''Sit Down, Man'' is the second mixtape by American hip hop trio

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. It was released as a free download by

Greedhead Music Greedhead Music is an independent record label founded by Himanshu Suri of Das Racist. Initially, Suri founded Greedhead Music as a management and recording company in 2008 to manage Das Racist. Greedhead's first releases were the group's 2010 mi ...

, Mishka, and

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on September 14, 2010. It gained over 40,000 downloads in its first week of release. An album release show was held at

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on September 16, 2010.

Production

The mixtape is produced by

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, Keepaway, and

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, among others. It includes guest appearances from Fat Tony,

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, Kassa Overall,

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, and

Lakutis Aleksey Weintraub (born July 15, 1985), better known by his stage name Lakutis, is an American rapper from New York. He has collaborated with Das Racist, Hot Sugar, and Kitty. He has also toured with Le1f and Antwon. Early life Lakutis was b ...

Critical reception

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'' placed the mixtape at number 23 on the "Top 50 Albums of 2010" list. "Hahahaha JK?" was placed at number 44 on ''Pitchfork''s "Top 100 Tracks of 2010" list, as well as number 48 on ''

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''s "50 Best Songs of 2010" list.

Track listing

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes. * Sabzi – production (2) * Gordon Voidwell – production, mixing (3) * Alex Kestner – production, mixing (3) *

– production (4) * Kassa Overall – production (5) *

– production (6) *

Devo Springsteen DeVon "Devo" Harris (born December 9, 1977), also known as Devo Springsteen, is an American producer and songwriter. Harris launched the career of EGOT winner John Legend by signing him to Kanye West’s GOOD Music in 2003. Harris produced and c ...

– production, mixing (7) * Tom Cruz – production (8) * Keepaway – production (9) *

– production (10) * Sha-leik – production (11) *

Dame Grease Damon J. Blackman (born August 9, 1974), better known by his stage name Dame Grease or simply Grease, is an American record producer from New York City. In 1996, he gained recognition in the hip hop industry through his production work with Bad ...

– production (12) * Like Magic – production (13) *

– production (13, 15) * Dash Speaks – production (14) * Mike Finito – production (16) *

– production (17) *

Scoop DeVille Elijah Blue Molina (born October 15, 1987), better known by his stage name Scoop DeVille, is an American record producer, rapper and DJ. DeVille has produced records for rappers such as Kendrick Lamar, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Nipsey Hussle, 50 Ce ...

– production (18) * Daniel Lynas – recording; mixing (1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20) * Patrick Wimberly – mixing (6, 10, 13) * DJA – mastering * Katy Porter – artwork, photography * Mishka – artwork, photography *

Himanshu Suri Himanshu Kumar Suri (born July 6, 1985), better known by his stage name Heems, is an American rapper from Queens in New York City. Best known for being part of the alternative hip hop group Das Racist, Suri is also the founder of Greedhead Musi ...

– executive production * Le'Roy Benros – executive production

References

External links

* {{Authority control 2010 mixtape albums Das Racist albums Albums produced by Boi-1da Albums produced by Dame Grease Albums produced by Devo Springsteen Albums produced by Diplo Albums produced by Scoop DeVille Albums recorded at WKCR-FM Greedhead Music albums