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| ARTIST : Basick Mentality |
| ALBUM : Basick Mentality |
| GENRE : Hip-Hop |
| LABEL : 90's Tapes |
| CATNR : 90STAPES133.3 |
| LANGUAGE : English |
| YEAR : 2025 |
| SOURCE : CDDA |
| DATE RIPPED : 12-19-2025 |
| STREET DATE : 12-16-2025 |
| URL : http://www.discogs.com/release/35847214 |
| ENCODER : FLAC 1.3.1 |
| SETTING : compression-level-8 |
| QUALITY : 920 kbps Avg 44.1kHz / 2 channels |
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| 01 Paradise 4:19 |
| 02 Disaster's Yours 4:29 |
| 03 Baby Girl (Skit) 0:43 |
| 04 Baby Girl 4:37 |
| 05 Fresh 4 U 3:49 |
| 06 Fuck It 0:50 |
| 07 The Bad Days 4:27 |
| 08 Slingin' Slugs 1:18 |
| 09 Nuts Hang 4:00 |
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| TOTAL SIZE : 9 Files_206.6MB_________________________TOTAL 28:32 |
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| "This album was born in Southeast Washington, D.C., in the winter |
| of 1992 ù a place where music was survival, loyalty was everything, |
| and talent had to fight for air. That's where a young rapper named |
| Eric Jones, soon to be known as Vice Versa, began carving out a |
| legacy that never got the shine it deserved. Vice Versa came up |
| with his childhood friend Stan, a local DJ with crates full of |
| vinyl and a hunger that matched his own. They spent nights in |
| basements looping beats and freestyling until sunrise - sharpening |
| a sound that mixed D.C. grit with New York lyricism. Word spread. |
| Battles were won. Open mics were crushed. A voice was rising out of |
| Southeast. |
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| Everything changed when a street-connected visionary named Baron |
| "B" Flemings stepped in with money, ambition, and a belief in |
| Vice's raw talent. Alongside him came E-Boogie (Eric Kennedy), a |
| young industry insider with D.C. roots and New York access. |
| Together they formed Rage One Recordings - a label funded by |
| hustle, heart, and the kind of grind nobody teaches in music |
| school. The sonic backbone of Rage One was Scotty Beats, a gifted |
| engineer/producer who lived inside Horizon Studio and transformed |
| raw ideas into polished records. With Scotty behind the boards and |
| Vice Versa behind the mic, the crew began shaping the project that |
| would become Basick Mentality. |
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| Tracks like "Paradise," "All Around The World," "Guts & Glory," and |
| "Let Your Nuts Hang" were born during this era - created with |
| passion, pressure, and the belief that D.C. had something to say. |
| The team opened for legends like Busta Rhymes and EPMD, rehearsing |
| day and night, chasing the breakthrough they knew was coming. The |
| self-titled album has been released in limited quantities on CD |
| only in 1997. But real life hit harder than any beat. As the team |
| expanded its operations to Los Angeles and met with major labels, |
| street life and circumstance took their toll. Jail time, mismanaged |
| funds, broken trust, and life's responsibilities pulled the crew |
| apart just as the music was reaching its peak. |
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| Then tragedy struck. In the same year, both pillars of this project |
| - Scotty Beats and Vice Versa - were murdered. Two brilliant lives |
| gone. Two futures erased. Two brothers lost forever. Scotty was |
| killed protecting his property. Vice Versa was killed in a robbery |
| in the same neighborhoods he once electrified with his voice. For |
| years, the music was lost - buried in memories, scattered across |
| cities, carried only by those who refused to let the story die. |
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| This re-release is more than a project. It is a resurrection. A |
| tribute. A testament to a crew that gave everything. To Vice Versa. |
| To Scotty Beats. To Rage One. To the dream that lived, died, and |
| now lives again. |
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| This is Basick Mentality. The world finally gets to hear it." |
| - Eric "E-Boogie" Kennedy |
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