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On top of releasing some of the very best independent hip hop of the 90s, Rawkus Records did another great service to humanity with this -- the double vinyl companion to Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists! They did a great job of including a lot of amazing old school tracks (1983-1989) that maybe not ...

DJ tools from DJ Rectangle. Tracks include "Battle The Bridge Break", "Southpark Shaolin Samples", "Scratch-A-Tonic Zone", "Funky Freaknik Beats", "Apache Attacks", "Dirty Rotten Skills", "Tight-Tacular Beats", "I'm Still ...

Late 80s east coast hip hop fromNew Jersey's Krown Rulers -- a tight old school LP that's self produced by the Ruler,s with some help from across the river by Dave from Philly's Tuff Crew. Like the Tuff Crew, this one's on the harder hitting edge of the late 80s sound -- the beats kick out hard, ...

West Coast abstract underground stylings from the Living Legends at their prime. ...

Sometime in the mid 00s Sprite pressed up a bunch of colored vinyl promo 12"s for radio and club DJs. This is one of them. ...

Sometime in the mid 00s Sprite pressed up a bunch of colored vinyl promo 12"s for radio and club DJs. This is one of them. ...

Sometime in the mid 00s Sprite pressed up a bunch of colored vinyl promo 12"s for radio and club DJs. This is one of them. With the hard to get "Powersax" mix, too. ...

With "Coast II Coast" by The Alkaholiks and "On The Real" by Nas. ...

Special K and Teddy Tedd pull together a batch of early 80s numbers: Grand Master Flash & The Furious Five's "The Message", Kurtis Blow "The Breaks", Spoonie Gee's "Love Rap", the Treacherous Three's "Feel The Heartbeat", the Sequence "Funk You ...

11 tracks, including "X-Orcist" by Rob Swift, "Bulgarian Tobacco" by Scotty Hard, "Come On" by Afrika Baby Bam, "Sucker For Love" by Prince Paul, "Head Spins" by Djinji Brown, "Hidden Gods" by the Ill Saint and Psycho Priest, "Am Goin' ...

Whoooooo Hah! Finally, they put out a nice price reissue of this lost 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 ...

Sweet LP of the Furious Five backed by the classic Doug Wimbish, Keith Leblanc and Skip McDonald band that you know so well from other Sugar Hill recordings from the period. Includes the timeless "The Message" as well as "Scorpio", "It's Nasty", "She's Fresh" ...

Bedrock beatcraft and DJ mix mastery from Steve Stein -- including the hugely important Double Dee & Steinski mixes of the early 80s -- paired up with solid later work for this excellent 2CD compilation! The Double Dee & Steinski stuff really couldn't be more important to the turntablist ...

The second Pharcyde LP -- and though not as blunted and playful as the first one, it's still nearly as great -- with that unrivaled, wholly original, easy west coast vibe! The production is more steady-handed this time around, which alienated fans of Bizarre Ride early on, but it also laid the ...

The first full length from MF Doom -- busting out the future of underground hip hop -- capping off the 90s with a record 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! What really pushes this ...

Hard to find full length LP by one of Sugarhill's greatest acts! Includes "Scratching", "Breaking Bells", "On The Radio", "We Want To Rock", and "We Are Known As Emcees". ...

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", " ...

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 ...

Pre-MF Doom/Metal Fingers, et al, classic material from then-Zev Love X and DJ Sub Roc! The Mr Hood LP's original release year of '91 in retrospect seems like the last chance eccentric crews had to drop a leftfield classic before everybody had to be hardcore -- and this certainly is a classic! ...

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, funhouse kinda ...

The amazing debut of those most hyperactive of the Native Tongues, the short-lived, ultra fresh Leaders Of The New School! Busta & Co. splintered apart after just two albums, but this will always be a shiny trophy in the mantle with the all time freshest East Coast hip hop. It sounds great to ...

Muggs of Cypress Hill updates his sound with some nice tracks from Mobb Deep "It Could Happen To You", KRS "Move Ahead", "Third World" with RZA and GZA, "Puppet Master" with Dr Dre and B Real, "Decisions, Decisions" with Goodie Mob and more from La ...

More Wu-bangerz from the Chef, including "Yae Yo", "Casablanca", "Sneakers", "Raw", "Pop S**t", My Favorite Dred", "Live From New York", "100 Rounds", "Power", and "Forecast". ...

14 tracks in all, including "Psycho City Blocks", "Showdown", "The Big Payback", "Stone Garden", "Confessions Of A Drug Addict", "Love From The Sick Side", "Lost Cities" and "Psyclones". ...

The Fo Sheezy Remix features E-40, B-Legit, Rappin' 4-Tay, and Mac 10. ...

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Single of the title cut from the KRS album. Includes a remix of "Boom Bap" by Mad Lion. ...

Too Short's third LP on Jive, the last one before he started becoming a parody of himself. A few tracks have the same humor as his first two Jive LPs, and it includes the hit "The Ghetto" using the classic Donny Hathaway melody, and "Ain't Nuthin But A Word To Me" with Ice Cube ...

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At the time of its release this was a posthumous compilation for the group -- before they reformed, basically a collection of remixes, b-sides and hard to get tracks: "How Many Emcees (DJ Evil Dee rmx)", "Act Like You Want It (DJ Evil Dee rmx)", "Sh*t Iz Real (new ...

2 lost pieces of nice underground Chicago hip hop, off the now legendary Talent Fest compilation. ...

The Service remix features the grand incredible Mos Def. Beats by EZ Elpee and Shawn J Period. ...

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Two mellow underground tracks from the underrated AK Skills. "Check the Flava" produced by Lord Finesse, "Nights of Fear" produced by Buckwild. ...

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A-side produced by the Neptunes featuring Kelis, b-side by Jay Dee of the Ummah with vocals by Bilal. ...

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Production by Premier and Pete Rock. ...

The LP with their big hits. With the full versions of "Freaks Come Out at Night", "Friends", "Five Minutes of Funk". Also includes "Escape (I Need a Break)", "Big Mouth". With the keyboards and vocoder effects, it's hard to believe that this LP ...

3 tracks from the Insomnia album. ...

At this point LL was definitely going for radio play, and it worked, with a tight pop formula and lots of very catchy tracks. Still, commercial crossover in '89 was a little different story and there's more than a handful of great tracks here, with LL in true form on "I'm That Type of ...

Lost early 90s Chicago hip hop. 12 tracks in all, including "Legit", "Riding On E", "Fever For The Flavor", "It's A Black Thang", "Something For The People", "Z The Hard Way" and "Jimmy Make Her Happy". ...

On this one Fat Joe brings in more guest MC's and producers that we can count, including Big Pun on six tracks, Noreaga, Nas, Raekwon, Cuban Link, Armegeddon, Prospect. With production from Premier, Buckwild, Ski, LES, Charli Baltimore, Puffy, and more. Cuts include the all-star "John ...

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Another posthumous 2pac LP, with 22 tracks, including "Fake A** B*tches", "I Wonder If Heaven Got A Ghetto", and many more uplifting numbers, like "F**k All Y'All" & "Definition of a Thug N*gga". ...

WC's first solo LP. Maybe not quite as good as the LP he did with DJ Alladin as part of Low Profile, but still far better than any of the WC and the Mad Circle projects. Most of the production is by Sir Jinx with a sound maybe similar to the early Ice Cube LPs from around that time, using mostly ...

A project that sorta got overlooked in the flood of Wu-releases around that time. As you might guess from the title and the camouflage picture cover, it's mostly military/ninja/etc themes. "Wake Up" produced by the RZA. ...

15 tracks in all, a couple produced by Ant Banks, Too Short and MC Eiht, among others. Includes "Dumpin' Em In Ditches", "187 He Wrote", "Don't Ring The Alarm (The Heist)", "Smoke 'Em Like A Blunt" and "Trigga Gots No Heart". ...

Jay-Z's first appearance(?) on wax, with the notorious photo of a young Hov in a coogi sweat suit and crazy rope chain on the back cover. ...