For its early years hip-hop was primarily a one-city game - relax NYC, I'm talking about you - but in the past decade the previously largely overlooked city of Atlanta has become an epicenter of hip-hop, turning out mainstream stars (Ludacris) and intensely innovative acts (Outkast) in equal measure. Here to celebrate the immense talent and diversity that exists in hip-hop, and especially in the ATL, is production team
SMKA, who's compiled unknown artists, well-established artists and everyone in between into "
The 808 Experiment", a mixtape that some are already calling the best of the year. (Yeah, I know its only January, but still, this is some dopeness.)
Download link and
mixtape preview are underneath the tracklisting:
1) The Assembly
2) "The Make Believer" - Tanya Morgan
3) "Magnun" - FKi
4. "So What" - Hollyweerd ft. Aleon Craft
5) "Fuck The Economy" - Proton
6) "Right Away" - Outasight, Kyle Lucas & Jay West
7) "Think You're In Love" - Alexandrea Lushington
8) "What It Seems" - Young Scolla
9) "Botanicals" - Aleon Craft
10) "Light Your Fire" - Kidd Neer, Senor Kaos & Fresh Daily
11) "Ooo Wee" - Rahbi & Slimm Duddy
12) "Let Me Go" - Brittany Street
13) "Spotlight" - Tom P
14) "Mirror Mirror" - The Canz
15) "Deer Mama" - Yelawolf
16) "Street Runner" - RE
17) "Jockin" - Grip Plyaz
18) "Absolute Zero" - Stanza ft. Playboy Tre
19) "Back In My Younger Days" - Shawn Chrystopher, Mums FP & Joe Scudda
20) "Aine Given Up" - Pill ft. Young Scolla
21) "P.O.N" - Nappy Roots
Download "SMKA The 808s Experiment Vol. 2" via BandCamp.
To visit the ATL right now, check out two of the mixtapes standout tracks, Yelawolf's "
Deer Mama" and Tanya Morgan's "
The Make Believer".
