Circa ’95 demo tape from Cincinnati vets with unreleased tracks and early versions of songs that ultimately landed on their full length debut DOOM (if you’re not familiar, a regionally significant album pushed by TVT and sometimes accurately credited for launching careers of Talib & Hi-Tek). Link (via)

1.MOOD – Untitled Demo 1 (Unreleased)
2.MOOD – Untitled Demo 2 (Unreleased)
3.Talib Kweli – Untitled Demo 1 (Unreleased)(Cuts out for 4 secs at 1:00 mark)*
4.Talib Kweli – Untitled Demo 2 (Unreleased)
5.MOOD – Cincinnatti (Hi-Tek Version)(Unreleased)
6.Donte – Mr. Everything (Solo Version)(Unreleased)
7.MOOD – Doom Da feat. Pase Rock of Five Deez^(Unreleased)(Contains the interlude “Babylon The Great”, later used on the “DOOM” LP)
8.MOOD – Illuminated Sunz (Demo Version w/o Sunz Of Man)(Unreleased)
9.Talib Kweli & Rubix – Millionaires (Later released on “Mission Control Presents: Prehistoric Sounds” compilation)
10.MOOD – Untitled Demo 3 (Unreleased)(Main Flow’s verses from this were later used on DJ Greyboy’s “Uknowmylife” from the “Mastered The Art” LP)
11.MOOD – Peddlers Of Doom (Demo Version)(Unreleased)
12.MOOD – Empty Pages feat. Talib Kweli (Slightly different intro to the version later released on “Mission Control Presents: Prehistoric Sounds” compilation)
13.Talib Kweli – Untitled Demo 1 (Remix feat. Donte)(Unreleased)

previoiusly: Mood, Main Flow

Video for new single from Mood. They went all out for this one. Shot in four major cities I hope to visit one day, Cincinnati (Ohio), Tijuanna (Mexico), Caracas (Venezuela) and Bogota (Colombia). Like whoa! Second “night” version coming soon. Youtube is cool but to get a better picture you should get the qt version, courtesy of Vital Films.

New video from Mood. Vital Films presents Drugs War & Crime in HD. From the streets of America to the slums of the world, Drugs War and Crime is everywhere. Vital Films (www.vitalfilms.net) presents the music video for the new single from Mood. Off the new album “Hall Of Fame”.

This video is part one of a two part release for the song. One video is all day footage and the second one is a all night video. Drugs War & Crime was shot over a few week in four different countries (Cincinnati Ohio, Tijuanna Mexico, Caracas Venezuela and Bogota Colombia). Produced and Shot by Vital Films Inc. (Matt Hobbs and Cael Jones)

A Original Vital Films HD production
Shot by: Matt Hobbs and Cael Jones
Artist: Mood
Locations: Cincinnatti Ohio , Tawana Mexico , Carcas Venezuela, Bogota Colombia
Song: Drugs War & Crime
Album: Hall Of Fame
Label: Wanna Battle
Production Dates: June 2008

previously:
Mood – Drugs, War & Crime / audio

Reading about T.V.T.’s recent bankruptcy filings made me reminisce about Mood’s classic album “Doom”. Back when I looked forward to Hi-Tek beats and Kweli lyrics. Peace to Jahson also, who had production credits for about half of this album and has recently hit the boards for G-Unit.