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A compilation of Wu Tang Clan tracks and live funky soul backing by Brooklyn combo The Revelations -- put together by The RZA and featuring rhymes by Ghostface, Raekwon, Inspectah Deck and U God, plus guest MCs Masta Ace, AZ, Cormega, Sean Price, Havoc, Kool G Rap, Tre Williams and Sadat X. Titles ...

Soul Position hits the mark in a tried-and-true hip hop style a lot more, well, soulfully, than a lot of the Def Jux and Rhymesayers stuff that comes across our turntables. RJD2 brings the deep pumping bass sound, heavy scratches and pounding beats. Kinda menacing, but still really funky. A nice ...

Another great little left coast leftfield nusoul effort from Dudley Declaime Perkins, who we like to think of as the ODB of neo classic soul. Just as you might hope, Dudley leans a little more heavily on a healthy dose of rhyme vocalese rather than smooth crooning on this crispy little album that ...

"One On One" produced by Pete Rock. "Just Write" produced by Dr. Dre, and featuring Dre & Nat. "Cum Wit Me" produced by Diddy, and featuring Biggie, KC & Jo Jo. "Ridin' Time" produced by Premier, featuring 50 & Gang Starr. ...

16 tracks in all, including "4th Chamber" and "Cold World (RZA mix)" by the Genius, "Wu Gambinos" by Raekwon, "Tragedy" by the RZA, "Black Trump" by the Cocoa Brovaz, "Hip Hop Drunkies" by the Alkoholiks, "Gunz N Onez" by Heltah ...

Banquet of Sarcasm has that noisy distorted underground sound, but with a little more energy and a little less abstract/off-beat vocals. Mr. Complex and D-Story of the Arsonists are featured on Three Men In A Bar. ...

Twin Cities hip hop from Toki Wright -- solid stuff from the Rhymesayers family -- straight up, no BS, underground hip hop that's made for the love of it. Beats by Benzilla, Reggie Reg, Brother Ali and others, with guest appearances by Scarab of Living Legends, Brother Ali and I Self Divine. ...

Hazy beatcraft steeped in Indian soundtrack style funk, strings and percussion from the indefatigable Madlib -- Volumes 3 & 4 in the Beat Konducta series of the increasingly adventurous and conceptual outings -- 2 volumes on 1CD! This time out Madlib, er, Beat Konducta is conducting beats, ...

Full length collabo between Chi vets Verbal Kent & Kaz1 -- with guests including the ever ferocious Ill Bill, plus Wordsworth, Cold Hard of Crucial Conflict, Alltuisms, Braille and more! Straight up, hard hitting underground hip hop. Titles include "Dedicated", "Wars R Us" ...

Abstract Rude's Rejuvenation, produced entirely by Vitamin D -- kind of a laidback, west coast funky vibe in the beats department -- but Rude's rhymes take a busier tack in spots, and interesting counterpart to the more easygoing beats, bass groove and synths in the production. Titles include ...

Tommy Boy includes a little bit of everything on each volume of it's Greatest Beats series -- from the early Soul Sonic Force classics and dance tracks up through the latest hits. We'll admit there's a few filler tracks (why'd they include the K7 trash??) but there's still a lot of hard-to-obtain ...

One of Heavy D's bigger commercial hits, with production by Marly Marl, from the "Big Tyme" LP. ...

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Featuring Chamillionaire. ...

A fine effort from Kaze and 9th Wonder -- a producer so hot he gets above-the-credits-billing along with the MC -- and deservedly so! It's a strong record, one we originally put in the racks on the same day as the much more high profile BE album from Common, which has a similar attitude and ...

A co-release by All Natural, Inc and Counterflow -- 2 of our favorite progessive labels in the hip hop undeground! "Talk Is Cheap" is one of the better tracks from the Pacifics' Sunday's Chicken LP -- featuring Iriscience of Dilated Peoples. "Southpaw" is nice, too, with a ...

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What can we say? The classic single from Doug E Fresh that introduced the world to Slick Rick and has been sampled and quoted more times than we can count! ...

Promo-only single off the CB4 sountrack. With KRS's minimalist dance-hall inspired production, with harsh lyrics about the boys in blue. ...

Music by Keith LeBlanc and samples from Malcolm X's The Ballot Or The Bullet speech. ...

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Promo version of these 2 tracks from the Stolen Moments compilation. Both tracks are done in live versions -- the Pharcyde "Rubbers" with The Groove Collective, and the Roots' "Proceed" with Joe Sample and Phil Woods. ...

Beats by Biggest Gord and Alchemist, guest rhymes by Timbo King, Killah Priest and Black Jesus. ...

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12" with 4 great mixes of the title track, plus the sublime "Mack Daddy On The Left" which became the theme song for one of our favorite Chicago hip hop DJs. "Mack Daddy On The Left" is as dope as anything on 3 Feet High & Rising, but was only released as a b-side ...

Single off the Run Come Save Me LP, from one of the better (and few) good British rappers. The A side gets remixed by Part 2 of New Flesh For Old and the B side is unavailable elsewhere. ...

We know you want this for the classic "Request Line", but we can't get enough of the flip either! "The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire" . . ."We don't need no water let the m*ther f*cker burn, burn m*ther f*cker burn"! ...

The second album of heavy east coast funk and slow rolling rhymes from the brothers from Brentwood. Nice, fat trunk rattling production and Eric and Parrish's trademark back and forth rhymes keep this set fresh,even today. Loaded with classics: "So What Cha Sayin'", "Get the ...

From the "Things Fall Apart" LP, with a nice appearance by Erykah Badu in the chorus. The remix increases the tempo and uses different music with steel drums throughout. Also, features a new chorus in Spanish, by another dope vocalist (the label does not list who it is.) ...

Four tracks (plus instrumentals) each featuring more MC's than we can count. Sure there's some of the usual suspects, but what make the tracks work is the dope verses from MC's who usually do more commercial tracks and the MC's we haven't heard from in a while. Including, in order of appearance... ...

When Mos Def came out swinging with Black On Both Sides and we were all left both hot and cold, it seemed maybe Black Star should've never went their separate ways. But then, out came this burning set of dope joints, we all found out Talib could stand solid on his own, with the help of Hi-Tek's ...

Produced by Jay Dee & Q-Tip. ...

One of their great 12" singles, with the full 7-minute version of the classic "Buddy" featuring Q-Tip, Latifah, and Monie Love. Loads of extra mixes that all sound very different from one another. Between the remixes of the songs, there's enough material here to put together a ...

"Boom" produced by Premier, with "We're Live (Danger)", produced by Rush. ...

This one's a lot like their earlier single, "What People Do For Money". ...

Dead Prez spitting sharply over beats by DJ Green Lantern -- featuring Chuck D on a track, a clear hip hop revolutionary inspiration to DP, plus Bun B, Styles P and others on Pulse Of The People -- Turn Off The Radio Part 3. Dead Prez gets political as always, but there's no easy targets in their ...

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5th volume in this set of production tools, featuring drums solo-ed up, all the way through, with tight rhythms for you to work with. This one's called the "Hard Rock" set, so ithe beats are pretty stripped down, but suprisingly the production doesn't make the drums pop like you might ...

Before the LL Cool J and Canibus battles on wax there was LL vs. Kool Moe Dee. "Let's Go" is one of Kool Moe Dee's entries in the battle, with some good punchlines, and is one of his best later tracks. Released around the time of the "How Ya Like Me Now" LP, never made it on ...

The king of Miami Bass music delivers the goods for your rump shaking pleasure. ...

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4th volume in this set of production tools, featuring drums solo-ed up, all the way through, with tight rhythms for you to work with. This one's called the "Light Rock" set, so it has some more mellow and slower bits, and while the really downtempo tracks don't have much character, there ...

If Paul's Boutique was the Beasties heavily mind-blown Dust Brothers dusted psychedelic hip hop Sgt Peppers, then Check Your Head is their down and dirty back to basics raw funk run at something like Never Mind The Bollocks. Their first outing without the guidance of an outside producer, though ...

Two cuts from the acclaimed Funcrusher Plus LP, plus instrumentals, and another mix of 8 Steps that's similar to the original single version, but less noisey than the LP version. ...

Despite the bad choices of a house (which for a reason that's beyond us is pretty sought after around here??) and "Miami" mix, this single does feature the "soul shock mix" with production by Audio Two, and the cut "Shut The Eff Up!", which was not on LP! ...

The former Beatnut gets produced by his old bandmates on one side of this indie single, and lyrical help from Problemz, A-Massacre, Sean Black and Sk. ...

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