Album Of The Day: Full Plates Mixtape 002 by DJ Maj

Album Art of DJ Maj's Full Plates Mixtape 002 album - A mostly black background with, on the right, a black-and-white, low-color photo of a young black man looking up towards a camera above him, with the camera up close to his face. He's lit from the right and there's a blue hue to the photo. In the blackness on the left side, it says the artist name in big white letters at the top, with the album title in smaller green letters below. Down the left side, it has a list of all the artists featured and a line illustration of two turntables below that.

Released 25 years ago today, this is the second mixtape album from DJ Maj, the long-time DJ for TobyMac's live show. On this album, DJ Maj has a who's who of Christian hip-hop in this 67-minute mix of mostly new songs. Maj gets to show off his turntable skills in spots and talks about himself a bit, but mostly just keeps the party going and the guests flowing. John Reuben and Playdough do a freestyle, and Mat Kearney does a verse a full 3 years before his debut album was released. Some favorites are "Shouldna Done It" by GRITS, "What's My Name" by New Breed, "Deception" by Pigeon John, "All That It Takes" by The Procussions, and of course "Street Credibility" by Mars ILL. To some extent, it's a solid sampler of hip-hop from 2001 mixed by a solid DJ and it's an excellent listen that I enjoy regularly even to this day. Sadly, it looks like this fun album is not on streaming like many multi-artist collaborations from this era, but it does seem to be on the Gotee Records SoundCloud page.

Release Year: 2001
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