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Production by Posdunous, guest spot by Mos Def.... read more

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Tracks include "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See", "Dangerous", "The Whole World Lookin' At Me", "One" featuring Erykah Badu, "We Could Take It Outside" featuring Flipmode Squad, Rah Digga & others, "The Body Rock" featuring... read more

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Remix features Big Pun, Wyclef, Charli Baltimore, and Silkk the Shocker.... read more

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From the 2nd LP, Yin & the Yang. Features Raekwon. B side features Jermaine Dupri & Da Brat.... read more

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Produced by the Beatnuts.... read more

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Featuring the Gunna Palace All-Stars.... read more

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Includes "Treat 'Em Right", "Just The Two Of Us", "The Chubbster" & "The Five Deadly Venoms". 12 tracks in all.... read more

Featuring Missy Elliot.... read more

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Earlier Clipse, produced by the Neptunes before they completely controlled the airwaves.... read more

"What Happened To That" features Baby, "Star" features 702, "Mr Baller" features Royce 5'9".... read more

"Black Trump" features Raekwon.... read more

Common returns with a lean, filler free full length in Finding Forever – a set that's definitely the thematic follow up to the BE LP – and a solid one, with highpoints that equal Com's best work of the decade! The set is largely produced by Kanye, with some terse, harder hitting... read more

3rd album by the man who put Chicago on the map as a hip hop center. 2 albums strong, and with a lot of guest appearances by folks like De La Soul, Q-Tip, Chantay Savage, Erykah Badu, and Cee-Lo. No I.D. produced most of this, and a few tracks were done by Doug Infinite. Includes "1 '2... read more

3rd LP by the man who put Chicago on the map as a hip hop center. 2 LPs strong, and with a lot of guest appearances by folks like De La Soul, Q-Tip, Chantay Savage, Erykah Badu, and Cee-Lo. No I.D. produced most of this, and a few tracks were done by Doug Infinite. Includes "1 '2 Many"... read more

In 1994 when everyone seemed to be turning hardcore, Common Sense wasn't having it. Introspective tales of growing up and living on the South Side that fit perfectly with No I.D.'s mellow production and spiced up with two guest appearances by Y-Not aka Twilight Tone. Classic LP, solid all the way... read more

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Features the amazing non-LP b-side "Can-I-Bust" that's got all the energy of the tracks from the "Soul By The Pound" LP and even better vocals plus a dope, rare, appearance by Twilight Tone aka Y-Not with this three-mansions-and-a-yacht rhyming style. Plus a nice and mellow... read more

Off the first album, with a very different rhyme style than he's come to be known for.... read more

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Cook Classics cooks up one of the best sets so far in the Now Again Music Library Series – part hip hop instrumentals, part Sound Library funk – built from samples culled from the Now Again catalog! Cook Classics Vs Now Again works as both a prime example of the Cook Classics as a... read more

Another cut from the "Smurf" dance era. This one is really more of a roller-skating style record with sung female vocals than a real hip hop record.... read more

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Hell, Boots, it's not a bother – we actually dig Sorry To Bother You as much as any Coup music since Steal This Album! There's a great vibe on Sorry To Bother you – with rebellious, progressive lyricism, of course – but musically, this one surpasses the preceding Coup album, in... read more

Hell, Boots, it's not a bother – we actually dig Sorry To Bother You as much as any Coup music since Steal This Album! There's a great vibe on Sorry To Bother you – with rebellious, progressive lyricism, of course – but musically, this one surpasses the preceding Coup album, in... read more

"Stomped" produced by Rockwilder. "Make You Say Yes" features a guest spot by Krumb Snatcha & produced by Da Beatminerz.... read more

"Stomped" produced by Rockwilder. "Make You Say Yes" features a guest spot by Krumb Snatcha & produced by Da Beatminerz.... read more

One of the greatest hip hop acts from the early days of Sugar Hill – but a group who don't often get the same sort of cred as the label's bigger names at the time! The Crash Crew have a youthful energy that really lives up to their name – a loose approach to rhyme that sounds... read more

One of the greatest hip hop acts from the early days of Sugar Hill – but a group who don't often get the same sort of cred as the label's bigger names at the time! The Crash Crew have a youthful energy that really lives up to their name – a loose approach to rhyme that sounds... read more

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The second LP from Cypress Hill, and as far as we're concerned, the last great one. Muggs' beats get a bit darker on this album, but are still sharp enough to cut through even the thickest clouds of smoke. 14 tracks in all, including "I Wanna Get High", "I Ain't Goin' Out Like... read more

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Rhymes by II Unorthodox and Juice.... read more

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Includes vocal and instruemental mixes of "ENY Groove", "In A Minute (I'm A Loose It)", "Next Stop", "Take A Journey", and "Yes Yes Y'all".... read more

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Produced by Marley Marl.... read more

Includes "Hip Hop Ride", "Mad Props", "No Mercy", "Backstabbers", "No More Hard Times", "Put Me On", "Stayed Away", "Illy Filly Funk", "Grim Reaper", "Reality", "In The City", "People... read more

"Cali' Dreamin'" features Fashawn & Co$$.... read more

Sweet beats from Damu – and a cut that's heavy on a moogy sample from Jean-Jacques Perry – one you'll recognize from a famous track, but used much differently here – in a really moody way!... read more

Sweet beats from Damu – and a cut that's heavy on a moogy sample from Jean-Jacques Perry – one you'll recognize from a famous track, but used much differently here – in a really moody way!... read more

Damu The Fudgemonk's remixes and redefines tracks by Talib Kweli, MF Doom, Elzhi and Kaimbr & Kev Brown – with tight Damu remixes and the instrumental versions! Includes "Wings – Redef Remix" by Elzhi, "Coco Mango – Boy Scout Remix" by MF Doom, "Army... read more

Dana Dane's first LP with the title cut, "Delancy Street", "Nightmares", "Cinderfella Dana Dane" plus more.... read more

A nice ep of spare hip hop instrumentals from the tiny east coast indy label Max'n, who recruited edit master Danny Krivit for 5 tracks of spare, blunted hip hop.... read more

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Hard to find vinyl pressing of their second LP, from 1993. Das Efx drop the bliggety-liggety rhyme style here, but keep up the syllabic tempo with tongue tripping rhymes over the head nodding Solid Scheme beats. You've heard us an just about anyone else with an opinion about hip hop history go on... read more

Reissue of Davy DMX's biggest hit "One For the Treble", an early DJ record, mostly instrumental, where he cuts in lots of sound bits including RUN-DMC, car noises and a British woman saying the title phrase over – of course – a DMX drum machine beat.... read more

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Lots of extra goodies, in keeping with the usual De La 12" format!... read more

The epic second De La Soul album – a slightly deeper record than the upbeat 3 Feet High And Rising, but to us it's just as irrefutably classic – and among the best hip hop full lengths ever! The trio is still working with Prince Paul, so despite the cover image and declaration of the... read more

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Aggro hip hop/noise rock from Death Grips – one of the more surprising major label pick ups in years! Includes "Get Got", "The Fryer", "Lost Boys", "Black Jack", "System Blower", "Hacker", "Bitch Please", "F***... read more

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Here you get the radio edit and instrumental versions of three tracks: DMX "Stop Being Greedy", Onyx "React", Def Squad "Full Cooperation"... read more

With Phil The Agony, Xzibit and the Liks on the a-side.... read more

Produced by Rockwilder.... read more

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"Party" features KB and Manchild, with them rapping over "I'm Ready" by Kano!... read more

This promo 12" of tracks off Diamond's first LP, was issued at the time of the Hatred, Passions & Infidelities album.... read more

Double LP promo pressing with instrumental versions of all the tracks from the Hatred, Passions & Infidelity LP, including "5 Fingas Of Death", "This One", "No Wondah (The Projects)", "The Hiatus", "Painz & Strife", and "JD's... read more

2 of the stronger cuts from Diamond D's second LP.... read more

The laidback classic! The Digables certainly weren't the first hip hop group to rely upon cooled out jazzy grooves for the backbone of their sound, but they really brought it home with a hugely endearing and long enduring vibe – and this is their masterpiece! All these years later, Blowout... read more

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We're not always the biggest Digital Underground fans, but Shock G/Humpty comes close to the funky goofiness of their earlier hits – with a definite Parliafunkadelicment edge (it samples "Aqua Boogie", but without the heavy sound that drowns a lot of the later west coast hip hop... read more

Digital Underground's first album of P-Funky, hook heavy, party rockin hip hop for Tommy Boy! The first two albums by Shock G and the rest of the crew are classics, even if they don't get enough always get the props – possibly because the well the well of P-Funk samples wasn't necessarily... read more

A pair of genre-splicing, party rocking 12"s by Diplo – each with Serato Control Tone B-Sides for the producers among us – plus 2 slipmats – all that's missing as a full house to spin it for! Diplo brings together influences from dancehall, to New Orleans bounce to and... read more

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The vinyl debut of some great tracks by Divine Scienze – and a joint release between Redefinition Records and Blu's New World Color label. "Happiness Is" features Blu, Scene and Britain Parker. "Ring The Alarm" feat Blu.... read more

Double LP from 1998 DMC mix champ, DJ Craze featuring long, mostly instrumental tracks, with, of course, lots of nice dj work and some well-chosen vocal samples. Most of the tracks are low- to mid-tempo, but one of our favorites is the triple speed "Miami International Break". 12 tracks... read more

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A sharp Statement Of Intent from DJ Format – whose format is timeless boombap and deft live instrumention on this solid set – which includes collaborations with Sureshot La Lock, Phill Most Chill, Nostalgia 77 and others! Classic craft, though timelessly inventive. The spacey sci fi... read more

DJ Format is joined by a pair of the more innovative figures in leftfield hip hop – the ever-adventurous Edan and underground mic hero Mr Lif! "Spaceship Earth" is killer – with raw and funky backdrop, psych funk guitar in the mix and other cosmic atmospherics. Edan is is... read more

With vocals by Triple Seis, Headcrack and Miss Jones.... read more

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The lyrically focused set in the 2 Stepping Stones compilations from DJ Krush – part remix album, part retrospective – featuring Company Flow, Black Thought & Malik B of the Roots, Mos Def, Aesop Rock, Zap Mama and others! Lyricism kind of finds Krush in his most hip hop reverent... read more

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