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Dope underground hip hop from People Under The Stairs -- their lucky seventh album -- still working as one of the finest neo classic hip hop crews in the game, and one of our favorite hip hop duos since the blueprint era! Thes One and Double K bring their A-games each time out, and this return ...

The second album by So Cal's great PUTS. "Crazy Love", "Youth Explosion", "Suite For The Creeper", "Sterns To Western", "Code Check", "Blowin' Wax", "Stoned Youth Truth", "King Kuff", "Stay Home" and the rest. ...

J Boogie's Dubtronic Science gets some assistence from Lunar Heights on the rhymes and Afrodisiac Sound System remix on Inferno -- a nicely grooving track that deftly blends spacey club grooves with underground hip hop. The ASS mix brings in a funky 70s dancefloor funk feel. Que Pasa features ...

You could call this electro, but truth is, it's classic early Freestyle, but with a nice midtempo feel rather than the high energy vibe that would later become a cliché of the style. ...

"Mafia Don" features Last Emperor. "Came 2 Do" features Wordsworth. ...

Featuring Janet. ...

Soulful hip hop from Cali's Fashawn -- the storytelling sense, and in the way the tunes hit you deeply where it counts -- with appearances by Blu, Exile, Aloe Blacc & others. Exile produced, and he did so excellent, with resonantly soulful and sometimes jazzy sounds, with surprising sounds in ...

Dope underground hip hop from People Under The Stairs -- their lucky seventh album -- still working as one of the finest neo classic hip hop crews in the game, and one of our favorite hip hop duos since the blueprint era! Thes One and Double K bring their A-games each time out, and this return to ...

Solid hip hop from South Florida's Dynas for BBE -- featuring production by DJ Jazzy Jeff, Spinna, Dilla and others -- plus appearances by the legendary Slick Rick, Rich Medina, Tiye Phoenix and more. A slice of life style effort with strong production and dexterous rhymes -- solid hip hop on BBE! ...

Blearly eyed hip hop beatcraft from Suff Daddy -- beats, samples, synth & keys -- lacing boombap, jazz and spacier bits -- coming straight of of Berlin! Suff has a keen ear for the best 90s hip hop styles, put his own unpredictable spin on the aesthetic. There's usually an underlying layer of ...

Stripped down, hazy, funky hip hop from Dudley Perkins -- rolling in heavy funk beats, spare piano particles, and in a gritty hip hop mode for the most part! It seems to us the Dudley is rhyming more in this solid effort than singing, and he's bringing in more social and spiritual conciousness, ...

The first of BBE's forays into current hip hop -- and a wonderful debut in the series! The album started as a breakbeat project from Detroit's Jay Dee, but soon morphed into a full-on hip hop album -- complete with real instrumentation on Fender Rhodes, trumpet, keyboards, and drums, with lyrics ...

A glorious send off from J Dilla -- with some of the most soulful productions Dilla's ever laid down! It's impossible to listen to The Shining without considering the sad circumstances surrounding its release, and all too easy to over praise, but this record is filled timelessly inventive ...

A look at the guest list of Alchemist's Chemical Warfare album will let you know how far reaching the respect is for Alc's brand of hip hop beatcraft -- featuring a who's who of legends and stars of the underground and mainstream territories -- including Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Kool G Rap, KRS-One, ...

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B-side by E-40 and B-Legit, with Pimp C and Bun B of UGK. Both tracks taken from "The Corruptor" soundtrack. ...

15 tracks including "Stillmatic", "Got Ur Self A...", "2nd Childhood", "One Mic", "You're Da Man", "The Flyest" featuring AZ, "Rule" featuring Amerie, "Ether", "What Goes Around", "Every Ghetto", ...

A limited edition 12 track LP, with a nice collection of tracks from the preceding few years on Jive: Tribe "Bonita Applebaum", Schoolly D "PSK What Does It Mean?", BDP "My Philosophy", Too $hort "The Ghetto"m Kool Moe Dee "How Ya Like Me Now", ...

Classic Kane, with fat Cold Chillin' production by Marley Marl. Includes the classics "Ain't No Half-Steppin'", "Long Live The Kane", "Raw (Remix)", "Set It Off", "I'll Take You There", "Just Rhymin' With Biz", and "Word To the ...

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The classic Scott La Rock tribute double LP, with "D Nice Rocks The House", "Red Alert (Criminal Minded)", "Doc Mix (Criminal Minded)", "Super Hoe #4", "Advance", "BDP Medley #5", and lots of "Poetry" tracks, numbered 1, 2, 3 etc. ...

As referenced by Biggie, though we're not certain if that allows this one to qualify for a place in the history books, but definitely one of the better rap parody records -- one we still laugh at after all these years. Not much of a pic sleeve, more like a printed generic sleeve. ...

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! ...

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A pretty huge, innovative step for Beans, Priest and Sayyid! Arrhythmia is all about the sound, and on that level it's a near masterpiece. Completely futuristic electronic washes are the trademark of the record -- the rhymes are for the most part laid back and part of the scenery. That's not to ...

One of our favorite tracks from the early 80s on Sugar Hill, with a sort of beeping, bouncing good time boogie track and back and forth rhymes from the Crash Crew over top. ...

Ok, maybe not as dope as a classic Mobb Deep LP, but still some nice tracks that occupy the middle ground between the club isht and the extra-underground. Includes "Keep It Thoro", "Wanna Be Thugs", "Infamous Minded", plus guest appearances by Havoc, Big Noyd, Cormega ...

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Remix of the club favorite, this time featuring Beanie Seigal, Memphis Bleek and DMX, guaranteed to fill the dancefloor. A bit more on the commercial tip, but to our ears, this one features the best of the Ruff Ryders/Swizz sound, and the lyrics are straight -- they never take themselves too ...

Two of our favorites off the "Illadelph Halflife" LP. "Sections" features a smooth organ line throughout. "Clones" uses a spare piano loop and harder rhyme styles, off set by the very brief, very mellow break. ...

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Inventive rappers KP, Strike 3 & Norm Rockwell, aka The Pacifics, join up with the increasingly impressive producer Illimind -- delivering an EP that equals the best work we've heard by either party! The EP format works really well, in that there's more than a handful of great tracks, with ...

Mobb Deep's tale of the cops turning up the heat. The remix includes the same vocals but, to us, the production moves the already dope LP version up to classic status. ...

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Produced by Marley Marl, with him, Sha-B and the Lords Of The Underground on the b-side. ...

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"Boogie Down Bronx" is the early electro classic that Newcleus copied the bassline, drums and vocoder sound from on "Jam On It", and it's one of the first hip hop tracks about The Bronx. ...

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

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Beats by DJ Fashion and Professor Q. Rhymes by Fat Joe, Dion Broad, Grand Puba, RMR and Chill Will. ...

Q-Tip's legendary unreleased jazz funk flavored Kamaal The Abstract album -- a wonderful record that should have come out in 2002 (!!!) -- but in yet another tribute to Q-Tip's genius, it sounds just as great all these years later! We remember well, hearing snippets of Kamaal The Abstract on a ...

Q-Tip's legendary unreleased jazz funk flavored Kamaal The Abstract album -- a wonderful record that should have come out in 2002 (!!!) -- but in yet another tribute to Q-Tip's genius, it sounds just as great all these years later! We remember well, hearing snippets of Kamaal The Abstract on a ...

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" ...

A nice little bonus single from Shadow for the vinyl lover in all of us! Originally released at a time when the 7" was bit on the wane as far as new or newly released titles went, this great single features a then-non-LP b side and a new mix to the cut "Stem", two great atmospheric ...

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 the early ...

Bumping minimalist beats from DJ Spinna -- the debut single on the Cult 45 label, formerally Female Fun! "Ill Kudana" has a funky electro feel to it, with a big bouncy synthy sound over the beat. The flip track "Abyzmal" is takes a much different approach -- building some ...

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 ...