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DJ Jazzy Jeff returns – with a top shelf roster or MCs doing justice to his Philly soul reared, bedrock beatcraft – including Big Daddy Kane, Method Man, Rhymefest, Jean Grae, Kardinall Offishall, CL Smooth, Pos of De La Soul and more – underground spitters and mic icons alike! ... read more CD

The title's an apt one – as the set features remixes and remakes of tracks from Mitsu's wonderful New Awakening set! The range of talents on the set is really great – with an array of styles that include London broken beat, American hip hop, Japanese club jazz, and lots lots more! ... read more CD

The title's an apt one – as the set features remixes and remakes of tracks from Mitsu's wonderful New Awakening set! The range of talents on the set is really great – with an array of styles that include London broken beat, American hip hop, Japanese club jazz, and lots lots more! ... read more CD

The second volume of the Live At Future Primitive set. DJs Z-Trip and Radar play live, collaborating on 5 turntables in a mixed-up, scratched-up turntablist jam session! CD

Tracks include "Sometimes", "School Street", "Who We Be", Trina Moe", "We Right Here", "Bloodline Anthem", "Shorty Was Da Bomb", "Damien III", "When I'm Nothing" featuring Stephanie Mills, "I Miss You" ... read more CD

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One of Chicago's most established underground hip hop group continues to come correct on this nice disc. Beats are mostly by hometown heroes Rude One and Doc West of Single Minded Pros, the Opus and Panik of the Molemen, plus one by Diamond D and a couple by newcomers DJ Emmaculate, Bathgate, ... read more CD

Another brilliant window into the odd, honest mind of Earl Sweatshirt – a disfunctional outcast who doesn't even need to leave the house to be one the realest, most distinctive hip hop voices of his time. As much as we admired the Doris album, we didn't know where else he could take things, ... read more CD

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Solid leftfield hip hop from Chicago bred MC ESQ and Japanese producer Chikaramanga – another win for Tres Records! Titles include "The Succession", "My Intellect", "Real Live", "Cosmic Mellow", "All City", "Rock On", "Game ... read more CD

The debut album from the Blaze MC Battle champion and Atmosphere's DJ. Eyedea rhymes FAST, intense and biting tongue twisted intelligent poetic phrases and Abilities' production is bass boomin heavy. Tracks include "A Murder Of Memories", "Blindly Firing", the haunting "B ... read more CD

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The second solo album from the Blackalicious MC – produced by Dnaebeats – and very well, we might add – with the Gifted one sounding as sharp and dexterous as ever! The sound is flavored by spacey soul, as fine a foil for Gift Of Gab's flow as any record he's done since prime ... read more CD

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A dual purpose live document of the Hiero's Full Circle tour – a DVD tour film and live CD! The DVD includes footage from across the US on the collective's 04 trek – featuring performances from the whole gang, including Del, Casual, Souls Of Mischief and Pep Love – plus guest ... read more CD

Cube's anger goes full throttle on his second post NWA full-length. He takes every aspect of his social commentator standpoints to another level from his solo debut – the roles of the angry and educated leader, and the finger-pointing blamer each get their say here, and so do those ... read more CD

Common was right when he said about Ice Cube "You ain't did shit dope, since 'Amerikkka's Most'". Well, this one came out just before "Amerikkka's Most Wanted" and despite what you may think of his movie career, every track on this 8-song ep reminds us just how dope Ice Cube ... read more CD

A sharp, angry salvo from Ice Cube! Cube's early 90s solo style was firmly established at this point, so Lethal Injection doesn't have the acknowledged classic status of his previous couple albums, but he's still close to his prime that it's well worth your dollar! As you'd guess from the title, ... read more CD

Surprise! J Cole celebrated his late January birthday in 2016 with a surprise live album – announced just a day earlier – with the songs from his deservedly acclaimed 2014 Forest Hills Drive recorded live in concert in his hometown of Fayetteville, NC! The album proper is a rawly ... read more CD

The long-teased, finally delivered joint full length from Jay-Z and Kanye West. It's impossible to consider the music purely on its own terms given the outsized personalities and absolutely gigantic presences of both – which makes it pretty fascinating. It's definitely not on the level of ... read more CD

A recommitted Jay-Z is back on his game with American Gangster – referencing the '07 film in spots, but this is no soundtrack – it's a return to solid hip hop from the biggest name in the game! American Gangster takes a couple minutes to get rolling, but once the hard hitting "Hell ... read more CD

Tracks include "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)", "Ride Or Die", "Can I Get A..." with Amil & Ja Rule, "Money, Cash, Hoes" with DMX, "It's Alright" and "Coming Of Age (The Sequel)" with Memphis Bleek, "Money Ain't A Thing", ... read more CD

An appropriately-titled effort from DJ Spinna's & Kryminul's legendary duo Jigmastas – beloved by underground/indie hip hop fans for a small, but stellar run of recordings from the the mid 90s to early 00s – and criminally overlooked by the mainstream to this day! Spinna has always ... read more CD

Beats by the J Beez themselves, Djinji Brown, the Roots, Roc Raider and a remix by the Stereo MC's. 12 tracks "Jungle Brother (True Blue)", "Black Man On Track", "Changes", 'Toe To Toe", "Moving Along", "Gettin Money", "Where You Wanna ... read more CD

All praise to the mighty J5 – reminding us in the early 00s that hip hop could still be about funky, party rockin' beats and flowing on beat, with witty, intelligent rhymes – and sound as fresh as ever! This album's mostly produced by Cut Chemist, though Nu Mark has a hand in a number ... read more CD

The album that catapulted Jurassic 5 from the underground! Quality Control is one of the great hip hop albums, a record that's filled with great tracks, yet flows along as the ultimate headphones experience. The rhymes by Zaakir, Chali 2na, Akil, and Marc 7even are top notch in group dynamics and ... read more CD

Kanye West finally dropped the full length in early '04 – and it's one of the best hip hop albums of the year. Kanye is probably the hottest beats producer of the year, too, having dug through the greatest soul hooks of the past few decades for his samples, and piled on the chunkiest, ... read more CD

A great reissue of the waaaay overlooked Latyrx LP from '97. Lateef & Lyrics Born pretty much laid the groundwork for what was going to be some of the most adventurous underground hip hop to come out of Cali in the mid-to-late 90s – opening the door for Blackalicious, the J5 and others. ... read more CD

Lyrics Born of Latyrx fame drops a burning full length solo joint! This is pretty much entirely produced, arranged, programmed and written by LB, so if you know the style, you know you can expect a lot of funky live instrumentation, syrupy summer nightlife drums topped off with sexy soulful female ... read more CD

A surprisingly strong remix album (and more) for Lyrics Born, but really the only thing we should be surprised by is the fact that we were surprised, 'cause LB hasn't let us down yet! The roster of remixers and contributors is impressive – including Jumbo (Lifesavas), Evidence (Dilated ... read more CD

Great work from Marcelo D2 – one of the best Brazilian hip hop producers of the past decade or so – and one of the few who've really kept things interesting over the years! The music here probably has more links to American hip hop than the mainstream rhythms in Brazil – ... (Brazil, Hip Hop) read more CD

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Tripped out hip hop from the super team of Madlib, fellow Stones Throw veteran MED and underground hero Blu – with an impressive guest roster that includes MF Doom, Aloe Blacc, Hodgy Beats, Oh No, Mayer Hawthorne, Dam-Funk, Jimetta Rose, Phonte, Frank Nitt and others! Madlib is on the beats ... read more CD

Nas's controversial N-word LP – N- for Nas, that is – his 9th album and an occasionally strong set of straight up lyrical domination from one of the greatest MCs in the history of hip hop. The late 00s find Nas in a strange holding pattern in which his album titles (both the used and ... read more CD

Nas's sorta comeback record from '02 – and a strong one! Stillmatic was a welcome change of pace after some not so great work in the later 90 – with the return-to-form rally cry "One Mic" setting the pace – and the best cuts on this set still sound great! 15 tracks ... read more CD

Nice early Ruthless comp on Macola with NWA and other members of the Ruthless stable at the time, including an early appearance by Mikah 9 of Freestyle Fellowship! Cuts include "8 Ball", "Panic Zone", and "Dope Man" by NWA; "LA Is The Place" and "Boyz ... read more CD

Includes "Hi", "Bitches", "Ya Know", "Forest Green", "Lean", "50", "Snow White", "Rella", "White", "Hcapd", "Doms", "Oldie" and more. CD

Underground hip hop and punk rock intersect as sharply as ever – courtesy POS! Titles include "Let It Rattle", "Drumroll (We're All Thristy)", "Purexed", "Goodbye", "Get Smokes", "Been Afraid", "Low Light Low Life", "N ... read more CD

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14 cuts, including "Flipmode Iz Da Squad", "Get The Money & Dip", "Wild For Da Night", "Flipmode Enemy #1", "Take It To the Streets" and "We Getz Down (rmx)". CD

Brazilian hip hop from Rappin Hood – produced in a way that's surprisingly without cliche! The language is Portuguese throughout, and titles include "Vida De Negro", "De Repente", "Rap Du Bom", "Gol", "O Chamado", "Vida De Negro", ... (Brazil, Hip Hop) read more CD

The (way too) long-awaited album from Chicago's Rhymefest – featuring standout production by the mighty No ID, Cool & Dre, Mark Ronson and others, plus a big hooky track from Just Blaze for good measure – and appearances by Kanye, Mike Payne, Mikkey & Bump J, Mario, and a goofy ... read more CD

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 ... read more CD

A new hip hop soul masterpiece!!! On Things Fall Apart ?uestlove, Black Thought, DJ Scratch, Rahzel and co. reinvigorated the scene with a Philly style soulful, melancholy groove that seemingly influenced the entirety of the NuSoul world – and it could even be argued that the Roots birthed ... read more CD

A fierce 10th album from the Roots – hard hitting and straight up angry, without sacrificing the musicality that makes them the most unique crew in hip hop of the past 15 years! We'll do our best to recommend this vital LP without tagging it with the dreaded "concept album" tag ... read more CD

Cosmic hip hop soul from Om'Mas Keith, Shafiq Husayn & Taz Arnold – a long awaited proper full length from the Sa-Ra Creative Partners – and an excellent one! Sa-Ra's signature spacey funk & beatcraft, hypnotic and boundless grooves have been critical behind the scenes for some ... (New Grooves, Hip Hop) read more CD

Another interesting, acerbic set of tracks from Sage Francis – who's enlisted an ambitious line-up of guests for this record, including Sixtoo, Will Oldham, Saul Williams, Alias, Danger Mouse and others. Tracks include "The Buzz Kill", "Sea Lion" featuring guitar and ... read more CD

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Slick Rick's first solo LP – a hip hop classic, and essential to everyone's collection! MC Ricky D introduced the world to a whole new rap style on Doug E Fresh's "The Show" and by the time this album dropped the world was more than ready for a full LP of his unique flow. The ... read more CD

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 ... read more CD

Another strong effort from Soul Position – MC Blueprint and the ever-prolific sound styler RJD2 – doing their solid, timelessly rolicking sound and righteous rhyming as consistently as ever! Soul Position simply pulls their style off with better results than many of their ... read more CD

A heady mix of live hip hop and brass band funk from the New Orleans combo Soul Rebels! The Soul Rebels combine the tried-and-true marching band brass punch with strident 90s hip hop. A very eclectic groove from the TufAmerica imprint – an offshoot of the might Tuff City! Tracks include ... read more CD

The kings of west coast rap radio, in the days before the Wake Up show blew up coast to coast. Rhymes by Sway, beats by King Tech. 13 tracks plus the intro: "Concrete Jungle", "Devastating", "Baddest Mutha On 2 Turntables (rmx)", "Rock Steady", "Let ... read more CD

A bit past his prime, but still slangin funky bay area pimp tracks, including "Step Daddy", "So You Want To Be A Gangster", "I Want To Be Free", "In The Trunk", "Something To Ride To" and "Hoes". CD

Follow up to Critical Beatdown with solid, funky production by Ced Gee and Moe Love, and Kool Keith just being Kool Keith – giving it some crazy charm that a lot people just weren't ready for at the time! Their first major label record, which seemed to take forever to come out, we recall a ... read more CD

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One of the benchmark best ofs of the mid school hip hop years – the original collection of Wild Pitch classics! Includes some of the best cuts from the primo Wild Pitch years of the late 80s and start of the 90s – and a time capsule for sound science. A set like this makes us really ... read more CD

A glorious celebration of a decade of Ninja Tune! The set's packed full of all the best bits on the label – and includes a number of out of print or hard to find tracks. Titles include "More Beats & Pieces (John McIntire & Tortoise rmx)" by Coldcut, "Channel 1 Suite ... (New Grooves, Hip Hop) read more CD