EXT SRC 67 / In-N-Out
A few weeks ago I spent a week in Los Angeles. I hadn’t visited since the 90’s, but the city felt oddly familiar. That’s in part thanks to all of the west coast underground hip-hop I absorbed over the years, especially in my high school and early college days.
The obsession started with Jurassic 5 after hearing their track “Improvise” on the Jet Grind Radio soundtrack. From there I fell into a rabbit hole, finding my way to labels like Quannum, Stones Throw, and Hieroglyphics Imperium. I had the documentary Scratch on repeat. My parents bought me two turntables and a mixer—the beginning of my DJ aspirations.
This playlist spans from 1998 through the Bush era to 2011, when TDE and Brainfeeder were just getting started. I didn’t dig too deeply outside of my own CD collection, highlighting some of my favorite tracks that I haven’t heard in decades.
Tracks
- 1 Jurassic 5 - Lausd
- 2 Crown City Rockers - B-Boy
- 3 People Under the Stairs - Flex Off
- 4 Blu & Exile - In Remembrance of Me
- 5 Emanon - Pseudo
- 6 Deltron 3030 - Virus
- 7 Lootpack - Hityawitdat
- 8 Hieroglpyhics - Shift Shape
- 9 Pigeon John - Identity Crisis
- 10 Ugly Duckling - Oasis
- 11 Quasimoto - Microphone Mathematics
- 12 Kero One - Ain't That Somethin'
- 13 Lyrics Born - Hot Bizness
- 14 Fatlip - Today's Your Day (Wachugonedu?) (Featuring Chali 2na)
- 15 Kankick - Break of Dawn
- 16 DJ Shadow - Walkie Talkie
- 17 Blackalicious - Back to the Essence
- 18 Haiku DEtat - Mike, Aaron & Eddie
- 19 Busdriver - Imaginary Places
- 20 Cut Chemist - Spat
- 21 Oh No - Perceptions
- 22 Giant Panda - Just Cause
- 23 Murs - What Do You Know?
- 24 Strong Arm Steady - Questions (Featuring Planet Asia & Fashawn)
- 25 Wildchild - The Come Off (Featuring Tha Liks & Phil Da Agony)
- 26 MED - Special (Featuring Noelle)
- 27 Opio - Mind, Body, and Soul
- 28 Dilated Peoples - Proper Propaganda
- 29 Flying Lotus - Bad Actors
- 30 Schoolboy Q - Figg Get da Money
- 31 Kendrick Lamar - Ab-Souls Outro (Featuring Ab-Soul)