Hip-Hop
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L.A. rapper Blu burst onto the scene in the late 00s with the widely acclaimed Exile collaboration Below The Heavens, igniting a West Coast hip-hop renaissance in the process. With his cool Cali demeanor and undeniable lyrical talent, Blu drew praise from fans and tastemakers alike, launching a remarkable career...
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The 12-track project is their first album in nearly ten years and includes fresh collaborations with Larry June, Cordae, Eric Roberson, Robert Glasper , Karriem Riggins, Abstract Orchestra , Sango, Phat Kat, Daru Jones, Earlly Mac , The Dramatics and more. 2015's critically acclaimed Yes! further cemented T3 and Young...
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The Notorious B.I.G.’s multi-platinum debut, READY TO DIE, celebrates its 30th anniversary with a special 2-LP reissue featuring newly reimagined limited edition cover art. Earlier this year, the Library of Congress inducted Ready To Die into the National Recording Registry. In the essay accompanying the induction, author and journalist Justin...
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Ghostface Killah's Set The Tone (Guns & Roses) on Limited Edition Marbled Color Vinyl. Packaged in a beautiful gatefold record jacket with high gloss finish, black inner sleeves and a 12" x 24" printed insert, sealed with a silver foil OBI strip. Album artwork features photos by the legendary Danny...
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Originally released in 2023, Glorious Game is the collaboration between soul group El Michels Affair and Black Thought. The instrumental version of the acclaimed album showcases El Michels' signature "cinematic soul" production, featuring samples from his previous work and classic soul records. Black Thought's deeply instrospective and personal verses set...
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Blessing/curse. Division/unity. Love/hate. It’s in the context of a polarising 24-hour, digitised, globally connected world that NightjaR finds its wings. NightjaR being the nom-de-plume and smudged rainbow constellation of collaborative copy-and-paste sound-wrangling and hip-hop from Jimi Goodwin. Without social media. Without beyond-midnight transatlantic emails. Without finding the possibilities folded into...
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Audiopile Review: If We Buy Diabetic Test Strips was Armand Hammer at their most explosive and otherworldly, Doves is the sound of everything unraveling—leaving behind only dust and echoes. This post-rap disassembly pushes the duo closer to the genre-defying territory of fellow hip-hop experimentalists Injury Reserve’s swan song By the...
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Czartificial Intelligence debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Top New Artist Albums chart when it was released in November and was the #2 most-added at Hip-Hop That also makes it the #1 debut on the chart. The wins keep coming as the record also debuted on the genreless Top 200 chart,...
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South London producer and musician Fr1th, presents Mind Blossom - a 13 track album displaying his creative output of over two years. It draws on influences as wide as J Dilla to Ludovico Einaudi. A blend of piano beats based production that spans true lo-fi, chill, ambient, electronic, jazz and...
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The Album That Invented Hardcore Hip-Hop: Run-D.M.C. Changed the Sound of Music and Popular Culture Run-D.M.C.'s 1984 Debut Benefits from Restorative Treatment on Mobile Fidelity's 180g SuperVinyl 33RPM LP: Limited to 3,000 Numbered Copies, Includes New Liner Notes 1/2" / 15 IPS analog master to DSD 256 to analog console...
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CLPPNG is the debut album from LA based rap trio, clipping. for Sub Pop Records. Blending precise, quick fire vocals with caustic burst of noise, clipping. are classic west coast rap music from the tradition where sounding different wasn't cause for fear....
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Audiopile Review: F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said: “there are no second acts in American lives.” What’s less well known is that this statement caused a portal to open in the spacetime continuum. An outlandishly robed gentleman stepped out of said vortex and handed Fitzgerald a drink. “Hold my beer”, said...
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Vince Staples’ Dark Times serves as the Long Beach rapper’s sixth studio album and is a snapshot of Staples presently: on top of the world on the surface, but reality might be trickier. Throughout the album’s thirteen tracks, he grapples with life’s heaviness, all while understanding what the gravity of...
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In the early 1990s gangsta rap was becoming more popular. KRS-One took to the mic and continued to write socially conscious raps resulting in the hard-hitting 1992 album Sex and Violence which would be the fifth and final studio album under the Boogie Down Productions name. Produced by KRS-One, Pal...
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In 1996, after 14 years in the game that started with Too $hort and Freddy B selling tapes out of the trunk of their car in East Oakland, Too $hort announced he would be retiring. On May 21, 1996, Too $hort released his 10th studio album Gettin' It with the...
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Audiopile Review: The hip-hop underground has arguably never been healthier. If you’re prepared to dig, a sound that mixes the rough sophistication of early-90s boom bap with the bookish abstraction of early-noughties indie rap is everywhere. And it’s proliferating through a network of here-today-gone-tomorrow vinyl releases. You could go crazy...
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Audiopile Review: The way we look back on musical phenomena does not always reflect the reality of those phenomena in their time. On various levels, there’s something of a trip-hop revival happening. But said revival (bless it) concentrates largely on Portishead-lite VOCAL trip-hop. It’s less well remembered that, in the...
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Lupe Fiasco's latest album Samurai delves deep into personal reflections, which is a departure from his usual repertoire. Exploring his experiences as an artist, Lupe weaves narratives of a battle rapper's journey through career highs and lows. Produced entirely by...
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Celebrating the 30th anniversary of Beastie Boys’ multiplatinum album, III Communication, this limited-edition deluxe reissue is a rare version of the album that was originally released as a limited run in 2009. Long out-of-print and sought after by fans and collectors, this 3 LP set is pressed on 180g vinyl,...
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Ol’ Burger Beats’ phenomenal 2024 album, 74: Out of Time, takes on a new life with this fully instrumental release that puts the spotlight on the Norwegian producer and his crew of acclaimed local jazz composers and musicians. Stripped of its vocal guests, the album transforms into a beat tape-meets-jazz...
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Pressed on tri-color double vinyl in gatefold jacket with numbered OBI, includes lyrics. The Jungle Brothers' 1988 debut, Straight Out The Jungle, was important for many reasons. It was sloppy and goofy but had moments of real focus and social consciousness. It was a true "kitchen sink" record, that caught...
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Introducing the third volume of the legendary collaboration series, "Trillstatik," by dynamic duo Bun B & Statik Selektah. Recorded live in New York City on December 20th 2023, this album encapsulates the essence of hip-hop's raw vitality and timeless appeal. In this new installment, Bun B's unmistakable Southern swagger intertwines...
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Following their 2020 collaboration on "Real Bad Boldy", prolific Detroit rapper Boldy James and LA producer Real Bad Man are back at it with their new album "Killing Nothing". Picking up right where they left off, the two are creating a music score to a gritty, grimy and filthy street...
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Twenty-five years ago on July 2nd,1996 the sophomore follow-up to the undisputed classic Illmatic was titled It Was Written, and in contrast to the urban bleakness of his debut, the second album had Nas dipping his toes into the world of mafioso rap. Amidst production from heavy hitters like Trackmasters,...
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Giants Of The Fall is the highly anticipated debut collaboration between Guilty Simpson and Kong The Artisan. Detroit legend Guilty Simpson needs no introduction - he has already cemented his legacy with his collaborations with J Dilla. "Giants Of The Fall" finds Guilty Simpson at his lyrical peak and at...
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Pete Rock was raised in Mount Vernon, but his face belongs on Mount Rushmore. The Chocolate Boy Wonder perfected an art form, inspired millions, and soundtracked a generation. By contrast, Teddy Roosevelt seems like a chump. This is the man who Dilla told, “I wanted to be like you.” Kanye...
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Free The Robots unveils the second installment of his tribute project to his Filipino roots. The veteran member of L.A.'s Low End Theory collective (alongside Flying Lotus, Gaslamp Killer, Daedelus, Nosaj Thing) keeps his trademark punchy drum breaks and deep bass, but this time adds 100% samples...
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Compiled by legendary producer Arthur Baker, ‘Breakers Revenge’ is a near-definitive collection of original Funk, Soul, Latin, Disco and Electro classic tracks from 1970-1984. These tracks, a combination of classics and obscurities, have all since become legendary to Breakdancers everywhere. First played at South Bronx block parties, community halls and...
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Overmono first performed their version of The Streets’ seminal “Turn The Page” at the 2022 edition of Lost Village Festival to a rapturous response. Hailed by Rolling Stone UK as a "glitchy techno banger”, it has since grown into a word-of-mouth phenomenon and a pinnacle moment in the duo’s critically...
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Originally, Voodoo hit store shelves on January 25th 2000, just a few weeks after the New Year celebrations to end them all. But the first great album of the new millennium was born in the 1990s, and its muggy grooves capture the sound of premillennial anxiety. Now finally reissued in...
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Blending hip-hop with traditional soul and jazz vocal stylings, neo soul singer-songwriter Erykah Badu took the music world by storm with her 1997 debut album Baduizm. Politically and socially engaged, Badu drew flattering comparisons to music luminaries and evident influences like Billie Holiday and Nina Simone. Baduizm rose all the...
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Audiopile Review: Look, we know better than to ignore anything that DJ Python's Worldwide Unlimited imprint gets its hands on. In this case, it's Jawnino's debut mixtape, 40, the latest project to spring from the post-Hype Williams UK scene. Combining the ambient-leaning, heady production we've heard from acts like Space...
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Leaders Of The New School began recording their debut album late in 1989 under the watchful eye of Chuck D and the Bomb Squad. The result was their masterful 1991 release A Future Without A Past. The group's members, Charlie Brown, Dinco D, Cut Monitor Milo & Busta Rhymes complement...
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The underground hip-hop collective Griselda has long established itself as a go-to source for the classic hardcore sound of 90s hip-hop artists like Mobb Deep and Raekwon, and unrelentingly gritty boom-bap production, and Benny The Butcher is one of the group's most proficient contributors. Now signed to Def Jam, Benny...
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Memphis Rap legend Project Pat released his third studio album Layin' Da Smack Down in 2002 on CD and Cassette via Loud/Columbia/Hypnotize Minds. Following up Mista Don't Play, Project Pat spits rapid-fire street tales of the dirty south over DJ Paul and Juicy J's signature Three 6 Mafia bangin' 808...
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Audiopile Review: In 2007, the Parisian-based producer Onra seemingly appeared out of nowhere with his debut album, Chinoiseries. It was instantly beloved, spawning two sequels, a host of imitators, and would go on to become an early milestone in the so-called “lo-fi” beats movement. All three volumes eventually went OOP,...
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Ghetto Pop Life is Danger Mouse’s first full length album on Lex and a hip hop classic, harking back to the sound of the early 90s East Coast and resurrecting Brooklyn’s most soulful thug MC, Jemini The Gifted One. Incorporating a full church choir on the title track, Danger Mouse...
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The dynamic duo of genre-agnostic producer Danger Mouse and rapper Jemini The Gifted One finally reunite for the long (long) awaited sequel to their beloved 2003 collaboration Ghetto Pop Life. Cut from sessions that supposedly took place mere months after Pop Life took off in underground hip hop circles,...
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AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted is the debut studio album by American rapper Ice Cube, released on May 18, 1990, by Priority Records. It was his first solo album, after an acrimonious split from his former group N.W.A. Primarily produced by Public Enemy's production team The Bomb Squad, the album was a...
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Ghost In The Tapes is a musical project founded by Genshu Fukaya, who is behind the microphone and production and Samy Abboud, multi-instrumentalist and founder of French electronica band M.A BEAT!. The unit's creative modus operandi is based on collaboration with diverse instrumentalists and vocalists blended with ever changing production...
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Audiopile Review: Few artists better represent the current state of the ever-expanding experimental hip-hop subgenre than JPEGMAFIA. His 2018 breakthrough Veteran is already a modern classic, and his recent internet-rap dream collaboration with Danny Brown, Scaring the Hoes, was an immediate success. And then there’s his notable production credits, which...
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In listing the greatest albums in hip-hop history, one title never seems to stray from the upper echelons, no matter how many years pass: Boogie Down Productions’ undisputed classic from 1986, Criminal Minded. Released amidst a battle between BDP and MC Shan that would redefine the New York rap landscape...
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Pressed on "Mystic Eye" colored vinyl, housed in gatefold jacket. Includes liner notes featuring an interview with KRS-One. Last August marked the 50th anniversary of the birth of Hip-Hop and we continue to honor the artists and albums that had a significant impact on the culture. In partnership with Sony's...
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Previously only released on CD and cassette, Get On Down in partnership with Sony Music's CERTIFIED is proud to present for the first time on vinyl a limited edition pressing of Ghetty Green. Pressed in two limited colorways, this version is pressed on Sapphire Smoke and "Ghetty Green" double-colored vinyl...
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In contrast to their previous album, Paul's Boutique, the Beastie Boys returned somewhat stylistically to their punk roots on Check Your Head, playing their own instruments like they did on their earlier EPs. Hence, photographer Glen E. Friedman's idea to shoot photos with their instrument cases (one of which became...
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The long-awaited second album from NxWorries – the iconic duo of superstar vocalist Anderson .Paak and GRAMMY Award-winning beatmaker and producer Knxwledge. 8 years after their breakthrough debut Yes Lawd!, NxWorries return with Why Lawd? – a winning combination of Knx’s unmistakeable beats and .Paak’s instantly recognizable vocals. This time,...
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Charles Hicks, a.k.a. Charizma was from the San Jose suburb of Milpitas, 16 years old when he hooked up with 19-year-old Chris Cut, the soon-to-be Peanut Butter Wolf. Fast forward three years or so, past a few demo tapes and a few shows. Charizma and Peanut Butter Wolf are now...
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Audiopile Review: Well, shit. Didn’t see this one coming. A reissue of Dälek’s 1998 debut, the industrial-rap milestone Negro Necro Nekros, now expanded to a 2xLP set with unreleased demos and outtakes! For the uninitiated, Dälek was a New Jersey-based duo, made up of the MC Dälek and producer Oktopus....
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