I’m almost ashamed to say I used to hate on Dilated Peoples for no real reason in my younger days…smh. I stumbled upon The Layover in the spring and immediately loved it. From the title track I was enthralled with Evidence’s slow flow and the production, i’m pretty much a sucker for beats with dope cuts and scratches. Why do I always feel the need to call all cuts and scratches dope? ***shrugs*** Who knows.
Download: Cold Weather (Cats & Dogs)
So there is no surprise my 3 favorite tracks on the album are The Layover, So Fresh – Step Brother, and my favorite track on the album Cold Weather (Cats & Dogs). I guess it should be no surprise that some of my favorite producers implore those same elements in their production DJ Premier, Statik Selektah, Marco Polo, DJ Revolution, Scram Jones, etc. I spent the next couple weeks/months after listening to the album digging through the rest of The Dilated People’s collection. Which reminds me I still need to listen to Rakaa’s Crown of Thorns that recently dropped. It’s safe to say i’m eagerly looking forward to Evidence’s new album Cats & Dogs. However, for whatever reason after listening to The Layover god knows how many times and almost every Dilated People’s album I never listened to The Layover Mixtape until the video for To Be Continued dropped a couple weeks backs. Which was my first formal introduction to Sid Roams who I’ve also grown a fan of these days. So as I started getting that post ready which can finally be found here, I finally listened to the mixtape…and it was good. Those 2 tracks with like 40 muthafuckas on them are fucking serious too. I’m going to need Evidence and Alchemist to do that whole album together too…and soon…throw some Sid Roams produced in that bitch too. Hopefully, the new album is coming soon as I really liked I Don’t Need Love a lot.
Download: The Layover Mixtape
Download: I Don’t Need Love (FreEP)
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- Evidence – I Don’t Need Love (FreEP)
- Official Street Radio Spotlight: Fashawn, Boy Meets World (Mixtapes)
- Young De – Audio Histlaz Vol. 1 x Homeland Security (Mixtapes) x Can’t Move Me x Figure It Out (Videos)
- Evidence – To Be Continued…(Video)
- The Game x DJ Skee – Brake Lights x The Red Room (Mixtapes)
