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We are on Guest Mix 004 already! And we have no intention of slowing down trust me. Things have been a tiny bit slow on the site for the past few weeks. This is due to lots going on behind the scenes as well as the return of our very own supreme super producing Semothy Jones. But like i said we will not be stopped and no intention of slowing down!

We present you with DMC multi award winning DJ Switch. Four time national DJ battle champion and current World champion he is on fire! Check this 30 min mix with an eclectic range of music from Dubstep to UK Hip Hop. Exclusive to Ego Thieves and presented in 320kbps quality, for all those budding DJ’s who enjoy plenty os scratch attacks this is one not to miss.

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.:: Tracklist ::.

01.Bar 9 – One

02.The Streets – Let’s Push Things Forward (Zed Bias Dub Mix)

03. Dubaholics – Gangster Beatz

04. Monsta – Got The Love

05. Wonder – Full Metal Jacket

06. DJ Muzzell – Is It

07. Method Man & Redman – Da Rockwilder

08. RJD2 – Silver Fox

09. Buff1 – Beat The Speakers Up

10. Braintax Ft Mystro – Good Or Bad

11. The Juju Orchestra – This Is Not A Tango

12. Tipper – Fleas And Itches

13. Luke Vibert – Get Your Head Down

14. Wu-Tang Clan – Da Mystery Of Chessboxin’

15. The Apples – Woo!!!

16. The Beatles – Strawberry Fields (A Skillz Remix)

17. M.I.A – Fire, Fire

18. 2Tall – February

19. Shuttle Ft Cadence Weapon – Rotten Guts

20. Dinah Washington Outro

A bit late on this one and only really posting up for all my Kid Cudi fans in case you missed it. Dat Kid From Cleveland is a brand new mixtape from DJ E-V and Datnewcudi.com full of lots of exclusives and unreleased goodies. Well worth a listen if your a fan, and if your not have a listen anyway you might just see what all the hype is about. His debut album ‘Man On The Moon’ is only round the corner I’m told…!

Check this promo video that was made for the mixtape, big tings ya erd!

Tracklist:
1. Dj E-V – Intro
2. Daps & Pounds (DJ E-V Exclusive)
3. I Poke Her Face (ft Kanye West & Common)
4. Sky Might Fall (Prod By Kanye West) (Early Version)
5. Look Up In Da Stars (Feat. Wale) (Prod. by Breez)
6. Skit – Jerry Maguire from Cleveland
7. Rollin (Remix) (Feat. Jackie Chain)
8. She came along (feat. Sharam)
9. Super Boo
10. Welcome 2 the World (feat. Kevin Rudolf)
11. Ho’ Is Short For Honey (feat. 88-Keys)
12. Skit – Foggy Glasses
13. Buggin Out 2009 (ft. Consequence)
14. Sky High (Prod. By The Kickdrums)
15. 09 Freestyle 16. Switchin Lanes
17. Higher Up
18. Takeover Freestyle
19. Can I Be
20. Ask About Me ft. Chip Tha Ripper (Prod By Rami Beatz)

Now i nearly forgot to post this up! Its been a mad busy week with us here at Thieves headquarters and next week should bring some nice updates for you and the month of June to come. In the mean time, this is classic Cool Kids. Sharp lyrics, low flows and lots of hard kicks and simple snares. Im a fan it must be said, event if its now not quite cool to be? Ironic huh. At least it isnt Charles Hamilton bless him…. 

:: Tacklist ::

1. Introduction to Ice Fishing
2. Hammer Brothers
3. Champions
4. Gold Links
5. Cinnamon
6. Premium Blends
7. Step Back
8. Jump Rope feat. Tennille
9. The Last Stretch feat. Jahda
10. The Art of Noise (interlude)
11. The Light Company
12. Popcorn
13. Wise Words by GLC -Told by GLC
14. Pennies (the updated rosters) Remix feat. Ludacris & Bun B
15. Broadcasting Live
16. Takin’ a Break
17. Tune Up
18. Weekend Girls feat. Ryan Leslie
19. Summer Vacations
20. Words of Wisdom by GLC – Told by GLC
21. Knocked Down

We love B.I.G. Fact. He is the best rapper of all time. Fact. And now his birthday has come around again and lord to tell you UK producer Dready has been called up by the Flimode Ent team, Whoo Kid and hooked up with Radioplanet.TV to release this free mixtape for your listening pleasure. Just downloaded myself so will post a comment verdict in a moment, but since we know Dready im already telling you its fire… cha. 

Cover is sick…. but what is it with Americans and ZShare.. jeeze…! 

If ya aint already come across this today, you have now. Volume two in his LVs and Autotune mixtape series features some of his finest cuts of late , as well as some older joints. Caught my eye just simply cos of the dope artwork , the covers so dam cool!! cooler than kanye? well the guy seems to be goin off the rails a bit recently but loss of  a mum and a spilt from a fiancee would tip any average guy over the edge. After 808’s and heartbreaks im still waiting for a college dropout style album from him and after some of his recent productions goin back to basics we wait with baited breath……..download this and jam……..

01 Diamonds
02 Poke Her Face (Feat. Kid Cudi, Common, Lady Gaga)
03 We Fight, We Love (Feat. Q-Tip, Consequence)
04 Maybach Music 2 (Feat. Rick Ross, T-Pain, Lil Wayne)
05 Flight School (Feat. T-Pain, GLC)
06 Amazing (Remix) (Feat. The Dream, Young Jeezy, Christina Milian)
07 Imma Be Iight (Feat. Lil Wayne, Joe Young)
08 Doing Girls Wrong
09 Knock You Down (Feat. Keri Hilson, Ne-Yo)
10 Walking On The Moon (Feat. The Dream)
11 Go Hard (Remix) (Feat. Lil Wayne, Jay-Z)
12 I’m The Shit (Remix)
13 Oprah Story
14 Kinda Like A Big Deal (Feat. Clipse)
15 Ego (Remix) (Feat. Beyonce)

Would ya? Even if she is a tad nuts? Well regardless Cudi , Kanye and common have. Teaming up on this little number for a take on Lady Gaga’s Poker Face. Well the title says it all really…. Featuring cuts from A Trak , 2 superb verse’s from Cudi and Common, and the best verse from Kanye ive heard in a while. Been enjoying the vibe on this one all week. Surprisingly i found the sample from Gaga quite enjoyable , apparently they sampled her from a live recording and to be honest she sounds quite dope on it !!

Are you an Intelligent Hoodlum? What is an Intelligent Hoodlum? Well… its an individual who unlike many of the new artists around, (to mention a few such as Soulja Boy, lil Hurricane and even up and coming Charles Hamilton) appreciate and honor the past to create and evolve the future. Too many of the new generation of producers and artists these days in most genres but especially Hip Hop do not do their history and bow down to the creators of the very genre itself. You cant become a Doctor, Scientist, Director or Pilot for example without doing your history so why is music different and why does this new generation feel they can put down and slew their predecessors?

Well consider yourself partially educated and with this edition of Vol Two you are very much in presence of a master at work in the form of J.Dilla. If you have no idea who he is or what he represents then this is the perfect place to start. He to some, is nothing less than genius. He took sampling and elevated it to a height that took its own art form and to this day his beats are still being released after he past away many years ago and with nights in London alone our fav being ‘Dilla Saved My Life’ his legacy is stronger than ever. This is part one of our Love Dilla sub series and part two will come after the summer.

Sit back, relax in hopefully some blazing sun, grab a nice drink or something to smoke ( menthol’s of course… ) and enjoy the Dilla in our selection of his vast selection of beats and tracks.

For more Hip Hop remember to visit one of my first loves, Jump Off TV.

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After a long arse week, yes LONG. Watch out for the What The Weekend Week post coming shortly as last week was just that, a long weekend. Here is today’s round up of music news  feature we like and your daily downloads of goodies in all genres and forms. P.S. Youtube sort out the videos you slags…!!

Kanye West to appear in new Family Guy spin off show ‘The Cleveland Show‘. Now if you didn’t already know of the shows forthcoming series, then shame on your mug but check it out by clicking the picture thur <<<<. But confirmation has come through that Kaneyzee himself will have a featured part in the show as ‘MC Kenny West’. Not sure how often he will appear in the show or what his character is like (hoping its not your average Hip Hop stereo type) but we do know Kanye is a huge fan of Family Guy and has recorded all his lines already. Watch this space kids (and non kids who like me adore Seth ).

In other news one of my current favs still (even if people think he is over saturated) Kid Cudi is going to or has quit the music game. He has said in his blog that he is tired of  ” THE DRAMA THAT COMES WITH IT IS MORE OVERWHELMING THAN THE SHIT I WAS DEALING WIT WHEN I WAS PISS POOR BROKE.” Now we hope he has just had a really bad day and he sees that he has only just started and is a very talented dude. But big up’s to him as he wishes to concentrate on his acting career (not that the trouble is any less than the music industry no?) and claims he will finish his debut album with Chip. What ever you do Mr Cudi, good luck.

And last but not least with a big sigh and a huge ‘finally’ said loud. The Performing Rights Society (or PRS) have announced today that live performances in the UK are now worth more than album/music sales. That means for people like us, if your actually talented and you make worth while music and not manufactured crap the majors have washed over us to for many years. You can actually make a nice living without even selling any music. So why not do the right thing, make music free or subscription based (as I’ve been saying so for years!) and get your arses on stage and show the world why we should listen and pay to go see your music live in the shiny, glamorous flesh. Read more here.

Here are the latest mixtape downloads. First we have the re-up of Kid Cudis mixtape for those that missed it. Trey Songz hits us with Murder He Wrote doing what he does best and reworking other peoples tracks (which is how he even became famous!), our recommendation comes from J Cardim which again for those who don’t know one of the biggest unknown producers in the game but i bet you say to yourself… ohhh he made this beat?! Lastly we have DJ Miggz dropping the Grown & Sexy 3 mix with lots of erm…. grown and sexy tracks….

Here are today’s tracks taken from all over the web. From Hip Hop to Dubstep, Glicth, Electro, Bass and what ever tickles your toes. To download them subscribe to our RSS Feed and then you can just save the tracks as you wish. Remember to support these artist’s and producers as we do. We just love to introduce you to new music By the by, we don’t categorise the music so just enjoy the goodness and expand your mind.

Day26 ft. Diddy & Yung Joc :: Imma Put It On Her

Keri Hilson :: Make Love [Yes we <3 slowjams, say suttin!]

Busta Rhymes :: Cut From A Different Cloth

Profisee x Eprom :: Zoning

Caspa :: Lions Roar

DFRNT :: Catch Me (The Foot Soldiers Remix)

Totally Michael :: Casual Satisfaction

Joe And Will Ask? :: Merrygo

A1 Bassline :: Bad Man Horror Theme

Kotchy :: She Made It Easy [The Plain Ensemble Remix]

Tempa T & JME [Live on Logan - click HD now kids] :: Next Hype

No one is doing it now like Joe and Slaughterhouse. Listen properly.

OK, we are a day late on this. Due to server upgrades we were unable to post last night but it seems this has been completed. So here is our B.I.G tribute in the form of DJ Drama and Ego Thieves favorite Cookin Soul. We love this mixtape so hence we bought it as for once its actually worth buying from here . So even though we are providing you with the download, please support and grab a hard copy of this where you can as its very worthy of your great British pounds (though im sure none of it actually goes to Biggies estate?).

And yes, we are ones that say B.I.G was and continues to be the best rapper ever known. What? Say somthing… yeah i didnt think so.

Hi all, here is part one of the daily round ups. First being music.. you will find downloads, news, info and everything else in between we have found for the day all in one convenient post. This means we don’t waste lots of posts doing what most other blogs/magazine sites do just to fill the site up. We would rather concentrate on original content

Yup. Its all very serious round here in the UK for us Youtubers ”YouTube is blocking all premium music videos to UK users after failing to reach a new licensing agreement with the Performing Right Society (PRS).” We are talking about thousands of videos that will be unavailable to the UK. Now the short of this is Youtube feel PRS (who in Lemans terms control the license money involved in music) have asked for too much money. It also said ‘‘YouTube has also complained of a lack of transparency by the PRS, saying the organisation would not specify exactly which artists would be covered by any new deal.” Now Youtube are and have been under immense pressure to build its business model for some time now, this has only taken the company a step back. But all credit is due to Youtube for holding its ground… very interested to see how this all pans out. Source

Here are the latest mixtape downloads. First we have Big Mike with R&B Jumpoff 49 (Cannot believe this is on 49 already!), Dr. Dre – Beats By Dr. Dre, Tapemasters Inc Future Of R&B 24 and QuESt – Distant Travels Into Soul Theory (which is our recommendation for the day!).

Here are today’s tracks taken from all over the web. To download them subscribe to our RSS Feed and then you can just save the tracks as you wish. Remember to support these artist’s and producers as we do. We just love to introduce you to new music By the by, we don’t categorise the music so just enjoy the goodness and expand your mind.

Elijah – Tribute To Biggie & Barack

Keri Hilson ft. Kanye West & Ne-Yo – Knock You Down

Ashanti – The World

Charles Hamilton – Way Cool

Mickey Factz – Pick Up The Bass

Fagget Fairys – “Feed The Horse

Example – “Girl Can’t Dance” (Don Diablo Remix)

Bobby La Beat – Click Clack

Get Famous! – Slip Away

Little Boots – New In Town (Drop The Lime Dub)

HeavyFeet – We Gettin Crunk (A1 Bassline Remix)

Has to be dedicated to B.I.G… RIP

Big up Ara/Harry @ Jump Off for showing me this indirectly in a new Mickey Factz video which you can see below (and apparently sponsored by Toyota!). But apart from that, though the show looks like it could be decent. The track really got me so managed to hunt it down and dropped it here for all of you! Such a big track and i love its odd flow and piano sample is plain sexy. Check out more Mickey Factz is you dont know about him.

Another Ego Thieves home grown exclusive compiled by myself Jenai. We feel here that allot of new music has lost its way, gotten confused and to be more blunt… uneducated. We created this podcast series to try to solve this problem and educate the masses in the art of beatmaking. Whether it be Hip Hop or Electro Pop we plan to open your mind and introduce you to the many instrumentals you don’t know about or simply forgotten. This month we delve into the vaults of classic Hip Hop in a long series of Hip Hop volumes.

Do you know who Craig G is? Ever heard of Slick Rick or Doug E Fresh? Then sit back, download and prepare to be educated. Look out for some of the kits used in these tracks as well as samples and see how many you can spot that have been re spat out by many a new era producer. Oh please don’t ask where i get all these instrumentals from, somethings are best left a secret

For more Hip Hop remember to visit one of my first loves, Jump Off TV.

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Mixtapes oh how we adore thee. Big shame most of these you cant get over here, and if you can they are WAY over priced and getting them from America is just swag because its no longer $2 to the power of £1. Now that’s our excuse out the way for downloading them, check out this batch fresh from the CDJ. Just before you ask, yes we do love . Purely because most of the time they are better than most the shit albums that come out these days. Lil Wayne anyone?

This will be a weekly/bi-weekly feature. Depending on whats actually worth listening to.

DJ White Owl - Drop That 55

Jockin Jim Jones

Yup, its here and shame on me for not posting it up a few days earlier. It is like the week before Xmas! Marsha comes with the big bangers with current super producer Don Cannon behind the wheels of steel and focus on the buttons, trust me its big. This is defo one to download, check out my fav track below. Only problem i have with Marsha is that she doesn’t remind people shes British! Maybe i should go and remind her with a Sunday roast or some shit..

Big up DJ Class for bringing back that Baltimore bass! You cant beat a Hip Hop club banger, a proper one anyway! Lets hope Jermaine stops spitting so we can enjoy it that little bit more.. (p.s. we know its cheesy music, but at 4 in the morning trust me you wont care)

Marsha, if you ever get to read this know i actually love you, no joke ting! For people that know of Floetry, (and if you dont know then click off this site and go educate yourself) you will be excited to hear that there are rumours of a pending release of a forthcoming, well overdue album. Listren to this track, i mean Hip Hop / Soul at its finest with no less than up and coming super producer DJ Cannon on the buttons. Her new mixtape ”Yours Truly” is set to drop some time in the early months of next year, which for me is a gaurenteed purchase.

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Brand new but straight old. This was suppose to be Charle’s album he did a few years back but only just been released on the mixtape cirucit. Now i been telling everyone about Charle’s for a long time so in addition to this mixtape ive included one of his classics, just to edcuate the masses. Also dont forget the ”Class Of 09” is coming over the weekend so watch out for that.

Some brand new banger’s on the Hip Hop wire. Watch out for this weekend when Ego Thief’s announce their ”Class Of 09” for Hip Hop. We also have some monthly podcast’s starting this month so make sure you watch out for the Hip Hop & R&B series ‘Taste Makers. Not a Souljah boy in sight.. [Please note that we only promote music we like, we don't need to promote tracks for the sake of it. Quality over quantity!]

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T.I. – Message To The Government

Lil Wayne Feat Jae Millz – Dick Pleaser

Cassidy Feat Lil Wayne – Get More Money

Busta Rhymes ft. T.I. & Reek Da Villian – We Rollin’

Jay-Z ft. MC Lyte – BK Anthem

Wale ft. Brother Ali – 2nd Time Around

Q Da Kid ft. Anthony Hamilton – Forgive Them