The Office: Live from the Cubes

Feeling nostalgic? Each week XXL's staffers bring you a throwback playlist to help you get through the week. See what we're bumping around the office...

"I've been bumping this on repeat lately. I'm a huge Native Tongue fan but for some reason I love when Dre says, 'Just another muthafuckin' day for Dre so I begin like this/no medallions, dread locks or black fists/It's just that gangsta glare with gangsta raps/that gangsta shit, makes a gang of snaps'" – Carl Chery, Digital Content Director

"Another joint I've been bumping a lot lately. You'll see why on Wednesday." – CC

"Vintage Jigga. Best way to start off the work week." – Jesse Gissen, Digital News Editor

"Follow the pied piper." – JG

"This played randomly on my iTunes this weekend and I played it over and over. Godson and Scarface . . . two of the best to ever do it." – Mark Lelinwalla, Senior Editor

"Cam and Hov may not see eye-to-eye now - or ever again - but this joint was magic. 'But we from New York City, right Cam? [Cam] Yeah, damn right.'" – ML

"UGKs first album is an undisputed Dirty South classic. "Pocket Full of Stones" is a classic tale of crack rocks, Cadillacs, and making bail." – Nicole LoPresti, News Editor

"Positive K will forever be known as a one-hit wonder for his classic "I Got a Man," but till this day, it's one of my favorite old school singles. Love the Funky Four Plus One's "That's the Joint" sample." – NL

"This was one of the first songs I discovered on my own shortly after tapping into hip-hop in the early 90s. I love the R&B-leaning production on this track, especially the horns -- I'm a sucker for wind instruments!" – Mariel Concepcion, Senior Editor

"Again, horns. Can't escape it. As well as the scratches. This reminds me of the house parties in Harlem I used to go to when I was a Catholic School Junior High School girl. Classic." – MC

"The lyrical acumen exhibited on this joint is just crazy." – Khalid Salaam, Senior Editor

"Sometimes I just wanna hear some fight music – real fight music, that is." – KS

"Wordsworth is so nice with it. The way he flipped words combined with his delivery was just ill to me. He definitely got real on this track." – Adam Fleischer, Music Editor