Featuring "Bring The Flava, La" by Queen Latifah, "Roll Wit Tha Flava" by Flavor Unit MCs, "Uuh" by D Nice, "Sounds Of Fattness" by Bigga Sistas, "Badd Boyz" by Almighty RSO, "Gimme Head" by Leshaun, "On The Bone Again" by ... read moreCD
Tracks include "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See", "Dangerous", "The Whole World Lookin' At Me", "One" featuring Erykah Badu, "We Could Take It Outside" featuring Flipmode Squad, Rah Digga & others, "The Body Rock" featuring ... read moreCD
The first single from the Shady/Aftermath debut LP. It's a damn nice one as far as this stuff goes – Dre's increasingly baroque synth blips get a good workout here, as on the Get Rich LP, for a slower club grind. The B-side "Backdown" is another strong LP track. 12-inch, Vinyl record
Tash —
Rap Life ... LP Loud, 1999. Near Mint- 2LP ...
Just Sold Out!
13 cuts, production by E Swift & Rockwilder, guest spots by Raekwon, Kurrupt, Xzibit, Outkast & others. Includes "Ricochet", "True Homies", "Pimpin' Ain't Easy" & "Blackula". LP, Vinyl record album
(Cover has lightly bent corners and a corner cut.)
Two great tracks that show that Mos is tip-top form when he wants to hip hop – even though they come from an album that in many ways steers clear of straight hip hop! "Sex, Love & Money" finds Mos laying back, rolling, and scatting off the wordplay with a cool presence – ... read more12-inch, Vinyl record
Incredible solo GZA effort – and the killer follow up to Liquid Swords! Beneath The Surface really does bubble underneath the surface, legacy-wise (for no earlyish Wu-Tang completists, anyway) – simply because Liquid Swords broke so much ground and casts such a long shadow. Not being ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
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 moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Top notch 2015 pressing – with a 3D lenticular cover!)
The gritty and heavy debut of Onyx – mostly produced by the mighty Jam Master Jay – and whether you dig the style or not, it's one of the most distinctive group rap records of the early 90s! Back in the day, "Slam" got overplayed on cable TV rap video shows, to the point ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Benchmark west coast gangsta – and one of the hardest hitting albums of the era in any genre! We're not gonna lie, we played this record to death when it came out – and it still holds up better than most of the material put out by former NWA's, and most of the West Coast sound-alikes ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Project Pat acapella alert! Classic Houston rap from the Wreckshop veteran. An all-star tribute to that drank, lean, oil, or whatever you prefer to call the contents in that styrofoam cup. Do not sleep on this if you're a Project Pat fan, as he drops one of the best verses of his career. "D ... read more12-inch, Vinyl record
Childish Gambino once again transcends anything you might be expecting from an actor/musician – this is not some vain star trip at all, but a worthy, boundary-busting effort – and a pretty sizable step away from idiosyncratic, yet accessible hip hop into spacey pop funk! Strong stuff, ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(In a glow in the dark box, with an exclusive booklet, virtual reality headset, an album download, and a download of virtual reality content!)
The huge creative leap forward for Outkast – and one of the greatest hip hop albums ever! The duo laid some incredible groundwork with the debut Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, but this one is really their first (and stunningly, not their last) masterpiece. Timeless and soulful outer space ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Notorious BIG —
Ready To Die ... LP Bad Boy/Rhino, 1995. New Copy 2 LPs Gatefold (reissue)...
Just Sold Out!
Biggie's masterpiece! There's very little we could possibly say about this east coast landmark that isn't already etched in stone in the annals of hip hop history. Biggie's a master storyteller, whether he's spinning tales of violent street nihilism, his skills beneath the sheets, or blistering ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
The classic self-titled debut LP from Run-DMC – one that not only changed hip hop, but much of modern pop and rock forever! There's little we can add to the canon for this record, but the way Run-DMC ushered in a new era in contemporary urban culture, a harder hitting style of rap that ... read moreCD
Still the Hot-lanta duo's high water mark – and yes, we did love Stankonia. Relentless hype, Grammys, and the Village Voice be damned! Tracks include "Rosa Parks", "Skew It On The Bar-B" featuring Raekwon, "Aquemini", "Synthesizer" featuring George ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Aceyalone's solo effort from the mid 90's, after the Freestyle Fellowship's major label LP "Inner City Griots" failed to make an impact in the larger, commercial world of Hip Hop. Production was handled by a lot of the more underground LA folks of the same period: Fat Jack, the Nonce, ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Sealed original pressing! Cover has a cutout hole in the corner.)
Whether you're a Dust Brother completists or can't fight off a huge, fun mainstream rap tune as hard you as you try, this is Delicious Vinyl, indeed! 12-inch, Vinyl record
The Roots first major label release, not issued as such in the US – and only released on Talkin Loud overseas, at the time they hadn't yet inked the deal with Geffen that would really put them over. Only six tracks, but "It's Coming" was only issued here as a non LP, promo only b-si ... read moreCD
Sweet! We weren't certain at first whether to call this a hip hop or a reggae CD, since it's 44 mighty tracks of burning reggae classics, mixed continuously front to back like a hip hop mixtape, by West Coast beatmaker extraordinaire Madlib – it's as if there's nothing he can't handle! ... (Reggae, Hip Hop)read moreCD
"Anti-Love Movement" features Talib Kweli & Total, "Live & Direct" features Lord Tariq & Royce Da 5'9, and"Open" features Pete Rock & Caron Wheeler. 12-inch, Vinyl record
Vast Aire and Vordul Mega finally return as Cannibal Ox – and truth be told, it's a pretty damn solid effort, way better than most comeback efforts by early 00s indie heroes. It's been a long time since Cold Vein dominated the indie hip hop scene, and it's good to have them back in action. ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
A pretty fantastic chapter in the career of one of the most unique MCs to emerge in recent years – the Ukraine-born Your Old Droog, spinning out tracks here that echo the struggles of his youth as an immigrant in Brooklyn! The set's got a very freewheeling vocal style – the quick-spun ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Mos Def's landmark late 90s solo debut – a rock solid classic that stands up today as one of the best hip hop albums of its decade – and for all the dizzying creative highs and lows of his career to follow, it stands strongly among his best work ever. His preceding duo work with Talib ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
A hell of a collaboration – core sounds by Madlib, which are then re-arranged by Kieran Hebden – at a level that seems to open up new dimensions in both artists! The sound is definitely Madlib's, but there's also a sense of majesty that seems to flow through the whole thing – ... read moreLP, Vinyl record album
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Still the Atlanta duo's high water mark – and yes, we did love Stankonia. Relentless hype, Grammys, and the Village Voice be damned! Tracks include "Rosa Parks", "Skew It On The Bar-B" featuring Raekwon, "Aquemini", "Synthesizer" featuring George ... read moreCD
(CLEAN VERSION. Punch through barcode and small promo sticker on booklet.)