Just when you thought all the Ultramagnetic basement tapes were released, Tuff City puts out one more compilation of unreleased tracks. Of course, this one includes another version of "Smack My B*tch Up", including the sample that Prodigy (not the MC from Mobb Deep) made famous. Other ... read moreCD
A solid full length from Vast Aire – formally of Cannibal Ox, delivering his solo debut on the very reliable Chocolate Industries label! If you dug Vast's forceful delivery on Cannibal Ox's much hyped, Def Jux scene igniting Cold Vein LP – but were left a bit cold by El-P's sometimes ... read moreCD
What It Is features Busta Rhymes with production by the Neptunes. Put Your Hands Up features LL Cool J with production by Swizz Beats. And Grimey features NORE, with production by the Neptunes. You get 3 12s here. 12-inch, Vinyl record
Marc Mac takes it back, way back – with some great 70s styled sounds mixed in with his 21st Century vibe! The package is a great one to be issued on a limited 7" box, given the style of the music – and cuts include "Shaft In Africa (Addis)", "Funky Fanfare", ... (Funky 45's, Hip Hop)read more7-inch, Vinyl record
6 tracks: "BeatWave", "Master Of The Mix", "Nunk (New Wave Funk)", "Light Years Away","Light Years Away (dub version)" and "No Man Is An Island". LP, Vinyl record album
A benchmark LP from the first wave of post Chronic g funk – Warren G's blunted masterwork Regulate – G Funk Era! Regulate doesn't have the kind of huge singles that fueled the Dre & Snoop takeover – but it's cut from the same cloth and holds up just as well. Tracks include ... read moreCD
The full 7:30 version of this anti-gang posse cut. Sort of a West Coast version of "Stop The Violence", with vocals by Eazy E, Ren, Dr. Dre, Digital Underground, Body and Soul, Tone Loc, Ice T, King Tee, Young MC, JJ Fad, Michel'le, Above the Law, and others. All over a nice funky bass ... read more12-inch, Vinyl record
More slammin' breakin' grooves from this lost Sugar Hill group. Vocal and instrumental versions, packaged in a colored Sugar Hill sleeve. 12-inch, Vinyl record
Titles include "Funky Beat", "Big Mouth", "I'm A Ho", "Five Minutes Of Funk", "Haunted House Of Rock", and "One Love". CD features bonus tracks "Magic's Wand", "Escape", and "Freaks Come Out At Night". CD
Includes their classic "I'm Def (Jump Back & Kiss Myself)". 11 tracks in all. Also includes "Cash Money", "Rock You Again (Again & Again)", "Hooked On You" and "Remember Where You Came From". LP, Vinyl record album
(Includes inner sleeve, with a small tear in one corner. Cover has bumped corners and hype sticker.)
The second album by the band that would go on to become the shining jewel in Teddy Riley's New Jack crown! We thought the whole thing was a bit weak when it came out, but now we're surprised to hear how much it stands the test of time – but maybe that just means that we're getting old and ... (Soul, Hip Hop)read moreCD
The classic first LP with Method Man, Ghost Face Killer, Raekwon, Ol' Dirty Bastard, and The Genius. The start of a generation, and of the hip hop enterprise that overshadowed a lot of the mid 90s! 12 tracks, including "Can It All Be So Simple", "Method Man", "Da Mystery ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Their first single, with the original versons of "Tears" and "Protect Ya Neck". If any single was to determine the direction of hip hop in the 90s and beyond, this has to be at the top of the list. 12-inch, Vinyl record
(Original pressing with no barcode and "AM" etching in deadwax. Labels have light stains.)
The full length debut of the Yancey Boys – Frank Nitt & Illa J – the former of the venerable duo Frank N Dank, the latter J Dilla's rhyme centric younger brother – who come together with the dual purpose of keeping J Dilla's production pedigree alive, and to simply deliver ... read moreCD
For all you fans of Miami Bass. Includes "Something To Get You Hyped", "It Just Wasn't Our Day", "B Girls", "Cold Get Ill", "Gimme Them Guts", "Funky Az Bass Line", "Louie, Louie" and "Poison Ivy (rmx)". CD
Your Old Droog —
Looseys EP ... LP Nature Sounds, 2019. New Copy ...
Just Sold Out!
Charimatic Brooklyn rhymer Your Old Droog returns on prime gritty form – with a style that's reminiscent of some of best no nonsense east coast rappers ever, with an impressive roster of veteran producers including P Brothers, Alchemist, Black Milk, Oh No, Statik Selektah and Jonwayne. ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
An uncommonly soul-steeped hip hop soul soundtrack and musical companion piece to the documentary 16 Bars – spearheaded by Speech from Arrested Development, in which he visited and recorded with incarcerated singers and rappers finding hope in a prison rehabilitation program. The soundtrack ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
An impeccably put together batch of instrumentals from the Culture Power 45 collective – with beats and production from Blaak tha 9th Man, Conscious 5, Ba Pace, Fatnice, Empee of BVS, Kush Oxford, Cuzzin Vinny, International MC, Dion Brown, Adon, Soultastic and more! Even with a long list of ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Limited edition and nearly sold out! Get it while we got it.)
Totally legit PVine reissue of a dozen classic early singles from the great B-Boy label. Loads of stuff that we almost never find on wax, including "Feel The Horns" by Cold Crush Brothers, "Throwdown" by Sparky D, "Iwo Jima" by Frozen Explosion, "Duck Season" ... read moreCD
2nd volume of rare lost B-Boy singles, with more stuff we never see, including "Trash An Ready" by Soul Dimension, "Memories" by The Brothers, "Sex, Sex, & More Sex" by Spicey Ham, "In Full Effect" by 5 Star Moet, "Say No Brother" by BDP, "T ... read moreCD
A collection of female rappers on the B-Boy label – with L.A. Star, Sparky Dee and Five Star Moet, with 2 tracks produced by BDP and Ced Gee. Remaining tracks produced by Keyboard Money Mike. 10 tracks on the original album – including Sparky Dee's "Throw Down" and "Spar ... read moreCD
A celebration that's a decade in the making – compiling some of the best material from the producer-centric series of hip hop albums on BBE/Beat Generation – timeless boombap from Jay Dee, Madlib, DJ Spinna, King Britt, Marley Marl, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Pete Rock and others! The 2LP version ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
The big cuts here include Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five's full 12-inch version of "Beat Street Breakdown", Afrika Bambaataa & Soul Sonic Force's "Frantic Situation", and Arthur Baker's "Breaker's Revenge". LP, Vinyl record album
Excellent compilation of old school classics originally released on the B Boy label: The Brothers "I Got Rhythm" and "You Can't Win", Jewel T "Rock Nice" and "I Like It Loud", Wax Master Torey "Duck Season", Busy Boys "Classical" and ... read moreCD
Another absolutely essential collection from Soul Jazz, this time out heading straight for the outer boroughs of the Bronx, Harlem, Brooklyn and Queens to document the fresh, fly, wild and bold rap tracks that rocked block parties and roller rinks from '79 on! 16 amazing tracks from the dawn of ... read moreCD
(Out of print. Includes slipcase and large booklet.)
Classics from the mid 80s east coast hip hop master class – BDP, Just-Ice, T La Rock, Skinny Boys, Tricky Tee and Mantronix – benchmark singles, circa '86! This compilation was put together by Five Day Weekend as a soundtrack inspired by Big Fun In The Big Town – the little seen ... read moreCD
Chicago hip hop from Galapagos4. This debut release from the label includes "Be Where? (Beware!)" by Anacron, "Easy Speak" by Offwhyte, "Ketchup" by the Pacifics, "Simple Harmonic Motion" by Yoda, Silis, & Offwhyte, "Serving Verses" by Serf 400 ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
16 tracks featuring US and worldwide MC's. Includes Dilated Peoples "Ruggedness", J-Live "Hush The Crowd", Defari "Just Business", Funky DL & Versatile E "20-20-8-8", S. Members "Sunburn", Down 2 Earth "Disgusted", Various "Hip-Ho ... read moreCD
Great cuts from the old school – pulled together from the earliest days of hip hop – at a time when the boundary lines in the music weren't so fully formed! These days, the difference between hip hop and club cuts is huge – but back in the South Bronx scene at the start, there ... (Funky Compilations, Hip Hop)read moreCD
The soundtrack to John Singleton's landmark film that set the stage for so man inner city set films to come from the big Hollywood and indie studios – putting the city of Compton on the map for a lot of folks, and making Ice Cube a household name! What makes Boyz N The The Hood – the ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
A pair of 80s street soul soundtracks – Breakin and Breakin 2 – reissued here with the title as Breakdance, which is how they appeared in the UK! Maybe Breakin wasn't the most accurate, most faithful portrait of life on the streets in the early 80s – but the film was a great ... read moreCD
Some of finest, funkiest Christmas themed old school hip hop ever – seasonal chestnuts by Run-DMC, Dana Dane, Spyder D, Disco 4, Surf MCs and more! It includes what's got to be the best-remembered holiday rap classic ever in Run-DMC's "Christmas In Hollis" – using that ... (Holiday Music, Hip Hop)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
A really great and still fresh-sounding snapshot of the some the leading lights of the Chicago and Chicago-connected independent hip hop scene of the immediate post-millennium – with Curren$y, Rhymefest, BJ The Chicago Kid, Amanda Diva, Bun B, Kidz In The Hall and more! The sessions were ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(First ever vinyl release – and remastered properly for the format! On mustard colored vinyl with download.)
Various —
Daisy Age ... CD Ace (UK), Early 90s. New Copy ...
$12.9918.99
A fantastic collection of work from a real golden age in hip hop – a period that you'll probably guess from the image of the Native Tongues posse on the front – served up here in a compilation that brings together classics from De La Soul, The Jungle Brothers, Monie Love, and many ... read moreCD
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Daisy Age ... LP Ace (UK), Early 90s. New Copy 2LP Gatefold ...
$29.9932.99
A fantastic collection of work from a real golden age in hip hop – a period that you'll probably guess from the image of the Native Tongues posse on the front – served up here in a compilation that brings together classics from De La Soul, The Jungle Brothers, Monie Love, and many ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Nice compilation put together at the end fo the 80s with tracks for the preceding few years on Def Jam, with a number of now hard to find cuts. 13 tracks in all: LL Cool J "Rock The Bells", "Jack The Ripper" & "I'm Bad", Original Concept "Can You Feel It?&quo ... read moreCD
Tracks include "Defintion Of Ill" by Peanut Butter Wolf, "Who Thinks The Style Is Fresh" by Cali Agents, "Chase The Blues" by Terranova, "No Chorus" by Dr Dooom/Kool Keith, "Blood Brothaz" by Rasco, "Partnas Confused" by Kutmasta Kurt ... read moreCD
Excellent selection of modern grooves and hip hop, from the Delicious vinyl stable. Thirteen tracks, with a little bit of everything goin' on, from Buckwhead's jazzy hip hop (produced by J-Swift) and the Pharcyde's "Jealousy", to Jay-Dee's dope mix of the Brand New Heavies' "Sometime ... (Neo Soul, Hip Hop)read moreCD
A prime set of rare, unedited, remastered hip hop obscurities from the 80s – and a great batch of some of the source material for DJ Shadow's vaunted Diminishing Returns set! It's a great listen all the way through, with numbers that touch on 80s electro soul, DJ party rockers, and old ... read moreCD
CD version of the 2 LP companion to Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists. They did a good job of including a lot of amazing old school tracks (1983-1989) that maybe not everyone knows about – but should, including some that are nearly impossible to find on 12". Every track here is worth it, ... read moreCD
We're not sure what "equidity" means – but the grooves here are so great, we're hardly going to ask for a definition! The package is filled with plenty of the funk promised in the title – but often in ways that are really odd and offbeat – just what you'd expect from a ... (Funky Compilations, Hip Hop)read moreCD
With clean and explicit versions of Black Child "State To State", Nas "Gangsta Tears", Trick Daddy "We Got", Three 6 Mafia "They Don't F@*k Wit U", Big Stan "Walk With Me", the Lox "Bust Your Gun", Drag-On "Off Da Chain Daddy" ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Music from Bo$$ featuring Papa Juggy, Suga T, Nonchalant, Bahamadia, the Roots, the Herbaliser featuring What What, Heather B, Mia X, Shorty No Mas & more. CD
(Out of print, punch through barcode & promotional stamp inside booklet.)
The first-time vinyl appearance of a number of contemporary hip hop tracks from Mali – all music that's existed only in the form of MP3 files before this release – which does a great job of pulling together disparate strands to document this scene! From what we can tell, none of the ... (Global Grooves, Hip Hop)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
10 tracks: DJ Laz & DJ Spin "Megamix", Luke "I Wanna Rock", AMG "B!tch Betta Have My Money", Afrika Bambaata "Planet Rock", MC Shy D "Shake It", T La Rock "It's Yours", Mantronix "Fresh Is the Word", The 2 Live Crew "Thr ... read moreCD
Another excellent mix of rare hip hop tracks from the folks at Fat City Recordings! The set's probably the hip hop-heaviest of all their compilations – and includes loads of great cuts that are either hard to find mixes, or out of print singles. Titles include "When I Flow" by ... read moreCD
We're not really sure how we feel about this project, as it's a bunch of modern jazz lite players doing versions of hip hop hits. What's even more ironic is that some of the tunes they're covering looped up bits of stuff by their peers, like Jeff Lorber. There's some players involved here who've ... (Neo Soul, Hip Hop)read moreCD
A great entry in this long-running series – maybe one of the freshest in years, although maybe we're biased because of the Chicago connection too! The record continues the approach of previous volumes, but maybe has an even stronger vocal presence – thanks to strong contributions from ... (Neo Soul, Hip Hop)read moreCD
A great entry in this long-running series – maybe one of the freshest in years, although maybe we're biased because of the Chicago connection too! The record continues the approach of previous volumes, but maybe has an even stronger vocal presence – thanks to strong contributions from ... (Neo Soul, Hip Hop)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
How many films have there been that just sucked, but had a dope soundtrack? Includes Pete Rock & The Large Professor "The Rap World", Inspectah Dek & U-God "Semi-Automatic Full Rap Metal Jacket", KRS One "High School Rock", The Roots "The Good, the Bad ... read moreCD
(Some pen over the track listings on the rear artwork.)
15 classic tracks from 1985-1990 spread out over 2 LP's, including Audio Two "Top Billin", EPMD "Your A Customer", MC Shan "The Bridge", Gang Starr "Words I Manifest", Main Source "Just Hangin Out", NWA "Straight Outta Compton", EricB& ... read moreCD
With "House Party" by the Full Force family (Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam, UTFO, Cheryl Pepsii Riley, Doctor Ice, Ex-Girlfriend and E-Crof), "I Can't DO Nothing For You, Man!" by Flavor Flav, 'To Da Break Of Dawn" by LL Cool J, "Funhouse" and "Kid Vs Play" ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
To folks back in the 80s, the vocoder seemed like the sound of the future – and all these many years later, it turns out it's still the sound of the present – thanks to a range of younger artists who've helped breathe new life into the old electro stalwart! The tracks here are totally ... (Neo Soul, Hip Hop)read moreCD
J-Rocc takes on Jazzman Records – the mighty mixer from Stones Throw, handling a host of rare funk and soul gems from previous Jazzman reissues! The set's very heavily mixed – so that J-Rocc's really going to town with the rare singles included – cutting them up, spinning them ... (Funky Compilations, Hip Hop)read moreCD
Previously unreleased funky old school hip hop and disco breaks – and you don't stop, keep on body rockin' to Live Convention 79 – live material from the Jamaica Queens Armory! Live Convention 79 features audio captured from the soundboard of this benchmark era throwdown, with 13 ... read moreCD
Live old school hip hop and funky disco breaks from the first school – previously unreleased material recorded straight from the Ecstasy Garage Disco sound board at the dawn of the 80s – party rockin' rhymes from a loose collective of "Ecstasy Garage All Stars"! Live ... read moreCD
CD collection from 1986-87. Eric B & Rakim "I Ain't No Joke", King Sun-D Moet "Hey Love" (nice non-lp track), EPEE MD "It's My Thing", Sweet T "It's Like That Y'all", Salt-N-Pepa "Tramp", Dana Dane "Cinderfella Dana Dane", Run-DMC ... read moreCD
Music from MF Doom, I Self Devine, Sean Price, Zion I, Masta Killa, Space, Ancient Coins, Aesop Rock, Cannibal Ox, Tracy 168, Count Bass D, Cage & more. CD
Music from Daryl Cee, Davy DMX, Marley Marl, Daryl Cee & Hitman Howie Tee, Freddy B & The Mighty Mic Masters, Charlie Chase, Hot Day & Beatbox Master Quick. CD
Peanut Butter Wolf gathers the Stones Throw masses – compiling all new, all exclusive ST tunes from veterans and fresh talent alike – for a heady companion piece to the 2K8 B-Zombie War video game from 2K Sports! We'll be frank and admit we don't know as much about video games as we do ... read moreCD
Whether you remember these joints from the glory days of the Paradise or Bam's parties at the Bronx River Projects or are discovering them for the first time, these classic electro/hip hop/breakin'/dance tracks are a must-have for any DJ's crates. On this, the last volume in the series, they also ... read moreCD
Features tracks from Ice T, King Tee, 2 Live Crew, World Class Wreckin Cru, Bobby Jimmy & The Critters, Fila Fresh Crew, King Tee & Mixmaster Spade, The Mistress & DJ Madam E, and "808 Beats" from the Unknown DJ. CD
K-Tel comp of largely commercial rap stuff, but with a few nice bits in there, 8 tracks in all: Timex Social Club "Rumors" & "Vicious Rumors", Run-DMC "Can You Rock It Like This", Full Force "Alice, I Want You Just For Me", Kurtis Blow "If I Ruled ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
K-Tel compilation with 10 tracks in all: "Raw" by Big Daddy Kane, "Beauty & The Beat" by Salt-N-Pepa, "Because I Got It Like That" by the Jungle Brothers, "Plug Tunin" by De La Soul, "Going Back To Cali" by LL Cool J, "You Gots To ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
A classic boombap inspired remix compilation of the ever-fresh hip hop on the Coalmine label – with tracks by Heltah Skeltah, El Da Sensei, Guilty Simpson & Small Professor, Blu & Nottz, Sean Price and more – remixed by a roster as impressive as Large Professor, Diamond D, Oh No ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
An odd compilation more or less oriented towards 80s clubs and dancefloors, notably mostly for it's inclusion of Coldcut's Double Dee & Steinski inspired cut-n-paste track, "The Payback Mix (Keep On Doing What You're Doing But Make It Funky)", a great late 80s non stop mix of James ... (Soul, Hip Hop)read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Music from Mystik Journeymen, Fanatik, Various Blends, Eclipse 427, Living Legends, the Coup, Bored Stiff, San Quinn & D-Moe, Equipto & Andre Nickatina, KNT, Psychokinetics & DJ M. Mark, Flii & Kool DJ Rize. CD