Charlie over at Wait What spent three weeks on this mashup, traveled 26,542 miles, worked 116 hours at his day job, tweeted 41 times, made 26 new Facebook friends, danced for 17 hours, snowboarded 5 mountains, celebrated 5 birthdays, took 2 trips to the hospital, found out his favorite author passed away, and ended up with 11 tracks of probably the most minimalistic and haunting rap mashups you’ll hear for quite some time. You’ll only be doing yourself a disservice by not giving it a thorough listening to The Notorious XX
The whole album was made available for free download on March 25th 2010, the 13 year anniversary of Life After Death’s release. It is pretty amazing to see how well this mashup works. Biggie’s smooth raps fit perfectly within those tiny spaces that The XX leave deep within their music. On paper it may leave you scratching your head. Once you hit play, it all becomes clear. This is a perfect fit.
(different songs with the same background)
Such a great album and we can guarantee you’ll have it on repeat for the first week. I lil' unknown fact that came across when researching the album to do with The XX is that the reason they have that husky, quiet, soul tone is when they used to practice in their garage they had to sing quietly due to neighbours and turns out they loved the sound from the result of singing low!
Peace x
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