Goodie Mob vs Lonnie Liston Smith – Dirty South (JChan Cosmic Wah Remix)

The Dirty South rises again on this version I flipped with a bass loop from Lonnie Liston Smith’s ‘Cosmic Funk.’

Ruthless Bastards – Ruthless Bastards (JChan Nautilus Remix)

Flipped this track by the slept-on NYC crew (and Wu Tang affiliate) Ruthless Bastards with a sample from Blundetto (ftg Shawn Lee’s) cover of Bob James’s ‘Nautilus.’

Kool Keith – Let Me Talk to You (JChan Hush Remix)

My take on Kool Keith’s ‘Let Me Talk to You’ from his slept-on 2001 album ‘Masters of Illusion.’

AZ – What is It All About (JChan LIfesabitch Remix)

Blended AZ’s ‘What is it All About” with his signature verse from “Life’s a Bitch” on this remix.

Common ftg Nas – Ghetto Dreams (JChan Shakem Remix)

Nine – Any Emcee (JChan Alien Remix)

Love Nine’s roughneck flow. Flipped this with a loop sampled from Ananda Shankar’s “Raghupati.” 

Biggie Smalls vs John Lee Hooker and Canned Heat – Notorious (JChan Fairchild Remix)

These cats were proving that White Men can feel the blues long before The Black Keys (who I dig immensely). Used a sample from their 1971 collabo with John Lee Hooker on Biggie’s “Notorious.”

Nas vs Elvin Jones & Richard Davis – Street Dreams (JChan Heavy Shit Remix)

Elvin Jones and Richard Davis’s “Heavy Sounds” forms the bassline for this remix of Nas’s “Street Dreams.”

Elephant Man – Haters Wanna War (JChan Madame X Remix)

Elephant Man, remixed in a David Lynch stylee, with samples from Chance’s “Striptease de Madame X” off of Soul Jazz’s “The Sexual Life of Savages” compilation of Brazilian post-punk.

Onyx ftg Biohazard – Judgement Night (JChan Piledriver Remix)

Early rap-rock collabos were pretty hit-or-miss – in the case of the Judgment Night soundtrack, it was mostly miss. Given both groups’ penchants for screaming, Onyx’s collaboration with Biohazard (in the wake of their early 90s uber-meathead anthem “Slam,” one of the first musical bridges between the ghetto and the trailerpark) was one of the better tracks on the ’93 release. I think it would have sounded much better like this: