‘Consciousness of Hiphop,’ the latest album from Mackadena, is a definitive collection of tracks that span the career of the Rotterdam producer. Featuring homegrown tracks alongside LA cuts and UK collaborations, ‘Consciousness of Hiphop’ travels back and forth between brand new sounds and earlier releases revamped and repackaged into one compilation.

‘Consciousness of Hiphop’ combines the unique production and beats composition style of Mackadena with musical ventures featuring lyricists of the infamous Area-51 crew, MC Random, Apakalips, Crow Magnum, Tymon Dean, N.O.Y, Paco Swartz, Unkle Gundee, Poseydon, Jizzm, J-Sonic MC and legendary producer DJ Broadway from the Los Angeles’ Hiphop underground and the UK’s own MC Fats and DJ A Sides.

The purpose of the Consciousness of Hiphop compilation is to cultivate the lyrical and musical style of authentic boombap Hiphop and to preserve the genre’s roots for new listeners. After many changes in the scene across the world original hip-hop ideas get misrepresented and we can’t afford losing touch with the consciousness of Hiphop.

In the words of KRS-One “Be the thing’s you are thinking…And if you don’t wanna be what you are thinking, Stop thinking it…Instead of reading the word of Christ, Be the word of Christ…Instead of following God’s word, Be God’s word…That’s the Consciousness of Hiphop…You are not just doing Hiphop…You are Hiphop”