I received a CD in the mail yesterday; Mobb Deep songs mixed over Bob Marley instrumentals.

It could be good cigar smoking music.

Sounds cool. Tha Infamous was one of muy favs in 94, or was it 95? I gotta check it out.

email me and i will burn you a copy

shady_cuban at yahoo dot com

There is another amazing dub record by Bill Laswell in '97 that was just totally tripped-out Marley instrumentals called Dream of Freedom.

check it:

http://www.bobmarley.com/albums/dreams/ 

one of my favorite relaxing records...

I also own....

The Grey Album (Jay-Z Black Album mixed with Beatles White Album).

The Black Chronic (Jay-Z Black Album mixed with Dre's Chronic 2001 Album).

Jay-Z Black Album mixed with Nirvana's Unplugged Album.

All are very good CD's.

i never heard of mobb deep so i did a little research. i found a place where i could download a little sample of their music. i can listen to bob marley when the mood strikes me. there is no mood where i feel i can listen to mobb deep. that was not a pleasant experience. i like to try to give everyone a fair chance. sometimes i get burnt. call it what you want, but that ain't music to me. in fact, i was unable to identify a single instrument in the sample i heard.

painful.

The wifey listens to country/pop and that was painful when I first met her but I do not mind it now.

I own over 1,000 CD's (classic rock, alternative, heavy metal, jazz, rap, techno, classical, spoken word, top 40). I can listen to anything but I understand if your ears are not use to rap.

i actually liked rap a little when i was very young. i started to realize something as i got older. as original as i thought it was, i found that it was getting less and less original as it "progressed." i notice that instruments were becoming more optional. i also noticed that most parts where instruments were recognized were excerpts from other songs. basically, they were taking a successful song and replaying it with some added sounds and talking (rapping). suddenly, instruments disappeared almost completely. it was no longer music (to me). i got really tired of it, really fast. then, it seemed to start a whole new trend in society of incredibly rude people that dressed sloppy and spoke even more so. i'm not trying to knock a "black" culture as this cultural change was distributed among the black, white, and hispanic races. it's a hip hop culture that i don't really care for. from the outside it seems violent, selfish, and just plain rude.

i like music. i like listening to instruments. i appreciate a person that plays an instrument well. i appreciate a person that can write a musical piece that really touches you. i like jazz. i like rock. i like some older country (mostly for nostalgia reasons).