Fu
05. Erykah Badu - Think Twice Feat. Roy Hargrove
06. D'Angelo - Chicken Grease
07. Cody Chestnutt - The Seed
08. Bilal - For You
09. Common - Heat
10. The Pharcyde - Why? (Remix)
11. D-Nice - My Name is D-Nice
12. EPMD - Crossover
13. EPMD - The Headbanger Feat. K-Solo & Redman
14. Poor Righteous Teachers - Easy Star
15. Anthony David - Smoke One
16. Eric Roberson - Couldn't Hear Me
17. Angie Stone - The Ingredients of Love
18. Dwele - Free As A Bird
19. Amel Larreiux - INI
20. Anthony Hamilton - Comin' From Where I'm From
21. Erykah Badu - Back In The Day Feat. Lenny Kravitz
22. Lenny Kravitz - If You Can't Say No
23. Prince - The Ballad of Dorothy Parker
24. Terence Trent D'Arby - Delicate
25. Wu-Tang Clan - Rainy Days (Remix)
26. The Pharcyde - Runnin' (Remix)

Playlist: 10/01/09

Date: 10/01/09
Note(s): More Soulful this time. Special Guest, Tantrum from Metal Sock Hop

01. Erykah Badu - Love of My Life Feat. Common
02. D'Angelo - Lady Feat. AZ
03. Bilal - Reminisce Feat. Common & Mos Def
04. Dwele - Keep On Feat. Slum Village
05. Mya - Fallen' Feat. The Pharcyde
06. Mary J. Blige - I Love You (Remix) Feat. Smif 'n' Wessun
07. Twisted Mind Kids - I Feel You
08. Lenny Kravitz - What Goes Around Comes Around
09. Groove Armada - The Sun Toucher Feat. Jeru The Damaja
10. DJ Mark Ronson - Tomorrow Feat. Q-Tip & Debi Nova
11. The Herbaliser - New+Improved Feat. What What
12. Natural Resource - Negro League Baseball
13. Bahamadia - One-4-Teen (Funky For You) Feat. Slum Village
14. J-Dilla - Crushin'
15. Illa J - We Here
16. The Pharcyde - Hey You
17. k-os - Emcee Murdah
18. Promoe - Dawn
19. Janet Jackson - Til It's Gone Feat. Q-Tip
20. Raphael Saadiq - Get Involved Feat. Q-Tip