Style: Hip Hop Anthems

Format: 12"
Label: WB (US)

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+

Seminal Native Tongues shizzle.

Taking Planet Rock to another level.

And then there's the non-LP track Promo No. 2

With a young Q-Tip (before "Travels") rapping over Otis' Tramp!!

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Style: Afro Cosmic Rap

Format: 12"
Label: Tommy Boy

Year: 1992

Condition: NM/VG stapler holes

Cover says NEW HOUSE MIXES.

Cover knows shit! It's the italian Afro-Cosmic mixes.

Sampling Will Powers' Adeventures and beats at 105!

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Style: Conscious Rap

Format: LP
Label: Def Jam (EU)

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/NM including printed OIS

One of the best Rap records ever! EU-OG first press.

I miss these days when artists had something to say...

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Style: Experimental Pop

Format: LP
Label: DGC (US)

Year: 1996

Condition: NM/VG+

I grabbed the Organix album when it came out and knew: these dudes will record only this one album or go a long way. I'm happy they did! Illadelph Halflife is their opus magnum and a holy grail to many. When Hip Hop sucked in 96 they gave us What They Do!!! TOP copy here. Crispy clean vinyl and labels. Cover shows light corner wear top left and is close to NM too.

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Style: Funk / Gangster Rap

Format: 12"
Label: Sire

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+

On the Iceberg album Ice-T raps over a War Sample.

On this 12" War just play their song and ice cold Tracey raps over it.

To my knowledge this was a novelty and might have paved the way for

projects like Guru's Jazzmatazz or The Heavy Rhyme Experience ...

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Style: Golden Age Hip Hop

Format: LP
Label: Hollywood Basic

Year: 1994

Condition: NM/NM

Like new copy of this holy grail by Pharoahe Monch and Prince Po.

Immaculate quality too! For the museum... 

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Style: Drum & Bass

Format: 12"
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1996

Condition: NM/VG+

Massive energy bursts when Dillinja sets Jeru on a double time trip. 

This 10" is single sided, but what a side that is ...

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Style: Unreal Hip Hop

Format: LP
Label: 4th & Bway (UK)

Year: 1993

Condition: VG+/VG

When this came out it had the same effect on me as 3 Feet High And Rising or 36 Chambers. Four guys giving a shit about the rest, just doing their thing regardless of commercial trends. Massive record!! Vinyl shows a couple of fine hairlines. Clean labels. Cover shows creasing at the open seam.

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Style: Conscious

Format: 12"
Label: Tommy Boy (Ger)

Year: 1991

Condition: VG+/VG+

It's Saturday folks. Everybody up on the floor when De La proclaim the fun!

The Disco Fever Remix transforms Evil Vibrations into Pure Bliss!

And have you ever heard Hip Deep House instead of mundane Hip House?

Well listen to the Morales mix!!

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Style: when Conscious was born

Format: 12"
Label: BCM (Ger)

Year: 1989

Condition: VG+/VG+

No words needed for this flashlight in a dark cellar! 

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Style: Conscious 2.0

Format: 2LP
Label: Interscope (EU)

Year: 2000

Condition: NM/NM

Like new copy of Jurassics 2nd.

Mad hits included. Insert too. 

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Style: Southernplayalistic

Format: LP
Label: LaFace (US)

Year: 1996

Condition: NM/NM

Evrybody - throw your hands in the air!

Their 2nd album aka their masterpiece.

If you don't believe me, ask Jazzy Belle. 

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Style: Electro Rap

Format: 12"
Label: Celuloid

Year: 1983

Condition: M/VG corner cut

Mad funky Electro Rap outta NYC. Well almost - the complete rhythm track was recorded on Supersempfft's Wunderwerke equipment in Wächtersbach, Germany! That's why this electro is so f..king organic!! Sealed copy!

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Style: Dopest Jams ever

Format: 12"
Label: Chrysalis

Year: 199?

Condition: VG+/VG+

Absolute masterclass here. Guru in his prime and Primo with exceptional skills on the SP1200 cutting that supershort Vic Juris sample to an epic beat! This seems to be a boot, but sounds very good!

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Style: Dope Jams

Format: 12"
Label: Cooltempo

Year: 1997

Condition: VG+/VG+

UK Promo of the legendary first single of their seminal Moment Of Truth album.

Comes with Instrumental and the creepy So Wassup on the flip.

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Style: Bangers!

Format: 12"
Label: EastWest (US)

Year: 1992

Condition: VG+/VG+

Golden Age Bangers produced by the legendary Eric and Parrish.

DOPEST Original plus ace Remix plus instrumentals and Jussumen on top

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Style: Hip Hop / Random Rap

Format: LP
Label: Bad Boy (not that Bad Boy)

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG+

Pretty much unknown random rap in the style of early Tuff Crew and Funky Technician era Lord Finesse. Brekbeat style production by nobody but Kenny "Dope" Gonzales. Rare!

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Style: Breakbeat / Hip Hop Instrmntl

Format: 12"
Label: Bassment

Year: 1991

Condition: VG+/VG+

Dopest wrongspeeders for the breakbeat rave!

Just hit the 45 button and slide...

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Style: Rap Classics

Format: 12"
Label: Island / 4th & Bway

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/NM

Absolute masterclass here! The epic Coldcut Remix (7:09) fills side A properly.

If you want it straight, take the album version on the flip or listen to Eric B do his thing.

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Style: Hip Hop Gems

Format: LP
Label: BCM

Year: 1988

Condition: VG+/VG+ incl. printed inner sleeve

EPMD's seminal debut including hits like You Gots To Chill, So Let The Funk Flow, It's My Thing, Because I'm Housin' and the title track Strictly Business. Vinyl shows surface scuffs but plays great. 

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Style: Swiss Boogie Rap

Format: 7"
Label: Blow Up

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+  

Seldom seen Boogie Rap auf deutsch AND

Schwyzerdütsch on the flip being the more interesting one

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Style: Graffitti Funk

Format: 12"

Label: Celluloid

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+ cut corner

Music by the Clash. Raps by the graffiti god - Futura 2000.

Backed by Fab Five Freddy and legend Dondi. 

Such a DAMN BANGER! 

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Style: Mash-Up Excellence

Format: 7"
Label: Soul Mates Records

Year: 2020

Condition: M/M generic cover

Amerigo Gazaway clashing the godfathers for an incredibly tight jam. One of two hits from the album (fortunately both on 7" so I skipped the mediocre rest)

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Style: Hassell Rap

Format: 12"
Label: WB (US)

Year: 1994

Condition: NM/NM

Discovering Jon Hassell made a Hip Hop record is one of the BIGGER surprises in my life.

Of course it's good. Fourth World Fat Beats - WTF!

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Style: Freestyle Hits

Format: 12"
Label: Zyx

Year: 1986

Condition: VG+/VG+

Incredible Post "Holiday" (Madonna) Boogie / Frestyle jam.

"New York Songstress Takes The U.K. Dance Scene By Storm"

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Style: Visionary Rap

Format: 12"
Label: Beggars Banquet

Year: 1985

Condition: VG+/VG+

High energy Post Punk RAP action by this Ike Yard offshoot featuring the almighty Rammellzee. What happens on Exterior Street might be the blueprint for the Def Jux mindstate!!

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Style: Conscious Kings

Format: 12"
Label: Def Jam

Year: 1989

Condition: VG+/VG+ inaudible scuffs

Public Enemy doin the right thing on their first single from Fear Of A Black Planet. A seminal Bomb Squad production clocking in at 106 BPM at your desired dancefloor.

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Style: Raw Energy Rap

Format: 12"
Label: Def Jam

Year: 1989

Condition: VG+/VG+

There was nothing - I repeat NOTHING! like this in '89.

It is actually so good that Pharoahe Monch covered it

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Style: Raw Rap Monsters

Format: 12"
Label: MoWax

Year: 1998

Condition: NM/VG+

Two SICK cuts from his 1998 album on Mo Wax.

Raw energy monsters that might have influenced Edan

as the Beauty and The Beat has a quite similar vibe...

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Style: RAP!

Format: LP
Label:  4th & Broadway

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/NM

Like new copy of this HOLY GRAIL in Hip Hop. An all killer album. PERIOD. I don't mind what people say about Eric B. As a DJ (he's a savage on prodution) but for real, how many MCs have Rakim's class? Yellow labels.  Matrix #: A-1 BWAY-4005-A HERbiE JR :^)

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Style: Random Rap

Format: LP
Label: Up & Down (Ger)

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+

Are you too getting wet hands when you discover Paul C's name on a back cover? And you can clearly hear his production style here. 

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Style: Oldschool Rap

Format: 12"
Label: Newtown Music

Year: 1987

Condition: VG+/VG+

Oldschool Rap with a country sample?

No that is impossible!

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Style: Oldschool Rap

Format: 12"
Label: B-Boy Records

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG corner cut

ODDEST oldschool action that sounds as if it were a recent release. 

Just check BABS!!

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Style: Ruff'n'Ready Boom Bap

Format: CD
Label: KIXX

Year: 1995

Condition: M/NM sealed

Completely overlooked Ragga infused Boom Bap gems from 95.

CD only release - including INSTRUMENTALS!!

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Style: Golden Age Rap

Format: 2LP
Label: Elektra (Boot?)

Year: 1993

Condition: VG+/VG+  

This raw, funky, and highly energetic Hip Hop masterpiece paved the way for the Wu Tang Clan's debut coming half a year later. They had two pre album singles in '92 - Psycho and Funky Child. Both were gamechangers! When I first saw Psycho on Yo! MTV Raps i was sold... This copy here looks like a boot but sounds great.

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Style: Hip Hop

Format: LP
Label: Cold Chillin' 

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/NM

MASTERCLASS. Marley Marl writing the songs for the Biz, Big Daddy Kane, Heavy D,

Master Ace, Kool G Rap, Tragedy, Roxanne Shante, Craig G, ... LIKE NEW COPY!

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Style: Boom Bap

Format: 12"
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1996

Condition: NM/VG+

The lost Buckwild remix. I have no clue how this was lost. But someone must have found that most excellent dark beat so it was used on this bootleg. Soundquality is ace!

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Style: Old School Rap / DUB

Format: 12"
Label: Channel

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+

Rockmaster Scott rules - wether you're cruising through Vice City listening to Fresh FM

or dancing your way through the 10 and a half minute long Studio 54 remix ...

Breakdancers please raise the roof for the instrumental B2

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Style: Old School Rap

Format: 12"
Label: B-Boy Records

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG corner cut

Shame is successfully rapping over an ultrawack rework of JBs Cold Sweat - played on the cheapest keayboard around. It's actually fantastic!

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Style: Funk / Rap

Format: 7"
Label: Sugar Hill

Year: 1980

Condition: VG+/VG+  

Superfunky Disco Rap in nicest Sugar Hill style.

Everybody up on the floor please!

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Style: Old School Rap / Funk Rap

Format: LP
Label: Island

Year: 1982

Condition: VG+/VG+

Beep Beep! This superrappin' sensation is still so fresh! When Rap sounded like proper Boogie Funk ;) Bambatta, Flash, T-Ski Valley & Bon Rock are my faves on this legendary compilation.

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