The Mr. Glass Experience

This is the first installment of a series I plan on doing. Taste Test will be all about songs I think people need to hear, artists I think you should know, and just plain old good music! So download it, sit back relax and press play!

1. TillWeDie – Blu
2. Life Change – Clipse
3. The Professional – Black Thought
4. Flickin’ – Kidz In The Hall
5. Hometown Glory – Drekidd
6. Better Dayz – Game
7. Pimp Dilemmas – GLC
8. Fuck Dat Hipster Shit – Grip Plyaz
9. Momma May I Feat Blaqstarr – Idle Warship
10. Angles (Remix) – Lupe Fiasco
11. Mirrors Edge Ft Bun B, GLC & XV – Mike Posner
12. Supernova Feat Kanye West – Mr. Hudson
13. Gangsta Life Feat Snoop Dogg – Nipsey Hu$$le
14. Baby Phat 09′ Feat Colin Munroe – Skillz
15. Chasing Windmills – Heavy D
16. Fly Away – Wale
17. This Plane – Wiz Khalifa
18. MrBlu2U – Blu (as GODLeeBarnes)

Mr. Glass Presents: Taste Test Vol. 1

Nothing more, enjoy and Happy Holidays!

Back in early 2008 I started a small blog called Hip-HopAlive! It was me trying to write about hip-hop music and my love for it. HHA! garnered a nice little following for the few months that I kept at it. I was receiving e-mails from lots of unknown up and coming artists who wanted me to review them. One of which was Colin Munroe, who has gone on to some pretty decent success. A review I did on Afrofreque, a hip-hop soul group from Houston, was actually my first piece to ever be published in any form. Sadly for some reason I decided to stop my little project. I was going through a rough time, and was still trying to figure out who I was. Later I tried starting up some other blogs, trying to emulate the things I saw on sites like 2Dopeboyz.com, all of which failed to ever be as good as the realness of Hip-HopAlive!. I ultimately quit them too, finally realizing that copying someone else ’s style wasn’t working for me. Hip-HopAlive! was my first real attempt at writing anything in a long time. I love that project for the simple fact that it re-lit the fire in me. It sparked my passion for writing once again. Since then I have changed, grown as a person and a writer. I have learned much more about the art, and have grown to love my little pathetic attempt at changing the hip-hop world. Looking back on some of the things I wrote, it makes me laugh. This was one of the first things I ever posted on the blog (many of the original posts have since been removed with only a dozen or so still remaining on the site). It’s my first attempt at ever doing a real album review, but not my last. With the new year coming up I plan on finishing what I started so long ago. I want to tap back into the magic that was Hip-HopAlive! I chose this album because it really touched me, and still remains one of my favorite of all time. It’s an album by an artist known simply as Blu. Here is my review from long ago of Blu & Exile’s Below The Heavens. Enjoy!

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