The Birth Of Young Money…
AUDIO By J. Tinsley on November 6, 2009 at 5:26 pm
With the amount of studio time Cita and Rabbit’s pride and joy has given us through out the past six years or so, it’s perfectly normal to have some of his material slip your memory. Hate him or love him, the Hip-Hop world remembers Wayne for classic verses, chart topping albums and legions of mixtapes. It is the mixtapes, however, which have earned him the cult-like following he has today. The Prefix, The Suffix, Dedication 2, Drought 3, The Carter 3 Sessions and the recently leaked “No Ceilings” are only a few examples of how Weezy’s underground acclaim helped kick down the door to mainstream notoriety.
Looking beyond the surface, there is one mixtape which never ceases to earn enough respect for whatever reason(s). Wayne and Drama’s first collaborative effort, The Dedication, is likely well versed by all Hip-Hop fans. On the flip side, many do not recall the double disc, NO DJ tape that accompanied it in 2005. To make a long story much shorter, I keenly remember running across this tape during my freshman year at Hampton. Initially, I took it as nothing more than a mixtape that was thrown together and randomly uploaded on Boxden. That was, until I heard Mack, Weezy and Curren$y decapitate the “Knuck If You Buck” instrumental. It was then I knew I stumbled upon something worth keeping.
The aforementioned trio, along with a few guest spots from Boo, tackle instrumentals ranging from Lil’ Scrappy’s “No Problems” to 2Pac’s “Made Niggaz” resulting in one hell of a listening experience. As a disclaimer, a good number of these tracks were found on the original Wayne/Drama project. However, here’s your chance to hear Young Money in its infant stages, long before they became arguably Hip-Hop’s most popular crew.
1. This Is How We Do
2. Lean Back
3. Ashanti Remix
4. Rep Yo Hood
5. Politician
6. We Pimpin’, Yall Simpin’
7. Fetish
8. You’re Gonna Love Me
9. Breathe
10. No Problems
11. Smoke, Drank
12. Thug Luv Freestyle
13. Two Words
14. New York
Download — Lil Wayne Presents Young Money: The Mixtape (Disc 1)
1. Mr. Biggs
2. Young Money
3. 3 Kings Freestyle
4. My City
5. Knuck If You Buck Freestyle
6. Hold You Down
7. Pop That Thang
8. Why You Lookin’ At Me
9. Drop It Like It’s Hot
10. Mama Gave Me
11. Down & Out Freestyle
12. Rest In Peace
13. I Call It Whateva
14. 2Pac Dedication
Download — Lil Wayne Presents Young Money: The Mixtape (Disc 2)
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ive been called insane for thinking that Dedication 1 > Dedication 2. fugg it…not the first or last time i was called crazy.
Zzzzz.
That nuclear bombing of Knuck If You Buck is still one of my all time favorite tracks.
SQ4 will always be my favorite underground wayne tape… In my eyes, that time period was his peak
CURREN$Y > WEEZY
good piece J. I’ve never heard these tapes, and still probly won;t download ‘em, but would be down to hear Spitta and Weezy drop some bars over a few classic INSTs
SEE!!!! THIS IS EXACTLY WHY SMOKINGSECTION IS PIFF, cause I ain’t know bout this at all………..this shit is extra extra exclusive
chill….. i do remember these….props still
this ish had NOLA going crazy back in the g. it was a free dl off of youngmoneyent.com about 2 months b4 the drama tape dropped.
@ greums
agreed
CURREN$Y > WEEZY
^^^^^^
Truth
SEE!!!! THIS IS EXACTLY WHY SMOKINGSECTION IS PIFF, cause I ain’t know bout this at all………..this shit is extra extra exclusive
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chill….. i do remember these….props still
^ LMAO
hell yeah, props for giving this shit the shine it deserves. I still wish Wayne would have stuck with Curren$y.
Spitta’s work hasn’t suffered an ounce for it, though, lol.
“what the fuck is a samich?”
“what the fuck is a samich?”
see this is why i fuck with you niggas.
I recently became a fan of Currensy.
Which was a good thing cuz now I’m on Wiz Khalifa.
But, props for this shit.
Soo-wooo!!
@ Bluunndd
That was always my favorite line haha, what the fuck is a hammock? we gotta find middle ground we need balance!
Curren$y>Weezy
And anyone who’s ignoring these because of their hatred for Wayne (which I’ve done with his recent stuff), put it aside and download. There are some truly dope tracks on those two CD’s.
Sleep on this all you want, but like my dude said, there is some classic stuff on these tapes.
The “Thug Luv” Freestyle, “Made Niggaz” Freestyle and “No Problems” Freestyle are epic.
Curren$y was puttin on for Big L
when did weezy and sqad squash the beef? i remember they was going at wayne and cashmoney when they left wayne.
CURREN$Y > wayne
wayne > wiz
imagine that
get rid of this shit
WAYNE>CURRENSY MY OPINION BUT MAN I MEMBER THIS SHIT KNOCK IF YOU BUCK IS TOP 5 SONGS MAN AND WAYNE IS HITTIN IT AGAIN WIT NO CEILINGS AND NUMBERS DONT LIE PONDER THAT!!!!!!!!
are there NO DJ versions of the DEDICATIONs?
what about the Prefix & The Suffix? & Lilweezyanna?
‘A Guide To The Mixtape Weezy’ might be in order — his output from the Sqad days til now is actually literally dizzying. soooo damn much material, & so much of what I’ve heard people call “the best” was ignored earlier til people started recognizing game after Dedication 1 & 2. & Even then it’s still been confusing as far as what was sanctioned, what was overlap, & just generally — what was worth listening to?
wait I just remembered there def were NO DJ versions of The Prefix & Suffix.
& THIS might sorta count as a sort of NO DJ Dedication 1, so then that mostly just leaves Dedication 2 — what’s up with that? was there ever a NO DJ leak to that????
wayne is the best rapper alive
I copped disc one at a gas station in ‘05. Curren$y and Wayne go hard on this tape but so does Boo. What happened to him?