Damn, so Skillz has never purchased or heard an entire Outkast album? Crazy! Anyways, dopeboyz/girlz… what are your confessions?

Shit… so do I!! Anyways, in the clip above Ash talks about his love for hip hop, how Jay-Z’s Hard Knock Life introduced him to it and more. I really respect the honesty he portrays. There’s far too many people out there that fake the funk when it comes to their knowledge of hip hop or when they actually got into it. I know folks that go an say Atmosphere’s best record is Overcast! when everyone knows its not. But the elitest in them wants to say “oh I been fuckin with them forever, etc” Or the types that are scared to admit their first introduction to hip hop was a Three 6 Mafia record. Who the fuck cares? Not everyone was around when the BDKs and Rakims were rocking the stages on the daily. Shit, I wasn’t. But I (like Asher) went back and learned about the artform and I respect it for what it is. Boom.

Tonight I got an email about someone inquiring about help with a list of songs about the love of hip hop. A project they were putting together for school. It reminded me of a few years back… in 2005 I used to surf around the internets, checking out certain forums and what not. Putting together little compilations for the people around the way. This particular mix was perfect for the dopeboy who sent the email; and I figured since it’s already uploaded I’d share with ya’ll as well.

There’s no exclusives or anything. Just a collection of tracks I put together a few years back that represented an artists love for hip hop. Pretty good mix of artists if I don’t say so my self. From Atmosphere to The Roots, Zion I to Aceyalone, Cee-Lo to The Thrday, Common, LL Cool J and more.

Tracklist & Download link after the jump..

DOWNLOAD: VA – I Love Hip Hop (The Mixtape)

Ohh… the designs of 4 years ago haha.

It’s here folks! Shout out to Mick Boogie for putting together this incredible mixtape (for free). You can should also purchase a special edition where all proceeds will be donated to the J. Dilla Foundation. Also be sure to check out the exclusive interview with Busta Rhymes & Mick Boogie by my man Jake Paine over at HipHopDX. Interesting read for sure. UPDATE: I figured today would be as good a day as any to re-up and bring this dope mixtape back to the top.

Tracklist + Download link after the jump…

01 Words From Ma Dukes
02 Dillagence (prod. DJ Spinna)
03 Takin What’s Mine
04 Step Up
05 The Conversation f. Talib Kweli
06 Code of the Streets f. MOP
07 Lightworks f. Q-Tip & Talib Kweli
08 Baggage Handlers f. Raekwon
09 How We Roll
10 Best That Ever Did It f. Rah Digga
11 Psycho f. Cassidy & Papoose
12 The Range f. Rah Digga
13 Not Right Now
14 Other Side Of The Road
15 Who Tryin To Kill You
16 High
17 Dillagence Outro

DOWNLOAD: Mick Boogie Presents… Dillagence (Busta Rhymes + J Dilla)

Dope. Is one word to describe this song/video. Off N.A.S.A.’s upcoming album, The Spirit of the Apollo, dropping February 17th.

PREVIOUS: N.A.S.A. – Whachadoin f. M.I.A., Santogold, Spank Rock & Nick Zinner | N.A.S.A. – Gifted f. Kanye West, Santogold & Lykke Li

As a small cup, my life was pretty much consumed by LEGO. I had chests full of that shit and would build some of the craziest things with aspirations to become an architect. It’s safe to say that dream didn’t pan out but I’m happy with what I’m doing. Format Mag put together a dope little project in which they recreated 20 classic (I’ll leave that up for debate) hip hop albums using LEGO. Check them out!

Just a friendly reminder that the Yo!Raps Awards are still going down (20 days left). So be sure to VOTE for your favorite dopeboyz on the internets!

Some new *insert cop-related quip here* Ross, courtesy of X. Anybody catch that debate? Interesting…

DOWNLOAD: Rick Ross – Jockin Jay-Z (Remix)

Some more footage of the Common/N.E.R.D show last Sunday, courtesy of woodini69. Here Lonnie performs another cut off his upcoming album.

It’s been a cool ass minute since I last seen City Haze, but he drops a video for his “Brooklyn Streets” cut. *contemplates bringing back Mek Dot’s Jukebox*