Doo Wop - The New Testament - honestly a tie between this mixtape, The Diaz Bros. mixtape and DJ Camilo's Queens Style. all those are as close to perfection and have sentimental value that none of my other fav. mixtape can match.
Doo Wop - '95 Live
Tony Touch & Doo Wop Are The Diaz Brothers (the first one from '97)
DJ Camilo - Queens Style (Tape #19)
DJ Premier, Evil Dee, PF Cuttin', Mr. Cee & Tony Touch - 5 Deadly Venoms Of Brooklyn
Tony Touch - Power Cypha Pt. 2 50 More MC's - my fav. of the power cypha trilogy
DJ Soul - Competition Is None - still pissed that i let my friend borrow this and he played it so much, the tape broke.
Tony Touch - Keep Feedin' Ya (Tape#54)
Tony Touch & DJ Khaled - Terrorist Activity
- the first time i ever heard of DJ Khaled back in '98, how did he end up so wack?
his side of the mixtape was iller than tony touch's.
DJ Clue - Springtime Stick-Up Pt. 2
DJ Clue - Platinum Plus
DJ Clue - Triple Platinum
DJ Clue? - You Cant Impeach The President 99
DJ Zooted - Zooted After Death Pt. 2 - this is one of the illest yet most slept-on mixtapes ever released. i don't know who the fukk this dude is (the dude at the mixtape spot i bought this from said he was from seattle i guess, but man this cat had exclusives. there's shyt on here that still hasn't hit the net over15 years later.
DJ Cosmic "Strictly Skillz" Kev - Money Talks (this cat was down with the philly cats that he had "Without A Doubt" from The Roots on here a full year before "Things Fall Apart" came out.) shyt was
Mr. Cee - Best Of Mobb Deep
Cormega - Mega 2001
J. Grand - 74 Minutes Of Funk: Vol. 7
there's another cosmic kev one from summer of 97 that i can't remember the title of but it had mad exclusives and got mad play. it had rakim's "it's been along time", trigger and smoothe's "smith bros." joint, mic geronimo's "hardrocks", diamond d's "5 fingaz of death" all months before they dropped. the only other think i can remember about it is the mixtape cover was larenz tate's face when the tries to run with the money at the end of "Dead Presidents" and gets caught in the hallway by the cops. classic shyt.
that's all i can think of off the top, there's a few i'm missing but those were my favorites and held me down nicely when they came out.