1. Strange Fruit Project – Good Times – The Healing
2. Soul Khan – For That – Soul Like Khan
3. Zion I & The Grouch – Drop It On The 1 – Heroes In The Healing of The Nation
4. Beastie Boys – Lee Majors Come Again – Hot Sauce Committee Part 2*
5. Focus – Homage to Pete Rock (feat. Kurupt and Big Pooh) – Pay Homage
6. Brother Ali – Fresh Air – Us
7. Novel – Get You High – Grant Me Serenity
8. Elzhi – Half Time – ELmatic
9. Hail Mary Mallon – Breakdance Beach – Are You Gonna Eat That?
10. Snak The Ripper – Throw It Away – Fear of a Snak Planet
11. Zion I & The Grouch – I Used to Be a Vegan – Heros In The Healing of The Nation*
12. Shad – Videofact Rapper – La Cassette Mixee
13. Hieroglyphics – Powers That Be – Full Circle

The homage to Pete Rock is my favorite this week, the pay homage project by Focus came out a little over a year ago, but I revisit it often. It was supposed to be a tribute album to legendary hiphop producers, but was never finished or released. It’s pretty easy to find all the songs online, and I’m glad I read about it back then because Focus does an incredible job of reconstructing the sounds of producers like Premier, Dr Dre, J Dilla, Pete Rock, and RZA.

-AngieBFresh

The tracks with stars * were online or phone in requests