Track Listing
1. Mic Check Intro
2. Why You Wanna Trip on Me
3. Buzzer Beater featuring Dre Marshall
4. Break 1
5. Keep On Trying
6. Hard To Say Goodbye
7. I’ll Be There
8. Don’t Endlude
I am fan of Thor “T Haddy” Haddon. Been down since day one! I remember at Club Jubilee around New Years Day in either 05 or 06 I got a copy of Hood Gospel Vol. 1 from Theo. I WAS BLOWN AWAY!!! Not only had T Haddy remixed some of the dopest secular tracks at the time but dude was murking the beats!!! He was putting the original versions to shame. I called the number on the cd and hooked up with Theo. I told him I wanted to be apart of whatever it was they were doing. I wanted to single handedly get the word out to everyone within earshot about THOR HADDON. Dude was that next! But whaddiya know? As soon as T started getting some traction from Hood Gospel Vol. 1 & The Great Repentance (his debut album) GOD had him sit down to regroup. What the flip?
Talk about disappointment. It seemed like that sabbatical was for 10 yrs. But then I started seeing T Haddy pop up on the net again. His Myspace (
www.myspace.com/thaddy ) was poppin’ again. I was getting bulletins and messages that he was releasing Hood Gospel Vol 2 soon. WHAT?! I reached out to dude personally to let him know of my heart and desire to help him this go ‘round and we been rolling since! He’s dropped Hood Gospel Vol. 2, T Haddy vs T Pain, Motivation Music & now this much anticipated “Mic Check (Michael Jackson Dedication Mixtape)”
Now let me preface my review of “MIC CHECK” with this statement:
“T HADDY IS MY MAN BUT THIS IS MY HONEST REVIEW AS A FAN”
With that said the main problem I have with this mixtape is that it’s TOO short! Dude went in on this jawn. From beginning to end T Haddy rocked this mixtape. (Is it even a mixtape or a mixed mp3 download lol!) I’m sure some critics will find fault with the structure of the mixtape, the absence of a dj or the breaks and interludes but you will not find one fault with the music here. T Haddy puts some dirty south stank on this project as he provides bass pounding backdrops for the remixes. He interweaves MJ’s original vocals on songs like “Why You Wanna Trip On Me”. Dre Marshall teams up with T again for “Buzzer Beater” and Dre being the native New Yorker he is eats this beat up with true lyricism. Don’t sleep on “Keep On Trying” either. The remix track kinda reminds me of a classic Dr Dre beat but true to his “Motivation Music” nature T Haddy provides yet another soundtrack for KINGDOM grind and hustle. Finally on “Hard To Say Goodbye” you can hear Thor pour his heart out in the booth as he belts out over a “Billie Jean” influenced track:
“Why’d you have to go/ Lord please make me strong
Help me carry on/ It’s so hard to say goodbye”
“I’ll Be There” is an updated version of the original to be sure but you better believe Thor put his signature on it. One thing about my man is that he does not forcefully incorporate GOD into everything he does like he has a Jesus quota to meet. GOD is the foundation and so the love, adoration & expression you hear in the music automatically extends from that. The only way to get a copy of this gem is to hurry up and get yo butt over to
www.thaddyvip.net sign up for an account for free and then get access to download the mixtape for free .
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