May 18, 2016

J-Love "Nas' Finest" (Volume 1, 1996)


Here is the cassette version (1996) of the first volume of J-Love's Nas' Finest mixtape. It has a slightly different tracklist than the CD versions that were released and would end up being an 8-part series of mix tapes. It's hard to ignore the annoying J-Love drops throughout the tape, but that aside, there are plenty of great tracks on here to make up for it. The tape includes tracks with Ghostface, Raekwon, Cormega, Screwball, Kool G Rap, Mobb Deep, Big Noyd, Pete Rock, Large Professor, Akinyele, AZ, Tragedy, Noreaga, Q-Tip and Biz Markie. The audio quality is hit or miss throughout the mix, because some tracks were unreleased/exclusives, but if you had this in your walkman, you remember the days and it's a piece of nostalgia that should transport you back to that time. Props to T.R.O.Y. for the cassette scans and DJ E-Feezy for the link. Check it out below...