RAP & HIP-HOP
Smokers Delight
Album DescriptionThis is quality dub with a generous topping of bass and lashings of pure melody. ‘Smokers Delight’ captures the essence of chilling out. A TVT Records release…. More >> Smokers Delight »
Collision Course
Album DescriptionMTV Ultimate Mash-Ups is one of the biggest musical events in years, premiering on MTV with a show featuring the multi-platinum Linkin Park, the biggest contemporary rock band in the world, joining forces with the multi-platinum Jay-Z, one of the biggest stars in hip-hop. Mash-Ups brings together artists from different genres to seamlessly... »
Whitey Ford Sings the Blues
Amazon.comWhen you think about it, House of Pain really were ahead of their time. Tracks like “Jump Around” may have been light on the content side, but they delivered in the production department–they played with sounds in the same way that Missy Elliott and Timbaland have popularized, and they crossed over to a rock... »
Collision Course
Album DescriptionMTV Ultimate Mash-Ups is one of the biggest musical events in years, premiering on MTV with a show featuring the multi-platinum Linkin Park, the biggest contemporary rock band in the world, joining forces with the multi-platinum Jay-Z, one of the biggest stars in hip-hop. Mash-Ups brings together artists from different genres to seamlessly... »
Sex Packets
Amazon.comThis huge, cartoonish Californian crew, helmed by concept-man Shock-G, seized on the ultra-bassy funk woob-woob of Parliament-Funkadelic as the platform for its ensemble tomfoolery. At its best, it’s inspired, daffy give-and-take that you can shake your rump to, especially on the hits “Doowutchalike” and “The Humpty Dance” and the ridiculous aquatic hip-hop fantasia “Underwater... »
3 Years 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life of–
Amazon.comWith their feel-good humanism, uniquely rural perspective, and melodic blend of funk and rap, Arrested Development seemed like the next big thing in 1992. The group hailed from Atlanta, which was not then a capital of hip-hop and R&B, and this, their debut recording, won the Village Voice’s Pazz & Jop critics poll. Speech,... »