{"id":371,"date":"2014-12-23T12:28:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T21:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/djspencerlee.wpengine.com\/dime-piece-9-christmas-time\/"},"modified":"2016-12-09T11:45:11","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T20:45:11","slug":"dime-piece-9-christmas-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/djspencerlee.com\/dime-piece-9-christmas-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Dime Piece 9: Christmas Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the ninth entry in my \u201cDime Piece\u201d* series, I picked 10 of my favorite non-traditional Christmas jams. Two versions of &#8220;Santa Claus Goes to the Ghetto,&#8221; some Miami bass and a track from a fellow Alaskan.<\/p>\n<p>This mix was inspired in part by a radio segment I was a part of. You can listen to that right <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alaskapublic.org\/2014\/12\/22\/christmas-music-with-spencer-shroyer-aka-dj-spencer-lee\/\">here.<\/a> I also got a nice mention from Julia O&#8217;Malley on her cool <a href=\"http:\/\/juliaomalley.media\/2014\/12\/22\/21-soanchorage-holiday-delights-19-christmas-beats-local-made-underplayed\/\">new blog<\/a>. Download the mix <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2hcCCwU\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?feed=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Fdjspencerlee%2Fdime-piece-mix-9-christmas-time%2F&amp;light=1\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>1. <b>James Brown \u2013 Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A heart-felt jam from the Godfather of Soul that captures the sentiments of the season. In his words, &#8220;Never thought I&#8217;d realize \/ I&#8217;d be singing a song with water in my eyes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>2. <b>Nate Dogg &amp; Snoop Dogg \u2013 Santa Claus Goes To the Ghetto<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A one-off of Brown&#8217;s song, the Death Row version (they did a whole Christmas album!) features Nate, Snoop and (uncredited) Daz Dillinger, Tray Deee and Bad Azz. Sample lyric: &#8220;We passing out gifts \/ blazing up spliffs \/ Christmas on the Row \/ Can you dig it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>3. <b>Kurtis Blow \u2013 Christmas Rappin<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This jam came out on 12&#8243; in 1979 after Kurtis became the first rapper to sign to a major (Mercury) and it sold more than 400K copies, no doubt due to that nice disco bass line.<\/p>\n<p>4.<b>Juice Crew All-Stars \u2013 Cold Chillin\u2019 Christmas<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Cold Chillin&#8217; put out this posse cut featuring Fly Ty, Big Daddy Kane, Roxanne Shante&#8217;, MC Shan on a holiday music comp in &#8217;88. Sample lyric, &#8220;So fresh \/ like Santa \/ you&#8217;ll have to say &#8216;Ho, ho, ho.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>5. <b>Sweet Tee \u2013 Let The Jingle Bells Rock<\/b><\/p>\n<p>RUN DMC&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OR07r0ZMFb8\">Christmas in Hollis<\/a> is great, but I was trying to go with more unknown joints for this mix so I picked the cut that appeared on the same Christmas Rap comp (and on the B of the 7&#8243;).<\/p>\n<p>6.<b> 69 Boyz &amp; Quad City DJs \u2013 What You Want for Christmas<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This is definitely my favorite cut on the whole mix and the one I&#8217;m most likely to play out. It&#8217;s just so ridiculous and perfect. When Stone&#8217;s Throw put out it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stonesthrow.com\/store\/album\/various\/badd-santa-a-stones-throw-records-xmas\">Christmas comp<\/a> a couple years ago I actually scored a promo 12&#8243; with this on it.<\/p>\n<p>7. <b>Destiny\u2019s Child \u2013 8 Days of Christmas<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Beyonce, Kelly and Michelle on the benefits of dating a baller during the holiday season. Sample lyric: &#8220;On the eighth day of Christmas my baby gave to me \/ a pair of Chloe&#8217; shades and a diamond belly button ring.&#8221; Hey, it was 2001! And they somehow put a whole Christmas album. Oof.<\/p>\n<p>8.<b> TLC \u2013 Sleigh Ride<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This one&#8217;s off a LaFace Christmas album (sidenote: Outkast&#8217;s &#8220;Player&#8217;s Ball&#8221; was also on it, track down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MUCE0aOK-F8\">the version from the comp<\/a> if you doubt it&#8217;s Christmas bonafides) and takes the traditional version and adds some holiday touches like . . . raps from Left Eye (RIP).<\/p>\n<p>9.<b> Dirty Boyz \u2013 All I Want for Christmas is to get it Crunk<b><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s actually hard to pick the worst lyric in this one. I think it&#8217;s probably: &#8220;Dear Santa \/ I&#8217;ve been very good this year \/ can you make those two felonies on my record disappear?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>10. <b>Astronomar \u2013 Back to the Beat (Xmas version)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Finished it off with a cut from the homie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/astronomar\">Mar<\/a> from Juneau! This is a Christmas-ified take of his cut <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/maddecent\/astronomar-back-to-the-beat\">Back to the Beat<\/a> and is on the new Mad Decent <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/maddecent\/sets\/a-very-very-decent-christmas-1\">holiday album<\/a><\/p>\n<p>*If you&#8217;re not already familiar with my&#8221;Dime Piece&#8221; mix series, here&#8217;s the gist: Sometimes when I come up for an idea or a theme for a mix, I get so consumed thinking about all the songs I want to include that it never ends up being more than a concept. In an effort to keep things simple, I decided to start a series of 10-song recordings. The limited tracklisting keeps me from over-thinking things and I\u2019ve been able to come up with some really fun mixes. Since they\u2019re all 10 tracks long, I decided to call them \u201cDime Pieces.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the ninth entry in my \u201cDime Piece\u201d* series, I picked 10 of my favorite non-traditional Christmas jams. Two versions of &#8220;Santa Claus Goes to the Ghetto,&#8221; some Miami bass and a track from a fellow Alaskan. This mix was inspired in part by a radio segment I was a part of. 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