Free Download: Shad – Besides (2011)
‘Besides’ is a 25-minute mix of some of the guest spots Canadian finest Shad has done on other projects over the past couple of years. Mixed by close friend and former DMC and Scribble Jam champion, DJ TLO. Scroll down for the full tracklist and Shad’s brief explanation per collaboration.
Music: Blue Scholars – Dawn Song (Ft. Shad)
Shad: “Had to leave many of my favourite collabs off this mix purely for the sake of brevity. Which means I have a feeling we’ll be back with another mix very soon… Thanks a million times for listening!”
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1) Give You All I Can: Scratch Bastid and I got together one time and yelled about how good Stevie Wonder and Curtis Mayfield are for about 7 hours then he pitched me this beat… I started writing about Ma$e and Natalie Portman and Ribs right away which tells you i’m in a good mood… Looking forward to more work with him.
2) Listen (Remix): I put a new 3rd verse on this one and Dallas Green gave it a chorus and spiced up the verses. Love that guy…
3) Notorious: Kardi, Skillz, Ayah. Jazzy Jeff on the beat… My first Cornell West reference is contained therein…
4) Flawless: Frank Dukes gave me this heater and I felt like I had to do some deadpan punchline shtuff on there… Norm Macdonald flow: dirty work.
5) One Two Check (from The Great Escape): Joint with my dude Louwop. We did a dope live remix with Zaki Ibrahim. Sleeping on her is not advised.
6) Rose Garden (Remix): DJ TLO’s beat is irreplaceable. I threw up a new verse and 2/3 of Tanya Morgan hopped on after I ran into Don Will randomly one time.
7) Love: Unreleased track from that monster named Tona. Coming soon…
8 ) Stereotypes: new-new from TO group The Get By. Beat is bonkers. Had to get on there and shout out TBTBT…
9) Want You Back: This was the first jawn I did with Jazzy Jeff. Skillz and Phil Nash also holding it down on there.
10) Praise Da Lord: With Maestro… We ate some Harvey’s before the session and I got to learn from the Godfather. Good day…
11) Count Your Blessings (from The Green Light): With Relic, who is a frequent collaborator I met through my friend The Runaway. The Green Light’s got some heat on there.
12) Dawn Song (Remix): Was very happy to hop on this remix with Northwest legends Blue Scholars. We linked up through mutual homie DJ Hyphen.
13) Paving The Way: Incise ft. Okay City (London!) and David Morin with the smooth vocals….
14) Electric City (from Metropolis Is Burning): Got another track with Grand Analog coming soon! Love these guys…
15) It’s About Time: Bonus track on TSOL. Sometimes I forget how nice this beat is. Promise does his thing on there too.
16) Heateration: Real freeeqs with Theo3, Grimace Love and Famous. Tone Mason on the beat. TeeDot underground is the best. Fact.
17) Flux and Flow (from Siberia): Lights killed this!
18) Live Forever (Acapella): I’ve been doing this verse a lot at shows lately.
