The World Famous Beat Junkies Volume 2

Beat Junkies | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 17, 1998)
• Original Release Date: October 13, 1998
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Blackberry
• ASIN: B00000DH3H
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #162,229 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #81 in Music > Dance & DJ > Turntablists

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Intro

2. Rockin With The Best The Alkaholiks

3. Work The Angels Dilated Peoples

4. Peoples Choice Defari

5. Blessings The Visionaries

6. I Dont Know Slum Village

7. Universal Magnetic Mos Def

8. Rhettmatic @ The 96 West Coast DMC

9. Withouta Doubt Jurassic

10. Spit Show & AG

See all 18 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Beat Junkie Interlude

2. The Sparky Chronicles

3. 3 Card Molly Xzibi

4. Im Commin T-Love

5. The Rules Krondon

6. Radiant Lmno

7. Dynamic (Remix) Pumpkinhead

8. Beat Junkie Interlude

9. The 97 Itf Team World Champions:Babu, J- Rocc...

10. Ubiquity The Associates

See all 14 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Directions., March 21, 2000

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hojo (Glendale, AZ) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The World Famous Beat Junkies Volume 2 (Audio CD)

After abandoning commercial rap/hiphop in 1995, I started to make my own compilations of the hiphop/rap I could stand. With the popularity of Funkmaster Flex and the release of a new CD by Kid Koala, turntablism and freestyle hiphop are here to stay. DJ Rhettmatic from the Beat Junkies take us on a trip through turntablism, underground rap, and freestyle rhyming. To those looking for an album with "anthems" you will remember, look elsewhere. Freestyle is all about improvising and battling. Every track is seemlessly mixed together. It's amazing this album is sold so cheaply as it could easily be packaged into two separate compact discs. Get this CD anyway you can if you have an open mind to different forms of hiphop (vs commercial hiphop/rap) or happen to like the flavor of underground east coast hiphop/freestyle with a touch of turntablism. Keep up the good work Beat Junkies, you have brought me back to the world of hiphop(I was on a 5 year electronic music vacation...:P)

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Underground Primer, July 8, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The World Famous Beat Junkies Volume 2 (Audio CD)

I'm somewhat confused by the amazon review in that the assumption is that this should be a mixtape of "big name" label artists--particularly as a follow-up to Volume 1 which also showcased undergound acts. Though some of the Beat Junkies work in the radio and club scene, I've always assumed them to have their roots deep within the underground. And as far as underground hip hop goes, you can't get much better than the songs collected in this mix. Almost every underground mc worth mentioning pops up somewhere on this album. My personal favorites are the Dilated Peoples joint "Work the Angles," "3 Card Molly" with Xzibit, Rass Kass, and Saafir, as well as the two badass capstone tracks, "U Call Dis A Song?" and "All Star Line Up" with too many underground mc's to name.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars On some other ...like two different flies......., June 15, 2001

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Barry Gleed (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The World Famous Beat Junkies Volume 2 (Audio CD)

This is deffinately one of the better compilation albums out there in the world of the hippin and the hoppin. Not only are 95 percent of the tracks and exclusives, freestyles and so on very very good on there own, there is the added element of the turntable wizardry that the junkies are the epitomy of. Very nicely mixed, the tracks are very nicely juggled and scratched, in old funkmaster flex stlye, and the beat junkies pieces are pure tablism. This album will pull everyone who listens too it into the world of "real" hip-hop and the world of turntablism.