Because It’s Friday: Max Payne - The Mixtape by DJ Whoo Kid (2002)
With the original Max Payne now available on both iOS and Android devices, here's a nostalgic look and listen at a direct by-product of that first game's release from over a decade ago.
In 2002, the trend of the hip-hop street mixtape was in full swing - inexpensively mass produced and released on CDs (no longer commonly available on cassettes and not yet made obselete by the Internet). DJs like Clue (heard on the radio in Liberty City Stories), Kay Slay, and Queens-based DJ Whoo Kid ruled the scene with releases chock full of rap exclusives and original freestyles. To up the showmanship and excitement around each of these CDs, DJs would often enlist high-profile hosts and theme up the mixtape with a homage or parody of popular sporting events or hit movies of the time like Final Destination, Unbreakable and more.
Owing to his own videogame obsessions and to his friendship with Grand Theft Auto III's DJ Stretch Armstrong, Whoo Kid was the first DJ to theme up popular rap mixtapes around our games - starting with Grand Theft Auto: The Mixtape (hosted by Capone of CNN) in early 2002 - and followed up shortly thereafter with this blockbuster Max Payne mixtape hosted by both N.O.R.E. and Baby aka Birdman of Cash Money and filled with then-heavily-anticipated remixes, freestyles and dis records.
Today, you can hear a crisp digital rip of this decade-old gunshots, Max Payne samples, and BulletTime sfx-laden mix at mixtape site DatPiff.com - a nice, nostalgic treat for both hardcore Max fans and fans of early aughts street rap.
A few highlights to check out in there:
- Tracks 2, 18, 26 - Original samples from Max Payne 1 ripped by Whoo Kid from his PS2 copy of the game.
- Track 7 - Lil Wayne's "Max Payne" - made custom for Whoo Kid specifically for this mixtape, a pre-YMCMB Wayne freestyles over Nas' "Ether" instrumental with lines like "They call me Bad Wayne / And I'm like Max Payne / The sickest shit to hit since anthrax came ... I come through and do my Grand Theft thing / my cran-ap, tan cap, slant back thing...".
- Tracks 8, 15 - Some seminal G-Unit street cuts, hitting as part of 50 Cent's mixtape world domination before he would explode later that year as the hottest new rapper out (50 would host Whoo Kid's Max Payne 2 mixtape later that year, pre-dating the game's sequel itself).
- Tracks 9, 16, 29 - The Lox aka D-Block have been mixtape staples since the heyday, and Whoo Kid made sure this mixtape had them present in full force. Keen GTA soundtrack fans may remember some vintage late 90s Lox mixtape freestyles licensed for an appearance on DJ Clue's Liberty City Stories radio station mix. Some of the most serious gamers and down to earth guys in the rap biz, we're still good friends with The Lox to this day and they've made cameos and soundtrack appearances in many of our games from The Warriors to GTAIV.
- Track 27 - Big Noyd's "Maximum Payne" - the Mobb Deep affiliate rapper is responsible for a few street classics himself, and here blessed Whoo Kid with a little custom freestyle all about gunplay and bullet-time.
http://www.datpiff.com/DJ-Whoo-Kid-Max-Payne-The-Official-Mixtape.300322.html
In which part of the year we will know something about the second trailer or the launch date, beacause, there is no information, and let´s be honest, a game like Max Payne 3 is not a game that would occupy all the year, like Red Dead, this game has a limit of fun, but we need a new game, because i think, that the DLC of max payne 3 is just maps, and the future DLC of GTA V, would be like lost and damned, ballad of gay tony or undead nightmare, and this would occupy a whole year, or less, and this watch dogs game is a weapon to you, and games that would appear like a new DOOM, or assasins creed or a fourth saints row, and GTA V, needs to appear soon to put his territory and wait for the future DLCs and a forthcoming pack like Episodes From Los Santos.
Thanks for the response.
I have to say my least favorite map in this game in Hoboken... it's a camper's paradise. If you're down on the ground level you're not gonna live very long. It takes too long to climb up to the rooftops to take out snipers that precious time is wasted doing that that could be better spent focusing on objectives and the frustrating thing is that as soon as you kill them they respawn right back up there again. It really sucks when a turf you have to seize is right outside the bar. Even with Spray Paint equipped in your loadout you die before you can take over the spot. Your only hope is to get back to it before it depletes or hope that one of your teammates can finish it before they die. RPGs and similar explosive weapons are WAY overused. It also seems unrealistic that someone can fire an RPG in a small enclosed room inside of the Hoboken map for example and not manage to kill themselves in the explosion. An RPG is NOT a short range weapon and when used as such the player firing one at short range should be killed in the blast as well but they aren't. I think fixing that issue would make it less likely that people would fire them at short range or if they do they go out as martyrs for their team or something.
It so relaxing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvhxMxZC0K4
I mean, I can't believe L.A Noire sold 6 million on its initial launch. That's according to Pachter
So I don't know who to trust and I really wanted Rockstar to respond. But oh well.
Here's the link http://ir.take2games.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=86428&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1698793&highlight=
I love NYC hip hop, and this'll be pleasure to my ears!! Thanks for bringing on the Newswire =D
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