This week in throwback thursday, we'll be taking it back to 2004. I must say when this song came out I was playing it non-stop.. even still I will play non-stop without a problem. This is by far my most favorite Alchemist beat.. plus the chorus by Nina Sky puts the iceing on the cake. So without further adue I bring to you, Alchemist - Hold You Down.



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Strange's new home in the Kansas City suburbs features plush, wood-panelled offices, an in-house video-editing facility and a warehouse. Outside there is parking for the fleet of sleeper-buses Strange now owns, and a dedicated recording studio and rehearsal space is being built. "We don't have a Def Jam Midwest, or a Sony Midwest, or an EMI Midwest," Tech says. "That's why we had to build this ourselves. It used to be just people from Kansas City on the label, but we reached out to Prozac, from Saginaw, Michigan, and we've just signed [Bay Area rapper] Brotha Lynch Hung. I would love to have Mystikal on Strange Music, when he gets outta jail. And there's been talk of Nas probably comin' – I think he's about to be done with his deal out there [in New York] and lookin' for somewhere else to go." The notion of one of hip-hop's leading figures signing to an indie label based in the middle of nowhere might seem odd, but it's hard to imagine a better move for him. As the record industry crisis deepens, Strange is making money the old-fashioned way, building careers and selling music. What was once the disadvantage of its location now works in its favour: Kansas City is equidistant from LA and New York. And when the studio is finished – O'Guin estimates next year – they will own all the principal tools of production.