Hip-Hop
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Another cassette-only mixtape tape curated by cult WFMU show and blog Bodega Pop - aka Gary Sullivan's long-running project rooted in a passion for digging for music in bodegas and cell-phone stores across NYC's boroughs. This edition focuses in on late 1990s and early 00s hip-hop & rnb from across...
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Tryin' To Get A Buck is the debut album from Vallejo rapper, B-Legit and It was released in 1993 on Sic Wid' It Records. The album was produced entirely by Studio Ton and features guest appearances by E-40, Little Bruce, Kaveo, Levitti and Mac Shawn. Black vinyl 250 copies....
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The classic 3rd album from San Francisco legend, San Quinn. Orange Vinyl, 250 copies....
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187 Fac was an American rap group from Hayward, California that consisted of Den Fenn and G-Nut. Fac Not Fiction is a str8 up Bay Area classic that was backed by Spice 1 upon its release originally back in 1997. Orange and Blue Vinyl. 200 copies pressed....
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Audiopile Review: After a string of collaborative albums crafted alongside a sole producer—Maps with Kenny Segal, Church with Messiah Musik on the boards, and the Preservation-helmed Aethiopes—billy woods calls on what feels like the whole Backwoodz crew to mount one of the most impressively dense and masterful rap records of...
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With its cinematic origins The Odd Couple is the natural title for the second album by a pair who seem to spend as much time in wardrobe as the studio and whose recordings are often compared to film scores. Their greatest hit, 2006's "Crazy" was even built around a chunk...
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Audiopile Review: Who’s the greatest emcee of hip-hop history? Any answer is going to be considered controversial. But for our money, nobody’s done it better than the Wu-Tang Clan’s Ghostface Killah. He’s as at home with gritty crime narratives as he is with strings of bizarre non-sequiturs and baffling pop...
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JPEGMAFIA turns down an introspective lane without ever losing his bite on his third album All My Heroes Are Cornballs. With a clearer, crisper vision, yet even more fried and confrontational, Peggy shows himself to be an expert in juxtaposition, lambasting the internet opposition on ‘Beta Male Strategies’ while chiptune-esque...
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Too $hort claimed he was retiring in 1996 when he dropped album #10 Gettin' It, but a player like $hort couldn't stay away. After a three-year hiatus, he got back in the game and on July 11th, 1999, he dropped his 11th studio album aptly named Can't Stay Away. Too...
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It takes grindin' to be a king and Houston's Mike Jones' work ethic of "You Don't Work, You Don't Eat, You Don't Grind, You Don't Shine" had his phone blowing up in 2005 with the release of his major label debut Who is Mike Jones? on Asylum/Swisha House/Warner Records. Mike...
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Legendary Mello Music Group producer Apollo Brown's feature packed album including Oddisee, Evidence, Freddie Gibbs, Masta Ace, Vinnie Paz, Westside Gunn, Sean Price and more! 19 full boom bap classics. A celebrated fan favorite with over 20 million streams is finally back on vinyl....
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Released on Heavenly Recordings on Friday 14th June 2024 and produced by Toddla T, the 12-track album, which seamlessly merges Irish with English & satire with socially conscious lyrics, is fiercely intelligent, consistently hilarious and genuinely thought provoking. Theirs is a voice which comes screaming from the too-often deprived areas...
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Audiopile Review: In horror, the most memorable figures are often the ones that take their time—creeping slowly, seeping into the audience’s psyche. Let Me Out, the latest from Fatboi Sharif and producer Driveby, channels that same slow-burning dread. It’s an album that unfolds at a steady pace, built on industrial...
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Audiopile Review: Instrumental hip-hop specialist J. Rawls hits the archives for his newest, culling some unreleased material recorded back when he was just getting started. Anticon nerds might recognize the name, Rawls collaborating with a pre-cLOUDDEAD Doesone back in the late ‘90s, eventually going on to become a prolific yet...
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Bristol-based, London-born auteur ThisisDA has spent over a decade at this point furrowing out his own niche in the experimental rap landscape. Across a slew of under-the-radar solo releases and eclectic collaborations, he's routinely peered beyond the boundaries of traditional hip-hop, taking a refreshingly open-minded, eclectic approach to his art....
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Sold out since 2019, this re-release has long been requested by fans across the globe with copies going for over $200 online! Features expanded artwork and pressed on pink colour vinyl. For many fans out there lofi hiphop is a real sanctuary and mt. fujitive not only has the same...
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Deep West Coast Jazz-Rap instant c-l-a-s-s-i-c alert! Perfect to chill to, Headnodic + Jazz Mafia's astounding self-titled record blends hip-hop and jazz effortlessly, bringing the two genres together with their intrinsic beauty intact. Here we get hip-hop beats made from the box (SP-12 / Maschine / Laptop /...
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This album originally was planned for release in 2022—that’s when Defcee and Parallel Thought first connected, built on a mutual respect for each other’s discographies. Defcee was fresh off the success of his Backwoodz debut, Trapdoor (produced by Messiah Musik), while Parallel Thought had just released The Wild End, their...
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RAREBREED is proud to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Pudgee Tha Phat Bastard’s classic debut album Give ’Em the Finger with an exclusive vinyl re-release! First hitting the streets in 1994, this album quickly became a hidden gem in the golden era of hip-hop, delivering razor-sharp lyricism and head-nodding boom-bap...
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Inspired by the Dr Dre classic, The Chronic, the concept for this release was to bridge gaps between generations, as well as coasts, while showing love to the album that introduced the world to Death Row Records. The Chronic is a timeless masterpiece that shifted not only the trajectory of...
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Portishus 2 is the highly anticipated follow-up to Portishus by Hus Kingpin, drawing deep inspiration from the haunting, cinematic soundscapes of ’90s trip-hop pioneers, Portishead. A staple of the underground scene, Hus Kingpin crafts evocative, understated music that aligns with the visionary path carved by fellow Long Island native, Roc...
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BRAVADO INTiMO... boasts an additional 7 tracks with features from Ab-Soul, Denzel Curry, & Joey Bada$$. Production is handled by a wide range of talent including TaeBeast, Mario Luciano, Kal Banx, Oliver Easton, Rascal, and more. Creating a balance between the strength of bravado and the vulnerability of being intimate....
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Karpenters, the latest album from Kool Keith, produced by Grant Shapiro, stays true to the essence of Hip-Hop: boom bap beats, clever samples, and heavyweight guest features. Hip-Hop legends like Tash (Tha Alkaholiks) and Marc Live (Analog Brothers/Black Elvis) add to the project, complementing Kool Keith’s signature eccentric flow. This...
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I feel relieved getting the full vision of I LAY. DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU out. this is the close to an era. I was opposed to being more personal for so long in my career because of certain people among my fanbase who don't take others peoples pain seriously...
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Audiopile Review: Dig a few layers deeper into the Backwoodz iceberg—past Billy Woods, E L U C I D, and even Cavalier—and you’ll inevitably hit upon one of the label’s most essential voices: Premrock. A familiar name to many of our readers as the steady-handed half of ShrapKnel, who's dead-eyed...
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Little Simz is a boundary-breaking musician and cultural curator, recognised as one of the UK’s most captivating and visionary artists. A multi-award winner - collecting Brit Awards, MOBOs, and an Ivor Novello - across mixtapes, EPs, and five critically acclaimed albums, Simz’s music documents her story, her journey, her becoming...
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"Get In Where You Fit In was originally released in October of 1993 and would be Too $hort's fourth album in a row to be certified platinum. Production was handled by Ant Banks and The Dangerous Crew, which featured live instrumentation, incorporated P Funk samples, and G Funk synths. The...
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When billy woods released Today, I Wrote Nothing ten years ago, it was an unexpected departure from a rapper who was just starting to make waves in the indie rap scene. After spending the earlier part of his career in the wilderness, woods had managed to crawl out of obscurity...
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Audiopile Review: Few rappers sound as perpetually hungry as Fly Anakin—the man continues to pour everything in, even at his most laid-back. On (The) Forever Dream, that hunger meets vibrant, soul-soaked production shaped by the curatorial hand of executive producer Quelle Chris, whose signature warmth and ear for off-kilter beats...
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**Please note, this album comes in a blank white sleeve. Awesome remixed version of Nas' Nastradamus album as reimagined by hip hop beatsmith extraordinaire M.F. Doom, featuring loads of fucked-up rare groove samples! Many of the beats are taken from his superb Special Herbs series of beats albums and they...
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Black Hole Superette, the latest album from Aesop Rock, delves into the invisible forces that shape our lives and psyches. It’s about the small, often overlooked moments—the everyday experiences that blur the lines between the real and the unreal, waking and sleeping. Aesop Rock’s signature gift for transforming the mundane...
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Showbiz! is the tenth solo album by MIKE, released via his own label 10k. Widespread acclaim includes Pitchfork 'Best New Music', who proclaimed it's "the young artist’s greatest accomplishment thus far". It sets a new benchmark for himself and his contemporaries as he steps into the next chapter of his...
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British jazz producer Daylight Robbery releases new album ‘Third Island Suite’ (aka ‘Third Eye Land’) on Melting Pot Music. Connecting the dots between Spiritual Jazz, Fusion & Hip-Hop. Recorded in collaboration with New York pianist Nick Marks. Follow-up to his 2022 debut ‘Moons of Jupiter’. Inspired by the...
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The 90s were all about Hip-Hop groups. Brooklyn's Junior M.A.F.I.A., consisting of members Lil' Kim, Lil' Cease, Trife, Larceny, Nino Brown, Chico Del Vec, MC Klepto, Capone, and Bugsy, formed under the guidance of The Notorious B.I.G. after he released his classic debut album Ready To Die. At the end...
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“In my category, I’m the one and only,” proclaimed Oakland legend Too $hort on his 1990 single “Short But Funky.” Few disagreed then, and even fewer would do so decades later. First appearing in the mid-1980s, slinging homemade tapes out of his car trunk, the man born Todd Shaw has...
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Kendrick Lamar's critically acclaimed second studio album turned 10 years old on March 15th. Top Dawg Entertainment/Aftermath/Interscope is reissuing the album on 180 Gram vinyl with alternate artwork for the 10th Anniversary....
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We're happy to welcome Vincent Semlinger, aka Snares, to our Ilian Beat Series. In addition to making slamming beats, the producer from Augsburg, Germany, is also a mixing and mastering engineer. Enjoy!...
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Released in 1996, Innersoul's "The Theory" has become a legendary album in the underground hip-hop scene and is now being reissued on limited pressing LP with Japanese obi-strip! Leading the way is "It's The Right Time," which was also released as a 12-inch EP single, along with tracks that evoke...
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With Doechii's 2024 mixtape Alligator Bites Never Heal, rapper, singer and visionary artist Doechii delivers 19 tracks following the weekly 'Swamp Session' installments that lit the Internet on fire with eye-catching visuals and equally compelling bars. The project captures a rare talent in her rawest form yet giving listeners 19...
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Audiopile Review: In the post-everything age, scenes that used to be bound by strict codes of conduct have embraced anything-goes eclecticism with a frankly absurd fervour. Metal new releases have become a perplexing cavalcade of genre mashups. And hip-hop gave up on the tedium of keeping it real long, long...
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Audiopile Review: Greentea Peng finally gets to her second LP after a four-year wait off her splashy debut, Man Made, the outta nowhere underground hit that made us instant fans of her deliriously trippy take on R&B and crossover hip-hop. The London-based artist’s arrival coincided with a wave of other...
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"Czarface returns from the shadows with Knull & Void, a bone-rattling 12" straight from the film Venom: The Last Dance. Featuring Wu-Tang Clan's Method Man and the elusive Frankie Pulitzer, and rounded out with a never-before-heard B-side 'Safe Haven,' this one's destined to be a collector's grail. Whether you're a...
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Massive funk from the Blue Note vaults -- a batch of tracks that are easily some of the most-sampled numbers in the catalog of the legendary label! There's a simple, elegant brilliance to most tracks here -- nothing fancy, just straightforward grooves that mix together perfect beats, pristine production, and...
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Back with that grit, tell the soundman to turn this shit up. New York emcee Hassaan Mackey (Rawkus 50) slangs words and onomatopoeia, rhymes like he wants to, and backs the whole room into a corner with a raw vision of the streets that pierces ordinary experience and gets at...
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It seemed that if I didn’t somehow repeat the process of greatness, and do so immediately, multiple times away to satisfy playlist and binge watch culture, then I “wasn’t shit”. After a while I was like “nah this doesn’t feel good,… I don’t know if I am finding joy in...
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Audiopile Review: Quite chuffed to finally see an attainable pressing of Pink Siifu’s 2019 collab with Yungmorpheus arrive in the shop, an album that was initially issued as one of those expensive Bandcamp-only-releases-that-sells-out-in-5-minutes releases that have been plaguing underground hip-hop releases the past few years. Sour grapes aside, we’re just...
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"After endless requests for a Czarface and Dr. Octagon collaboration, the comic book inspired supergroup Czarface takes a turn for the cosmic, creating a funky full-length adventure with the spacey Kool Keith! When the record is playing, they become a counterpart character that can even give the mighty Czarface a...
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Rome Streetz drops "Buck 50", his first offering for 2024, a 6 tracks EP entirely produced by mastermind Wavy Da Ghawd, unleash the raw essence of his lyricism. Carving once again its place in the game just like a buck 50, Rome Streetz delivers his gut-punch of gritty underworld narratives....
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