Hip Hop -- Recently Added -- LP  

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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" ...

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 ...

How 50 manages to stand out as such a genuinely exciting MC is in such a crowded field of street hip hop is as mysterious as it is beside the point. Dr. Dre's love for that minimalist ghetto synth orchestra sound is in full depth here, this is probably as strong as any production work he's ever ...

His last LP for Profile produced by Herby Luv Bug. 12 cuts in all, including "Dana Dane To It", "A Little Bit Of Dane Tonight" and "Tales FromThe Dane Side". ...

The third album from Eric B & Rakim -- classic MC/DJ duo hip hop from classic players! By this point, Rakim was firmly established as one of hip hop's greatest rhymers, and is a fine full length effort that's biggest fault is that it's not quite as spectacular as the first 2 LPs. Ultimately, ...

With the title track, "Good Groove", "Power Move", "Bad Young Brother", "We Got The Juice", 'All City", "Rock The Beat", "Human Time Bomb", "Get Down" and "Success". ...

With the title cut from the days of the Kool Moe Dee vs. LL Cool J battles. And following the theme, the cover has a picture of Kool Moe Dee (in a white BK suit) standing in front of a jeep that has just run over a red Kangol! With "How Ya Like Me Now", 'Wild Wild West", "Way ...

One of Sugar Hill's more electro oriented groups -- more famous for their breakdance cuts than their hip hop ones. We never gave these guys much credit at the time, but over the years, they've really grown on us -- thanks to insistence by some of their vocal fans! Titles include "Let's ...

Queen Latifah's second album -- still very much in the prime of her early hip hop career! Latifah's got some great help here -- and is working with beats by the 45 King, Naughty By Nature, K Cut of Main Source, and an incorrectly credited Louie Vega -- all of whom bring some sharper edges to the ...

Ghostface Killah's in lothario mode on Ghostdini -- The Wizard Of Poetry -- leaving the gritty day-to-day of the coke game hyperdramas aside for r&b and funky soul sampled cuts with a capable roster of vocalists for the hooks -- including Raheem DeVaughn, John Legend, Vaughn Anthony & ...

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 his name ...

J Dilla at his grittiest, most rugged & raw -- in both the production and rhyme realm -- with all beats and rhymes by the Dilla himself! This set originally opened our ears to a different side of Dilla, a harder hitting aesthetic, with beats and grooves from out of leftfield that draw you in ...

A mad funky suite from the Beat Konducta -- Vol 5 in the evolving, unpredictable series of deep, crackling beatcraft -- this one a tribute to Dilla! Dil Cosby Suite is as solid as any of the volumes to date, compellingly funky and in more of Madlib's heady hip hop mode than some of the more ...

J Dilla at his grittiest, most rugged & raw -- in both the production and rhyme realm -- with all beats and rhymes by the Dilla himself! This set originally opened our ears to a different side of Dilla, a harder hitting aesthetic, with beats and grooves from out of leftfield that draw you in ...

A fresh couple sides of mad funky beatcraft from Madlib, the one and only Beat Konducta -- with a little help from J Rocc, and spiritual guidance from Dilla! 'Lib is the longstanding champion of hazy, smoked out hip hop funk instrumentals -- and the Dil Withers set is another blunted gem -- with ...

Parisian beatmaker Dela attracts some of best MCs in underground hip hop for his long awaited US releases Changes Of Atmoshere -- a steady mix of soulful and jazzy beatcraft and headnodding funk boombap -- including Talib Kweli, Elzhi of Slum Village, J-Live and many more! The EP version fo ...

Black Milk's back with Tronic, possibly his best album yet -- representing Detroit proudly, and succeeding as well as any producer/MC from those parts since Dilla left us! The way Black Milk captures a drum sound continues to slay us -- it was the first element of his work that pulled us in, and ...

A Stones Throw sci-fi masterpiece -- one that was destined for greatness from conception, but we're still pretty well blown away by the final product! Madlib brings nothing but the best sci-fi sound collages, scratches, and titanically driving funky beats -- the grooved out 70s side of 'Lib's ...

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

Actually one of the better Wu side projects from 1998, includes "Fake MCs", "Cross My Heart", "Tai Chi", "If You Don't Know" & "Science Project", plus Killah Priest's version of the GZA classic "BIBLE (Basic Instructions Before Leaving ...

Early instrumental electro tracks produced by the Willesden Dodgers. A couple have a sound similar to some of the Whodini and Soul Sonic Force tracks from around that time.. (There isn't any scratching on the tracks -- the "Scratch" in the title means the spare production makes the ...

Original pressing of the awesome follow up to I Wish My Brother George Was Here, impossible to find on vinyl for years. A little harder hitting than the first LP, but still with the jazzy Hiero flavor you've come to know and love. There are days when we feel like this is our favorite Del LP. ...

NWA may have been on it's last leg by the time of this ep, but tracks like "100 Miles And Runnin", "Just Don't Bite It", "Sa Prize Pt 2", and "Kamurshol" still sound pretty great. ...

Producer BK-One teams up with beatmaker Benzilla to craft a killer record for Rhymesayers -- featuring an all star roster of rhymers and unpredictable psyche, funk, Latin & Brazil steeped sounds! MCs include Brother Ali, Slug, Raekwon, I Self Divine, POS, Blueprint and more -- and how could we ...

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 ...

The second album from Foreign Exchange -- the formerally bi-continental project of North Carolina MC, and nascent soul singer Phonte of Little Brother, and transplanted Dutch producer Nicolay -- who take an even deeper turn into spacey soul on Leave It All Behind! Given that Phonte is singing ...

Reissue of this legendary album by the third star in the original Native Tongues trinity. Pre the first De La and Tribe LPs, and a hint of all the great stuff that was to come, you know -- jazzy beats, nice rhymes, straight butter all the way through. Plus an amazing bonus track that was not ...

One more example of what the hip hop world lost with the passing of Big L. An extra-nice collection of some of Big L's best freestyles and live tracks over the years, compiled from mixtape and live radio performances. One of the best is the long track ("Back 2 Back") where Big L trades ...

One of the most important albums in the history of hip hop -- the first full LP from KRS One, and a landmark batch of tracks recorded with the late Scott La Rock! The track list alone is a full chapter in the hip hop book of legends -- with tunes like "Poetry", "Elementary", ...

A funky breaks record from DJ Egon -- Stones Throw/Now Again records honcho, world-renowned funky 45 collector, Wax Poetics writer/contributor, and a vital authority on all things funky! Curse Of The Evil Badger features two sides of the kind of beat heavy 70s funk bites that keep us digging ...

Damn! The MASSIVE collaborative album from the dynamic duo of Madlib and J Dilla! Essentially, Madlib handles the production on the even numbers in the set with Dilla on the vocals, and the roles are reversed on the odd numbers. Each producer does his own thing, as only he can do it -- Madlib ...

The G-funk classic, remastered and repackaged in a 2LP set. Tracks include "Bathtub", "G Funk Intro", "Gin And Juice", "Tha Shiznit", "Lodi Dodi", "Murder Was The Case", "Serial Killa", "Who Am I? (What's My Name)", ...

Beats by Jay Dee, Large Pro, Swizz Beatz, Just Blaze and others. Guest rhymes from DMX, Jay Z, Raekwon, Ghostface, MOP, and the Flipmode folks, of course. 22 tracks counting interludes and so forth, including "Why We Die", "The Heist", "Fire", "We Comin' ...

We weren't certain whether this dope little compilation qualified as a soundtrack or not, but we are certain it might as well be considered THE soundtrack to the first half of the oughties, with the cream of the Stones Throw stable lacing this collabo with the Adult Swim network with pure niceness ...

A sad lesson on why you should stay away from drugs. In spite of the fact that this is a pretty weak later effort, there are a few moments on here that don't completely make us forget all the great Flash tracks that got us open way back when. Includes "Girls Love The Way He Spins", 'Rock ...

Includes "Cuban Necktie", "What U Want From Me", "Stank A** H**", "Can I Get A Hit", "We Live This Sh*t" and 'Worldwide". Guest spots by Eminem, Everlast, Noreaga and Chino XL. Beats by Muggs. ...