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And1 Mixtape Volume 1…When this tape hit the b-ball world it was amazing. No one had ever seen a tape like this before. The AND1 Mix tape put together the many different highlights of ballers up in New York’s Rucker Park with the latest music to hit the hip-hop world. Rucker Park is one of the most well known places for ballers around the nation to show off their skills. In volume 1, Rafer “Skip to my Lou” Alston is the main baller featured. He makes defenders look sad in this video. Skip is a playground GOD nowadays, and people finally got to see him in action when this tape hit Footactionos across the nation. The mix tape features new music by Sadat X, Mos Def, and Gzal Genius.
And1 Mixtape Volume 2...Just added to what made the first one so great. This one had a bunch of different ballers featured in it like Walivy "Main Event" Dixon, Shane (the dribbling machine), Future, Half-Man Half-Amazing, and many more. In this video Main Event dunks on players and over motorcycles. He was dunking everywhere on this tape. Shane and Future showed off their handles and creativity with under the leg passes and nasty crossovers. Most other cats like Half Man Half Amazing were on the receiving end of alley oops from other New York ballers. Volume 2 features new music by Mos Def, Busta Rhymes, Ras Kass, and Deadly Snakes. Both mix tapes were hosted by Set Free.
And1 Mixtape Volume 3...The best Mixtape to date. Everybody was talking about this tape when it hit. Hoopsters who'd never heard of the mix tapes...hell never heard about And1...they even knew about this tape. The baller that makes this worth watching over and over and over again is Hot Sauce. This guy from the ATLANTA is straight up killing folks on this thing, he got moves up his sleeve like his windmill and boomerang that nobody had ever seen before. Another tight baller on this tape is AO from Philly; while he wasn't getting people as hyped as Sauce was, he still showed off his mad skills. Other Ballers like Future and Main Event were still representing on the tape; you can check out all the Mix tape ballers on the 2001 And1 Mix tape Tour coming to a city near you.
This volume saw the first footage form the now infamous And1 mixtape tours! With Hot Sauce and AO now with established reputations, they took over the tour with handles and sick alleyoops to regualrs main event and 1/2 man 1/2 amazing, and new guy form NYC Aircraft.The production budget made it seem like a movie, with the sick intro’s for all the players, the moves were dope and the dunks even sicker thanks to another few guest appearances from 50.However, some guys now started to doubt how credible the reality of the moves became with some moves seeming too good to be true, such as AO’s crawl under the legs moves. Another downer for the tape is the fact that all the locations are indoor and that takes away from the Street feel that made the and1 tapes such hype.Still a sick tape, no doubt.
Can I get a soul clap? From the top-selling manufacturer of way-cool basketball gear comes this 40-minute highlight reel from the And 1 Mixtape Tour. With their legerdemain ball handling and sky-high dunks, street basketball stars Headache, Hot Sauce, Main Event, Shane, Toss It Up, Syk With It, High Octane, 50, and others are the Globetrotters for the new millennium. But this is no laughing matter. These guys play some serious basketball. The game footage is of varying quality, but fans don't come to these videos for the cinematography. Awestruck youngsters will thrill to the skills displayed, but parents are advised to hit the mute button to block the hip-hop soundtrack's explicit lyrics, and fast forward through an unfortunate off-court vignette in which one of the players harasses a female shopper at a grocery store. --Donald Liebenson
From the Back Cover
And 1 Mixtape Volume 5 features the most incredible combination of street basketball and the hottest hip-hop music, highlighted by the most exciting basketball players ever seen showing off their skills on basketball courts across the nation. The And 1 Mixtape tour will cover 25 major cities, from June through August 2002.
The AND 1 Mix Tape is heading back to its roots with one of the original playground legends ALIMOE aka THE BLACK WIDOW. Check Al doin' his thing from way back to the current day with some of the best ballers around the country including the AND 1 Mix Tape players. With the sickest ball outside the "L," special features include "SAUCE'S CROSSES" and new music from FABOLOUS, RAEKWON and more! This year they're scouting talent for the AND 1 Mix Tape team, the ESPN TV series and a chance to win an AND 1 Mix Tape endorsement contract. This is sure to raise the excitement level!
Vol. 7 introduces the world to AND 1 NBA endorsers that have that street swagger. Including Jason Williams, Ricky Davis, Speedy Claxton and Skip. Volume 7 also introduces the newest breed of streetball legends including the Professor, Go Get It and Helicopter. And it would not be an official AND 1 Mixtape if it didn’t have a banging soundtrack with tracks from today’s hottest hip hop artists including the Beastie Boys.
Aaron "AO" Owens (Mix Tape Player est. Vol. 3) is the host and he takes you on the Volume 7 ride. With bonus content including Escalade on a Yacht, Battles from the Tour, Helicopter in College Slam Dunk Contest and others.
Volume 8, like its legendary predecessors, packs enough streetball footage to hold you over for weeks. AO, Professor, Pharmacist all doin' their thing. The real jewel, though, is the "Back on the Block" footage. Volume 8 goes back to the series' roots and brings us playground highlights from some of the country's most hallowed courts. The game at Gun Hill is bananas. Add in some new tracks by the likes of Busta, Wu-Tang, and the Diplomats, and some nice hidden features (the player commentary is wild), and you've got yet another streetball classic from AND 1. Cop this.
Every city has ballers. Every city has rappers. In Volume 9:[Area] Codes, we’ve tried to let them tell their stories one city at a time. You’ll see: The Return of Hot Sauce; Straight up ball from NYC, Philly, D.C., L.A., Dirty South, and the Midwest; Crash the Courts at Barry Farms, D.C., and Kingdome, NY; The Come Up: The Air Up There, Sylk, Assassin, Bad Santa; The Best of the 2005 Kingdome and Barry Farms summer leagues; The Best of the 2005 Open Run and Mix Tape Tour; and The Soundtrack is banging at you in Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound and is bringing that true mix tape feel with over 20 artists represented. Each track represents the area code and the local ballers from that hood. These include: Paul Wall, Goodie Mob, Chamillionaire, Clipse, Cam’ron, Juelz Santana, Lotto, Too Short, Dipset, Dialated Peoples, JR Writer, and Bun B.
The 10th volume takes it back to the streets where it all started. Crash the courts with AND 1's best as they take on ballers from DC, Indy, Houston, and LA in this slammin' selection of the tightest moves from the "United Streets of America" tour. Relive the greatest moments from all ten years as today's crew look back at the best of what Volumes 1-9 had to offer. Includes rare old school footage of Skip 2 My Lou in the original Mixtape Hot Sauce changing the game in Volume 3 with moves like "the boomerang" the birth of "The Tour" in Volume 4 The Professor's Madison Square Garden game winner in Vol. 7 and the explosion of AND 1 as an event that could make NBA areas quake. It's a decade of the nastiest dimes dunks and streetball dominance all set to bangin' tracks from Pete Rock Havoc Juelz Santana Lil Scrappy Beanie Man and more.
