Mike Malachi "The Collection" (Greatest Hits) 2006-07

Okay so this was a cd I put together so I could pass out at the 49th Grammy Awards in LA! At the the time I was recording music to the second LP The Book Of Malachi: The Man Alone Living Artistically Complete Highly Intelligent. I had recorded maybe 6 songs a collabo with Skarr Akbar and another with Lynee Michelle but the album was no where near my standards of being finished So I threw together some old song from Raiders Of The Lost Art, Malachi's Way and Ron Rico's Way (Malachi's Way Remixes). I sent the disc to Al Shipley he reviewed it on Government Names and The City Paper Online:




Mike Malachi - The Collection: Greatest Hits (Music In Me Productions)

Last year, I wrote about Mike Malachi's album Malachi's Way on this site and in Mic Life Magazine, and he's kept busy since then with a remix album, Ron Rico's Way, by Ron Rico, the club producer who does all his tracks, and an upcoming album called The Book of M.A.L.A.C.H.I. Vol 1: The Man Alone Living Artistically Complete Higly Intelligent. But in the meantime he's put together kind of a greatest hits collection, featuring tracks from all those releases, as well as earlier material from his demo and his first mixtape, Raiders Of The Lost Art: Still Searching For Hip Hop. The new tracks sound dope, especially the collaboration with Skarr Akbar, which is featured on Malachi's MySpace page. But I think my favorite tracks on here are the ones from Ron Rico's Way, which are remixes of songs from Malachi's Way that are sometimes superior to the originals. Overall, I think this is a more consistent disc than the album was, although it still has some indulgent moments, like the long interview track at the end that was just boring and unnecessary. And I wish it had the Bmore club version of Jay-Z's "Show Me What You Got" that Mike and Ron did a few months ago, though, that was dope.

Mike Malachi - "I Been Looking Around (Remix)" (mp3)
This is one of those Ron Rico's Way remixes that I think is a total improvement, much better beat but still incorporates the sample from the original on the hook.

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10) Mike Malachi - The Collection: Greatest Hits Mike Malachi is a pretty obscure guy to be putting out a greatest-hits CD. But by cherry-picking through his catalog, he ends up with a more consistent product than previous mixtapes, like Malachi's Way, and improves on some of his older tracks with imaginative new remixes by Baltimore club producer DJ Ron Rico.

I only added the Ron Rico Way tracks beacause some of the other songs were used for The Lost Session LP I'm putting together...so here u go enjoy:

The Collection (Greatest Hits)

Malachi's Way (2006)

This My First LP that I completed. This cd will always be special to me because I always wondered if I could actually put my life in lyrics. This was like the story to my life it wasn't really alot of performance songs each song was really personal to me. The Production on this consisted of Born The Beatsurgeon (The Takeover), Rich The Great (Carry My Legacy On, Editorial and Guardian Angel) and Ron Rico (The Rest Of The Album) n myself cuz I provided most of the samples for the beats LOL. Guest Appearences were Agg of So Authentic, My Bro Brian Walker n Local R&B singer Lynee Michelle. We stood Downtown at the Inner Harbor selling and passing the cd's out! I sold some for 2.00 to 5.00 if u didn't have any money I just for u to send me feedback in a email! Then the best part of this is that I found this guy through my cuzzo Billy (Billo) who reviewed local music named Al Shipley! This was so big to me like my work was gonna be critique n I just want to see where the music would stand (Reviews by Al Shipley: www.governmentnames.blogspot.com) :





Mike Malachi - Malachi's Way

Mike Malachi is an MC who sent me an advance copy of his album last month, and I think it's just now about to come out officially. The first thing I noticed in the liner notes was that most of the tracks were produced by DJ Ron Rico aka Reazons, who I know mainly for his Baltimore club tracks. But the tracks were really on some classic hip hop shit with soul samples and all that. And Malachi has a nice slick, basic flow, just real conversational and clear, but he keeps coming with this rush of words. I met up with them in Ron's studio recently, they're good dudes. Malachi's cousin is another Baltimore rapper I wrote about a while back, Billo. And Ron is actually gonna do a remix album, God's Stepson-style, called Ron Rico's Way with all new beats.

Mike Malachi - "Intro: New Beginnings" (mp3)
Even though this is just a minute long, it might be my favorite track. That beat and the sample are just so ill, I would almost say he wasted it by only doing one quick verse but it does a good job of kicking off the album.

Mike Malachi - "Guardian Angel" (mp3)
This is one of the slower, more introspective tracks, but I like that it has a sample from Heather Headley's "In My Mind," one of my favorite recent R&B joints.

He even reviewed the cd in Mic Life Magazine, Vote 3. Mike Malachi - Malachi’s Way in a Baltimore 2006 Hip Hop Poll and 23. Mike Malachi - Malachi's Way in Shipley's personal poll!

I really enjoyed this cd to me it's a classic a perfect album, u can listen to it from begining to end u be the judge:

Malachis Way

Raiders Of The Lost Art : Still Searching For Hip Hop (First Mixtape) 05-06

Me and Ron Matthews (Ron Rico) met through working at this cleaning gig that me, my cuzzo Traivon and my homeboy Tommy parents owned! Ron was Tommy Godbrother n My cuzzo knew Ron n told him I could rap! I was on some shit like why did u just tell him that cuz I wasn't serious about rapping forreal then at all LOL! So after this meeting months went by we were hit n miss on a couple occasions. Finally we got up he felt the lyrics i had in these notebooks that I use to write rhymes in! So i picked a couple of his beats n recorded a 4 track demo entitled Manifestdestiny! This shit to me at the time was great but it truly was horrible now in my opinion but im my worst critc anyway. What's crazy when Common "BE'' came out we went to Borders in DC for a Concert/CD signing I actually gave him a copy of it ,what was I thinking LOL! 2 song off of that made it to the mixtape we planned on making Manifestdestiny and So Much More To See:


This mixtape was some of my very first recording with Ron Rico! We were just get a feel of each other musically. Prior to this I never recorded professional LOL! What's funny I didn't even know the 16 bar format! Just had a lot of lines on sheets of notebook paper for real! It was a learning process so, Enjoy this it was beginning of Music in Me:

Raiders Of The Lost Art