That awkward New Zealandy sense of humour, you don’t know how to respond to. It is like having old DJ Ability in the studio again, when Home Brew Crew popped by. They have been totally killing it in New Zealand topping the charts with their new self titled double album. We talk. They rap. It was good. Catch Home Brew at the Civic Underground in Sydney tonight. Details right hurr!
In addition, Naiki pays tribute to the Beat Conducta with a sweet set of Madlib produced jams and the original samples. The genius behind projects like Madvillian, Jaylib, Yesterday’s New Quintet, Lootpack, Quasimoto, The Medicine Show and more. Catch him Friday at the Metro in Sydney supported by Egon and J Rocc… Deeets yo!
It is debatable whether he is the best to ever do it, but he has definitely been consistent and outlasted many of his peers. He has come a long way from crack cocaine raps to becoming a respectable member of the establishment rubbing shoulders with dignitaries such as Prince Charles and President Obama. In my opinion a key part of his success has been a good ear for hip hop production. With so many hits and so many sweet as soul samples, Naiki’s tribute mashing up Jay-Z classics and the original samples was as killer as predicted.
Playlist
Jay-Z and Marvin Gaye – Hello Brooklyn (ft. Lil Wayne)
Marvin Gaye – Sexual Healing
Rick Ross – Amsterdam
Rick Ross – Amsterdam (Sticky Stockholm Re-Edit)
Donaeo – Move To Da Gyal Dem
Diafrix – Helicopter (Mat Cant Remix)
Turntable Dubbers & Sebski feat Top Cat – I Like Your Style (Warrior One remix)
Sampology – Around the Globe (feat. Serocee)
Mungo’s Hi Fi – Soundboy Police (feat. Soom T)
Super Cat – Dance Inna New York
Nas – The Don
Sky’high – Don Dada
Spit Syndicate – Beauty In The Bricks
DJ NAIKI – JAY-Z vs ORIGINAL SAMPLES MIX
Jay-Z – Can I Live
Jay-Z – Feelin’ It (feat. Mecca)
Ahmad Jamal – Pastures
Lonnie Liston-Smith – A Garden of Peace
Jay-Z – Dead President
The Stylistics – Hurry Up This Way Again
Jay-Z – Politics As Usual
Gladstone Anderson – Mad Mad Ivy
Jay-Z – Already Home (feat. Kid Cudi)
Bobby Bland – Ain’t No Love In The Heart of The City
Jay-Z – Heart Of The City
MFSB – Something For Nothing
Jay-Z – What More Can I Say
Labi Siffre – I Got Blues Street Watching
Jay-Z – Street Is Watching
Wet Willie – Beggar Song
Jay-Z feat. Kid Capri & Liz Leite – It’s Like That
Jay-Z – So Ghetto
Ennio Morricone – Sporco Ma Distinto
Bee Gees – Love You Inside Out
Jay-Z – Honey
Ohio Players – Ecstacy
Jay-Z – Brooklyns Finest (feat. Notorious B.I.G.)
Rick James – Moonchild
Jay-Z – You’re Only A Customer
Johnny Pate – Shaft in Africa
Jay-Z – Show Me What You Got
Justice – D.A.N.C.E. (Live Version)
Jay-Z – On To the Next One (feat. Swizz Beatz)
Jay Z ft Alicia Keys – Empire State of Mind
The Delfonics – Love On A Two Way Street
Tom Brock – There’s Nothing In This World That Can Stop Me From Loving You
Jay-Z – Girls, Girls, Girls
Hossam Ramzy – Khusara, Khusara
Jay-Z feat. UGK – Big Pimpin’
Jackson 5 – I Want You Back
Jay-Z – Izzo
Jay-Z – Anything
2Pac – Me And My Girlfriend
Jay-Z Ft. Beyonce – Bonnie And Clyde
Kendrick Lamar – Compton ft Dr Dre
Blu & Exile – Growing Pains
J Dilla – The $ (Madlib Remix)
Oh No – Move (Feat. Roc C)
Urthboy – Clean Slate ft Delta
Listen: Girls – It’s A Hard Knock Life
Listen: Jay-Z – Hard Knock Life
Listen: Ohio Players – Ecstacy
Listen: Jay-Z – Brooklyn’s Finest ft Notorious B.I.G.
Way back when all Australian’s knew how to do at concerts was mosh and crowd surf inappropriately to everything, I remember seeing Beastie Boys at Sydney’s Hordern Pavillion, just after Hello Nasty was released. It was an amazing show as the group played as a band performing their really diverse catalogue. Amazing.
They are a group that has reinvented themselves again and again over time. Never staying still. They way were the group that helped to expose hip hop to white kids, but through the years also introduced hip hop kids to punk, bossanova, funk, country and much more.
Rest in Peace, Adam Yauch a.k.a. MCA. This our tribute to the Beastie Boys put together by DJ Naiki
Playlist
Beastie Boys – The New Style
Beastie Boys – Rock Hard
The Beastie Boys – Remote Control
Jimi Hendrix – Happy Birthday
The Turtles – I’m Chief Kamanawanalea
Beastie Boys – Jimmy James
Beastie Boys – Sure Shot
Beastie Boys – Get It Together
The Beastie Boys – The Move
Rose Royce – Do Your Dance (Part 1 & Part 2)
Beastie Boys – Shadrach
Sly & The Family Stone – Loose Booty
Beastie Boys – Shadrach
The Commodores – Machine Gun
Beastie Boys – Hey Ladies
Rose Royce – Born To Love You
Beastie Boys – Shake Your Rump
Beastie Boys – Intergalactic
Beastie Boys – Triple Trouble
Beastie Boys – Ch-Check it Out
Beastie Boys – Egg Man
Curtis Mayfield – Little Child Runnin’ Wild
Beastie Boys – Brass Monkey
Beastie Boys – You Gotta Fight For Your Right (To Party)
Southside Movement – I’ve Been Watching You (part 2)
Beastie Boys – So What’Cha Want
Beastie Boys – Root Down
Listen: Beastie Boys – Egg Man
Listen: Curtis Mayfield – Superfly
Listen: Beastie Boys – Jimmy James
Listen: Curtis Knight, Jimi Hendrix and Lonnie – Happy Birthday
I hosted the DOOM show when he was out here not so long ago. We were told we had to clear the stage area when DOOM came, and we couldn’t look him in the eye or talk to him unless he talked to us. It was like he was Prince, but not nearly as famous.
I thought it would be really funny if I came out on stage earlier wearing a mask and pretend to be a DOOMPOSTER. So I went up to Oxford St and bought this feathery sequenced butterfly mask and came out on stage like “Yo this is DOOM, I lost my old mask in customs, this is my new look, son”. Don’t think anybody else found it that amusing.
Anyways, DJ Naiki plays a set of DOOM tracks mixed with the original samples. Listen for all that Madvillain, King Geedorah, Metal Face goodness.
Also we get raunchy with The Tongue. Talking about his new mixtape – Sex Tape.
Playlist:
SonnyJim – God Complex (M-Phazes Remix) [feat. Jehst & Cappo]
Hodgy Beats & Jonti – Nagoya
Foreign Exchange – Nic’s Groove (Nicky Mason’s Electric Bounce Rock Skate Remix)
Kimbra – Settle Down (M-Phazes Remix)
AZ – Never Change (Madlib Remix)
Spit Syndicate – See Me Now (The Xx Remix)
Lee Oskar – San Francisco Bay
Ma$e – All I Ever Wanted
Katalyst – Clapping Song (Featuring Coin Locker Kid & Stephanie McKay)
DOOMSTARKS (MF Doom & Ghostface Killah) – Victory Laps (Madvillainz Remix) DJ Naiki ‘DOOM vs Original Samples’ Mix
Madvillian – Bistro
Atlantic Starr – Second To None
Madvillian – Curls
Waldir Calmon – Airport Love Theme
Mashmakhan – Happy You Should Be
MF DOOM – Vomitspit
The Temptations – Sing A Simple Song (ft Diana Ross & The Supremes)
Madvillain & Wildchild – Hardcore Hustle
Foster Sylvers – More Love
Coke Escovedo – Hangin’ on
MF Doom And MF Grimm & Kurious – Shifting Lanes
Sade – Kiss of Life
MF DOOM – Doomsday
Ronnie Laws – Friends And Strangers
MF DOOM – Deep Fried Frenz
SOS Band – The Finest
MF DOOM – The Finest (Featuring Tommy Gunn)
Matthew Larkin Cassel – Heaven
Madvillain – 19.3.214
The Deele – Shoot ’em Up Movies (RED AND GOLD)
MF Doom – Red and Gold (Featuring King Ghidra)
Roy Ayres – Vibrations
MF DOOM – Bergamot Wild End of DJ Naiki ‘DOOM vs Original Samples’ Mix
Dojo Cuts ft Roxie Ray – Ain’t So Low
Above the Law – Game Recognise Game ft Eazy-E Interview with The Tongue
The Tongue – Two Girlfriends More Interview with The Tongue and Freestyle
The Tongue – Sucker For Love
Nas – Nasty
Action Bronson – 20 Tapas
Mantra – Dead Em’ Ft. Illy, Jeremedy, Muph, Urthboy, Solo
We couldn’t really go wrong with this one. Just Blaze the Megatron Don has got bangers for days. DJ Naiki pays tribute to Justin with another extended sample snitching mix. Hear Naiki mashing up tracks Just Blaze produced with the tracks he sampled. Just BLaazzzeeee!
It’s that time again. Melbourne’s Phrase usually pays us a visit just before he is ready drop a new album. We talk about the new record, Babylon, drunken tales in Tasmania and his marriage to the very talented and really quite fetching Jade Macrae.
Playlist:
SBTRKT – Wildfire (Remix) (Feat. Drake)
Jay-Z & Kanye West – Niggas In Paris
Mstrkrkft – Heartbreaker (12th Planet Remix)
Chris Brown Ft. Busta Rhymes & Lil Wayne – Look At Me Now (RL Grime Remix)
J. Cole – Can’t Get Enough
El-P – Drones Over BKLYN
Otis Redding – Try A Little Tenderness
Kanye West & Jay-Z ft Otis Redding – Otis
Ellesquire – Ferociousness (Featuring Tenth Dan)
Daniel Merriweather – Change (Feat. Wale) (MadLAb Remix)
Skyzoo – Return Of The Real
Stark Reality – Dreams Comrades
Baltik – No Registration Please
Fat Joe – I Am Crack
Isaac Hayes – Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic
The Game – Remedy
Rhymefest – Dynomite (Going Postal)
Whatnauts – We Will Always Be Together
Dionne Warwick – You’re Gonna Need Me
Usher – Throwback
Creative Source – I Just Can’t See Myself Without You
Freeway Ft Jay-Z & Beanie Sigel – What We Do
Maze Feat. Frankie Beverly – Before I Let Go (Original LP Version)
Eve & Jadakiss – Let Go (Hit the Dance Floor)
Joe Budden – Pump It Up
Kool & The Gang – Soul Vibrations
Asha Bhosle, Manna Dey, Meena Kapoor & Mohd. Rafi – Chandi Ka Badan
Erick Sermon feat. Redman – React
Johnny Pate – Shaft In Africa
Jay-Z – Show Me What You Got
Kanye West – Touch The Sky (feat. Lupe Fiasco)
Curtis Mayfield – Move on up
I Marc 4 – Distorsion-Mind
Fat Joe – Safe 2 Say
Rose Royce – I’m Going Down
Cam’ron ft Juelz Santana – Oh Boy
Jay-Z – Girls, Girls, Girls
Tom Brock – There’s Nothing In This World That Can Stop Me From Loving You
Weldon Irvine – Morning Sunrise
Lamont Dozier – Let Me Make Love To You
Saigon ft Faith Evans – Clap
The Herd – Signs of Life
Jean Grae – Jeanie Rules
Phrase – Phoenix
Phrase – Velvet Rope
Durrty Goodz – Gunshot
Music from Lanie Lane, Raphael Saadiq, Frootful, Estelle and more. However, the centre piece of tonights show is our tribute to the late great Miss Amy Winehouse. She was a troubled girl, but there has always been something I have admired about her rugged charm, brash sense of humour and honesty, which comes out with such feeling in her music.
Famed producer, Salaam Remi – who worked with Amy Winehouse on Frank, Back To Black and her unfinished comeback album – had this to say about Amy’s personality when recently talking to New York’s Power 105.1 FM.
“Amy had strong opinions on everything. …. She was very opinionated about what she liked. At the end, she was a real person,” he said. “She had a huge heart. We’d be working for hours and she would have everybody in the room snickering. She always had a joke. You could hear a lot of that in her lyrics, she could be sarcastic and she was extremely witty … but more than anything else she was a real person, an individual artist.”
“To put it all in a nutshell, Amy loved to sing, to write … that ability never left her,” he said. “She was very good at channeling her emotions into lyrics, and then being able to sing them. She was in a place to go forward and make it happen. … The way that Amy and I always created was, she would write and we would toss ideas around.”
Rest In Peace Amy!
Playlist:
Cassidy – Drink and My 2 Step (Cousin Cole REMIX)
Aldo Vanucci – Naive ft Amy J
Jay-Z feat. The Dap Kings – 99 Problems (Prince of Ballard Remix)
Dennis Coffey – All Your Goodies Are Gone feat. Mayer Hawthorne
Kanye West & Jay-Z ft Otis Redding – Otis
Lanie Lane – What Do I Do
Ballin’ Jack – Found A Child
Young MC – Bust a Move
Frootful – Fish In The Sea (feat Angeline Morrison)
Cookin’ Soul x Chuuwee – Just Ain´t Gonna Work Out feat. Mayer Hawthorne
Amy Winehouse – Me & Mr Jones
The Specials – Hey, Little Rich Girl
Amy Winehouse – Hey Little Rich Girl
Amy Winehouse ft Pharoahe Monch – Rehab (Remix)
The Zutons – Valerie
Mark Ronson Feat. Amy Winehouse – Valerie ft Rukus Precha, Alex Blood and Malik (Baby J Remix )
Andy & Joey – You’re Wondering Now (Mix out at around 1:00)
Amy Winehouse – You’re Wondering Now
Amy Winehouse – Tears Dry
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
The Shirelles – Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
Amy Winehouse – Know You Now
Funky DL ft Amy Winehouse – Handed To You Free
Amy Winehouse – Fuck Me Pumps
Ghosface Killah & Amy Winehouse – You Know I’m No Good
Nas Made You Look (acapella)
Amy Winehouse – In My Bed
Amy Winehouse – He Can Only Hold Her
The Icemen – My Girls She’s a Fox
Billie Holiday – There Is No Greater Love
Amy Winehouse – (There Is) No Greater Love
Common – Ghetto Dreams ft NAS
Major Lazer ft Santigold & Mr Lexx – Hold the Line (yum yum Warning Rmx)
YT & Mr Williamz – Smiley Culture Tribute
Estelle – Come Over
Warren G & Nate Dogg – Regulaterock (Jstar Remix)
Beastie Boys – Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win (feat. Santigold) (Major Lazer Remix)
Frank Ocean – Novacane
Janelle Monáe – Tightrope (Wondamix) (feat. B.o.B & Lupe Fiasco)
J. Cole – Ladies ft. Lee Fields and the Expressions
Clipse ft Lee Fields – Mr. Me Too (Z.A.K. Remix)
Lee Fields – Honey Dove
Raphael Saadiq – Movin’ Down The Line
Rappers. They love a verse, but so many of them get a little confused when that chorus bit comes along. When a few cuts aren’t going to do and you need a hit hook for your little rap song, then you would crack open the piggy bank, ask your mum for an advance on your pocket money, search through your couch for an extra G and give Nate Dogg a call.
We pay tribute to the G-Funk Crooner with a set of Nate Dogg Hits and the original samples – Mixed together by DJ Naiki.
We are also joined in the studio by Tuka, Nick Knowledge and Nick Lupi of Spit Syndicate for a freestyle rap session.
Playlist:
Mista Grimm – Indo Smoke ft Warren G & Nate Dogg
Xzibit ft Nate Dogg – Multply
E-40 -Where The Party At
2 Pac – All Eyez On Me (Feat. Big Syke)
Warren G ft Jah Skillz –Â Super Soul Sis
Jean Grae – Rocket In Pocket
Sade –Â Kiss Of Life
MF DOOM – Doomsday
Madvillain – Fancy Clown
Bingethinkers – AUS Stylin
Snoop Dogg – Ain’t No Fun ft Warren G, Kurupt and Nate Dogg
Toto – Waiting For Love
Shade Shiest ft Kurupt and Nate Dogg – Where I Wanna Be
Michael McDonald – I Keep Forgettin’ (Every Time You’re Near)
Warren G ft Nate Dogg – Regulate
Dr Dre – Next Episode ft Snoop Dogg, Kurupt and Nate Dogg
Dazz Band – You Are My Starship
213 – Groupie Love
Lionel Richie – Love Will Find A Way
Tha Dogg Pound – I Don’t Like To Dream About Getting Paid
2Pac – All About You ft Snoop Dogg, Kurupt and Nate Dogg
Cameo – Candy
Chico & Coolwada – You Make My High Come Down (ft Nate Dogg)
Evelyn ‘Champagne’ King – Love Come Down
Emotions – Rejoice
213 – Gotta Find A Way
Boney M – Sunny
Mark Ronson – Ohh Wee ft Ghostface Killah, Trife & Nate Dogg
The Controllers – If Tomorrow Never Comes
Snoop Dogg – Boss’s Life (Nate Dogg Remix)
50 Cent ft Nate Dogg – 21 Questions
Barry White – It’s ONly Love Doing It’s Thing
Donny Hathaway – I Believe To My Soul
Nate Dogg – I Got Love
Maze – While I’m Alone
Snoop Doggy Dogg & Nate Dogg – G Funk
Snoop Dogg ft Nate Dogg – Crazy
James Pants – We’re Together
Pharaoh Monche – Clap
Nick Knowledge – Bondi Summer
Tuka – Illtronic
Stone Throw rapper and producer Oh No pops in for a chat. DJ Naiki pays tribute to J Dilla with a set of tracks he produced and the original samples. Plus we kick it off with a set of summer jams.
Playlist
Dj Quik – Summer Breeze
Ice Cube –Â You Know How We Do It
Dove Shack –Â Summer Time In Da L.B.C
Koolism – The Season
Paper Plan Project –Â Sunshine ft.Noelle Scaggs & Raashan Ahmad
Jay-Z and Marvin Gaye – Hello Brooklyn (Mike Boogie Remix)
Kool & The Gang – Summer Madness
D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince –Â Summertime
Roy Ayers – Everybody Loves the Sunshine
Lootpack – Return of the B-Boy
OH NO INTERVIEW: PART 1
Gangrene – Take Drugs
OH NO INTERVIEW: PART 2
Oh No ft MED – Keep It Lit
Jaylib – The Mission (Stringed Out Remix)
DJ NAIKI MIX
Lawless Element Feat. J-Dilla aka Jay Dee – Love
Towa Tei – Technova
A Tribe Called Quest  – Find A Way
Stan Getz – Suede Ven
Pharcyde – Runnin’
Dorothy Ashby – Canto De Ossanha
Que.D – Supa Shit (feat. Jay Dee)
Slum Village – Fall in Love
Gap Mangione – Diana in the Autumn Wind
Bobby Caldwell – Open Your Eyes
Common – The Light
The Impressions –Â We Must Be In Love
J Dilla feat. Pharoahe Monch – Love
The Love Unlimited Orchestra  – I Wanna Stay
Q-Tip – Vivrant Thing
Jackson 5 – Dancing Machine
Q-Tip – Move
Jackson 5 – All I Do Is Think Of You
The Roots – Can’t Stop This
The Stylistics – Maybe it’s Love This Time
J Dilla ft. Madlib & Guilty Simpson – Baby
Cris Williamson – Shine On Straight Arrow
Jaylib – The Red
Fabulous Souls – Take Me
Erykah Badu – Love
Lee Monro – The Return
Ghostface Killah –Â In Tha Park (feat. Black Thought)
Von Pea – We Should Be Rocking
MED – Where I’m From feat. Aloe Blacc
Talib Kweli – Uh Oh (feat. Jean Grae)
Possibly one of the first white rappers, and definitely the only white soul artist of the 80’s that had consistent, credible hits on the R&B charts, Teena Marie died on Sunday at the age of 54. To pay our tribute, we thought we would post some Teena Marie classics and some of the hip hop songs she inspired. Oh and check out her rap verse on Square Biz. Fyyyyaaahhhh!
It’s like when Mickey Rooney puts on the buckteeth and angry eyebrows for Breakfast at Tiffany’s or when they dress up a bunch of Pueto Rican’s in feathers for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade in New York, Timbaland thinks that he can enlist Bhangra vocalist Raje Shwari and we wouldn’t notice that the flute that he is singing about is not actually Indian, but in fact Colombian. Racist.
Janini Panini
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