A two-for-one special.

Sky ends his (dope) series with two of my favorite joints…

At #30 in the series, this is the swan song posting. The final archive to go out. In a 2 for 1 special, this is “Get It Done” & “Click”-2007, both featuring Torae & produced by Dj Premier. I felt like the importance of these 2 songs and what they’ve done for my career was more than a good enough reason to end the series with them. As most of you can imagine, these 2 songs were a dream come true to create, something i’m extremely proud of. So here’s the story of how the 2 songs came about.

Growing up in the 80′s and 90′s, Dj Premier to me was the end all be all of production. So when I was presented with the opportunity to record with him (along with my man Torae), I jumped at the chance to get a classic Preem beat & “scracth hook” that he’s so infamous for. The plan was originally to do one record and push it to the mixtapes and internet. Tor and I showed up to Headcourterz Studio on pens and needles. Regardless of the talent that he and I have, recording with Preem for the first time means you gotta come with your A game, bottom line.

We got there and Preem was making a beat for us to rock, and we watched “Little Man” on dvd in the lounge area while Preem was in the back working on the track (Preem makes everything on the spot). When Preem called us into the room to hear what he made, we loved it, but Preem didnt. He liked the beat but wasn’t sure if it was what he wanted for us. He wanted a more 90′s esque banger. He started working on another beat, called us back in the room, and played what would become “Get It Done”. Me and Tor SPAZZED when we heard the beat. We started writing, and by 6am the joint was written, recorded, and being mixed.

Fast forward 3 months and Preem reaches out to us to link up again. He called and said “yo yall remember that 1st beat I made? I think we should go back in the lab and knock that one out too”. Obviously, you don’t turn Preemo beats down, so once again Tor and I jumped at the opportunity to make another joint. So we get to the studio, turn on the initial beat that Preem made before “Get It Done”, and we had another Preemo banger. That song would become known as “Click”. So, that’s the story between 2 modern day hip hop classics. Here’s “Get It Done” & “Click”-2007, both featuring Torae & produced by Dj Premier.

On a side note, I wanna use this entry to thank all of you who’ve been posting, listening to, and sharing the Skyzoo Archive series over the past few months. I’m glad I was able to share all of tehse with you. This is the final posting, but TONS of new music isfile:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Shake/My%20Documents/Downloads/01%20good%20company.m4a on the way, so get ready. “The Power of Words” mixtape is coming along great, and the album “The Salvation” is sounding exactly like I always imagined it to. Thanks again for retracing the archives with me, hope yall enjoyed it. Holla.

UPDATE: The homie BluHaze uploaded them all in one link…

DOWNLOAD: Skyzoo & Torae – Click (prod. DJ Premier)
DOWNLOAD: Skyzoo & Torae – Get It Done (prod. DJ Premier)
BONUS: Skyzoo Archives (#1-30)

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Two Kanye posts in a row? Really Shake? You damn right! Mr. West continues his promo run for 808s & Hearbreak as he performs his latest single, Heartless, on Conan. Hit the jump for the interview where Kanye speaks on his fashion sense, the recent paprazzi incidents, the GITD Tour, autotune and more.

Peter Rosenberg talks to Kanye West about DJ Premier.Peter Rosenberg’s NoiseMakers is going down December 11th at the 92nd Y Tribeca. A night with DJ Premier.

On set of his upcoming video for My President is Black, Young Jeezy talks about the importance of shooting the video at Dr. Martin Luther King’s Ebenezer Baptist Church and why his music never fails to resonate with the people. The Recession in stores now.

One year later, Wale talks to Karen Civil on the passing of Redskins player/friend Sean Taylor.

This time it’s not my fault Scanz’ Murder the Industry didn’t come on Monday. Apparently dude gets his Joell Ortiz on with the writtens and the USB port got busted. Almost lost like 200+ verses. Crazy! This week though.. Scanz decides to hop on For Whom the Bell Tolls. Be sure to hit our illRoots fam this week for Scanz’ Murder of the Underground.

DOWNLOAD: Scanz – For Whom the Bell Tolls (Week 6)
PREVIOUS: Viagra (Week 5) | Move Freestyle (Week 4) | Day-N-Nite (Week 3) | Love Lockdown (rmx) (Week 2) | What Them Girls Like (Week 1)

Dub MD shot me over his brand new mixtape which features the likes of Sha Stimuli, Skyzoo, Emilio Rojas, Wordsmith, Supastition, Donny Goines and many many more doing what they do best over some of the greatest producers in the hip hop’s new, rare, classic & unreleased instrumentals; including J Dilla, DJ Premier, Pete Rock, ?uestlove, Large Professor, Oddisee, Illmind, Marley Marl, Madlib and 9th Wonder just to list a few.

Renatus in old Latin meaning Born Again/Reborn: 44 emcees over 34 handpicked beats! Thirty four tracks of that raw, authentic, no apologises Hip Hop music for the purest, 100% EXCLUSIVE from the emcee to this project, with a classic intro by the genius that is DJ Unexpected. This new mixtape is available for exclusive FREE DOWNLOAD right here, so pass it around, throw it on your iPod or burn it to CD-R, its yours! Thanks to everyone for all the continued support! – Dub MD

Tracklist + Download link after the jump…

Taken from the online dvd of performances, interviews and more.

PREVIOUS: B.o.B – I’m Dat Nigga f. T.I. [Dirty/CDQ]

I’m dropping LiveSoul‘s Birth of Soul EP tomorrow. Until then here goes a brand new joint from Akili produced by DJ Slimm’s younger bro NR. Don’t sleep on NR for real. Dude has beats for days! You’ll see.

DOWNLOAD: Akili (of LiveSoul – Back Then (prod. NR) | Mediafire
PREVIOUS: LiveSoul – I’m Telling You f. ETC | Akili (of LiveSoul) – Keystroll (prod. DJ Slimm)

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Al Be shot this over to me earlier today but I couldn’t get around to actually uploading the file. Good looks to OS for being on their job. Not sure about the Olivia feature. I would’ve liked to watch Lauren London or something haha.

I’ll be honest: I’ve been meaning to post City Haze‘s music for a minute, but I’ve been flat-out too swamped with stuff to do so. If you haven’t heard about him yet, you’re definitely sleeping. If you’re reading this Haze, my bad.