If you had to select beats for your mixtape...

...And they hypothetically had to all be preexisting beats and you were hypothetically a rapper trying to get your name out there. Which beats would you pick.

Yeah yeah yeah, I know a lot of mixtapes use fresh beats or something but I don't care. This isn't a real situation.

Pick the beats you'd want to spit over and represent yourself with. I don't care how many you pick. I'm gonna do 17 (15 + Intro and Outro).

1. Intro: Dr. Dre - The Chronic Intro

2.  2pac - Heartz of Men instrumental

3. Notorious BIG - Gimme The Loot Instrumental

4. Nas - It Ain't Hard To Tell Instrumental

5. Pharoahe Monch - Simon Says Instrumental

6. Eminem - Superman Instrumental

7. Pete Rock and CL Smooth - TROY Instrumental

8. Gza - Gold Instrumental

9. MF Doom - Deep Fried Frenz Instrumental

10. Big L - Put It On Instrumental

11. Outkast - West Savannah (No Instrumental That I Can Find)

12. Raekwon - Heaven and Hell Instrumental

13. Ghostface Killah - Clipse of Doom (No Instrumental)

14. DJ Quik - Dollaz + Sense Instrumental

15. Blackstar ft. Blackthough - Respiration Remix Instrumental

16. Blu and Exile - The Narrow Path Instrumental

17. Outro: Madvillain - Accordion Instrumental

Post yours now, doesn't have to be as big as mine, doesn't even have to be a list. Just could be some beats you'd want. 

Intro - DJ Shadow - Building Steam With a Grain of Salt

MF DOOM - Fenugreek

Jay-Z - Blueprint 2

Blaq Poet - I-Gittin

Black Milk - Sound of the City

Killer Mike - God In The Building

Jeru The Damaja - You Can't Stop The Phrophet (pete rock remix)

Too $hort - Just Another Day

Zion I - Silly Puddy 

Tha Dogg Pound - Dogg Pound Gangstaz

Nas - Got Yourself A Gun
Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Pt, 2
Big L - Flamboyant
Black Milk - Losing Out
Busta Rhymes - Break Ya Neck
Charles Hamilton - November 10th
Royce Da 5'9 - Boom
Pharoahe Monch - Simon Says
Nas - Made You Look
The Firm - Phone Tap
Clipse - Ego
Dr. Dre - Next Episode
Eminem - As The World Turns
Fabolous - Keepin' It Gangsta
Necro Ft. Ill Bill - Our Life
Raekwon - Verbal Intercourse
Method Man & Redman - Da Rockwilder
Slick Rick - Childrens Story
Snowgoons - Black Snow
SP - Gangsta and a Gentleman

50 Cent - Life On The Line

That's all I got right now.

Oh No - Adventure OH MY GOD I CANNOT STOP LISTENING TO THIS BEATiHeartCali

you're late

and i wouldnt listen to any of yalls mixtapes

[QUOTE="iHeartCali"]Oh No - Adventure OH MY GOD I CANNOT STOP LISTENING TO THIS BEATConstrobuz

you're late

and i wouldnt listen to any of yalls mixtapes

Tha Dogg Pound - Dogg Pound Gangstaz

andyboiii

I also like the beat to this song

1. Outkast-Ms. Jackson

2. Sandpeople-I Don't Care

3. Big L-Put It On

4. Juelz Santana-Changes

5. Cypress Hill-Insane In The Membrane

6. Aesop Rock-No City

7. Raekwon-Ice Cream

8. Mos Def-Travelling Man

9. Nas-Queens Get The Money

10. Hilltop Hoods-Nosebleed Section

....I just have one question. WHY would you all want to rap over these outdated, and well-known beats? If I'm picking beats for a mixtape, I'm picking newer ones that people don't even know much about yet. Makes it sound like my DJ put together an original beat. I love bumping a new tape, and being like "damn, where is that beat from? is that new?"Colt45fool

I was about to say pretty much the same thing.