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A skillful piece of inventive hip hop excellence from Damu The Fudgemonk – his "Bright Side" track, originally and more briefly introduced on the Supply For Demand EP – fleshed out nicely on this 10-inch remix EP! Includes the great 25th Bday Remix, which runs just shy of 6 ...

The first full length from MF Doom –setting the standard for underground hip hop to come! On this modern classic, Doom caps off the 90s with more jazzy soul in the beats, and some semblance of straightforward, if busy rhyme mastery from Doom & his guests – taken to the outer limits! ...

The entire Madlib Medicine Show series on 13 CDs – the wildly ambitious, year+ of monthly releases – collected and available to get in one tidy transaction! The series works as both a Madlib refresher course and a worthy introduction, whether you've dug his marquee efforts and behind-th ...

Madlib's reworked, re-imagined and remixes of the mighty Madvillain! The original Madvillain LP is arguably one of the greatest Stones Throw album ever, held up by many as one of the best indie hip hop albums of its decade if not all time – so Madlib is wise to take a freewheeling, fairly ...

The game-changing Def Jam classic from the mid 80s – and still possibly the greatest album by the Beastie Boys – even though they'd grow up a whole lot after this! The Beasties later distanced themselves from much of the attitude of this album, and you can't fault the Boys for maturing. ...

An early one sided west coast mix record. ...

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The hot MC returns with a who's who stable of hot beats producers, including the Swizz crew, Havoc, Timbaland, Scott Storch, and others. Includes "Hold It Now", "Can You Hear Me Now" featuring Missy Elliot, "Can't F**k With Queen Bee", "Shake Ya Bum Bum", ...

Unlike a lot of late 90s major label hip hop, Loud seems to have found the perfect mix of commericial success and straight dope hip hop... From the movie dialogue intro to "Twins". Guest appearances by Black Thought of The Roots, Raekwon, Fat Joe and more. Includes "Dream ...

Features 2 new hits- "$100 Dollar Bill Ya'll" and "In The Late Night Hour", plus classics like "It Was A Good Day", "My Summer Vacation", "You Know How We Do It", "Hello" featuring Dr Dre and MC Ren, "Check Yo Self" with Das EFX ...

A long overdue retrospective of the amazing run of 90s classics by Pete Rock and CL Smooth – a CD only set, but whatayagonnado? The set is a pretty great compendium of the best parts of The All Souled out single/ep, Mecca And The Soul Brother, The Main Ingredient, Pete's Soul Survivor LP, ...

Producer/MC Kev Browns brilliant boom box full of Random Joints – a one-time download deal from Kev that desevered a proper pressing – so here we go! Kev rocks rhymes and beats with versatility, paying tribute to his influences as well as paving the way for others to follow. Includes ...

Underground hip hop from a focused duo – ascendant Detroit producer Apollo Brown and east coast underground heavyweight rhymer OC – a straight up effort that more than lives up to its potential! The beats are straight forward, classic styled boom bap and OC is in full command on the ...

Includes "The Skinny", "Corner Store", "Absitively", "Class Of 2000", "Knowwhatimsayin", "Susan B", "Medicine", "Everyday", "Flaudgin" and more. ...

Includes "Chamber", "Cold Facts", "No Downtime", "Summer", "Decisions", "Up Against Goliath", "Vessel", "Born King NY", "Every", "Iron Age" feat Roc Marci and more. ...

A selection of late 80s South Bronx Teachings – classic Boogie Down Productions circa Criminal Minded! South Bronx Teachings focuses soundly on the class of '87 – so you get fistful of the Criminal Minded cuts and a few other blasts from KRS-One & Scott La Rock, nicely paced over 2 ...

The timeless classic Cali hip hop standard bearer from Souls Of Mischief – on 2LP vinyl! As much as we love all the best Hiero output of the 90s & beyond, this is still our favorite, and besides, it's pretty much the blueprint for the Hieroglyphics sound. Smoothly jazz and headnodding ...

Soulful hip hop from J Rawls – with some allstar accompaniment by Oh No, Diamond D & Kev Brown, Sadat X & Wise Intelligent, Rhymefest, John Robinson, Lone Catalysts, Bad Azz, Copywrite & Edo G, Casual and others. Includes "Best Producer On The Mic" with Oh No, Diamond D ...

An all star hip hop project on Stones Throw – music by the core Quakers trio of Invada Records partners Katalyst & 7Stu7, plus a cat billed as Fuzzface (actually Geoff Barrow of Portishead) – featuring a sick lineup of guests including Guilty Simpson, Jonwayne, Aloe Blacc, Buff1, ...

Hip hop lifers and genre-defiant pop art blenders The Beastie Boys deliver the Hot Sauce – either their 8th or 9th album in 25 years, depending on how you count the Mix Up instrumentals set – and it sounds to us like a return to the good times hip hop funk style-hopping that the Boys ...

Major Lazer bring a madly propulsive, tropical funk production to their Mad Decent remix for The Beasties – with vocal showcase for guest Santigold! The original version had more of a simmering island vibe going in and Major Lazer stokes it up and brings it to blaze! A great one! Major ...

DJ Wrongtom takes on the canon of Roots Manuva – giving some dubby Caribbean flavor to Roots Manuva's modern UK hip hop classics! There's not much in the way of consessions to trendy dubstep here, and that approach works very well! Includes the new track "Jah Warriors" feat Ricky ...

A full scale Mello Music Group album – one of the most creative-minded and prolific indie hip hop labels out there, circa the early 10s – here with a strong compilation featuring Oddisee, Has-Lo, Roc Marciano, Kenn Starr, Black Milk, Finale, Yu, Hassaan Mackey, OC and others. The album ...

One of the instant classic Wu solo projects – and a a record that stands strongly among the best hip hop albums of the past couple decades! Produced by The RZA at a point in which it seemed there was little he could do wrong. Absolutely essential! Titles include "Winter Warz", ...

The much anticipated full length from Blu on Nature Sounds! Blu's earlier work with Exile, singles and other dropped hints all suggested that a full length solo effort would be a rewarding listen, and Her Favorite Colo(u)r is that and more. A definite creative high point for hip hop in 2011! ...

Raw, gritty hip hop from Sean Born – produced, mixed and arranged by Kev Brown. Includes "Queen Anne/90's", "Murderland", "Go Hard", "Skeez", "Pluck 'Em Off", "Drugsalcoholsex", "Lights On", "Take It And Run", ...

The still-imitated classic first LP from the last of the days when major labels were still putting out dope underground MC's, and while underground MC's aim was still to move the crowd (and before P-LaMox put Payday's cheddar behind WC). With "Soul Clap", "Bounce Ta This", " ...

Classic-schooled, rugged hip hop beats & production from Gensu Dean – plus a stellar roster of guests including Large Professor, Brand Nubian, Prince Po of Organized Konfusion, Roc Marciano of The UN, David Banner, DMC of Run DMC, The Planets, Sputnik Brown and more! Includes "Fracti ...

A built-to-last effort from MED, hence the title – a classic hip hop styled set with sharp rhymes and great production – straight up hip hop on Stones Throw that's straight up solid! As long as we've welcomed verses from the rhymer formerly known as Medaphoar, it's actually kind of a ...

The early 90s classic by The Pharcyde – the group's high water mark – and one of the greatest hip hop albums of the era! Along with Del and the Souls Of Mischief, Pharcyde were one of the few West Coast units to achieve any kind of widespread popularity using the uniquely loopy, ...

Madlib invades Blue Note! He gets free reign of the catalog for this mix of sampler genius and live band interpretations, too, as/with Ahmad Miller, Yesterdays New Quintet, Malcolm Catto, Medaphoar, and others from the Stones Throw camp. This one's truly a conceptual triumph, if there ever was ...

The glory days of the unique piece of vinyl are back – and with some great music, too! Visually, this record's got plenty going on – blue vinyl, and a cool triangle shape that provides an oversized package for the 7" record within – which spins at 33rpm, and includes as much ...

Hip hop lifers and genre-defiant pop art blenders The Beastie Boys deliver the Hot Sauce – either their 8th or 9th album in 25 years, depending on how you count the Mix Up instrumentals set – and it sounds to us like a return to the good times hip hop funk style-hopping that the Boys ...

A less tense and caustic Roots than the crew that hit us on the majority of Rising Down a couple years earlier – and this one's as strong of an album as they've delivered since moving over to Def Jam. In truth, we were a little scared when we saw some of the guests credited – Monsters ...

Open breakbeat sections from funk & soul classics – beats to chop, loop, truncate or just nod your head to! No loops, just open breakbeats from "Space Funk", "Ebony Jam", "Think (About It)", "Scorpio", "Catch A Groove", "Give The ...

A great pair of sides from forward thinking hip hop production gurus – and another in Fieldwerk's excellent series of split LPs devoted to the best underground instrumentals! Falcon By Design features side-long efforts by DJ & producer Maker – who you may (and should) know for his ...

A Native Tongues (more or less) hip hop classic from 1991! We hardly need tell you about this one, but in case you can't remember, this is the LP with "Flavor Of The Month", "Similak Child", "Pass The 40", "To Whom It May Concern", "Butt In The ...

We never know whether we should call this their second album or not. We know it's their second, but their first was so poorly distributed for years, and besides, this one's light years ahead of that in both the approach to production and rhyme style. A modern hip hop essential, that blew our ...

Benchmark 80s electro – and also part of the blueprint for the sound of west coast hip hop – the groundbreaking work of Arabian Prince! Perhaps one of the most overlooked innovators of the west coast scene, Arabian Prince played an integral role in shaping the LA hip-hop sound, from ...

A massive batch of instrumentals from J Dilla – one that strongly transcends the wordless hip hop genre – and perhaps his rawest, and most adventurous listening experience yet! The loopy soul samples, rich synth/electronic shine, and thumping bass and soul beats that Dilla largely made ...

Beats and mixes by Madlib & rhymes by unnamed rappers – an unplanned appendix to the Madlib Medicine Show series – The Black Tape! Number 13 finds Madlib flipping the script on the hip hop DJ mix racket – applying his deep-digging, adventurous style to rhymes by a broad ...

A Shaolin hip hop essential! Heavy numerological rhymes, and the best production on any Wu project (still to this day, even). One of our absolute favorite albums in the classic Wu pantheon, and indisputably one of the very best – next to Enter The Wu Tang, it's also one of the very few that ...

The second full scale instrumentals set from Michigan underground hip hop veteran 14KT – one that stands up strongly among the best of his stuff that we've heard to date! The preceding Golden Hour instrumentals set was a tribute to Dilla, and damn fine one – and it's all the more ...