US Hip Hop 6618 Items

Standing On A Giant Shoulders

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

Vinyl slightly warped but still enjoyable. Still in shrink, but opened, close to NM

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Seafood Sam

Tape | 2024 | US | Original (Drink Sum Wtr)

CD | 2010 | Original (Fake Four Rec.)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Seafood Sam is a futuristic artifact. If that description might sound confusing at first, it matches the eclectic dualities found in true originals. With his effortless cool and timeless style, the North Long Beach native defies convention and exact comparison. He's a virtuosic rapper, a stop-you-in-your tracks singer, and a symphonic producer. Welcome to the lavish life of a laid-back transcontinental man of mystery, rolling in old school Cadillacs, eating caviar with a blade in his pocket, and making plays in vintage Pelle Pelle gear. A blaxploitation icon for the Instagram age, blessed with the bars of a `90s legend and 23rd century swagger. Seafood Sam is a true hero of modernity. On his full-length album debut for up-and-coming label drink sum wtr (Kari Faux, Deem Spencer, Aja Monet) debut, Standing on Giant Shoulders, Sam splits the difference between Snoop Dogg and D' Angelo, Curren$y and David Ruffin. The songs reveal a forward-thinking sensibility rooted in ancestral soul. He creates spiritual hymns for the streets that tap into universal ideals and irrepressible groove. In an era plagued by short-term thinking, his ambitions reveal a crate-digging depth of music history and a meticulous ear for detail. The giant shoulders in the album's title refer to James Brown, Bobby Brown, and Miles Davis - the holy trinity who inspired Sam's process. From the Godfather of Soul, Sam took a perfectionist's rigor and focus. The example of Bobby Brown lent an unshakeable confidence and self-belief. While the constant artistic left turns of the trumpeter that birthed Ccool offered an aspirational archetype. The story starts in the glory days of Long Beach hip-hop. As a young child, the G-Funk era soundtracked rides in Sam's father's car. Some of his earliest memories are trying to memorize Snoop's verse on "Nuthin' But a "G" Thang." Beyond gangsta rap, the LBC has historically doubled as a capital of lowrider soul and carwash oldies. At any intersection, you could hear Dogg Food or Brenton Wood, Warren G or Barbara Lynn. This too was absorbed via osmosis. It also just so happened that the art of performance was always in Sam's blood. So at family functions, he and his sister supplied entertainment by singing karaoke renditions of The Isley Brothers. While his Harlem Shake remains a thing of local lore. Long Beach is a culturally diverse mecca of skate parks and gang life, street fashion and tricky dance moves. This is the place that raised Sam on a diet of Wu-Tang and Nelly Furtado, Lil Bow Wow and Allen Iverson. He was the middle ground between his two older brothers: one who gangbanged, the other who graduated with a master's degree from UC-Santa Barbara. But it wasn't until the end of high school that Sam started to take rap seriously. Alongside long-time collaborators like Huey Briss and Reaper Mook, Sam's name began to make waves on the northside of the city, but he was partially distracted by a modeling career that paid the bills and took him all to way to walk in Paris' fashion week. The first turning point arrived with 2018's "Ramsey," a self-produced, slick-talk anthem with over 10,000,000 streams across all platforms. With each subsequent release, Sam showcased his peerless consistency, building buzz both online and in the city streets. Spin hailed his "smooth and unhurried cadences and understated lyricism_ that sounds like nothing else in Long Beach." Clash raved about Sam's "evolution as an artist, cruising through nostalgic production with slick, witty rhymes." The culmination arrives with Standing on Giant Shoulders. It's the evidence of a master, a young sensei in the model of Quincy Jones. All rhymes, singing, production, and arrangements were handled by Sam - with an assist from his close Long Beach kinsman Tom Kendall from the group Soular System. It's hard-edged and lyrical enough for disciples of Larry June and Roc Marciano, but orchestral and melodic enough for fans of Anderson .Paak and H.E.R.

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Otem Rellik

Elephant Graveyard

Release: 2010 / Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Empire State Of Mind / 99 Problems

Jay-Z

7" | 2024 | UK (Lil Static)

Release: 2024 / UK

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 2015 | EU | Original (Sony Music)

Travis Scott

Rodeo

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 2021 | Original (Def Jam)

Potter Payper

Thanks For Waiting

Release: 2021 / Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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In My Lifetime Vol.1 Explicit Version

Jay-Z

CD | 1997 | Reissue (Universal)

Release: 1997 / Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 2020 | Original (Interscope)

Lil Mosey

Certified Hitmaker

Release: 2020 / Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Ghetto Gospel The New Testament

Ghetts

CD | 2018 | EU | Original (Caroline)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | US | Reissue (Strictly Business)

Mac Dre

What's Really Going On

CD | 2024 | US | Original (Empire)

Release: US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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7 song EP by the Bay Area super rap star.

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Larry June & Cardo

The Night Shift

911 Platoon Remix / 1-800-Fuck-Outtahere DJ Obsolete Remix Splatter Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Larry June & prolific producer Cardo have joined forces once again to bring you their latest masterpiece: "The Night Shift," a nocturnal adventure that takes you on a ride through the vivid and pulsating streets of Larry's life, as brought to life by Cardo's distinctive production. Larry June, the San Francisco native known for his smooth, laid-back flow and his unwavering commitment to living a healthy and prosperous lifestyle, seamlessly blends his distinctive style with Cardo's signature production, creating a sound that's as crisp and refreshing as a glass of cold-pressed orange juice. "The Night Shift" is the soundtrack to those late-night drives, providing the perfect backdrop for contemplation and cruising. "The Night Shift" is more than just an album; it's a testament to the chemistry between Larry June and Cardo, two artists at the top of their game. This project is a reminder that, in the still of the night, when the city's lights are aglow, and the world is asleep, Larry June and Cardo are hard at work, crafting music that transcends time and place.

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ChillxWill

7" | 2023 | US | Reissue (Ill Adrenaline)

911 Platoon Remix / 1-800-Fuck-Outtahere DJ Obsolete Remix Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Bkrsclb member ChillxWill has been an underground staple since the release of his critically acclaimed "Almighty" album in 2015 (Ill Adrenaline Records/Chopped Herring). The skilled emcee took a hiatus from the game, although having enough talent to become a successful indie artist. Two gritty and dope under the radar remixes of the classic joints “911" (original version produced by Figub Brazlevic) featuring Bkrsclb comrade BriskInTheHouse and "1-800-Fuck-Outtahere" (original version produced by Mista Izm) finally get the vinyl treatment on a limited edition 7". While the BreakerHUS produced "Platoon" remix of "911" delivers a sinister, hard hitting Mobb Deep-like soundscape, the "1-800-Fuck-Outtahere" remix courtesy of DJ Obsolete is a smooth, but head-nodding snare-heavy joint that gives a totally different vibe from the original version. Both remixes resurrect that typical 90's east coast flavor.

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ChillxWill

7" | 2023 | US | Reissue (Ill Adrenaline)

12" | 2007 | US | Original (Jon Kennedy Federation)

Release: 2023 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Jon Kennedy

Demons

Get Down Buckwild Remix Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2007 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Electronic & Dance

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6 tracks

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Pharoahe Monch

7" | 2021 | CZ | Original (Coalmine)

Jingle Jangle / Legion Groove

Release: 2021 / CZ – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Coalmine Records is excited to announce a special release of their acclaimed Pharoahe Monch single, “Get Down,” remixed by none other than BX legend, Buckwild. Everything about the track is an absolute feast for hip-hop heads. Longtime fans of Monch will no doubt remember his previous work with Buck, who produced several cuts on Organized Konfusion’s classic albums, Stress: The Extinction Agenda and The Equinox. And with his work on the remix, Buck reconnects with Monch with the same appeal that epitomized their timeless chemistry. The record will be pressed on translucent purple vinyl with cover art designed by Dewey Saunders (Anderson .Paak, Future), who creates an ethereal collage that borrows elements from James Brown, vintage NYC, and of course Monch and Buck.

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The Legion

7" | US | Original (Legion)

Release: US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Tape | 2023 | EU | Original (Fastforward)

NorthernDraw

Crow Bref Feat. Leolex

7" | 1989 | US | Reissue (Chrysalis)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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What happens when an American musician gets stuck in Munich during a worldwide pandemic? A specially concocted audible brew of Crow Bref is stewed to perfection: a collaboration between NorthernDraw & LeoLex, So fresh! You'll say, as it blends together a medley of diverse genres and guest features reaching from London, Berlin, Munich, Oakland and of course special spices from the Rose City.

Crow Bref Is a collaborative album between Portland native NorthernDraw & Munich rapper LeoLex that was recorded in München, Germany from 2020-2022, featuring a kaleidoscope of lo-fi beats and international boom bap rap.

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De La Soul

The Magic Number

Release: 1989 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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The Funky Cypress Hill Shit / Tres Equis/Born To Get

Cypress Hill

7" | 2022 | US | Original (Get On Down)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Psychobetabuckdown / Something For The Blunted/Latin

Cypress Hill

7" | 2022 | US | Original (Get On Down)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Tape | 1992 | US | Original (Alliv)

Rockshee

Rockshee's My Name

Uluru 010 White Vinyl Edition

Release: 1992 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Nola / Brand new & sealed!

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Tom Caruana

7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Uluru)

The Acapellas You Never Got On 45

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Folks, it's Uluru number 10!

For the occasion we involved remixer Tom Caruana with our personal favorite remix projects, Wu Tang vs Beatles. We keep it reggae-hip hop here, so we choose “Forget me not” and “The Movement”. There was still a bit of space on wax, so we added “Smith Bros” to the game!

Pull up guaranteed!

Pressed on high quality black and white vinyl (45 gr.) Edition of 600

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V.A.

7" | 2023 | EU (ACC)

Tape | 2023 | EU | Original (Hole In One)

Release: 2023 / EU

Genre: Hip Hop

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Acapella grails that go between classic and never been available before all on 45! Ranging between 92 and 114 bpm these are acapellas you’ve never got on 45! Essential.

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Lil Gain

Big Time Playaz

Marlowe 2 Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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When it comes to horrorcore you should be familar with the name Lil' Gain. His album 'Big Time Playaz' is a blueprint of this genre with plenty of satanic and bloody tracks. He comes along with features like Blackout, Terror, Lil' Slim and a lot more.

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Marlowe

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Mello Music Group)

13,94 €* 30,99 € -55%

CD | 2001 | US | Reissue (Rhymesayers)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited to 300 copies.

Vinyl LP pressing. 2020 release. Marlowe is a collaborative alt-rap project from North Carolina-based hip-hop producer L'Orange and rapper Solemn Brigham. Their unique blend of quick-fire vocals and dusty breakbeats is most well-known on tracks such as "Lost Arts" and "Tales From The East." The project came together in 2018 with the intent of marrying Brigham's lyrics concerning social commentary, police brutality, and poverty with L'Orange's thudding beats and crackling vinyl samples to achieve a new, refreshing take on hip-hop in modern times. Marlowe 2 seeks to continue that legacy.

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Aesop Rock

Daylight

13,59 €* 16,99 € -20%

Release: 2001 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 2023 | UK | Original (Chopped Herring)

Al Cohol & D.Rugs

Test Tube Junkies

13,59 €* 16,99 € -20%

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Blade Of The Internal w/ Obi

O.G Shinobi

CD | 2020 | US | Original (Cocareef)

13,49 €* 17,99 € -25%

CD | 2016 | US | Original (Mello Music Group)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Welcome to the sounds of In-House beat maker/Producer O.G Shinobi .This is his debut instrumental album "Blade of the Internal" Limited Edition Physical Copy , with only 50 reg/25 obi made never to be pressed again.Full Color ,Plus Insert jewel case cover with full color exclusive disc,wrapped in plastic

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L'Orange & Mr.Lif

Life & Death Of Scenery

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CD | 2013 | UK | Original (YNR)

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Debuting on Adult Swim, two of the most conceptual and unusual alternative artists in underground hip-hop have joined forces to tell an absurdist story of culture, art and oppression, set in a light-hearted dystopian future. As adventurous as the concept sounds, the album is musically grounded in hip-hop fundamentals and off the wall lyricism. Joining the duo are artists like DJ QBert, Gonjasufi and Akrobatik. Wyatt Cenac (Daily Show, Bojack Horseman) lends his voice as the narrator of our story.

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Micall Parknsun

Me Myself And Akai

13,49 €* 17,99 € -25%

Release: 2013 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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My Part Of Town / Mountains World Record Store Day 2022 Vinyl Edition

Tuff Crew

7" | 1982 | UK | Reissue (Warlock)

Bobby Noble (Pen Pals) & Lars Viola

Release: 1982 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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True club dancefloor Hip Hop from '89 that inspired many a hit there after. Legendary double hitter from the cult Philly crew that have never been on 45 together before. Black Vinyl in Picture sleeve Exclusive for RSD 22.

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Good Time Bobby

CD | 2020 | UK | Original (Chopped Herring)

CD | 2020 | EU | Original (Below System)

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Pen Pal’s MC Cynic the Apache as Bobby Noble, droppin this ridiculously nice concept album with killer jazzy beats by Lars Viola.

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Estee Nack & Superior

Baladas

Tape | 2020 | US | Original (Anti-Corp)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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"The title means ballads, these are slum ballads G" prolific Dominican wordsmith, Estee Nack’s comment on the forthcoming full-length collaboration with German producer, Superior. "BALADAS" drops on digital/CD March 20th via Below System Records and vinyl via Tuff Kong Records, but if the word ballads has you expecting Nack to be making slow jams dedicated to the ladies you are off-mark. More like the Hip-Hop version of Narcocorrido (drug ballad) for the street corner hustlers with complex and at times abstract bars, he stokes the fire for the boom-bap fiends while dropping gems for the likkle yout’s.

Evidence of this is in early leak, "INFINITEBLACKMIND" which got the video treatment laced with moody and psychedelic sampled back-drop like a spiked spliff come-down.

Another track from the album "AROCKANDAHARDPLACE" featuring Rochester spitter, Eto also just dropped replete with hazy sax looped back-drop and hard drums.

Estee Nack has been building his craft over the past decade and a half without a compromise to his unorthodox attack and that goes for his production skills as well. Hailing from Lynn, MA, he formed a crew with equally equipped peers Codenine, Purpose and Paranom known as the Tragic Allies.

However his prolific work ethic and constantly elevated work with young gun, Al Divino over the past years has expanded his brand to something like Basquiat to collectors.

Some recent converts to his sound includes Westside Gunn who upon discovering Nack, tapped him almost immediately to appear on Hitler Wears Hermes 7.

Constantly adapting his work as a producer, Superior's catalogue for Below System Records includes most recently his full-length collaboration with Eto, A Long Story Short (2019) which received high marks from Pitchfork, Bandcamp and HipHopDx.

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Kool Keith X Thetan

Space Goretex

CD | 1998 | EU | Reissue (Noo Trybe)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Following their liaison last year for the “Complicated Trip” Record Store Day single, legendary Bronx, New York City-based rapper KOOL KEITH and Nashville powerviolence duo THETAN present the collaborative Space Goretex LP. With guest appearances from members of Gwar, Three 6 Mafia, Dwarves, Lost Dog Street Band, and more, the album will see release this April through Anti-Corporate Music.

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Gang Starr

Moment Of Truth

Release: 1998 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 1999 | EU | Reissue (Interscope)

Dr. Dre

2001

Release: 1999 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Love In Need / You Had To Know

Rockwilder And King Pros

7" | 2024 | US | Original (Soul In The Horn)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Tape | 2023 | JP | Original (P-Vine)

Kero One

Early Believers

13,19 €* 23,99 € -45%

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (DJ's Choice)

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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With features from world-class soul singers such as Ben Westbeech and Toumo, the good vibes on Early Believers are unparalleled! Catchy hooks elevate the smooth, nostalgia-inducing flows of Kero One, making this an album more than worthy to follow up Kero One’s legendary debut. Featuring both the artwork from the Japan-exclusive CD, and the Japan-exclusive bonus track “When The Sunshine Comes (Cradle Remix feat. Anan Ryoko)”, this album has never looked, or sounded this good! Get Kero One’s Early Believers on cassette tape, from P-vine Records!

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Zetas

Didattica

13,19 €* 21,99 € -40%

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Carver Area High School Seniors

Get Live '83: The Senior Rap

12" | 1982 | UK | Reissue (Soul Jazz)

13,19 €* 21,99 € -40%

Piece Of Me Feat. Ghostface Killah / Joy & Pain Pete Rock Remix

Release: 1982 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Absolutely stunning very rare old school party disco rap 12" performed by members of the Chicago public highschool Carver High. Originally released in 1982 on their own private-press Challenger Records. The track is the opening highlight of Soul Jazz Records" recent Yo! Boombox collection and is featured here in its full glorious seven and a half minutes and comes complete with exact-replica of the striking original hand-drawn artwork.

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Lady Wray & Pete Rock

7" | 2023 | US | Original (Big Crown)

Best Day Ever Remastered Remastered Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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On January 28, 2022, Lady Wray released her Piece Of Me album. A deeply personal record that takes on the good and the bad in life from deception and abuse to the joys of motherhood and triumph. The accolades the album has received in the year it has been out speak volumes. Performing on The Stephen Colbert Show, selling out multiple US tours, cleaning up in the best of 2022 lists, and then crushing an NPR Tiny Desk on the 1 year anniversary of the album. Piece Of Me continues to find its way to new ears and has already proved itself a timeless classic. So where do you go from here? When Ghostface Killah reaches out and says he wants to do a remix of the title track you do that. The A side, "Piece Of Me" (Remix) features Ironman himself who puts down a verse about a relationship that ran its course but no one is sure they did the right thing in. Ghostface sounds right at home over the gully Leon Michels produced track and takes the already rock solid tune to another level. Then what do you do for a B side.... You call The Chocolate Boy Wonder, Pete Rock and get him to remix "Joy & Pain". Pete takes one of the stand out tunes on the album and gives it an entirely different energy with thundering drums and a bassline that shake the windows in the car.

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Mac Miller

CD | 2011 | UK | Reissue (Rostrum)

Release: 2011 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Swan Storm | The Quiet After The Storm

Xczircles | Aamir

2CD | 2011 | US | Original (Ooohh! Thats Heavy)

Release: 2011 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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7" | 2022 | UK (Kiss Klassicks)

Mya / Mario

Case Of The Ex / Boom

Release: 2022 / UK

Genre: Hip Hop

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7" | 2023 | UK | Original (Chopped Herring)

MelloSoulBlack

Rhythm Crusaders EP

CD | 1996 | US | Original (Loud)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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OK it's the end of year fishermen. It's been a dope couple of cycles - sorry there weren't more releases - covid hit hard BUT the good news is , we're back in March with more cycles than 2022. Hold tight for some serious heat!!

For the last offering we have a superb 4 track EP of material from Texas crew MelloSoulBlack produced entirely by our Peruvian flavameister Smoky Kun. You may recognize him from his single on Los Herring Records 'Saoco Del Barrio". Peep it it's still in stock and features a grip of Peruvian MCs over some funky latin beats.

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Mobb Deep

Hell on earth

CD | 1993 | EU | Original (Jive)

Release: 1996 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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classic lp on cd ... feat. Method Man, Raekwon, Nas

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A Tribe Called Quest

Midnight Marauders

Release: 1993 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 2022 | EU | Original (Warner)

Freddie Gibbs

$Oul $Old $Eparately

Wu-Tang Clan / The Charmels

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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A lot of people don't realize that Freddie has actually been in the game for over a decade and came in on the same Freshman XXL cover as Meek Mill, Nipsey Hussle etc. Yet he was the only one with no major label backing or artist affiliation and his partnership with warner is his very first solo major label deal. With that being said, he feels as if he has made it thus far in his career without compromising his morals, creative integrity and principals as a man all while resisting temptations... hence the title $oul $old $eparately or $$$

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C.R.E.A.M. / As Long As I've Got You Big Hole Edition

7" | 2022 | US | Original (Lil Static Us)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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7" | 2022 | UK | Original (Edits)

Casual Connection

Edits 004

Sucka N**** / Red Clay Small Hole Edition

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Electronic & Dance

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Casual Connection is back with another double dose of classic mashups over more recent instrumentals. Back-to-back club Bangers.

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Atcq / Jack Wilkins

7" | 2022 | US | Original (Old Chillin Us)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Popcorn / Pieces Will Align

Chrome (Deftex)

7" | 2021 | UK | Original (Ae Records)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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7" | 2021 | UK | Original (Ae Records)

Sir Beans Obe

Part Of It

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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CD | 2021 | US | Original (Mello Music Group)

Solemn Brigham (Marlowe)

South Sinner Street

7" | 2021 | UK | Original (Chopped Herring)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Solemn Brigham is 1/2 of the group Marlowe. His music has been featured on Gatorade's G is for Greatness ad campaign, 7-Eleven's Harmony Korine (Kids, Gummo, Spring Breakers) directed low rider bike campaign, and NBA2K22. South Sinner Street is his debut solo album coming Sept 24th.

About the Album:
It is no secret that things are getting worse. By virtually any metric––economic or medical, or ones more abstract and spiritual––American society is in decay. The feeling permeates daily life in innumerable ways, giving the present a gnawing, ambient dread.

Solemn Brigham is not content to leave this at a low hum. On his dazzling new album, South Sinner Street, Solemn examines this decay through the prism of his hometown: Albemarle, North Carolina, where the blocks he grew up on are crumbling like everything else. “What was once a vibrant area now survives as a reminder that the only thing eternal is change,” Solemn says when describing the project’s genesis. “Trash and debris flood the streets, relics of the many lives lived––each piece with a story to tell.” South Sinner Street not only traces the degradation of the world around us, but documents the way communities can come together to stave off that slow death, lifting its members up in the process.

Solemn is uniquely equipped to animate the relics of a once-thriving neighborhood with the specificity they deserve. The rapper, whose work with his fellow North Carolinian, L’Orange, as the duo Marlowe has been critically acclaimed, is one of the most vocally acrobatic working today, able to contort himself into a dizzying array of different flows and inflections, accomplishing alone the sort of musical variety that sprawling collectives try and fail to achieve. Take “Couple Towns,” where Solemn moves from a seesaw pocket into a flow that cascades over the ends of bars; contrast this with the bonus track “Relax,” where each bar sounds as if it’s the final thought spilling out of his mind at the end of an impassioned phrase. The end of “Vice North” even recalls the technically stunning runs of One Be Lo, the Michigan rapper who in the 2000s became one of the genre’s chief chroniclers of a similar country-wide disintegration.

But this is not merely a showcase for verbal acrobatics. South Sinner Street is deeply personal, juxtaposing personal growth with the decay that surrounds it. “This is no rags to riches story,” Solemn warns. Of course––it’s more complicated than that. When, on “Vantablack,” of a toddler cradled in his mother’s arms while that mother nurses a cigarette, he is not asking the listener to imagine a tragic end or a harrowing origin story. The point is that we are all, perpetually, the child and the mother: doing our best to cope, even against our better judgment; persevering despite the circumstances that surround us.

And yet South Sinner Street is buoyed by a sense of playfulness that lights up even the pitch-black corners of Albemarle. “Nothing Left” succeeds in turning end-of-your-rope sorry into something like an in joke. When, on “Vice North,” Solemn raps about putting his hands together in prayer only to find “the line still busy,” his voice bakes something amusing in the complaint––maybe the sense that a young man in a small city is irked at God the way he might be at a flaky friend from the gym. And then, speaking of gyms, comes the laugh-out-loud moment on “Dirty Whip,” when Solemn concedes that he didn’t make the basketball team “‘cause I’m me-first.’”

Across its 14 songs, South Sinner Street argues for Solemn Brigham as one of the most exciting artists in underground hip-hop, a technical virtuoso who also happens to be one of the genre’s most surprising, most deeply personal songwriters. The album evokes the feeling of climbing onto a house’s roof to survey the nearly-burning city around you, with all the peril that entails––but also all the possibility.

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Golden Swords & F-Plus

Classical Weapons

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (90's Tapes / HHV)

Dysfunkshunal Familee

Mixed Emotions

Tape | 2021 | EU | Original (Future Times)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited edition of 100 copies on cassette of the late 90's demo release "Mixed Emotions" with guest appearances by Apani B-Fly Emcee and Lockness of Splattahouse.

On "Mixed Emotions", the Brooklyn-based Dysfunkshunal Familee consisted of Braindead, D-Rock, Rebel Rhyme and Crazy DJ Bazarro. Recorded between 1994-98, the album still has that special Bushwick underground vibe and feel. Bazarro's words on the project: "What a time to be alive. We just sat in the crib making music, having fun, playstation, trying to change the world in our little world. Everything we talk about then is happening now. Good luck in the game called life. So many mixed emotions on this ride."

Available in a limited run on 2LP, CD and cassette plus digitally on all major platforms.

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Sir E.U + Tooth Choir

Bop 3

7" | 2022 | EU | Original (HHV Boombap 45s)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Future Times is elated to announce our next release, the album Bop 3 from Sir E.U + Tooth Choir. Sir E.U is one of the best. He has modes aplenty, ranging from classic rap music to collaborations with DC’s dance and electronic music producers. This album finds him in duo mode, every beat by the formidable Tooth Choir, for a new classic entry. Bop 3 is a scuzzed-out rap masterpiece. Tooth Choir’s beats range from the acid house bang of “Turn It Up! (ft. Cal Rips)” to the piano dream state of the closer “Can’t Stop Thinking Bout My Baby,” in which E.U goes galactic for 20 minutes of purely-bared soul. “End Of Time” sounds like Jungle Wonz with the ions reversed, some sort of Chicago House-indebted nightmare funk. “Hey Mom” and “Untitled (2 Much)” dig into a post-punk and wave angle, evocative of everything from Robert Hood and Sleeparchive to Joy Division and other reverb scroungers. Sir E.U compliments this fully, with a surprising range of melody and bizarro hooks, as in the demented pop highlights “mua” and “How Much Longer (Until We Go Get Em).” The sheer sonics of his voice and breadth of his expression, which he is manipulating and re-inventing constantly throughout Bop 3, are wonderful on their own, but Sir E.U is also straight up one of the greatest rappers doing it today; his styles and flows are constantly stunning, and each EP or track release via his own channels becomes a fountain of inspiration for anybody rapping right now. You can hear E.U in many rappers today, well beyond his local Washington DC. Bop 3 is a full-length exploration of the potent duo of Sir E.U + Tooth Choir, in sync to a serious degree, making some of the wildest rap music imaginable.

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Punk Barbarians

Hooptie Car / Blast Off

Book Of Life / Book Of Life Part 2

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 300 copies of the next release in our »HHV Boombap 45's« series.

The Punk Barbarians has been a quartet from Long Island. Their debut "Sex, Props, Cream ... And The Drama In Between" came out in 1996 via Lethal Records and created a certain buzz, and the album gained a 3.5 mics rating in the Source. Here you you have two tracks from the album, available for the very first time on 45!

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Hi-Tech

7" | 2022 | EU | Original (HHV Boombap 45s)

Formation / Everyday Movement

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 300 copies of the next release in our »HHV Boombap 45's« series.

Two of Hi-Tech's classic cuts get the 45 treatment for the very first time, check out "Book Of Life" backed with "Part 2". Some mid-90's underground flavour straight from Yonkers, NY.

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Mathematik

7" | 2022 | EU | Original (HHV Boombap 45s)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 300 copies of the next release in our »HHV Boombap 45's« series.

One of our favorite MC's out there, Toronto's Mathematik, joins the series with two tracks off his classic debut release "Ecology". Please welcome "Formation b/w Everyday Movement" to our jukebox!

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Down Ta Erf

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited edition of 100 copies on cassette including 5 bonus tracks in addition to the original demo album from 1997.

The members of Down Ta Erf consists of a production team of twin brothers Wall & Steel, one emcee Mathematik. The trio would first meet on the football field sharing the back field as running backs for the Eagles in a local (Scarborough, Toronto) youth football league, a few years later into their teens they would link again to form what we now know as Down Ta Erf. During the early developing years the crew would go on to focus on creating the purest most original interpretation of the music and the times that they could, digging both within themselves and the crates as well. What took place was the creation of a special time capsule of music brought to you by a crew that truly live and breathe the culture of music.

Available in a limited run on 2LP, CD and cassette plus digitally on all major platforms.

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Kurious

A Constipated Monkey

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited edition of 100 copies on cassette of Kurious' debut album "A Constipated Monkey".

"A Constipated Monkey" is one of our favorite albums from 1994 and we are very excited to finally share the release with you. Most of the production has been handled by The Beatnuts as well as the SD50's and the guest list includes iconic MC's such as Casual of the Hieroglyphics, MF Grimm, Sadat X of Brand Nubian, Psycho Les of The Beatnuts and others.

Available in a limited run on 2LP+7", CD and cassette plus digitally on all major platforms.

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Main Source

Breaking Atoms

Cloud Nine / Make It Ruff

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 100 copies on cassette of Main Source's classic debut "Breaking Atoms" from 1991.

With "Breaking Atoms", the trio comprised of K-Cut, Sir Scratch and Large Professor delivered a timeless classic in Hip Hop history. The album features cameos by a young Nasty Nas, Joe Fatal and Akinyele as well as a co-production by Pete Rock. Setting standards with its »crunchy digitized drums, choppy segmented samples, and murky filtered basslines«, as Ben Detrick wrote in the Village Voice, the album received 4.5 mics in the Source that later on in 2002 were revised to 5 mics.

Available in a limited run on 2LP vinyl, CD and cassette.

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The Duke Ya Love To Hate

7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Cold Diggin')

7" | 2021 | UK | Original (Chopped Herring)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Cold Diggin’ is back with another double a-side. Strictly limited first pressing of 150, hand numbered copies, silk screen printed sleeves.

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Da Steez Brothaz

Ghetto Spread EP

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Oooh shiiiii – Los Herrings Records and Da Steez Brothaz are back in E.F.F.E.C.T. with this dope new 7″ EP Ghetto Spread. Straight outta Colombia with that fly fish, Da Steez Brothaz drop 4 tracks of South American flava for the heads. Check out this crack!!!!

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Mannish

Audio Sedative

Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (90's Tapes / HHV)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited edition of 100 copies on cassette of Mannish's debut album "Audio Sedative" from 1995.

Next up on "90's Tapes" is the mid-90's underground charmer "Audio Sedative" by Los Angeles-based duo Mannish, consisting of Rappers Jekill and Jive. The dope production was mostly handled by B-Zar (better known as American actor Balthazar Getty) and the cuts were provided by a young DJ Nu-Mark who later on became known as a member of Jurassic 5. Available in a limited run on 2LP, CD and cassette plus digitally on all major platforms.

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Starvin Art Clique

Starving Art

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited edition of 100 copies on cassette of "Starving Art" by Baltimore's Starvin Art Clique.

The Starvin Art Clique consisted of Christopher "30 Fingaz" Gittens, Robert "Hawaii" Russell and DJ Joe "Guess Who?" Davidge and "Starving Art" was their only album. The full production was handled by Guess Who? and Shane "The Doctor" Faber, features included artists such as Shawn Smith, Jaie, Mekolicious and others.

Originally released on CD on Joe Davidge's Overkast Records in 1998, the release was accompanied by a then and now hard-to-find 12" EP with 5 tracks of the album plus an instrumental version.

Available in a limited run on 2LP, CD and cassette plus digitally on all major platforms.

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Godfather Don

Exotic Essentials

The Beginning Of The End / Say Word Feat. Bahamadia

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 100 copies on cassette.

"Exotic Essentials" is a handpicked demo compilation by Godfather Don himself including some lost gems of mid-90's works. The album includes 8 vocal tracks as well as 9 instrumentals shorties from the vaults. Available in a limited run on black as well as grey colored 2LP, on limited CD and cassette plus digitally on all major platforms.

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Boogiemonsters

That's How I'm Going Out / Instrumental

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 300 copies of the next release in our »HHV Boombap 45's« series.

Heavy double-sider with two fan favs from the Boogiemonster's sophomore album "God Sound". "Say Word" features Bahamadia and is available on 45 for the very first time.

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Godfather Don

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 300 copies of the next release in our »HHV Boombap 45's« series.

Two charmers from the one and only Godfather Don available on 45 for the very first time. Enjoy "That's How I'm Going Out" plus the instrumental version on the B. Tip!

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Bush Babees

Gravity

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited edition of 100 copies on cassette.

The Bush Babees sophomore album finally gets a reissue treatment on limited 2LP+7", cassette, CD and digitally. "Gravity" features productions by the likes of The Ummah, Pos of De La Soul, Rahzel of The Roots, Shawn J. Period and others. Guest MC's include Mos Def, Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest, Rahzel and Muntcho Leo.

The trio consisting of Kaos, Y-Tee and Mr. Man grew up in the West Indies, so reggae had a strong influence on their music. Formed in 1992, the Brooklyn representatives dropped their debut "Ambushed" in 1994 followed by the sophomore album "Gravity" in 1996 with the help from a number of Native Tongue members.

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Bush Babees

Ambushed

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited edition of 100 copies on cassette.

The Bush Babees debut album finally gets a reissue treatment on limited 2LP+7", cassette, CD and digitally. "Ambushed" contains instant classics like "We Run Things" or "Remember We" and features productions by the likes of Ali Shaheed Muhammad of A Tribe Called Quest, Salaam Remi, Jermaine Dupri and others.

The trio consisting of Kaos, Y-Tee and Mr. Man grew up in the West Indies, so reggae had a strong influence on their music. Formed in 1992, the Brooklyn representatives dropped their debut in 1994 followed by the sophomore album "Gravity" in 1996 with the help from a number of Native Tongue members including Q-Tip and The Ummah, Pos of De La Soul, Rahzel of The Roots as well as a young Mos Def.

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Mathematik

Ecology

CD | 1995 | US | Original (Jive)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 100 copies.

Another dream comes true and we are humbly thankful to finally share Mathematik's full-length debut "Ecology" on 2LP, cassette and CD as well as digitally. Originally released in 1999, "Ecology" became an instant classic inside and outside the Canadian Hip Hop scene and is one of these magical albums that still don't loose their charisma after 20+ years!

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E-40

Federal

Simba Sitoi (Feat. Kardinal Offishall)

Release: 1995 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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11 tracks

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Runaway (Chris Read Remix / Instrumental)

7" | 2020 | UK | Original (Dinked)

CD | 2006 | US | Original (Babygrande)

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Description : Three continents collide on 'Runaway', the latest single from Mozambican rapper / vocalist Simba Sitoi, featuring Canada's Kardinal Offishall, remixed by the UK's Chris Read. Simba Sitoi is a key player in the Hip Hop scene in his native Mozambique, where his vocals in both English and Portugese have graced releases including a full length album for UK stalwarts BBE Records. Kardinal Offishall is a 5 x winner at the Juno Awards (Canada's equivalent of the Grammys) and has collaborated with a host of artists including the likes of Scott Storch, Sean Paul and Eminem. London based producer Chris Read's production and remix credits include Grammy Award winning vocalist Bilal, BBC New Music Award winners Maylight and Hip Hop legends The Pharcyde.

The back story to this cross-continental collaboration features A Tribe Called Quest, Mozambique's colonial past and Nando's chicken. In 2018, Nando's flew Kardinal Offishal to Mozambique to film a short documentary exploring the history of the restaurant's Peri Peri sauce, an accompaniment to grilled chicken first developed by Portugese settlers in Mozambique. While filming, Kardinal visited Simba's studio to find out more about the regional music scene. The two vocalists hit it off and, in an unplanned studio session, 'Runaway', a track inspired by the UK's Broken Beat sound, was recorded. Simba had previously worked with Chris Read when he remixed Simba and Milton Gulli's cover version of A Tribe Called Quest's 'Scenario' for BBE Records back in 2013. Chris was enlisted to remix the track and has delivered a version which features Broken drums, a Latin flavored bassline and horns that add Dub feel.

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Outerspace

Blood brothers

Release: 2006 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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14 tracks feat. Vinnie Paz of Jedi Mind Tricks, King Syze, Sheek Louch, Royce Da 5'9, ...

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The Nonce

The Sight Of Things

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited edition of 100 copies.

We couldn't resist to drop two of our favorite projects from the 90's by legendary Westcoast crew The Nonce, "World Ultimate" (1995) and "The Sight Of Things" (1998). Yusef Afloat and Nouka Basetype (later known as Sach) delivered an unique sound and released instant classics like "Mix Tapes", "Bus Stops", "The Sight Of Things" or "Who Falls Apart?". Both projects are available in limited quantities on vinyl, CD, cassette as well as digitally.

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The Nonce

World Ultimate

CD | 2020 | US | Original (Otherground Inc)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Open Mike Eagle

Anime Trauma And Divorce

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Foreign Objects / Hard Times

Yusef Afloat

Visions Of Bodies Being Burned

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 100 copies on cassette.

Next up on "90's Tapes" are the demo 4-track recordings of Yusef Afloat's "Foreign Objects" and "Hard Times".

Known as one half of legendary Westcoast group The Nonce (along with Nouka Basstype aka Sach), MC/producer/musician Yusef Afloat produced tracks for Aceyalone, Supherb, and Figures Of Speech. He also appeared on the original 1994 release of Project Blowed. On May 21, 2000, Yusef "Afloat" Muhammad was found dying on the side of Freeway 110 in Los Angeles, he was 28 years old. The cause of his death is still unknown.

"When I listen to Yusef now, I'm reminded of what I felt then and that is he knew his time on Earth was limited. The tone was new, stern authoritative on his views and expressions of Hip Hop. I knew he was talking to me and each one of our peers. The tapes have been safe for 20 years thanks to Dee Skee for maintaining archives at Weightless Audio. The implications that I knew someone who may have said things because their span was going to be cut. I'm thinking he saw clearer than we could. I felt he wanted to be a guide in the discovery of what kind of Man I would live to be and what kind of Man listening to this music would turn out to be? I don't know if I had inclinations of my time being so short what I would have been spending it doing and he spent his saying these weighted lines. I thought it abrasive at first but I understand now why he said what he said and how with style! I miss him everyday and I'm so proud that Yusef's music can finally be showcased to the world in the beautiful way it is deserving. I'm blown back looking at the pictures, so many sat on that couch Yusef sits Ganjah K, Meen Green. What great sessions… no magical sessions. Preparing to play this record we would probably roll something and get comfortable on that couch… well… drop the needle! Push play!"

Sach - January 2021

"Foreign Objects / Hard Times" is available in limited editions on 2LP, MC and CD as well as digitally.

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Clipping.

Tape | 2020 | US | Original (Sub Pop)

The Sight Of Things / Who Falls Apart

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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In the horror genre, sequels are perfunctory. As the insufferable film bro Randy explains in Scream 2, "There are certain rules that one must abide by in order to create a successful sequel. Number one: the body count is always bigger. Number two: the death scenes are always much more elaborate-more blood, more gore. Carnage candy. And number three: never, ever, under any circumstances, assume the killer is dead." Last Halloween, Los Angeles experimental rap mainstays Clipping ended their three-year silence with the horrorcore-inspired album There Existed an Addiction to Blood. This October, rapper Daveed Diggs, and producers Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson return with an even higher body count, more elaborate kills, and monsters that just won't stay dead. Visions of Bodies Being Burned is less a sequel than it is the second half of a planned diptych. It turns out, Clipping took to the thematic material of horrorcore like vampires to grave soil. Before the release of There Existed an Addiction to Blood, Clipping and Sub Pop Records divided the material up into two albums, designed to be released only months apart. However, a global pandemic and multiple cancelled tours pushed the release of the project's "part two" until the following Halloween season. Visions of Bodies Being Burned contains sixteen more scary stories disguised as rap songs, incorporating as much influence from Ernest Dickerson, Clive Barker, and Shirley Jackson as it does from Three 6 Mafia, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, and Brotha Lynch Hung. Clipping's angular, shattered interpretations of existing musical styles are always deferential, driven by fandom for the object of study rather than disdain for it. Clipping reimagine horrorcore-the purposely absurdist hip-hop subgenre that flourished in the 1990s-the way Jordan Peele does horror cinema: by twisting beloved tropes to make explicit their own radical politics of monstrosity, fear, and the uncanny. The album features a host of collaborators: Inglewood's Cam & China, fellow noise-rap pioneers Ho99o9, Tortoise guitar genius Jeff Parker, and experimental LA drummer Ted Byrnes. The final track, "Secret Piece," is a performance of a Yoko Ono text score from 1953 that instructs the players to "Decide on one note that you want to play/Play it with the following accompaniment: the woods from 5am to 8am in summer," and features nearly all of the musicians who appeared on both albums. Since their last album, Daveed Diggs-the group's Tony and Grammy Award-winning rapper-has starred in the TNT science fiction series, Snowpiercer, voiced a character in Pixar's Soul, and portrayed Frederick Douglass in Showtime's The Good Lord Bird. Writer Rivers Solomon's novella based on Clipping's Hugo-nominated song "The Deep" has been nominated for the Nebula, Hugo, and Locus Awards, and won the Lambda Literary Award for best Lgbtq SF/Fantasy/Horror novel. Clipping's song "Chapter 319"-a tribute to George Floyd (aka Big Floyd) the former DJ-Screw affiliated rapper who was murdered by police officers in May of 2020-was released on Bandcamp on June 19th and raised over $20,000 for racial justice charities. A clip of the song also became a popular meme on TikTok, generating over 50,000 videos in which teenagers rapped the song's lyrics ("Donald Trump is a white supremacist, full stop_") directly into the frowning faces of their conservative parents. The band also contributed a Skinny Puppy-esque rework of J-Kwon's "Tipsy" to Save Stereogum: An '00s Covers Comp.

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The Nonce

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 300 copies of the 33rd release in our »HHV Boombap 45's« series.

Two classics from one of our favorite Westcoast crews The Nonce, for the very first time available on a donut. Tip!

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Science Of Sound

Kaleidoscope Phonetics

Bloody Money / T.O.N.Y. Feat. Tragedy Khadafi

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 100 copies on cassette.

Here it is, one of THE lost albums from the golden era of Hip Hop: Science Of Sound's "Kaleidoscope Phonetics" from the Tribe Called Quest-sphere. With productions and cameos by A Tribe Called Quest and Phife Dawg, Godfather Don, Grandmaster Melle Mel and more. This is true-school rap at its finest and should not be missed by any fan of the classic 90's vibe.

Here's what Ali Shaheed Muhammad is saying about it:

"Science Of Sound, a group established during the 90's "golden era" of Hip Hop. These guys are my family. We were very excited when they signed their record deal and greatly disappointed their label mishandled them. This is the lost album that was recorded in the time I was working on "Beats, Rhymes & Life". There was a lot of back in forth between Tribe's sessions and S.O.S.'s sessions. You can hear the levels they were on and it's as fresh as 20+ years later as it was when it was recorded. Any proponent of golden era Hip Hop will appreciate this find of a lost album." - Ali Shaheed Muhammad, September 3rd, 2020

Available on limited 2LP vinyl, CD and cassette as well as digitally!

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Capone-N-Noreaga

O.G.C. (Originoo Gunn Clappaz)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 300 copies of the 32nd release in our »HHV Boombap 45's« series.

Two classics from "The War Report" by Queens' CNN finally get the 45 treatment for the very first time. Tip!

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No Fear / Hurricane Starang

Rotten Apple / Iced Down Medaillons Feat. Noreaga

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 300 copies of the 31st release in our »HHV Boombap 45's« series.

Classic alert: O.G.C.'s "No Fear" backed with "Hurricane Starang" on the B, for the very first time available on 45!

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Royal Flush

7" | 2020 | EU | Original (HHV Boombap 45s)

I'll Meet You In Greenwich

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 300 copies of the 30th release in our »HHV Boombap 45's« series.

Here's another double-sider of classic 90's NYC rap, for the very first time available on a 45. This time Royal Flush's "Rotten Apple" gets the single treatment backed with the underground anthem "Iced Down Medaillons" featuring Noreaga.

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The Primeridian

It's Yours Record Store Day 2020 Edition

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 100 copies on cassette.

"I'll Meet You In Greenwich" is a true classic from the late 90's from Chicago's The Primeridian. Tight productions paired with smooth back & forth rhymes by Tree & See-Me-On make this album another unique gem in your Golden Era collection. Available on limited 2LP vinyl, CD and cassette as well as digitally!

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T La Rock & Jazzy Jay

7" | 1984 | US | Reissue (Partytime)

Release: 1984 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Record Store Day 2020 Release.

The debut release on Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons now seminal Def Jam label that shook the world with its evil bass and percussion. Never released on 7" before, this is a true Hip Hop collectors dream. Featuring the ground-breaking "Scratch Party Death Mix".

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The Realist

Time Killaz / Gimme Love

Jorun PMC (Jorun Bombay & Phill Most Chill)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 100 copies on cassette.

Next up on 90's Tapes is another underground gem from the Golden Era, this time from Grand Rapids, MI. The Realist's "Time Killaz / Gimme Love" is another true-school gem for the heads out there. Peep "420 (Keep Doin It)" and you know what to expect. Available on limited 3LP vinyl, CD and cassette as well as digitally!

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Jorun PMC

CD | 2020 | UK | Original (AE Productions)

DJ Shok presents The Music: Hi-Tech's Golden Era Singles

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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The long awaited Jorun PMC album is finally here!

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Hi-Tech

Beats, Bangers & Biscuits At 535 E 55th St

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 100 copies on clear cassette.

First ever anthology release of Yonkers MC Hi-Tech's golden era 12" tracks including the instrumental versions. Production handled by DJ Shok and Jay Biz. Available on limited 2LP vinyl, CD and cassette as well as digitally!

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Godfather Don

Mophono / Tenshun / Heavy Twelves

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 100 copies on gold colored tape!

We at 90's Tapes are kind of speechless as another dream is becoming real for us with this release. As the title says, Don blesses us with beats, bangers and biscuits from his repertoire including "Status (Solo OG Home Demo" or "Burn (OG Home Demo)". We are super happy to finally share this gem with you and hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

Here are some words from the artist himself:
"This release marks an exciting collaboration between me & 90's Tapes in which I have chosen along with the crew to release some of my favorite demos fans and collectors alike have sought after and asked me to "please make available" for years in a format like this. During the whole thing the HHV staff have been super cool from the start. They listened astutely, and invited me to offer any suggestions every step of the way, and made it a smooth, easy going affair overall - resulting in what I believe is a simply marvelous release that I sincerely hope will entertain and be enjoyed by all!"
Godfather Don, May 2020

Represent the real hip hop!

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Ctb Volume 3 Goons

7" | 2020 | US | Original (CB)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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7" | 2020 | EU | Original (Edits)

Casual Connection

Edits 001

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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The mashups to end all mashups. Fire up the Lowrider, crank the speakers – here’s two outrageously audacious cuts that put the ‘it’ in ‘lit’. Heavy vibes whichever side you blast.

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The B.L.U.N.T.E.D. Crew

The Triangle

The Don Of Diamond Dreams

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strictly limited edition of 100 copies!

Next up on "90's Tapes" is a late nineties nugget from The B.L.U.N.T.E.D. Crew called "The Triangle". Check out "Keep Your Head" and you will instantly fall in love with this gem. Available for the very first time on vinyl and cassette beside a new CD and digital version!

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Shabazz Palaces

Tape | 2020 | US | Original (Sub Pop)