WEST COAST RAP&HIPHOP
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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... »
Office Space: The Motion Picture Soundtrack
Amazon.comIce Cube’s “Down for Whatever” is the highlight on Office Space’s soundtrack, a classy West Coast production with just the right proportions of laid-back groove and simmering tension. Scarface turns in a credible enough track (“No Tears”), and the Geto Boys’ impersonation of Bill Clinton at the end of “Damn It Feels Good to... »
Tupac – The Complete Live Performances
DescriptionThis special two-disc set brings together the only two live performances by Tupac Shakur that were ever filmed. The House Of Blues show from 1996 was released as a stand alone DVD last year, and is now combined in this set with the never before seen show from Club 662 in... »
Tupac Shakur – Thug Angel
DescriptionIn the $3 billion industry of hip-hop music, no one has touched as many lives with a microphone as Tupac Shakur. In this never-before-seen footage, see Tupac at seventeen, a young man at the edge of his destiny, speaking out about injustice on the streets of Oakland. See him at the brink of his... »
Regulate…G Funk Era
Album Description2007 vinyl LP repressing of the groundbreaking debut album from Warren G, originally released in 1994. Mercury.Amazon.comWarren Griffin was due some sort of notoriety ever since he introduced best friend Snoop to half-brother Dre, and thus set the stage for one of the more noteworthy musical collaborations in recent years. But who imagined... »
The Documentary
Album DescriptionTHE DOCUMENTARY, (Aftermath/G Unit/Interscope), the debut album from The Game (a/k/a Jayceon Taylor), announces the arrival of the most significant West Coast gangsta rapper since Snoop Dogg more than a decade earlier. With guest spots from 50 CENT, NATE DOGG and several others, as well as producers from DR. DRE to KANYE... »
Behind the Front
Amazon.comThe Black Eyed Peas’ debut, Behind the Front, may sound thoroughly familiar: like A Tribe Called Quest, they sprout positive, deftly delivered lyrics out of their light jazz, R&B, and funk tracks; like the Roots, this multi-ethnic outfit’s three MCs drop science in front of a live band that builds its grooves organically; and... »
Eazy-Duz-It
Album DescriptionUK two-fer combines the late gangsta rapper’s 1988 album, ‘Easy-Duz-It’ with the 1992 EP, 5150 Home 4 Tha Sick. EMI. 2002…. More >> Eazy-Duz-It »
The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory
Album Description2Pac, The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory Amazon.comFor this release, Tupac Shakur adopted the pseudonym “Makaveli” in honor of the philosopher Machiavelli, author of the devious politician’s handbook The Prince. Contractually his final effort for Death Row, it was recorded in seven days and was released on schedule in October 1996, despite... »
