a poll about shit we forgot

It's to the right there somewhere, a poll I put up because I was looking at our labels list and half the shit is for things we never finished. So I wanted you, random internet fuckface looking at dumpin.net, to let us know how you felt about bullshit. Obviously I expect the EWA 100 thing to get the most love, because we should've finished that forever ago, although you dudes are gonna be pissed when you find out N2Deep's "Back to the Hotel" is in the top ten. I liked the jambox thing, but it was too hard to keep doing regularly. I think I'd rather people have songs to download and they battled than just steal shit all day off the internet. It makes me feel more like a dude who loves music and less like a douche who wants to hoard every piece of hip hop-related music ever made onto my collection of external hard drives I'll never get around to enjoying. The mixtape challenge was great, but we lost interest, although I think Mike and John are supposedly gonna finish it at some point, hopefully before next fall. Personally, I thought the myspace rapper battles by state was some brilliant next level internet time-wasting to be had, but the lack of enthusiasm for the polls leaned against that judgement by the public at-large. So fuck y'all. I was really looking forward to the Iowa/Wyoming/Colorado/Kansas battle. That shit would've been all sorts of funny. Really, the NBA bullshit was dead before it started because the only real hardcore NBA fan is John and he doesn't get a hard dick for making stupid posts like me and Mike do. And once Gilbert Arenas got injured and started seeming more like a fucking punk bitch like every kid in high school than some misunderstood genius like a sober O.D.B., I stopped caring about the NBA again... perhaps forever. The Three 6 Mafia Project probably predates just about anything most of you have seen, as Mike was doing that before any of the rest of us got here, but he never finished it. I wish he would. And then I wish he'd do an ICP project just like it. And I'm being completely serious too.
So post your stupid comments about what you think. If you want. And you can vote for as many as you want in the poll thing.

FALL CLASSIC: Final round is set

We have the final round all set. Thanks everyone for voting! We are looking to have all mixes in for the final round by the beginning of December at the latest. Here is what the final round looks like:

PSY/Opsogist (Winner of Group A) - Final round mix already submitted
What It Is (Winner of Group B) - Final round mix already submitted
Keenon Mobb (Winner of Group C) - Waiting on final round mix
Nate (Winner of Group D) - Waiting on final round mix

Wild Card (If he chooses to accept it): DJ Swann (Runner up of Group C)

Also, Raven and myself will act as alternates in case anything happens where a competitor can't perform in the final round. Thanks everyone else for participating! If this thing is still a blog in the spring, you can expect another contest then.

FALL CLASSIC: 1st Rd. Group D

OVERVIEW: I am sure you are an avid dumpin.net reader and not somebody simply googling up pics of Kim Kardashian having sex with Brandy's little brother, so you know all about this here fall mixtape classic. The official shit-talkers are John Dawson (JD), Keenon Mobb (KM), Mike DIKK (MD), and me (RM).
Group C's poll ended with Keenon Mobb getting his online friends to vote or die, so he ran away with that poll. So that group's match-up finished like this...
Keenon Mobb - 16 pts
Swann - 14 pts
Choplaruski - 5 pts
D-Mo- 1 pt
So Keenon joins What It Is and the PSY/OPS dude in the final round. We will have one wild card dude in there too who finished second in his group, and honestly, without consulting anyone else involved in judging this, I can't see that wild card spot not going to Swann.

Here is who is who in this fourth group, which is not nearly as iPod-worthy as the last group of four...
ENTRANT #1: Raven Mack's R.I.P. Big Moe mix - I am the most brilliant gifted twisted mind of our generation, and I sully myself and true potential by contributing to this blog right here.
ENTRANT #2: Sun Diora's West Coast One-Hit Wonders mix - Diora is a jap chick who works in porn, but not in the way you would hope. She also is a contributor here at dumpin whenever she's not playing dork games.
ENTRANT #3: Nate's Sin mixtape - Nate has a blog with some old school homeboys of his called Science Gone Mad.
ENTRANT #4: BWT's Expert White Boy mix - BWT is a contributor here as well, but also has his own Land of Mind Waste blog.
Here's our rankings for these four mixes (for winning purposes, what we rank as #1 gets 3 pts, #2 gets 2 pts, and #3 gets 1 pt; and the open public poll scores 6 pts for #1, 4 pts for #2, and 2 pts for #3, so your public consciousness is worth double and has the power to heavily sway but not completely overrule what we think)...

THE NUMBER ONE MIX OF THIS SET:
JD: Nate. He has made it to the prestigious- DO NOT DELETE- folder in my iTunes EWA folder. The Johnny Cash into that cold-ass GZA track was fucking the dopeness. The rest of it was pretty good as well. I want Nate to really advance because I want to hear what he does for the next round much more than the other three losers.
MD: RAVEN'S MIX. This beats out Nate's mix by like half a point. Raven did some Screwed set filtered through a retard, so everything sounds all nightmarish and abrasive. I was coincidentally drinking cough syrup the first time I listened to this (not abusing it, I was sick), so maybe that swayed me. There was some shit on here I liked and some I didn't, so it wasn't exactly a home run, more like a ground rule double. I just like listening to shit that sounds fucked up and stupid sometimes, and I fully expect my number one vote to be completely negated once John puts this in his last place spot. If he doesn't, I'll be flabbergasted.
RM: Actually, I secretly made fun of the possibility of losing to Diora and how that would shatter my fragile internet ego, but then I ended up liking her mix more than the other three in this loser bracket. Even though it's one continuous mp3, she didn't blend them at all, which was a sucker move, but I also suckered out for some of the tracks. Mista Grimm's "Indo Smoke" is one of those 12-inch singles I sold for forty money at some point in my life I wish I had back. And fuck, I've listened to enough DJ Screw's clique freestyling over the instrumental to always geek out for Paperboy.
KM: Raven. You know, it may be a testament to something or other but I didn't notice the slowed down-ness until everyone else talked about it. This mix caters to my inner weirdo that used to play Resident Evil with the sound turned up, but also with rap mp3s and Avalanches mixes going at the same time. They don't BELONG together, per se, but sometimes the confluences would be genius and I'd hear some bossa nova shit going while Crooked I screams a freestyle and I get chased by zombie dogs. The minister talking is perfect, and the skipping made it better for me. That "I Live With My Mom" song took on a life of its own slowed down. Raven's recording stylings astound me, and are second only to D-Mo's actual tape method in novelty. This is seriously an epic stream of consciousness clusterfuck, and makes me want to go shoot the walking dead.

THE NUMBER TWO MIX OF THIS SET:
MD: NATE'S MIX. I would have probably given Nate the number one spot if he didn't include a Johnny Cash song (Though I think Raven did too, or some other gay country shit) and if the mix was a bit longer. His mix came with an email stating that it was going to be short, and I didn't think it would make that much of a difference, but I guess it did. I'd say Nate's mix probably had the most chance to appeal to the general audience, so it's worth your time to download. There's a lot of interesting stuff on here in such a short time, and I beleive he still does shit like this regularly on his own blog.
JD: Diora. Ha Raven you shiteater! Truthfully, this is more by default than anything else. I thought this sucked because really all the songs are by sucky people, therefore the One Hit Wonder title. That West Coast copycat beat that every dude was coming out with in the '90s is like "Lollipop" to Raven's ears.
KM: Diora. I did not think this sucked at all, and I appreciate the (mostly) West Coast vibe. That said, "I Got 5 On It" is one of my least favorite songs ever. It is my "Lollipop". I lobbied to get it pulled off the EWA Hot 100 rankings because I hate the hell out of it, and even the best of the West can't salvage it for me. John is IG'NANT, that Zapp break is timeless. Diora ran with a Nate/Warren G song I've honestly never heard, surprising since "Regulate" is their default one-hit wonder song. I dug this one, though. If she would have blended this, it would have been a thing of beauty and I would have bumped it to #1 in spite of Da Luniz. It was a close call. This was the most evenly matched bracket out of the whole thing, hands down.
RM: I picked myself in second. I bought a cassette four-track recorder a few months back at a flea market for five bucks, and only two tracks work, so I run the turntable into that shit, earball where blends will happen, write down notes on the tape counter spot, then when finished hook it up to the stupid laptop and run it into audacity and mix it then, one shot. There are some things that didn't turn out well on this (that guitar shit Rakim acapellas over is some shit we sampled for our own rapping-based musical group, but it doesn't vibe up too well in this format), and there's some shit I loved ("Still Live With My Moms" over the Isley Brothers instrumental), but all in all, I don't like this mix much. Still there's more shit I like on it than the other two mixes, which is pretty bad considering how much self-loathing I have.

THE NUMBER THREE MIX OF THIS SET:
JD: Raven. You are my internet homie, but fuck man I hated this shit. It pained me to listen to it. The rambling vocal things and the slowed-down music almost made me vomit. I was tempted to put Raven last because I know he could do something better that might appeal to some people, but he is cool like that, and why would Raven do anything we might like?
RM: Hahaha. Yeah, fuck people. I put Nate in third. Like Mike, I tried not to hold the fact Nate came in well under the hoped-for length of first-round mixes, but it ended up abruptly, and there were some things that kinda meandered weirdly to me. Also, to be honest, Nate made a big deal about how he didn't have time to add another ten minutes to this mix, so I didn't think it'd ever be possible for him to make a 45-minute mix for the final round.
KM: Nate's mix. I was with this until the song after the part where you just went buckwild on the "I Love" shit. I liked THAT part, but the two songs after it chafed my ears. The guys rapping on that weird sample (I think it's an oboe or some kind of reed shit, but everyone I've played it for said it sounded more like a french horn) didn't do much for me either, but that sample intrigues me. The difference (musically) between this and Swann's is Nate went for boom bap, but it's got a little more variety. After listening to all of these I would also be down with throwing some kind of nerdcon substance abuse BBQ where everyone got a turn on the decks.
MD: DIORA'S MIX. The only broad to enter the contest was simply outclassed by Raven's retard jamboree and Nate's proficient, but short set. There's a lot of songs in this mix that I played the shit out of in my more formative days. If this mix lost the MC Breed and Nate Dogg, and added "Po Pimp" by Do or Die and "Back in the Day" by Ahmad, I would have probably bumped this up to number 2. Bonus points for using the "I've Got 5 On It" remix which I don't think I've ever heard before.

THE WORST MIX OF THIS SET:
MD: BWT's MIX. I kind of strong-armed BWT into entering this just so we could have all entries in, in a timely manner. BWT is a youngster and he's not afraid to show you that he listens to a lot of new crappy rap music we old fogeys despise. BWT is also no internet DJ so this is just a handful of tracks by popular modern rappers with no mixing involved. The "Duffle Bag Boy" remix was pretty underwhelming, which disappointed me, and the Joe Budden "Freestyle" was pretty good, but when dudes have like 900 awesome freestyles in a row, it's digging their grave deeper as far as having a dope album goes. Just ask Supanatural or any of those other "really good freestyle" dudes.
JD: BWT. Put forth some effort son. I did like the Joe Budden freestyle, but the rest of that was some horrid shit.
KM: BWT as well. First things first, the good. The Ghostface song on this has the same sample as this one UGK song, they're both pretty dope and get good mileage off the same source. I really liked that Jazzy Jeff/Peedie Crack shit. I could live with Budden & Rhymefest, mostly forgettable though. Nice talk over. Jeezy does good shit sometimes, however this is not in that category at all. It's Gucci Mane-level average Atlanta trap rap. That remix of "Duffle Bag Boy" ruins one of the big things I liked about the original - the fact that Lil Wayne did a good hook and didn't rap. Baby is boring, Weezy is ADD-wack, Juelz flat-out sucks and by god this song deserves a better line-up for a remix. Brian got a bum deal, however - this was like the mixtape equivalent of having your car repo'd and having 30 seconds to grab whatever you left in the front seat. But oops you're not home, your girlfriend is the one who has to do it while you talk on the phone with her. On one hand, she pulled some iffy shit but you know you'll get it back in a minute, so all that good shit in the trunk should still be there.
RM: I also picked BWT, which worried me that we were piling on dude and shit, with him being the youngest expert whiteboy on our internerd blog crew, I didn't want any hurt feelings. But luckily BWT is from a younger generation that has no feelings whatsoever over this internet shit. The fact this was such a weak mix of stuff that did not impress me is more than made up for both the Nas collection he made and the Nas/Al Green mash-up shit he linked too.

YOUR VOTE TIME:
Our pre-rankings set this up with Raven Mack at 9 pts, Diora at 8 pts, Nate at 7 pts, and BWT sitting on something nil. The poll will change soon enough and you, the small slice of the public, will basically decide who wins this shit, with point values doubled. And if you are PSY/OPS or What It Is or Keenon or most likely Swann, you should start whipping up that 45 mega-mix for the final round sometime in a week or so.

FALL CLASSIC: 1st Rd. Group C

OVERVIEW: You probably know what's going on already. If you don't, look around, it'll make sense. The official shit-talkers are John Dawson (JD), Keenon Mobb (KM), Mike DIKK (MD), and me (RM).
What It Is of the nerld-famous Tree Beats blog won the last round's voting poll, with final score going like this...
What It Is - 17 pts
Jay Pud - 13 pts
Dart Adams - 5 pts
True Hip Hop Entertainment - 1 pt
So the What It Is homey joins PSY/OPS in the final round after we finish these last two first round bullshits. Probably one of the second place fuckers will get in as some sort of wild card too but I don't think we've drank enough cough syrup to come to an agreement on how that'll work.

Here's what's on tap this round, which is, by far, the best group (and we've got the last group already set, so we know this is the best group)...
ENTRANT #1: Choplaruski's The Chopping Block mix - Choplaruski is the man behind The Chopping Block blog.
ENTRANT #2: Swann's Fall Classic - Swann is the asshole who does the incredibly great Invincible Bully blog.
ENTRANT #3: Keenon Mobb's Fucking UFO Hooptiedonk mix - Keenon is the token mulatto on the Expert Whiteboy Panel, which means we send him to the ghetto grocery store to buy the Private Stock.
ENTRANT #4: D-Mo's Sunday Morning Special - D-Mo is my homeboy in real life, and he's an artsy-fartsy painter, oblivious to our intense musical dorkeries online.
Here's our rankings for these four mixes (for winning purposes, what we rank as #1 gets 3 pts, #2 gets 2 pts, and #3 gets 1 pt; and the open public poll scores 6 pts for #1, 4 pts for #2, and 2 pts for #3, so your public consciousness is worth double and has the power to heavily sway but not completely overrule what we think)...

THE NUMBER ONE MIX OF THIS SET:
MD: DJ SWANN MIX - I don't know the origins of DJ Swann, but I imagine he put in some time as a college mix show DJ because that's what this sounds like. It's definitely my favorite mix yet, and it's sure to piss off the pro-southern rap Dumpin readership. I grow tired of the blog format, but I'd like to think Dumpin is the blog that appeals to not only the typical old school east coast hip hop listening blog viewing public, but also the few southern rap dudes. It puts a smile on my face, but not really because I don't ever smile. Anyway, I'm pretty pumped to hear what DJ Swann does next, assuming he makes it to the next round.
RM: I picked Keenon's mix, not because I didn't like Swann's mix as much, but his mix was a really good one, but as predictable as I predicted the stupid internet rap nerd scene would deliver. He did do it better than anybody else has though. But Keenon had some wacky shit that touched my heart and made me want to roller skate with sluts.
KM: Me. I listened to the first round of this before recording my set, and the soundclip thematics had me jonesing to use this idea. I have a copy of that King Kong song from King Kong vs Godzilla where the island people are singing this gibberish during their sacrifice thing. I was gonna have that going and put in Robert Tilton gibberish and then finish with this Dolemite gibberish profanity thing BUT the Kongsong won't burn to CD. So that got scrapped and I went with the UFO thing. I normally am pretty hard on my own shit because I hear every mistake (there are 5). Dunno how anyone else records theirs, I just do it live in one take and if the fuck-ups don't outweigh the spots where I'm like "I did that? Huh." then I fix the volume and call it a day. For this tournament thing I decided to listen to everything as if I didn't do it. So that's why I picked mine. If it's NYC vs. Cali AND the South, you better find something more interesting than 30 minutes of Premo.
JD: I caught shit from the rest of these "OMG RARE SOUL TRACK" fucks, but Swann hit what I was bred on. If you are a fan of straight-up NYC hip hop mixed well, DL this. Swann threw in a couple of Masta Ace tracks to further dig deeper into my heart. If I wasn't married and if Swann was some ratty Jap porn star with giant meat drapes, I would fuck him. Hard son.

THE NUMBER TWO MIX OF THIS SET:
RM: I put Swann here, no doubt. I like how John gets in stereotypical expert white boy defensive mode about how this mix is the straight up rillest shit ever, because he grew up with it when he used to roll with black dudes back in the day. It is good, but like I said in my Keenon shit, this was what I expected from the internet. But don't get my meaning twisted, this shit is top-notch, and you would be best advised to DL this shit. This was easily the best group of the first round (and that most likely counts the last group as well from what we've heard so far).
MD: KEENON MIX - Swann did an east coast college mix set and Keenon ended up doing a southern flavored set for da club. Both mixes were really fucking great, but I ended up choosing the mix show over the club set because I really miss that mix format and I don't hear it enough because I hardly ever listen to the radio. I still advise everyone to download this mix too. I am really surprised that we've received so many gold star mixes and so little doo doo ones.
JD: Keenon is my mulatto homie, and I don't know if he could read my mind, but the "Flowers" into the Billy Squire was just fucking brilliant. "Flowers" is off Ghost's least-jocked - but not jocked enough in my heart - album Bulletproof Wallets. I love that shit. Keenon didn't throw any Wyclef on the album, and his mix made me want to see him do a live DJ set for just Raven, Mike, BWT, and I while we drink Woo-woo's in our flip flops and Jamz.
KM: Swann's mix is technically proficient, but he didn't really try anything that daring. There's only so much of that Preemo shit I can sit through at once. It's like he marked off a list of NYC boom-bap nerd cheap pops he knows other boom-bap nerds will probably go crazy for.
BIG L, check
NAS, check
KRS, check
LORD JAMAR, check
MASTA ACE, check
DJ PREMIER (or dudes who sound like him) the whole goddamn way through, check
And then he throws that one People Under The Stairs bit at the very end like a twig of parsley afterthought, so it doesn't come off like a Digging In The Crates circle jerk. So while I can't know for sure he did this thinking it would get in with fellow Xpert Rap Nerdz, I can know for sure that it was tedious after a while. I could get blazed to this but it would be depressing 10 minutes in.

THE NUMBER THREE MIX OF THIS SET:
MD: Choplaruski - I feel bad this dude got stuck in this group. I am a real big fan of the cut and paste style that he utilized here, but the song selection and the fact that Swann and Keenon were so pro about their shit made Chop get stuck down all the way at number 3.
JD: Choplaruski. You could have been a contender if there wasn't this GIANT FAG section of Wyclef butchering Pink Floyd, some Nickelback sounding shit, and the gayest Eminem song ever.
RM: I mega-dittos the Choplarockski. It made me really sad to hear that Wyclef/Pink Floyd shit. I wish Wyclef would fucking die. Lauryn Hill is crazy and shit, Praz is awol, and Wyclef is still the 3rd best Fugee.
KM: Chop's mixtape is high-end on that style that we've seen in the tourney so far. It's borderline blending, which is great in its own right - especially the Queen/Nas/(Dunno who that is) part. The Simple Minds/Collective Soul (not Nickelback!) was left field. Was that you putting in Usher saying "Yeah"? If so, good looking out. Z-Ro too. But yeah, a good chunk of this is the other kind of cheap pops I was talking about in the other bracket. Common, Kanye, and Wyclef. My first question is, why in the fuck is everyone using that "Dollar Bill" joint? If you'd stuck with either of the first two you went with, I would give you a pass on the Wyclef knock. I actually use that "Stayin Alive" remix at the club sometimes, and there's nothing wrong with old Fugees. Pras isn't AWOL, he was doing this documentary thing where he lived on Skid Row and may have smoked crack like Raven Mack. I read about it somewhere. This would put Pras at the head of the list, with Clef 2nd and Crazy Jesus Lauryn Hill dead-ass last. Wyclef Jean is an okay dude, I think this tourney has overexposed him to the panel and therefore ruined appreciation for the better parts of his oeuvre. Ooh yeah, $5 words. Bookending this with The Who was a nice touch, too - Mike and I both dug the "Gravel Pit" mash-up at the beginning. This was a tough bracket for the start-stop mixes, yup.

THE WORST MIX OF THIS SET:
RM: My man D-Mo does not indulge online, which is a good thing, and had no idea coming in of what type of music this blog would be into or anything. So basically he sat down and smoked a bowl one Sunday morning and put a mix on an actual cassette. I ripped it to the computer, but with internet welfare, had to take it to my boy the PSY/OPS house for him to up it to the internet. D-Mo's mix is universally (meaning EWA Clubhouse-wide) derided as the worst one thus far. And it is. But D-Mo's my boy, and there was one song on there I meant to ask him who did it so I could search out more shit by that dude. There was also stuff I never want to hear again.
JD: D-mo. This sucked hard, and I think I heard a Grateful Dead song in there. I can handle sucking in a cool sucking way like the kids from Seattle, but not in a "this really sucks" way. Go pretend to drink beer with Raven you dirty hippie.
MD: D-mo - You have to appreciate people that are detached from the internet, but yeah, like John said, I think I heard some Grateful Dead on here, and that will always get you last place in my book. The rest of it was pretty balls too. I think there was a song I liked on here but I can't remember now and I'm definitely not going back to check.
KM: First things first, ol' boy deserves props for being the one and only entrant in this whole fucking show with an actual mixtape recorded on cassette tape. Out of the four here, I rank it last. That said, it's not the worst one in the entire tournament because those Shaq Stomping prep schoolers win that by leaps and bounds. I don't care what John says, that one was fucking painful. I want to know what the song is after that Roots joint. And also that bluegrassy thing two songs after that. And also the last song. Grateful Dead's not my bag, but I can tolerate them in small doses. If not for the Modest Mouse-sounding shit in-between, I would probably rank this higher. Since I don't hate hippies (maybe because I don't know any), I could listen to this again if it came up on my winamp.

YOUR VOTE TIME:
Our pre-rankings has the shit set up at this point with Swann and Keenon with 10 pts, that Choplaruski cat with 4 pts, and my man D-mo at zero. Point values are doubled Family Feud style for the public poll, so you can pretty much decide which one between Swann's or Keenon's is best, though Choplaruski can make a strong showing and fuck shit up as well. I'm fairly certain the fourth group of four is set, so fuck off if you were thinking about doing one. Too late you lazy fucker.

FALL CLASSIC: 1st Rd. Group B

OVERVIEW: You probably know this shit already, or if you don't just scroll down or click the handy title bullshit at the bottom of this post and you'll see what's up. But this is a contest. I have been working on building a trophy and shit already. It's gonna be mantle-worthy like a motherfucker. This is the second group of four (out of sixteen entries), and we're up to like 13, so if you hurry the fuck up, you might still be able to get in. When we write our shit, it's me (RM), Mike DIKK (MD), John Dawson (JD), and Keenon Mobb (KM), but again, you probably already know that shit too. I just like to clarify because I don't want anyone accidentally thinking I like the same dumb shit John does. Unless I actually like the same dumb shit.
Oh yeah, on the last round finale tip, the public poll put the PSY/OPsogist with 17 votes, Mike DIKK with 14, Chivato with 5, and Emil with 4. Adding that bullshit to the other bullshit we ranked them, they finished with this total score breakdown...
PSYOPSogist - 16 pts
Mike DIKK - 14 pts
Chivato - 5 pts
Emil the Finnish dude - 1 pt
This means PSY/OPSogist moves into the final round bullshit where dudes (or lady dudes if applicable) make a 45 minute mix to please the internerd world. Big props to Emil and Chivato for sharing and jumping blindly into this thing with no real idea of how it was gonna actually work.

Here's this round of four's entrants...
ENTRANT #1: What It Is's I Ate Shit & All I Got Was This Stupid ID Tag mix - What It Is is the dude who does the Tree Beats blogspot, and he even included a really fresh cover for your iPod machine when you download his jam.
ENTRANT #2: Webconn's True Hip Hop Entertainment mix - These are some cats from up in the Pacifist Northwest doing their thang. Here's their myspace.
ENTRANT #3: Jay Pud's Dumpster Baby mix - Jay is Mike DIKK's homeboy from way way back when they both had red and black lumberjacks, with matching hats. Not to match the lumberjacks, but they wore matching hats. They were a crew. Jay Pud has not website, but he represents Weed, Sex, and Titties.
ENTRANT #4: Dart Adams'z Selected Songs from Mixtapes Better Than Albums List mixtape -
Dart is the man behind the Poisonous Paragraphs blog joint, and this is the mix he did.
And here's how us expert ass whiteboys ranked these four mixes (for winning purposes, what we rank as #1 gets 3 pts, #2 gets 2 pts, and #3 gets 1 pt; and the open public poll scores 6 pts for #1, 4 pts for #2, and 2 pts for #3, so your public consciousness is worth double and has the power to heavily sway but not completely overrule what we think)...

THE NUMBER ONE MIX OF THIS SET:
RM: I went with the Treebeats dude's mix, and honestly this could've gone either way with the Dart Adams mix or this one, as both caused me to enjoy things I probably wouldn't have given a fuck to bother with otherwise, but the Treebeats mix was actually one long continuous mix as opposed to a collection of mp3s. I have a new laptop that came pre-equipped with the worst computer virus ever called Vista, so everything fucks up regularly and nothing works like I would expect a technologically advanced machine to work to make my life easier. Instead it makes me cuss and want to smash it, and to be honest, as soon as I save up the ducats to buy a rebuilt super machine off my new-fangled gadgetry uber-genius bro-in-law, I will actually smash this thing with a sledgehammer. I mean, fuck this machine. But dl'ing a mix of songs, I don't know if that shit opened in the right order or not, so I don't even know if I listened to Dart's mix the way it was meant to be listened at. The Treebeats mix was standard hip hop stuff - good enough to take a spot in the 100 sleeve $1.50 CD-carrying case I got at the flea market, but not special enough to get left on the passenger seat for easy access and inevitable ruin.
MD: Like Raven said, this was one continuous mix, and the overall mixes in thie group were... lacking to say the least. The first half or so of this mix was just kind of there, but once that "I Get Money" instrumental with the "Top Billin'" acapella kicks in, it's awesome from that point forward.
JD: The Jay Pud mix - I loved this to death. Mike has said that Jay isn't the biggest hip hop fan in the world, but the dude opened his mixtape with some cover of the theme to Welcome Back Kotter, then went into Jay-Z? "Didn't I Blow Your Mind" into Camp-Lo? That shit is fucking brilliant. Maybe he didn't do it on purpose? But whatever, even if by chance he stuck those songs together, it is amazing.
KM: The Tree Beats mix. So far, this was the first entrant that's beat-blended in the strictest sense of that term. The first 6-7 minutes of this were a little slow, then it went into a Zion 1 song I actually tracked down (which is the sign of a good mixtape, definitely). It hit some more indy-ish stuff that was okay but didn't rock my world, but that faster piano one that kicks in after the RJD2 was fucking nice. The deal with "Top Billin'" reminded me of this shit I was obsessed with working into a set like 2 years ago where I segued from songs that use that BLANK IS CHILLIN, OTHER BLANK IS CHILLIN WHAT MORE CAN I SAY deal and ended up with the Audio Two. But then I got obsessed with reggaeton and dancehall at the same time that week, so it all turned to shit and that set got scrapped. Anyway, the blend on this one is solid. I hope he did it himself, or else my foot's in my mouth again. The last song on this was a good closer, too - someone tell me what it is. I could be wrong, but this had a West Coast Good Life/Project Blowed kinda feel to it. I could totally get blazed and chill with this on and be content for 30 minutes. It's got the proficiency along with a selection of music I haven't heard for the most part. It's also missing the cheap pops that a lot of the entrants seem to be running with for this contest (Premier, Kanye, Nas, Common and that one goddamn Wyclef song) , so that gives it bonus points in my world. I don't use iTunes, so I missed out on the hoohaw controversy entirely.

THE NUMBER TWO MIX OF THIS SET:
JD: The What It Is mix. I am going to agree with Madlib Dikk on this because the mix was blah until "Top Billin'", then it got much better. Bonus points for the pic of the peeing vagina. I am sure that will cause an upload or two.
RM: I put Jay Pud's mix at #2, and honestly, it might've even took the #1 spot if it wasn't for that goddamned "Lollipop" song. I don't know if it's on some latchkey Stand By Me retro bullshit tip, but I used to work with this half-retard black bitch with a jheri curl in 1997 type retard bitch, and all night long (we worked second shift), she would either sing "Lollipop" or that fucking "Sugar Pie Honey" song, constantly, both stupid sugar songs and her a stupid bitch and seriously, if I ever get rich, one thing I'm gonna do to abuse my riches and go find that bitch and stab her.
MD: I'm giving my boy Jay the number two spot here. I could have flipped a coin between his and Dart's mix, as Jay's is a bunch of mp3s of songs I've heard before versus Dart's bunch of mp3s of songs I've never heard before. I went with Jay's because I am stubborn and old and don't need to be hearing any new shit. There's nothing special here, but at the same time, there's nothing totally appalling.
KM: Jay Pud Fucking Badass. I can't hate on the entrants for submitting un-blended mixes (HI, SWANN!) because when I make mixtapes for people I know, I rarely blend them, I just don't have the time. A lot of the mixes have some unifying theme that doesn't involve the tempo anyway. I suppose that makes me a lesser mixtape artist, but most of the people I know like my shit. Anyway, to get back to Mr. Pud, I had to choose between this and the Dart mix. Since they're both a collection of songs, I had to weigh the strength of how I like the songs. It's not possible to determine intent if it's not declared, so I have to assume that Jay just got 9 songs he really fucking likes and zipped them hoes up for this. On that basis alone, I give the nod to Jay - not only is there Kotter, one of the nicest songs off Blueprint, the fucking Dramatics and Camp Lo (which may have been thrown in for Mike) and then a couple hiphop joints I could dig (WHY IS EVERYONE PUTTING IN WYCLEF, THOUGH?!?!) - Jay throws out his trump card with the Paperboy song. "Ditty" is one of the best jams ever. I wasn't gassed up for the stuff before it, but that one did it for me. I don't know any special "Lollipop" fans so that one didn't taint my lil' outburst.

THE NUMBER THREE MIX OF THIS SET:
MD: Dart took a bunch of songs from mixtapes and made his own mixtape out of them. It's a very postmodern idea. I wasn't a fan of most of this stuff on here, but I must say, that was my favorite Lupe Fiasco song I've ever heard because he doesn't seem to be talking about anime or robots or any other subject matter that would appeal to your average Hot Topic shopper. Also, the Scram Jones song is really good, but I think it more than shows that he's going to be one of those dudes that's known for his freestyles without ever being able to pull off a really great full length album. Oh, and lastly, this mix reminded me that I need to find that Kano mixtape on the internets one of these days.
RM: Yeah, I put Dart in the third spot too, and I felt bad because Poisonous Paragraphs is one of my favorite blogs. Actually, I'm lying. Dart's blog (as well as the recently discovered Invincible Bully blog) is one of those few blogs I mean to check every couple of days, but honestly, nobody really writes interesting shit on rap nerd blogs half the time, so I unfortunately build up that stereotype and then forget to check things like Dart's blog for like a month. Fuck it though. I guess the world doesn't want long-winded nonsense written meanderings so much as the latest mp3 to add to their ever-burgeoning collection of shit they'll never do anything more than put on an external hard drive.
JD: True Hip Hop Entertainment. Okay, if you haven't heard this shit, get on it. It is 100% serious so far as we can figure out, and the last freestyle made my sides hurt from laughing. I want to adopt all of these kids and finish my basement, so they can sit down there and crank out mixtape after mixtape. I give them credit for making a real mixtape. These dudes are trying to get on, and where else would you go to spread your word? Dumpin.fag, that's where. Oh, and fellas, next Seattle Mariners diss track, please namedrop Dave Valle.
KM: Dart Adams, M.D. The idea itself is interesting, but the songs didn't prop it up proper. The MOP and Consequence joints were nice, I could deal with the rest of them - it just left me a little cold. I'm one of those people that still thinks "Pump It Up" isn't that bad - my own blog people all think I'm odd for that one - the diss track isn't as good. At its core, I wind up comparing Jay and Dart - they both have competent Kanye choices, they both have varied rap picks, and a couple songs I could live without. I had to go with the one that made a mulatto say "daaaaaamn" and so this one lost out on that head to head.

THE WORST MIX OF THIS SET:
JD: Dart Adams mix. I love your blog, and feel bad sticking you last, but it was a mixtape of mixtape songs? It really bored me and was the hip hop muzak we always bitch about. This was a good block, and your mix may have went farther if we have a bracket with Diora, Forest Gump, a dead Ronald Reagan, and a piece of coal.
RM: I put the True Hip Hop Entertainment guys in last, though props to Web Conn for taking the leap and throwing his shit out there for complete strangers to shit all over. It kinda bummed me out though, because I have always hated that Whiteboyz movie because, to me, it's Danny Hoch - a New York Jew with hip hop love - stereotyping rural white fucks in the midwest and how bad they are to stereotype black people and rap music. But then I hear this T.H.E. stuff and I realize there are actually dudes like that, and that ruins all the comedic mockerying of Danny Hoch could do. It fucking sucks. I did some google research, and Federal Way is a suburb of Seattle, so these guys are apparently leaving bodies to rot in the sun on the outskirts of the Pacific Northwest's Emerald City.
At the same time, I hope these guys don't jump on a Greyhound and come to Albany, where both me and Mike DIKK live, and Shaq stomp the shit out of us. Because if they act this hard on a mixtape, they probably try to be at least a fourth that hard in real life from time to time.
MD: I don't even feel like talking about this. I'm not sure if these kids are joking around or if they're super serious about their rap careers. This is like Icy Hot Stuntaz bad, which would lead me to believe it's a joke; but at the same time, there's nothing that gives it away as a joke, and the kid who sent it to us and claimed it as his own, and the corresponding Myspace page aren't selling it as a joke, so who knows?
Anyway, you have a few kids fucking around with a computer mic rapping about wearing Shaq sneakers really badly. This is good for a few laughs, and I suggest everyone download this, but I'm going to wait until we are like three or four mixtape challenges in before I vote something like this number one and make the whole thing a total joke.
KM: The I can't zipfile mix. This reminded me of this one Jewish kid from New Jersey I e-knew on an old Delphi board who swore he had an IM rap battle with Kool Keith. At one point, he decided to come out with some shit called Count Dollars & DJ Chunky Irving, which was him making iffy beats and rapping with a voice filter about nigger dick and prison rape and cornbread. Dude thought he was breaking boundaries, always sent me tracks, and I never could figure out how serious he was about that shit. These Webconn kids sound like some 14 year olds playing with a karaoke machine. I wonder how much Crunchy Black charged them for a shout out or whatever. If there's a music video for anything these dudes have done, hit me up with a Youtube link - I imagine it's something worthy of that place in the mall where you can get a video for 15 bucks. These kids talk way too much about their dicks and fucking imaginary women that are probably fat guys typing on the internet from their mom's basement in Poughkeepsie. MUHFUKKKIN SHAQS! In other news, there's some real hard thugz living in Federal Way, WA if my experience at relay is any indicator. They even have deaf gangsters, yes that's plural on purpose. Raven's just acting though, he's got homemade Vietcong booby traps out on his property - you crazy Pacific Northwest Hoods better watch the fuck out or lose a foot.

YOUR VOTE TIME:
After our full-of-shit rankings, What It Is sits on top at 11 points, Jay Pud has 9, Dart Adams sinks in at 3, and True Hip Hop Entertainment has only 1 point. Basically, What It Is is in control, but points values are doubled with the public poll (6/4/2/0) so Jay Pud still has a chance to win and everybody else can be a spoiler. I think we're gonna do some wild card shit too where we do an extra poll for all the second place finishers to have a 5th wheel in the final round. Mike will set the poll up when he gets home from drinking. I think he's celebrating his birthday with unemployed binge partying for like the next three weeks. And I am far too hungover to try and figure out a motherfuckin' sparklit.

FALL CLASSIC: 1st Rd. Group A

OVERVIEW: So these are the first four mixes of the Fall Classic Mixtape showdown bullshit we announced the other week. There are 16 spots in the first round, with four-way match-ups, and the four winners will move into the final round showdown. First round mixes are roughly within 5 minutes either way of a 30 minute mix. We already have the next four entrants in the robot machines, so if you are amped to get in on this jam, it is first come first serve, no held spots since no one's word is worth a shit on the internet. Included below are the first four entrants, download links for you, the fabulous dumpin.net reader, so's you can listen and vote as well for your favorite of the four mixes. But me (Raven Mack or RM), Mike DIKK (MD), John Dawson (JD), and Keenon Mobb (KM) will give our rankings of the mixes. Here's what we're looking at this time round...

ENTRANT #1: Emil's Guide to Finnish Hip Hop - sent in by dumpin.net reader Emil Katanjahajarashna, and it's a sampler of the underground hip hop movement in Finland.
ENTRANT #2: The PSY-OPSogist's Any Day is a Good Day to Take Pills mix - done by the PSY-OPSogist who is the wacky beatmaker for my wacky rappitty group.
ENTRANT #3: Chivato's Mega-Mix - sent in by rap internerd homeboy Chivato of Chivato's Lounge.
ENTRANT #4: Mike DIKK's The Adventure's of Donnie, John John, and the Three Six Mafia - of course, it will be insinuated that Mike, being the main dude here at dumpin.net, has home field advantage, but trust me when I tell you, we probably hate our own shit more than anyone else could probably hate it. That's why we're all internet fags, it allows us the anonynimity to escape our own self-loathing, briefly.
And here's how us expert ass whiteboys ranked these four mixes (for winning purposes, what we rank as #1 gets 3 pts, #2 gets 2 pts, and #3 gets 1 pt; and the open public poll scores 6 pts for #1, 4 pts for #2, and 2 pts for #3, so your public consciousness is worth double and has the power to heavily sway but not completely overrule what we think)...

THE NUMBER ONE MIX OF THIS SET:
MD: The PSY-OPS mix - I was really looking forward to ranking my own mix at number one, but Emory is like a Level 60 Wizard at Ableton Live, and I'm only a Level 6 Housewife at using Audacity, which is an inferior and free software program. Don't get it twisted, I am internerd enough where I have a bootlegged copy of Ableton Live myself, but I just don't have the patience to learn how to use it right, so I'm stuck cutting and pasting with Audacity.
I'm personally looking more for technical skills and bells and whistles in this little contest because I could give a shit about what songs people want to put into mixes. Unless I'm fagging out to Diplo, all music is just there when it comes to mixes for me.
Emory has a real good mix of music and wacky tricks to keep you interested. I liked that one first song a lot, whatever it was, and that song after the one Willie Wonka sample, I don't know if Emory fucked with that in Ableton Live or if that's just the normal song, but that song was the shit. I have a feeling once I find out what the song is I'm going to hate myself for liking it though. Like it's going to turn out to be Godsmack or some shit.
Anyway, Emory has already set a high bar in this contest that not even I could topple, and I'm a fucking beast, let me tell you.
JD: Just knowing how much of a fuckhead music hermit I am, it is tough for me to really dig on something that isn't strictly hip hop and nothing but hip hop, but man Emory hit the spot. I don't know what the fuck Mike was talking about with his computer D&D wizard shit, but I listened to the music. That shit was fresh. It avoided the trendy hip hop nonsense or the trying to be too cute crap, and just was a half hour of song after song that didn't suck. And after listening to some of the other entrants, not sucking is the bar to set.
RM: Well, I gave the PSY-OPS a listen or two driving home from his house massively fucked up (that's right nerds, I drink and drive, call me Car-Hitler), and I dug the fuck out of his mix. But maybe I'm just trying to overly stay fair since I make music with Emory (aka the PSY-OPS) but I'm gonna pick Mike's Three Six Muhammad Ali say no to drugs LP mix as my number one. Mostly because I listened ot that tonight while driving to town drinking beer, and there's just something about really loud Three Six Mafia on the first cool October Friday night of the year, slamming some cold cheap cans of beer that you don't have to do anything more to than let sit on the floorboard of the truck since it's cold outside and you always ride around with the window down because of the rotten chickenbones lost somewhere behind the tools behind the bucket seats. So I went with Mike DIKK's mix.
KM: Mike's mix. I always wondered if Mike could mix, because he used to post up with some large mp3s that had awesome selection but would just shift from song to song. I don't wonder anymore - I just don't care. Dude made a blendernerd like me forget about it with all this. The switches are all smooth as shit, with or without overlapping between songs. The ongoing drug soundbites slide in and out perfectly. And I did roll 'round town this weekend bumping this in my factory speakers, but I didn't have any rolled blunt products. ICY WHITE HONEY BUN OOOH THERE I AM. This is better than a few Three Six mixtapes I've paid money for.

THE NUMBER TWO MIX OF THIS SET:
RM: Without a doubt, PSY-OPS goes here. We make shitty rap music together now, but eventually I'm gonna realize I'm too white and too old to be fucking around with this shit and I'm gonna settle down and write the thirty-seven novels I've outlined on stacks and stacks of notecards out in the camper, leaving PSY-OPS to make weird ambient soundtracks using samples and live instrumentation. If ever there was a motherfucker who I wanted to get a theremin, it'd be PSY-OPS, since he already has a Hammond organ. I think.
MD: The Donnie John John Three Six Mafia mix. Even if I didn't make this myself, it would be pretty hard to get me to hate on a mix of Three Six Mafia songs. All the extra vocal samples are from this record "The Dope King's Last Stand", and that shit is way out there. I haven't heard any other people sampling this record, but it wouldn't surprise me if there was some little Asian turntablist out there making an entire concept album based off of this record.
Also, Raven's right about Three Six Mafia in October. I think a lot of people may put their big singles in the Summer Music category, but Three Six is strictly fall music for me, which is why I put this together. I listened to Chapter 2: World Domination (that album has no songs featured on this mix though) and it got me so pumped for October and November.
I think if I really put in the effort to make this flawless I could have, with a good conscious, voted for myself over the PSY/OPS mix, but there's little shit here and there that I know could have been better, and of course it's only shit I would notice because I made the god damn thing, and I'm not going to point them out to you because then you'd start hating on it too and I wouldn't get the people's vote, so fuck you.
JD: Again, this really opened me up to shit I really fuckin' hate. I have always been one to jump in on hip hop trends to see if I dig on it, but southern hip hop has always eluded me. But Mike did a good job of mixing Three Six tracks and those awesome Dope King samples. The cocaine bit going into the Three Six cocaine track was brilliant. It really sucks that Emory and Mike are in the same bracket, because their two mixes have been the ones that I have been listening to over and over. But I put Emory's ahead of Mike's because the southern shit started to wear on me near the end of the mix.
I also have to give Mike credit because I expected a mix of all Madlib/DJ Shadow/Diplo vomit, but he flipped it, and I appreciate that. No homo.
KM: The PSY-OPS mix. Emory's got the kind of mash-shit-together mentality that I can get behind. The only thing on this that I could recognize offhand was Scarface, but the rest of it was chill as fuck and made for a good drive a couple nights ago. I would brave the wilds of the wilderness to go to an S.E.P. party just to hear what kind of odd ideas Emory and Raven would bust out with after getting tanked and smoking whatever flavor of crack Raven's debuting that weekend.
After re-listening to both, I would actually like to declare a tie between Mike and Emory, but that would do a disservice to our hallowed internet traditions of ranking. They might throw me out of the club if I fuck up the ballot. The end was especially trippy, and the first time I listened to all these, the Finnish mix hit immediately afterward on my computer. I thought that the three minutes of haunting tambourine/guitar/sax solo was the intro to that mix until burning them. That would've fucked me up if I wasn't sober.

THE NUMBER THREE MIX OF THIS SET:
MD: Chivato's Megamix. Chivato included a little read me file with his mix where he was man enough to admit he didn't do the blends featured on here. That was nice because a couple of us thought he did them himself. Either way, I put this in the third spot because there's a lot of music on here I'm really not into and DJ blends seem to accentuate any type of music you don't like by making it more annoying. I do appreciate that he went through the trouble of mixing it all together instead of just presenting a bunch of mp3 files.
RM: Yeah, I got Chivato at the #3 spot as well, and he gets credit for jumping in blindly, because after listening to this first round of four, most people will learn what we think are good mixes in our expert whiteboy minds. There's nothing noticeably wrong with Chivato's mix, but there's nothing noticeably awesome about it either. I think it's more the result of mixtape culture being so warped. So many shitty throw-together mixtapes come out every week nowadays that no one understands mixing and blending and having something echo throughout the mixtape other than your own name shouted into a headphone used as a microphone. I could give a fuck about some new great mix or a current song on a mixtape because for me, and perhaps only me, a mixtape is in contention to be in my lifetime cycle of shit I play. I still fucking play my Tony Touch reggae mixes, plus Tony Touch #55. Also my DJ Bee best of Wu mixtape. Having flavor of the month flavors in abundance does not make for timeless classics, just passing flashes of "Oh shit, I never heard that." Fuck DJs who brag upon so-called exclusives.
I should also mention all of that is in no way related to Chivato's mix either, just more a general rant against today's mixtape culture. But if you like that shit and dl 17 mixtapes a day, you should definitely check out Chivato's shit too. Although when the fuck are you gonna listen to all this shit, man?
JD: Chivato. To just prevent saying how mediocre Chivato's mix was, I decided to google his name and see what it meant in English. Chivato can be translated into stool-pigeon, sneak, or tattletale. Interesting, because as Mike stated, the kid admitted he bit the blend off someone else, which is a shame. If he really made the mix, I would have definitely gave him props, but is that what this is really about? In my opinion, fuck no. Mike and Emory put some effort into it not just taking songs and putting them back to back. This was a blend, but not his. Truthfully, if I could understand a word of what the Finnish dude sent in, he would be above the rat fink.
KM: The Finnish mix. I have re-evaluated my initial response to this. Some of the beats are a little too Def Juxy for my taste, but there are some definite oddball gems. About three minutes in, I liked that one a lot. At first, I had trouble getting into the lyrics, but after a few spins my ears just decided to treat them like an instrument and then my brain stopped seizing up with the "I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE SAYING" response. I do the same shit in my own mixes (only it's usually Spanish music) and so it was different (and later pleasant) to have no clue what people are saying but still be able to enjoy the music itself. The only thing I absolutely recognized was that "Still Not A Player" guitar/piano, that was a hoot. I like to imagine the dude's rapping about being a 300 lb. Finnish mack daddy, regardless of what he's actually saying. In closing, I am glad I got to listen to this and I wonder what the hip-hop scene is like in Finland now. I mean is it like some NYC backpacker shit? Europe shows love to Houston dudes too, though - I'm curious now. I need to see charts.

THE WORST MIX OF THIS SET:
JD: Finnish mix. Hey man, whoever you are, I am sorry. Bro, I didn't listen to more than about a minute and a half of that mix you sent in. I appreciate you trying to scrape together a whole mess of songs in some Nordic language, but I couldn't deal with it. I would rather have sat through every Lil Wayne mixtape ever than sit through a half hour of substandard beats with some odd language over it. Sorry dude, but you lose.
MD: Emil's Guide To Finland Mix (I made that name up). I feel bad putting this last, because I was probably the only person out of all of us that was looking forward to hearing this. I do enjoy hearing hip hop from other countries, but I hardly ever seek it out myself, because if you do, you're going in blindly and might end up with something like DJ Sven & MC Miker G. At the same time, if you seek out something as obscure (to Americans at least) as foreign language hip hop and someone catches you, it makes you look like some cocky prick who is just trying to be different.
With that said, I couldn't get down with the Finnish hip hop. I'm guessing all the songs on here were done by different guys, and they all kind of blend together and sound the same. That may be because of my ignorance, but I don't know. I do appreciate the cajones it takes to send a mix of weird foreign rap to a bunch of Americans for a contest that will probably feature all English speaking music outside of that. If this grouping of mixes wasn't so strong, I would have probably bumped this up one or two spots just for that, but that's why you get fucked when you go first sometimes. Either way, this was still way better than French speaking hip hop.
KM: Chivato's mix. The intro on this left me a little cold, but I don't like the Beatles. I'm not normal. The blends reminded me of how the cottage industry of Nas remix projects existed because someone put out like every single one of his acapellas. The blends were done a whole lot better than I'm used to hearing - the Jay/Talib combination was a good idea. The Lil Wayne and Kanye kinda stuck out like a sore thumb in the middle. The back and forth between different Jay and B.I.G. acapellas was a bit distracting, but it was interesting and really well done. This reminded me of when I used to enjoy Common a lot more than I do now, too.
RM: Yeah, I threw the Finnish mix in last too, which bummed me out. I'm a linguistics dork and can get into foreign hip hop fairly easily. But for me, there has to be some local flavor, like weird linguistics foreign language over a completely different sampled music homebase and musical influences and shit like that. Like if you listen to Korean hip hop or Senegalese hip hop, there's some odd ass (to my American ears) localized bullshit going on. I dig that. This Finland hip hop mix was like shitty mixtapes over top of American beats. That made it suck for me. The foreign language just added to the problem when it was recognizable samples and all, but with some crazy white hocking sound language over top that shit. I am thankful Emil sent this shit in though, and it'd be interesting to see what kind of mix he'd send in if he had a second chance, knowing we weren't Americanized super-faggots who just wanted to hear our own shit but with some crazy lingo over top.

YOUR VOTE TIME:
So from our expert whiteboy rankings, going into public poll for a week (or so), it stands like this... The PSY/OPS mix - 10 pts, Mike DIKK's mix - 10 pts, Chivato's mix - 3 pts, and Emil's Finnish hip hop mix - 1 pt. So basically, you vote for your favorite, but only the PSY/OPS or Mike DIKK shit can win mathematically. But fuck it, whatever you like the most vote for. This ain't no anybody but Bush bullshit, you vote for who you like, even if it's third party. The winner next week, when we throw up the second group of four mixes, will move on to the final round in a month or so. So yeah, vote in the poll in the sidebar and shit. Or die.

FALL CLASSIC Mixtape Update

If you missed the original post about this WONDERFUL AMAZING TRULY ONE OF A KIND contest, go right here and read up on the rules and ENTER RIGHT NOW!!


We are doing this crap First Come First Served. So every four mixes get put into a group. Right now we have 7 in, so the first group is done and we're waiting for Raven's dial up to download a couple 30MB files within a few days. I'm personally hoping E.T. comes down from space and touches that shit with his glowing finger to speed up the slow rural Virginia internet for him.

Anyway, this is how group A is lined up.


Chivato, representing Chivato's Lounge
Emil representing Finland
Mike Dikk representing the Dumpin Home Field Advantage
Emory, representing the PSy/Opsogist

Group B Lineup:

What It Is representing Tree Beats
Jay Pud representing WST
Web Conn (?) representing something or other.
Dart Adams representing Poisonous Paragraphs

Here's some other people that showed interest but haven't provided a mix yet.

Raven Wack
BWT
Keenon
DJ Rah-Bee
Nate Science Gone Mad
Travis WYDU
Patrique Allah

We are still looking for people to fill this out, so please tell your friends and promote this on your website/Myspace/local bulletin board if you know of anyone who would be interested.

Hopefully the Group A mixes, reviews, rankings and voting polls will be up within the week.

FALL CLASSIC - call for combatants

Me and Mike are always brainstorming ideas about how to involve you - the average fool wasting your life trapped inside internetz - within this blog. I will install AOL instant messenger, and we’ll coordinate gravity bong hits at our respective homes, and then chat about things we can do to make this blog (and previously the other xpertwhiteboyz one as well) more interesting, entertaining, and attention-ensnaring to the attention deficit disorder world we all live up on the top of.
Here is our latest motherfucking idea, that will sink or swim depending upon the outside involvement of other people. We call it the DUMPIN.NET MIXTAPE CHALLENGE FALL CLASSIC, thinking that if it goes over well, we might be able to do it again in the spring, and if it goes over but not awesomely well, we could do it again next fall and try it again, and if nobody responds to this post at all, then fuck it, congratulations internet for pissing on another stupid idea’s spark before it even had half a chance to catch fire.
So here’s the deal... we are taking emails for involvement (either at mikedikk at the gmails dot com or ravenmack at the gmails dot com) to be up in this piece. It will work like so... 16 chosen individuals (and there’s a good chance me and mike will be up in the mix) will be broken down into four groups of four, who will all make a 25 to 30 minute megamix of whatever theme they want. This mix can be hip hop basically, or not hip hop at all, it can be theme-related, you can rar together rare mp3s or you can make a continuous mix in audacity or protools or whatever the fuck you want. Shit, you can make your own beats and rhyme over them or play guitar by a bonfire while a 4-track records that shit. But for the first round, rules are keep it between 25 to 30 minutes. All four folks for each of the first round four-fool battles will upload their shit, and basically moving on will work like this. Me and Mike will rank those shits one through four (on each list 1st gets 3 pts, 2nd gets 2 pts, and 3rd gets 1 pt, with 4th being zero). Me and Mike will upload the four mixes to internet file sharing devices (meaning Mike since I’m still on internet welfare), and we’ll make a post laying out our views on the mixes and our rankings. A poll will go up where the rest of the world gets to vote for whatever mix (or mixes, you can vote multiple votes in one vote) is the shit, and the internetz poll will have the same points 1st through 4th shit we had. Winner moves into the finals. We have four first round four-man battles, and maybe whatever one non-winner shows and proves the best will be a fifth wild card in the final as well. Finals will be the same deal, but a 35 to 40 minute mix, to highlight your music dorkery to the fullest. After that round, winner will receive a prize package (thus far, I have promised to spray paint an empty forty bottle gold and hand paint the winner’s name on it and Mike said he’d probably get an XXL subscription or something) and also the completely useless accolades of other internet dorks.
So hit us up on the emails and let’s fill up this 16-person field and share music the way it was meant to be shared - not just uploaded for downloading ease but mixed together in odd and highly personal ways.

update: 8 spots filled. we are adding 2 auxiliary spots because we know people can be deadbeats sometimes. sign up soon!