Hands down, this is probably the best post from any website this year. Yeah, I said it. Complex and Hot 97’s Cipha Sounds compiled a list of the 75 greatest records from the famed Tunnel night club. The New York hot spot closed its doors in 2001. Included with each entry are anecdotes from Cipha who opened up for Funkmaster Flex. Some of them are new to me. Read ’em below and peep the list here. Can someone make this into a mixtape?

Notorious B.I.G. & 2Pac “Budweiser Freestyle”
“Mister Cee had pressed this up and put it out on bootleg because he’s the one that actually recorded it at the Garden at the Budweiser Superfest. We used to always play Biggie’s verse and cut it off when he says ‘smacking babies at they christening.’ Right there was a perfect spot to throw in another record, ’cause there’s a little gap. One night, Mister Cee was DJing, and he kept playing the record to the 2Pac verse—which some of us didn’t even know was there. And the crowd went fuckin’ crazy. From that point on, the 2Pac verse always played.”

Black Rob “I Love You Baby”
“This record was only on the Puffy album vinyl, so the sound quality was low. The soundman used to hate when we played this record because we had to turn up the master volume but always forgot to turn it down for the next one. Flex used to bring it back to the top a million times. And Black Rob used to hop out of a Dominican gypsy cab whenever he came to the Tunnel—with two Spanish girls, every time.”

CNN “Bang Bang”
“This is when Capone first got out of jail and it was the album-release/Capone-home-from-jail party at the Tunnel. This is the song they came out onstage to, ’cause it had an extra-long intro. The crowd went crazy. Capone had on a mink hoodie with the hood on. The hook starts playing—’we’re gonna thug this shit out’—and I don’t know if somebody threw a drink on Capone or if there was so much excitement that a drink fell on him, but Capone jumped into the crowd and got into a huge fight. Then there was about a 45-minute riot with all the customers and Tunnel security. And then the Tunnel was shut down for like six months. They didn’t even get to perform.”

Notorious B.I.G. & Jay-Z ” Brooklyn Finest”
“I’ve seen so many fights—inside and outside of the Tunnel, physical fights—about who ripped this more, Biggie or Jay-Z. Me? I don’t know, it depends on your mood. Me and Jay have had long talks about this record, and it literally depends on your mood of the day. It could change every time.”

The Lox “Wild Out”
“This record was tailor-made for the Tunnel. After the Bad Boy era and the Ruff Ryders album, that’s when the Lox was the most anticipated for their next album. When they did the album release party for We Are The Streets at the Tunnel, they performed a couple of songs, then they started to do ‘Wild Out’ and the club went crazy. It was so many people wildin’ out—like 2,500 people in the club—that this dude in a wheelchair was getting shook around a lot. And he was getting nervous, so he went to pull out his gun, and shot himself in the leg. We heard gunshots, like pop-pop-pop, even though the music was so loud. Once we heard the gunshots, everybody started running. And that shut down the Tunnel for a couple of months.”

UPDATE: DJ Masta Lee blessed you.