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Music : Used Music & More : Imports : Rap & Hip-Hop
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UK two track CD pressing of the first single lifted from the Grammy Award-winner's 2008 album Year Of The Gentleman. 'Closer', written by Ne-Yo and produced by Stargate, is an electro-excursion in the glam of Euro-disco and was inspired from his time hanging out in London clubs. Fed up with the sloppiness of current R&B, Ne-Yo has returned with a suite of songs that shows exactly what he means by class. Features two versions of 'Closer': Album Version and Agent X Bassline Remix. Mercury.
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The first human beatbox in the rap world, and still the best of all time, Doug E. Fresh amazed audiences with his note-perfect imitations of drum machines. 12-track album originally released in 1988. Danya Records.
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2006 release from this Australian Hip Hop outfit. Hilltop Hoods have been performing live and writing Hip Hop music for over ten years. On the stage, Hilltop Hoods consisting of MC's Suffa, Pressure and DJ Debris, bring their music alive with their warm-blooded rhymes and electric stage presence Their trademark combination of Jazz influenced beats, solid lyrics, tight flows and a localized viewpoint is why so many people are taking about Hilltop Hoods and why they won't be labeled up-and-coming for much longer. Obese.
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UK 'Best Of' for the alternative rap act & their frontman Speech. Part of the EMI Gold series. 18 tracks including the bonus cuts 'Natural'(unplugged) & 'People Everyday'(unplugged). 2001 release.
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23 track album featuring influential hip hop artists like Rakim, KRS-One & De La Soul reinterpreting tracks from the McLaren's original 'Duck Rock' album, plus the original versions of cuts from the record. Includes 'Buffalo Gals', 'Hey DJ', 'Do You Like Scratchin'', 'She's Looking Like A Hobo' and 'World Famous'. 1998 Virgin Records release.
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2007 release, the expanded 20th Anniversary edition of the multi-platinum, ground-breaking album from N.W.A. featuring five bonus tracks. Expanded to include tributes from Snoop Dogg, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Mack 10 and W.C.
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Freddie Foxxx has been murdering other people's tracks for years with his "fake pimp free flow" (in the words of another hip-hop prophet, Jeru the Damaja). After paying all possible dues over the course of a decade in hip-hop (he's rolled with Eric B & Rakim, Gang Starr, and M.O.P.), he's finally releasing his own album, an incisive epic that will leave many running for cover. Never one to pull punches, the man also known as Bumpy Knuckles rips into the rap industry. His infamous pair of nines are in full effect from beginning to end of this relentless album, blasting every weak link in the rap game, especially on the title track. But there's method to his madness: this articulate, self-proclaimed "intelligent thug" wants to change the racist nature of the hip-hop industry, which he analyses on "MCs Come and MCs Go." Industry Shakedown boasts straight, brilliant lyrics from beginning to end, and invigorating hard-core production from the likes of DJ Premier, Pete Rock, and Foxxx himself. Remember when hip-hop was dangerous? When it challenged the status quo? Freddie Foxxx does. --Lizz Mendez Berry
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Run-DMC's 1986 rap masterpiece, Raising Hell, storms out of the musical gate. One of the albums that defined the transition from the old school to the new school, with its heavy rhyme sequences layered on top of drum-machine beats, and an assortment of pulse-quickening record stabs thrown in for good measure, it's relentless. The late-'80s lyricism of MCs Run and DMC is not as complex as that of today's microphone mathematicians, but that was never the point--what they lack in finesse, they more than make up in intensity, authority, and flat-out lung power. The fact that almost every line of "Peter Piper" has become the hook of another hip-hop song is a testament to the power of these originals (the "not bad meaning bad, but bad meaning good" line alone has been used in countless turntablist routines).The roots of rap/metal fusion are in here, too, with songs like "It's Tricky," "Walk this Way," and the title cut making use of distorted rock guitars and pounding drums, while "Proud to Be Black" helped launch the Afrocentric-conscious rap era of the late '80s. And "My Adidas" prefigured the brand-name fetishism that hip-hop is just beginning to get over. When it comes to beats, bumps, and b-boy bravado, there has never been anyone else like Run-DMC, and this album shows why. --Joe Schloss
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When New Jersey's Dana Owens adopted the stage moniker of Queen Latifah when she launched her rap career in 1989, she also assumed the regal bearing and flowing clothes of African royalty. Her raps not only demanded respect but also radiated an unassailable air of authority. Since then Latifah has branched out as an actress (starring in the TV sitcom Living Single), businesswoman (she co-owns Flavor Unit Management, which handles rappers like Naughty by Nature), and singer (she sings with a live jazz band on the concluding cut of a later album), but that imposing dignity remains her trump card on Black Reign, her first album for Motown after an unfriendly split with Tommy Boy. Her refusal to be pigeonholed or limited in any way is part and parcel of her demand for respect and makes her one of the most rapidly evolving artists in hip-hop. --Geoffrey Himes
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UK four track CD pressing of the first single pulled from his 2008 album Tha Carter III. Features two versions of 'Lollipop' (Main Version and UK Radio Edit) plus two versions of 'A Milli' (Album Version and Edited Album Version). Island.
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Nasir Jones made this debut album at the age of 20, already armed with the calm perceptiveness and been-there-done-that attitude of a much older ghetto vet, though sometimes his inner callow youth shows itself. Illmatic is a look back at a life spent in the culture of the projects, acknowledging joy as much as pain and taking note of violence as a fact of his environment rather than a focus of his life. It's enlivened by Nas's kicky, deep-threaded multiple rhymes--you can tell he grew up listening to Mr. Magic's rap show and internalizing the secrets of everybody's flow--and by tracks from a bunch of all-stars, including the Large Professor, DJ Premier, and, most memorably, Q-Tip ("One Love"). --Douglas Wolk
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Tommy Boy. 1991.
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Remastered and Includes Two Bonus Tracks "Chin Check" and "Hello" featuring Eminem.