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Country Grammar [Explicit Content]
Regular price $29.00 Save $-29.00Nelly Country Grammar on 2LP
Respect The Classics Campaign Reissue
Country Grammar is the nine times platinum 2000 debut from Grammy award-winning rapper Nelly often said to have officially put St. Louis hip-hop on the map. One of the best-selling rap albums of all-time, Country Grammar delivered multiple chart dominating pop-rap hits including "Country Grammar (Hot Shit)," "E.I.," "Ride Wit Me" and "Batter Up" and introduced slang like "derrty" and "thurr" into the everyday vernacular. Featuring guest appearances by Cedric the Entertainer and Lil Wayne. Continuing with its Respect The Classics campaign, UMe will be reissuing Country Grammar back on double vinyl just in time for it's 15th anniversary!
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LP1
1. St. Louie
2. Greed, Hate, Envy
3. Country Grammar (Hot Shit)
4. Steal The Show
5. Ride Wit Me
6. E.I. 4:45
7. Thicky Thick Girl
8. For My
LP2
1. Utha Side
2. Tho Dem Wrappas
3. Wrap Sumden
4. Batter Up
5. Never Let 'Em C U Sweat
6. Luven Me
MAN VS MACHINE
Regular price $40.00 Save $-40.002 x LP pressing on 140g vinyl. From it's dramatic intro, "Release Date," to the thundering West Coast march "Enemies," Xzibit's fourth and mythical album, Man vs. Machine produced by no less than Dr Dre, spent a total of 19 weeks on the "Billboard" 200 chart and was certified gold only a month after it's release with over 500,000 copies sold. The legendary album that features a heavyweight cast of featurings with the likes of Snoop Dogg, Eminem, M.O.P, Nate Dogg and Dr Dre himself is now available. Open Bar Entertainment. 2022.
Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine [Explicit Content]
Regular price $33.00 Save $-33.00Double white colored vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Includes booklet. Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine is the sixth studio album by hip hop boy band Brockhampton, originally released in 2021.
Grandmaster Flash Presents: Salsoul Jam 2000 (25th Anniversary Edition)
Regular price $29.00 Save $-29.002pacalypse Now [Explicit Content]
Regular price $42.00 Save $-42.00Double 180gm audiophile vinyl LP pressing. 2Pacalypse Now is the 1991 debut studio album by 2Pac. The album is 2Pac's commentary on contemporary social issues facing American society such as racism, police brutality, poverty, black on black crime, and teenage pregnancy. It featured three singles; "Brenda's Got a Baby", "Trapped", and "If My Homie Calls". The album was initially released on T.N.T. Recordings and Interscope Records, which at the time was distributed through Eastwest Records America and Atlantic Records. Following Shakur's death, Amaru Entertainment (established by his mother Afeni Shakur) obtained the rights to this album. The album generated significant controversy stemming from then-U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle's public criticism after Ronald Ray Howard murdered a Texas state trooper and his defense attorney claimed he was influenced by 2Pacalypse Now and it's strong theme of police brutality. Quayle made the statement, "There's no reason for a record like this to be released. It has no place in our society."
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Under Construction
Regular price $36.00 Save $-36.00ouble vinyl LP pressing. Under Construction is the fourth studio album by the rapper Missy Elliott, originally released in 2002. The album was primarily produced by Timbaland, with additional production by Craig Brockman, Nisan Stewart, Errol "Poppi" McCalla and Elliott herself.
Tougher Than Leather
Regular price $32.00 Save $-32.00Unconceivable, unbelievable, grammar like a hammer information receivable!" It all comes back to the hip-hop pioneers Run DMC! Tougher Than Leather is the fourth studio album & was produced by the group members themselves, Davy D. and Rick Rubin. Features the hits "Run's House," "Mary Mary" & "I'm Not Going Out Like That.
3 Years 5 Months & 2 Days
Regular price $39.00 Save $-39.00Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS & 2 DAYS IN THE LIFE OF... was the debut album by American hip hop group Arrested Development, released in 1992. The album's chart success was the beginning of the popularization of Southern hip hop. 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS & 2 DAYS IN THE LIFE OF... stood in stark contrast to the gangsta rap that ruled the hip hop charts in 1992, it's focus on spirituality, peace and love. It was voted as the best album of the year in the Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll.
Back In Black
Regular price $35.00 Save $-35.00New LP from Cypress Hill, Back in Black, is Cypress's 10th Studio album. Cypress Hill is arguably one of the most successful Hip-hop of all time celebrating 30 years of Non-stop touring. They are the biggest selling latin Hip-hop group in the world first hip-hop group to have sold multi-platinum
Special Herbs 9 & 0
Regular price $32.00 Save $-32.00MF Doom Special Herbs Volume 9 And 0 on 2LP
Finally, New (Coke Bottle Clear) [Explicit Content]
Regular price $25.00 Save $-25.00For anyone who's been feeling suffocated by the sameness that's been afflicting hip-hop and pop – where a small handful of ideas gets recycled endlessly, and a spin through the big new-release playlists quickly devolves into a blur – They Hate Change's Jagjaguwar debut, Finally, New lives up to its name. Finally, a record that can satisfy the geeky headphone trainspotters and the hedonistic ass-shakers, too. Finally, producers who refuse to settle for making drag-and-drop beats. Finally, rappers who aren't afraid of actually sticking out from the crowd and saying something new, and who embody the classic quote from Run of Run-DMC that, "The only thing rap music is – there is no music to rap. We just rap over whatever we want."
The album's lead single, "From the Floor" shows off Vonne and Dre's talents to organically connect disparate influences, fusing icy UK drum & bass breaks with Miami bass bounce, layering on Dirty-South-mixtape-style raps, and dousing the whole thing in spacy psychedelia worthy of Can. "Blatant Localism" spotlights the pair's verbal teamwork, as they trade lines taking aim at style-deficient hypebeast rappers over a pixelated beat, landing on something like turn-of-the-millennium IDM, but with a lot more shit talk. The coolly frenetic "X-Ray Spex" infuses jungle with propulsive synthesizer ambience. And they're as daring with their lyrics as they are with their beats: on "Little Brother," Dre draws an emotionally complex portrait of the hood economics other rappers shallowly glamorize, while "Some Days I Hate My Voice" is Vonne's speaker-knocking ode to androgynous gender euphoria, complete with shout-outs to 100 gecs and 60's trans soul star Jackie Shane.
Finally, New is what a truly post-genre musical landscape is supposed to be: building deep connections that transcend outdated distinctions between them, spilling over with the joy of exploration and possibility, and daring other artists to think broader, go deeper, take bigger risks. Let the rest of them keep playing by the old rules – They Hate Change will keep changing the game.
1. Stuntro
2. Breathing
3. Who Next?
4. Reversible Keys (ft. Vritra)
5. Blatant Localism
6. Coded Language (Interlude)
7. 1000 Horses (ft. Sarge)
8. Little Brother
9. Some Days I Hate My Voice
10. Certi
11. Perm
12. X-Ray Spex
13. From The Floor (ft. DJ Gay-Z)
B.O.A.T.A. 2# Metime [Explicit Content]
Regular price $26.00 Save $-26.00Dead
Regular price $26.00 Save $-26.00Young Fathers are three young men from Edinburgh, Liberia and Nigeria. Their journey has taken them through various incarnations and styles but they are still only in their mid 20s. Following on from the acclaimed EPs Tape One and Tape Two, their debut album Dead comes as an intimate epic, thirty six minutes. You can call it hip hop or rap, but Alloysious, G and Kayus sing more than they chat. There's the suburbs and the cities of Grey Britain in there, but also Africa. There's an obsession with the surface texture of sound, the psychedelicist's love of noise. Equally, the deep, warm, maternal reassurance of bass. But the band also craft hook after hook, instant kid-melodies, piling them up on great reefs of backing vocals. Above all, what they insist on is that their music has to mean something, emotionally. If this is a wake, it's a celebratory one, full of heart.
Jp4
Regular price $21.00 Save $-21.00With a name as bold as Junglepussy and an artistry to match, Shayna McHayle is New York's premier rap rule-breaker. Honest, funny, and freaky, her rhymes span from the explicitly audacious to the tenderly relatable. Her unfailingly confident flow accentuates her roots in Brooklyn (her parents are from Trinidad and Jamaica), and her bars land with cool impact. In the universe that is Junglepussy, relationships are complicated, vegetables are magic, and an excellently delivered flex on an ex is one punchline away.
Junglepussy's fourth album Jp4 follows 2018's Jp3, and is for her an exercise in grounding. "The number three is very powerful for manifestation," she explains, referencing her acclaimed third album and what it's meant to her. "Number four though is really securing the foundation." Jp4 is Junglepussy's stellar next phase. With contributions from vocalist Ian Isiah, rapper Gangsta Boo, and producers Dave Sitek and Nick Hook, Jp4 is Junglepussy ascended. After almost a decade of experimenting, Junglepussy feels she's finally living up to her name. "From the genesis of Junglepussy, I struggled with my sound, because what I was doing at the time, I knew it wasn't really, really, really what I wanted to do," she says. "But I just didn't know how to get there. Jp4 really sounds like and feels like I got there."
On album opener "Bad News," she sings from a welcome new place, introducing a soulful, haunting voice that mirrors the song's title. The noisy, interstellar melodies that guide "Telepathy" and "What You Want" are the album's trippy, experimental gifts.
What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down?
Regular price $30.00 Save $-30.00Legendary hip hop group Public Enemy returns to Def Jam - a cultural institution that they helped build - for their first release for the label in over two decades with What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down? The loaded 17-track affair boasts a powerful lineup of guests including Nas, YG, Rapsody, DJ Premier, Black Thought, Questlove, Cypress Hill, Run-DMC, Ice-T, PMD, George Clinton, Daddy-O, Jahi, The Impossebulls, Mark Jenkins, S1Ws Pop Diesel, James Bomb and Mike D and Ad-Rock of Beastie Boys. The album is led by the single "Fight the Power: Remix 2020," re-conceptualized by Public Enemy with Nas, Rapsody, Black Thought, YG, Jahi and Questlove for the 2020 BET Awards in June 2020, and officially released as a single along with the album announcement. It also includes Public Enemy's recent single, "State of the Union (STFU)," produced by DJ Premier. The track holds nothing back as it calls out Donald Trump and his destructive reign.