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At the heels of his unbelievably popular The Notorious xx mash-up album, DJ Wait What has released This Is Real Life, a project that brings the hip hop kids and hipsters together — a popular notion these days. With pairings like Diddy vs Sleigh Bells, Mase vs LCD Soundsystem, and Nas vs MGMT, you are going to want to check out the well-crafted This Is Real Life. You can listen to the album in its entirety on the SoundCloud player below:

You can download the entire mash-up album for free, if you want, but if you dish out some coin for a download, you will be helping a youth charity promoting writing. #guilt. Make your choice…at BandCamp.

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LISTEN/DOWNLOAD: Trey Songz f/ Drake – “The Usual”

I’ll let you in on a little secret — when it comes to R&B, all I really look for is sex. You know, the type of sleaze that made R. Kelly so iconic in the early and mid 90s. Contemporary artists like The-Dream and Drake understand this and bring the right balance of cocky swagger and sexytime to the track. I’ll be completely honest here and just say that my familiarity with Trey Songz’ work peaks somewhere around his high-profile, high-swagger collaboration with Drake; “Successful” from Drizzy’s So Far Gone mixtape. On “The Usual”, Trey Songz is reunited with Drake to make up what is shaping up to some sort of R&B dream team making dream sex jams, just how I like. Hear/download the song over here.

LISTEN/DOWNLOAD: Wait What (of The Notorious xx Fame) – This Is Real Life

At the heels of his unbelievably popular The Notorious xx mash-up album, DJ Wait What has released This Is Real Life, a project that brings the hip hop kids and hipsters together — a popular notion these days. With pairings like Diddy vs Sleigh Bells, Mase vs LCD Soundsystem, and Nas vs MGMT, you are going to want to check out the well-crafted This Is Real Life. (Continue Reading)

DOWNLOAD: Free Radiohead Live DVD

On August 23, 2009, Radiohead played in front of a massive crowd in Prague. The band handed out video cameras to a number of fans who were to shoot the concert from different angles. Footage from several dozen cameras were then edited and clipped together, with a high quality audio recording of the concert, to create this live DVD — and, true to form, Radiohead are giving the entire thing away. (Continue Reading)

RECOMMENDED MP3: T.I. – “Pledge Allegiance To The Swag” f/ Rick Ross

While this is not the first new piece of T.I. music that’s hit the web (or iTunes) in the last few months, I can now say that the King is back and actually mean it. Despite a poorly chosen song title, “Pledge Allegiance To The Swag” is near-eights minutes of raw hip hop prowess from both T.I. and the Teflon Don himself, Rick Ross. Production is spot on, courtesy of the constantly delivering J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League. (Continue Reading)

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This seems almost like an inevitable production, right? After last year’s Quix and Elliot "Biggie vs Tupac vs The xx" discovery, I suppose it was only a matter of time before some soul went and ingested the licks of the greatest rapper ever while simultaneously eating up The xx’s entire debut album, only to pour out a full mashup album of the pair. Oh hello, Wait What, let’s see what you have in store. 

San Francisco producer, Wait What, pumps out a minimialistic mash session between The xx‘s entire self-titled debut album with a handful of the best of Biggie tracks. While it’s no "omg whoa!" product like The Grey Album, the set, in it’s entirety, is a smooth listening trek that soothes and spins like some sort of eccentric ingenuity.   

Many kids got psyched for the Biggie vs Miley mash of ’09, but if you’re looking for something tamer, and in this beastly opinion, much easier to digest, I suggest giving any of these tracks a go. The Notorious xx is available as a full free album download here.

Stream it right underneath this sentence…or grab two of our favorite cuts from this mashed mix below.

mp3: Wait What – Dead Wrong Intro (Notorious B.I.G. vs The xx)

mp3: Wait What – Juicy-R (Notorious B.I.G. vs The xx)