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full mixtape here: https://malkovichmusic.bandcamp.com/a... MALKOVICH MUSIC IS PROUD TO PRESENT SICKSTEENS, A COLLAGE OF OLD SCHOOL RAP BEATS, THE FUNK AND SOUL OLDIES THAT WERE SAMPLED TO CREATE THEM, AND NON-STOP, OFF-THE-CUFF VERSES FROM SOME OF THE MOST UNDERRATED LYRICISTS OF OUR TIME. SICKSTEENS IS LOOSELY BASED ON A WISHLIST MALKOVICH PUT TOGETHER OF BEATS BOTH CLASSIC AND FORGOTTEN THAT HE WANTED TO RAP OVER FOR A MIXTAPE. FROM THIS FOUNDATION, WEST LA-BASED DJ AND MUSIC ARCHIVIST BURNIE NOWAX WENT TO WORK, LOOPING AND EXTENDING INTERLUDES, BOOKENDING RAP TRACKS WITH THEIR DUSTY ORIGINALS AND COMPLETELY RECREATING CERTAIN BEATS FROM SCRATCH TO CREATE A SOUNDSCAPE STRONG ENOUGH TO SUPPORT LYRICS FROM END TO END. HOLDING UP HIS END OF THE BARGAIN, MALKOVICH SENT HIS ENTIRE RHYME FAMILY – THE TRIFECTA OF THE BLX, VJC AND HALIFAX ALL-STAR CREWS, AND AN ASSORTMENT OF EMCEES FROM CALIFORNIA TO NEW YORK – INTO THIE MIC BOOTH, WITH ORDERS TO COME UP WITH AS MANY VERSES AS POSSIBLE. THE RESULT UNITES THREE GENERATIONS OF FUNK ON A MIXTAPE THAT IS SO MUCH MORE: THE MUSICAL BUSINESS CARD OF A COLLECTIVE, A NON-STOP PARTY ON A DISC, AND A CELEBRATION OF THE ART OF HIP-HOP – SAMPLES, LYRICS AND MAD, MAD CREW. JAZZ GREAT LOU DONALDSON’S “IT’S YOUR THING” IS CHOPPED AND LOOPED A LA BRAND NUBIAN’S “PUNKS JUMP UP TO GET BEAT DOWN” JUST IN TIME FOR CELEBRATED FEMALE EMCEE VOICE TO SHIMMY ALL OVER IT WITH SACH OF BELOVED WEST COAST DUO THE NONCE, WHO RETURNS WITH MAZZI OF NEW JERSEY’S S.O.U.L. PURPOSE TO BLESS “IMPROMPTU”, WHICH RE-SAMPLES THE EMOTIONS’ “BLIND ALLEY” TO ECHO BOTH LL COOL J AND BIG DADDY KANE’S INTERPRETATIONS OF THE R&B NUGGET. FAZE-O’S “RIDING HIGH”, THE SOURCE RECORD FOR EPMD’S “PLEASE LISTEN TO MY DEMO”, PLAYS HOST TO BLACK SILVER OF THE ANALOG BROTHERS AND OMNI OF BLX, WHO ALSO APPEARS WITH INFAMOUS LA BATTLE KING OTHERWIZE ON “TOP RAMEN”, A REWORKING OF “FRIED CHICKEN”, AN INTERLUDE ON FELLOW ANALOG BROTHER ICE-T’S ORIGINAL GANGSTER ALBUM. FROM JAMES BROWN, KOOL & THE GANG, ISAAC HAYES AND BILLY STEWART TO N.W.A., OUTKAST, NAS AND SLICK RICK, BURNIE BRINGS THEM ALL TOGETHER ON SICKSTEENS. AND MALKOVICH, EXERCISING HIS PEN FOR HIS OFFICIAL FOLLOW-UP TO HIS 2006 SOLO DEBUT SKELETONS, GRACES ALL 20 TRACKS. OLD SOUL RARE GROOVE MEETS OLD SCHOOL HIP-HOP MEETS NEW SCHOOL RHYME RUMBLE 20 SONGS. 21 EMCEES THIS IS SICKSTEENS