I was also able to include some independent artists that I have the pleasure of knowing:

The Cross Country Collective is a group made up of Fave, Mr. Fresh and Todd Kelley. I know you have heard all three voices in my mixtapes because they are some of the founders of the Music Podcast Consortium.  My big brothers put together a virtual group and released their first EP. I’m so proud of them and I know you will love their track “Give It To Ya”.

It was also through C3 that I got to know and love Philip Clark. Philip Clark was born with Rhythm & Blues in his blood, despite being the only funky white boy of his kind to hail from Wyoming. A natural performer since childhood, he continued to hone his aural talents with a formal degree in music and thereafter in some of the best venues and studios in the Rockies. . In 2001, he released his debut, “The State of Blue-Eyed Soul,” which held Top-10 positions on several radio charts. He now lives in Los Angeles and is currently producing his sophomore effort, “The Dreamchilde Suites.” I included his single “World Turns Around”. It’s such a great track and I’m looking forward to featuring him again soon..

One last special mention goes out to my boy  Kristopher Lamont. A Detroit native, I met Kris at a Michael Jackson Memorial concert held at SOB’s by Soulbounce and Eric Roberson.  “Change” is Kristopher’s first track as an independent artist and was recorded with Maurice “Moe” Whitsett. Presently, work is being put in with Keith “Bubby” Webb on Kristopher’s debut album looking to be released in the winter. His voice is buttery, velvety and quite polished and there is already a buzz about town for this upcoming act from Detroit. “I want to touch people with my voice. I came to bring love to all through my music. Even when I’m singing about things that might not make one smile, it’s to say, – hey, I’ve been through that too and I hope this song gets you through.” I have to say I love this track and it quickly became one of my theme songs!

Below is what Suezette had to say on her site:

“I am blessed beyond measure.

Every single day I thank the Creator for blessing me with the beautiful and talented spirits S/He has placed in my life. One of those spirits is my lovely big sister DJ Diva…your favorite blogger’s favorite DJ.  I met Diva via the matrix over 7+years ago and it’s been love ever since.  Besides being one of the most amazing women I have the pleasure of calling my friend…she’s also an ill DJ and the fairy godmother of podcasting (you better ask about her!!).

It made perfect sense when I was thinking about what I wanted to do to officially announce the return of DearZette that I collaborate with the lovely DJ Diva. This is our THIRD mixtape collaboration and while it’s not as sexy as our other mixtapes…the goodness is all still there. Featuring some of my favorites like Jill Scott, Eric Roberson, Cee-Lo Green, and Bilal…her Monday Mixtape in honor of my return to blogging is sure to leave you feeling good!

New motivation…new site design…new groove….neo-soul.  All about the new new yall!”

Tracklisting:

1. Jill Scott ft. Anthony Hamilton – So In Love

2. Mary Mary – Walking

3. Darien – Just Can’t Wait

4. Zo! – This Could Be The Night ft. Eric Roberson, Darien Brockington & Rapper Big Pooh

5. Anthony David – Let Me In

6. Cross Country Collective – Give It 2 Ya

7. Nicolay & Peter Hadar – Watermelon

8. Big Boi Feat. Janelle Monáe – Be Still

9. Cee Lo Green – I Want You

10. Philip Clark – World Turns Around

11. Kristopher Lamont – Change

12. Jennifer Hudson – Angel

13. Adele – Rolling In The Deep

14. Amy Winehouse – It’s My Party

15. Solange Knowles – I Decided

16. The Foreign Exchange – If This Is Love ft. Yahzarah

17. Eric Roberson – Still (DJ Kemit, Ahmed Sirour Remix)

18. Nicolay – I Love The Way You Love Ft. Darien Brockington

19. Bilal – Something To Hold On To

20. Jazmine Sullivan – L.O.V.E ReMiX

21. The Foreign Exchange – Maybe She’ll Dream Of Me

22. Jesse Boykins III- Amorous

23. Janelle Monae – Say You’ll Go

24. Zo! & Phonte – Return Of The Mack ft Tigallo the Tay God

Hey Everybody! What a way to close out the year! Kanye’s new album “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” has been on constant repeat in my headphones for the last 3 weeks so I built this mixtape around him. I threw in some new joints, had to look out for Harlem and the Dipset Reunion! That new song by Brandy sounds like a Ne-Yo song and speaking of Ne-Yo, I threw in a couple by him too! Considering that it was Pink Friday last week, I included some Nikki Minaj. Personally I think Lil Kim roasted her in Black Friday so that’s in the mix too!

I love love love hip hop with an alternative sound so there’s sone Lupe Fiasco, Bruno Mars and some Eminem with Rhianna (I LOVE THAT SONG)

Anyway, this is the last of the new music mixtapes! Enjoy and I hope 2011 is even better musically!

Track Listing

1. All of Lights- Kanye West
2. What’s My Name – Rhianna ft. Drake
3. Feel Good – Eric Benet ft. Faith Evans
4. I Can’t Wait – Brandy
5. Love Letter – R. Kelly
6. Not Stupid – Ne-Yo
7. Go Cinderella – Jim Jones, Juelz Santana & Cam’ron
8. Hot Tottie – Usher ft. Jay-Z
9. Hell of a Life – Kanye West
10. That’s My B*tch – Kanye West ft. Jay-Z
11. Roman’s Revenge – Nikki Minaj ft. Eminem
12. Black Friday – Lil Kim
13. Devil in a Blue Dress – Kanye West
14. You Get On My Nerves – Jazmine Sullivan ft. Ne-Yo
15. Blame Game – Kanye West ft. John Legend, Chris Rock
16. I Love The Way You Lie (Piano Version) – Rhianna
17. I Love The Way You Lie – Eminem ft. Rhianna
18. The Other Side – Bruno Mars ft. Cee-Lo, B.O.B
19. Never Forget You – Lupe Fiasco ft. John Legend

Hey Everybody!!! I’m back from vacation down in Memphis, TN!!!!

This is the first of 4 mixtapes that were inspired while I was on my vacation. Bobby Womack Vs David Ruffin. Both were powerhouses in the R&B scene during the 70′s and early 80′s and my heart has a soft spot for both of them. Most of my younger audience will probably not recognize any of the music…but I’m sure you’ll pick up the beats to some of your favorite rap songs.

I hope you really enjoy this! Long Live R&B!!

Track Listing

01 – You’re Welcome, Stop On By – Bobby Womack
02 – Common Man (Never Change) – David Ruffin
03 – Woman’s Gotta Have It – Bobby Womack
04 – Nobody Wants You When You’re Down And Out – Bobby Womack
05 – Smiling Faces – David Ruffin
06 – California Dreaming – Bobby Womack
07 – Can We Make Love One More Time – David Ruffin
08 – Across 110th Street – Bobby Womack
09 – I Can’t Stop The Rain – David Ruffin
10 – Daylight – Bobby Womack
11 – Walk Away From Love – David Ruffin
12 – I Can’t Understand It – Bobby Womack
13 – My Whole World Ended – David Ruffin
14 – Looking for a Love – Bobby Womack
15 – How I Miss You Baby – Bobby Womack
16 – Sweet Caroline – Bobby Womack
17 – I Got a Thing for You – David Ruffin
18 – I Wish He Didn’t Trust Me So Much – Bobby Womack
19 – Just Let Me Hold You For A Night – David Ruffin
20 – If You Think You’re Lonely Now – Bobby Womack
21 – I Miss You – David Ruffin

Hey everybody! I hope you enjoyed your Memorial Day and used my BBQ Mix to groove to while you cooked that good food!

This week’s mix is continuing my series of slow jams. I created a new category on the side to help you find them. I’ve had 70′s Heartbreak,  Babymaking Music, Secret Lovers, Sexcellence, Isley Brothers Ballads and of course my 3 Annual CupidHunt Podcasts:

Sexy Music by Sexy Men

80′s Ladies Love

Neo Soul Love

This time I wanted some love music from the late 80′s and 90′s male singers. I’m real partial to all male mixtapes as you can see. It almost feels like they singing to me. I hope you enjoy it and please let me know if yall make any babies off these slow jam mixes

Track Listing

1. Ribbon In The Sky – Intro
2. Christopher Williams – All I See
3. Johnny Gill – Lady Dujour
4. Baby Face – Sunshine
5. Jon B -I Do (Whatcha Say Boo)
6. Blackstreet – Happy Home
7. Jodeci – Forever My Lady
8. Keith Sweat – Make It Last Forever
9. Al B Sure – Naturally Mine
10. Prince – Adore
11. Tony Toni Tone – Whatever You Want
12. Gerald Levert – Baby I’m Ready
13. Jodeci – Love U 4 Life
14. Dru Hill – These Are The Times
15. Babyface – Soon As I Get Home
16. Jon B – They Dont Know
17. Maxwell – Lifetime

Happy New Year Everybody!

The new year is starting out great for me…I’ve been pulled back into my old hustle of making customized mixtapes. I had so much fun with this one. This is the story:

One of my good friends L put me in touch one of her friends who was having a cruise ship wedding. When it was determined that my schedule wouldn’t allow me to go to DJ for her, she still wanted a mixtape of her and the groom’s favorite songs done by me. She arranged for the ship’s DJ to allow her to play the cd. Now I know he ain’t gonna be happy when he see them having a ball to my set and sitting during his…but…that’s not my problem.

We contracted a nice rate, she sent me her list of 50 songs. I pared that down to 34 and I produced a pretty tight mix. Matter of fact…the mix was so good I needed to share it with yall too. It has everything on it from hip-hop to soca. A little reggae, some R&B and of course some old school. This is not the final mix that I’m producing for her but it will be very similar with specialized drops and such.

I will be hyping my customized mixtapes for hire in the future so i hope you email me at djdivathemixtress@gmail.com if you have need for something special. For my friend L I made her cds for her 30th b’day with a song from each year of her birth. She gave them out a party favors on her b’day trip to Vegas! I’m also excited about this because I know my niche is small parties and weddings. There will be more info forthcoming about contracting me for that.

Enjoy the mix!

Track Listing
1. Everybody – Anthony Hamilton (The Bride and Groom’s song)
2. Before I Let Go – Frankie Beverly & Maze
3. Outstanding – Gap Band
4. You Called And Told Me – Jeff Redd
5. Let’s Get Married (Remix Run DMC) – Jagged Edge
6. Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) – Beyonce
7. Get Me Bodied – Beyonce
8. Check the Ryhme – A Tribe Called Quest
9. Hypnotized – Notorious B.I.G.
10. Say Aah – Trey Songz
11. In the Club – 50 Cent
12. Baby By Me – 50 Cent Ft. Ne-Yo
13. Stay With Me – Neyo
14. Step In The Name Of Love (remix) – R. Kelly
15. Empire State Of Mind – Jay-Z Ft. Alicia Keys
16. Life (Is What You Make It) – Frighty & Colonel Mite
17. No Letting Go – Wayne Wonder
18. Party Time (Diwali Riddim) – Danny English ft. Eggnog
19. Tempted to Touch – Rupee
20. Turn Me On – Kevin Lyttle
21. Groove Me – Guy
22. Poison – Bell Biv Devoe
23. Wanna Be Starting Something – Michael Jackson
24. Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough – Michael Jackson
25. PYT (Pretty Young Thing) – Michael Jackson
26. Closer – Ne-Yo
27. Million Dollar Bill – Whitney Houston
28. What Happens In The Party – Rupee
29. Dollar Wine – Byron Lee & The Dragonaires
30. Carnival – Destra Ft. Machel
31. Freakum Dress – Beyonce
32. Put It In A Love Song – Alicia Keys Ft. Beyonce
32. Miss Independent – Ne-Yo
33. Do I Do – Stevie Wonder
34. Gonna Have A Funky Good Time – James Brown

(THE CD VERSION OF THIS MIX CAN BE PURCHASED HERE)

This the last new music Monday Mixtape of the year…It also marks the second anniversary of the day I bought my domain www.themixtress.com ! I’ve had a lot of fun this year with the new music mixtapes:

Monday Mixtape: March Madness

Monday Mixtape: Mellow May

Monday Mixtape: August Heat

Monday Mixtape: New York October

This is my December Mix aka The Usual Suspects. I’ve been listening to a lot of new albums these past few weeks and I’m proud to say that my favorite singers came hard! Say what you will about R. Kelly, Chris Brown and Alicia Keys but their artistic work stands firm. Hardships, mistakes and even crimes cannot take away their talent. I hope you enjoy the mix!

1. Put It In A Love Song – Alicia Keys Ft Beyonce
2. Do My Ladies Run This Party – Cupid
3. Ain’t Leavin Without You – Jaheim (Fave)
4. Be My #2 – R. Kelly
5. I Love The DJ – R. Kelly (BSOTS)
6. Bad Romance – Lady Gaga
7. Girlfriend – Chris Brown Ft Lupe Fiasco
8. Maniac – Timbaland Ft. Keri Hilson, Chris Brown & D.O.E
9. Hole In My Head – Rihanna Ft Justin Timberlake
10. Love Come Down (Remix) – Dirty Money Ft Red Cafe (Eve)
11. Secret (Remix) – Starr Ft Jim Jones & Juelz Santana
12. Meiplé (Me I Play) – Robin Thicke Ft. Jay-Z
13. God In Me (Remix) – Mary Mary
14. I’m Poppin’ – Freekey Zekey Ft Jim Jones
15. Hurt – Dirty Money Ft Drake
16. Empire State Of Mind Pt. 2 (Broken Down) – Alicia Keys
17. Sleeping With A Broken Heart (Remix)- Alicia Keys
18. I Am – Mary J. Blige (Mr. Fresh)
19. Echo – R. Kelly
20. Elsewhere – R. Kelly (EJFlavors)
21. Don’t Matter To Me – Marsha Ambrosius
22. If I Knew Then – Lyfe Jennings
23. Crawl – Chris Brown

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Hey Everybody! I had more requests for the 90′s so this time I went mid late 90′s. Full of the bouncy R&B joints and since I spent the weekend with hubby, I threw in a few joints for him too. He’s been playing my Mellow May and August Heat mixtapes a lot in the last two weeks so I know this will make it onto his Ipod as well. I experimented and practiced more with the techniques I learned at the Scratch Academy..Sometimes it worked…sometimes I didn’t quite hit the mark..I’m a work in progress. Despite the minor flaws I’m sure you’ll love it as much as I do!

Special thanks to my podcast crew for their drops. If you want to submit one or hype yourself in my mix…send me a 12 sec or less mp3 file to djdivathemixtress@gmail.com

Track Listing

1. Touch Me, Tease Me – Case ft Foxy Brown & Mary J. Blige
2. If Your Girl Only Knew – Aaliyah (EJFLAVORS)
3. Too Close – Next
4. Wifey – Next (FAVE)
5. Put Your Hands Where – Busta Rhymes
6. Dangerous – Busta Rhymes (TODDKELLEY)
7. I’ll Be – Foxy Brown & Jay Z
8. I Love the Dough – Notorius B.I.G. ft Jay-Z and Angela Winbush
9. Ruff Ryders Anthem Remix (Clue) – DMX, Jadakiss, Styles, Drag-on & Eve
10. How It’s Goin’ Down – DMX (MRFRESH)
11. Renee Remix – Lost Boyz
12. No Scrubs – TLC
13. Jumpin’ Jumpin – Destiny’s Child (EVE)
14. Steelo – 702 ft. Missy Elliott (BSOTS)
15. Doin It – LL Cool J
16. I Get Around – Tupac ft. Digital Underground
17. Deja Vu (Uptown Baby) – Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz
18. Danger (Been So Long) – Mystikal
19. Back That Ass Up – Juvenile
20. Gone Til November RMX – Wyclef Jean ft. Canibus, John Forte, R.Kelly
21. Anything (Old Skool Remix) – SWV & Wu-Tang Clan
22. 4, 3, 2, 1 – LL Cool J Ft. Method Man, Redman, Canibus & DMX
23. Me And My Girlfriend – Tupac

This part one of the two part Monday Mixtape this week

If you like the mix..here’s where you can purchase the divided version and one track mix for $2.99:

The cost is help with the hosting for all the mixes. Also, to help me purchase new equipment. Please donate when you can.

Did you miss me? I missed you. I missed you so much I followed you today..

This mix means a lot to me. Those of you who knew me as a teenager, knew that I was a firm follower of the Daisy Age. I walked around with hand painted daisies on the butts of my jeans, wore a leather Africa piece, had the Mexican poncho with the Native American woven backpack. In my ears was a yellow Sony waterproof Walkman with homemade mixtapes of pro Black, pro Women, pro progress music. This was also during the aftermath of the crack epidemic…when Harlem still could resemble New Jack City..and the lyrics in the musics lamented the effects of crack and what it did to ordinary people.

It was music for teenagers..dealing with similar issues…it helped us address our raging hormones..boys wanted the same thing girls wanted…and it was ok…you wasn’t gonna hit it…but we could laugh about the desire. Nobody was called a ho, a b*tch, or a slut. There was no n*gga in every other sentence. They talked about keeping cool, never mentioned a gun and even addressed the taboo subject of complexion.

I love this music. It meant a lot to me. It carried me through my last two years of HS right on into Temple University. That’s why this is the Temple Mix.

1. Rock This Funky Joint – Poor Righteous Teachers (03:39)
2. Slow Down – Grand Puba.mp3 (03:45)
3. Punks Jump Up To Get Beat Down (Rmx) – Brand Nubian (03:08)
4. Black Coffee – Heavy D & The Boyz (03:26)
5. Can I Kick It – A Tribe Called Quest (02:16)
6. La Schmoove – Fu Schnickens (02:58)
7. Jimbrowski – Jungle Brothers (02:34)
8. Buddy – De La Soul ft. et.al (12” Remix) (05:47)
9. Scenario – Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul & LOTNS (03:52)
10. This or That – Black Sheep (03:00)
11. Sobb Story – Leaders Of The New School (03:51)
12. Case Of The P.T.A. – Leaders Of The New School (02:46)
13. It’s A Shame – Monie Love (02:40)
14. Sometimes I Rhyme Slow – Nice & Smooth (02:04)
15. Black is Black – Jungle Brother ft Q-Tip (02:57)
16. Jenifa Taught Me (Derwin’s Revenge) – De La Soul (03:23)
17. I Wanna Rock Right Now – Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock (04:09)
18. This Is Something for the Radio – Biz Markie (02:54)
19. Ladies First – Queen Latifah Ft. Monie Love (03:06)
20. Looking At The Front Door – Main Source (03:08)
21. Who Got Da Props – Black Moon (02:44)
22. Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat) – Digable Planets (03:16)
23. Bonita Applebum – A Tribe Called Quest (02:39)
24. Walking In The Rain – Orange Juice Jones (04:49)

edit: RIP Michael…my first love…I will miss you always!

original post:
Today’s Monday Mixtape is continuing in my Kings series. Two weeks ago we had the King of the Remix R. Kelly…This week we have the King of Pop: Michael Jackson.  Check out his site here!

Special shoutout to my husband Scribe and My sister Divalicious because they are the biggest MJ stans I know!

Also I’m shouting out  Dirty Whorelebrity News! Gossip from a sexy point of view!

I’m more of a Prince Stan but I do looove me some Michael.

Track Listing:

1. Thriller
2. Jam
3. PYT (Pretty Young Thing)
4. Blame It On The Boogie
5. Baby Be Mine
6. Rock With You
7. You Rock My World
8. Beat It 2008
9. Working Day and Night
10. Smooth Criminal
11. Scream
12. Black or White
13. Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough
14. Remember The Time
15. Keep It In The Closet
16. Bad
17. Off The Wall
18. Ease on down the road
19. Leave Me Alone
20. The Way You Make Me Feel
21. I Can’t Help It
22. Butterflies
23. Who is it
24. Billie Jean