Cut it up fresh! Reload your scratch arsenal with this potent selection of skipless sounds, phrases, and drums from the Skratcher crew. This special edition 45 is actually a collaboration of the LA (Lost Tone Pros + Carpal Cutters) and Vancouver (Wundrkut, Mike MSA & Paul Skratch) branch of Skratcher and features custom sounds dug up by the…
S.V. on some love shit… Collectable, limited edition seven-inch pressing of Slum Village’s classic “Fall In Love”… easy contender for best tune in the Slum catalog (Dilla s too). T3 and Baaatin (“Fuck this rap shit, I listen to classical!”) hold down the verses, with Jay Dee on chorus duty, delivering one of his signature melodic hooks…
Fresh off high-profile remixes and collaborations with A Tribe Called Quest, Janet Jackson and The Pharcyde, Jay Dee aka J Dilla was eager to draw attention to the sound of his hometown. He teamed up with childhood friends T3 and Baatin from the Conant Gardens neighborhood of northeast Detroit to form Slum Village. After opening for…
So much drama surrounded Slum Village s debut album: first they were dropped from Interscope, then Vol. 2 was released as a Euro import boot, then they were picked up by Goodvibe, which put it out officially but later folded. The music was no less controversial – Swizz Beats keyboards were the rule and heads…
This is how we chill. 93 Til Infinity is easily Souls Of Mischief s most iconic recognizable track, but have you heard the remix? Dinked Records does us all a favor by pressing up the slept-on A-Plus remix on 45 for the first time. The beat is certainly more laidback, but that classic East Oakland flow…
Dun-dunna…..dunna. Is there a better known, one-bar loop in hip-hop history? We think not. With that simple, five note bassline, Special Ed kicks off his most classic cut, “I Got It Made.” Sure, this track seems antiquated in a day when rappers rhyme about rocking whips on their wrists, but Special Ed laced this song with one…
Debut album from Special Ed first time vinyl reissue! Hip Hop had already existed for a decade by 1989 yet the young genre still had a lot of walking to do before it started running. Though only 16 at the time, Special Ed was a gifted kid with some of the swaggiest raps well before…
black vinyl pressing RSD version w exclusive Lenticular cover (eyes have 3D image) edition of 3,000 Sony Pictures Entertainment and Republic Records have teamed up for an official vinyl pressing of Into The Spiderverse Soundtrack, including the hit song Sunflower by Post Malone & Swae Lee, as well as contributions from Nicki MInaj, Anuel AA, Juice WRLD, Lil Wayne…
Exclusive TTL colored vinyl pressing! How was this even possible? Pretty much ALL the hip-hop greats spitting fire about one brand of malt liquor, and Biggie goes as far as saying: “Other brews, I’m not loving’ ya!” I mean, who was booking all these guys for St.Ides? That person could probably get Frank Ocean to…
Exclusive TTL colored vinyl pressing! How was this even possible? Pretty much ALL the hip-hop greats spitting fire about one brand of malt liquor, and Biggie goes as far as saying: “Other brews, I’m not loving’ ya!” I mean, who was booking all these guys for St.Ides? That person could probably get Frank Ocean to…
ALL YOU GOT TO DO NOW EXPRESS YOURSELF! Not to be confused with the Dr. Dre album Compton: The Album this is the actual soundtrack to the film Straight Outta Compton which of course Dre had a major hand in regardless. The film, as most Rap fans should have seen by now, shows how one…
89tec9 archives on throwback tape! Back before the internet, college radio was your gateway for underground ish. Whether it be Punk, Electronica, or Hip Hop, if you lived in a slightly populous town with a decent college you can bet your dials were turned onto one of those stations at some point during the week….
Always get a random check when I rock the stubble, annoyedly expresses Himanshu Suri aka Heems (yes, formerly of Das Racist) on T5, the single from the Queens native s collaborative debut with London s Riz MC (yes, from HBO s The Night Of). Collectively known as Swet Shop Boys, Redinho rounds out the group…
Tall Black Guy, raised in the Detroit on a healthy diet of Motown, jazz, and early hip-hop, reinterprets Timbaland & Jay-Z s 2003 classic Dirt Off Your Shoulder, and although we stand by the indisputable original, TBG s snappy, soulful take adds a brand new dimension to the song. Includes the instrumental. green vinyl music…
Wide ranging album of material inspired by The Alchemist and Oh No s contributions to the Grand Theft Auto V score. The two producers reached beyond hip hop to work with a variety artists for Welcome To Los Santos. They took pieces of the score for the game and produce tracks around those samples. Their…
Before we even get to how really, really, ridiculously good the production on Off The Books is, the way Big Pun kicks off the song is just legendary. It s an early on-record appearance from Pun, and the single exposed the late rapper to a wider audience as he so deserved. It s BARZ galore with,…