Monday, August 29, 2011

Cats & Dogs (Audio CD)

Cats & Dogs
Cats & Dogs (Audio CD)
By Evidence

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Evidence presents Cats & Dogs, his highly anticipated third solo album and Rhymesayers debut. Evidence delivers like never before while maintaining his respected signature sound that earned him the title "Mr. Slow Flow." Featuring guest vocals from Raekwon, Aloe Blacc, Rakaa, Slug, Aesop Rock, Ras Kass & more as well as production from his own hand and friends Alchemist & DJ Premier, Cats & Dogs is Evidence's most cohesive solo album to date. Read more


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R U Still Down (Audio CD)

R U Still Down
R U Still Down (Audio CD)
By 2Pac

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Customer Rating: 4.4

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No Description Available
No Track Information Available
Media Type: CD
Artist: TUPAC
Title: R U STILL DOWN? (REMEMBER ME?)
Street Release Date: 11/25/1997
Domestic
Genre: RAP/HIP HOP26 cuts of "gangsta rap" that only increase in doom when you realize the guy talking it didn't live to laugh about it. Perhaps he now knows the answer to his question, "I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto," which shows up here twice. Shakur, like most hard rappers, liked to sound tough, kicking it with song titles unprintable in a family newspaper. But, underneath the braggadocio, there was fear. "Only Fear of Death," "Nothing to Lose," and "I'm Losin' It" tell a far different story than "Fake Ass Bitches." His artistry could never, however, catch up to the sad fate of his life. --Rob O'Connor Read more


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O.C.B. (Bonus CD) (Audio CD)

O.C.B. (Bonus CD)
O.C.B. (Bonus CD) (Audio CD)
By O.S.T.R.

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Saturday, August 27, 2011

Cole World: The Sideline Story (Audio CD)

Cole World: The Sideline Story
Cole World: The Sideline Story (Audio CD)
By J. Cole

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Customer tags: hip hop, 2011

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Freakdorm 3 (DVD)

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These boys know how to get their freak on.... Read more


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Measure Up (DVD)

Measure Up
Measure Up (DVD)
By Maximus

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It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back [Vinyl] (Vinyl)

It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back [Vinyl]
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back [Vinyl] (Vinyl)
By Public Enemy

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Customer Rating: 4.9

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Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Universal. 2008.It Takes a Nation of Millions was the sign that hip-hop had exploded like a grenade. A rap record as abrasive, hardcore, and eloquent as a JFK speech, the 1988 disc is one classic track after another: tense, multilayered, harmonically wild music. Chuck D. declaims like a master preacher with foil Flavor Flav's voice darting around his. They've got the desperate energy of people fighting for their lives, and everything from their pumped-up rhetoric ("Prophets of Rage") to the group's quasi-paramilitary organization to the sirens and sax squeals in nearly every track declares how urgent their mission is. It's a hugely influential album, and it still sounds fresh and frightening after all these years. --Douglas Wolk Read more


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Friday, August 26, 2011

Taggin' Up (DVD)

Taggin' Up
Taggin' Up (DVD)
By Renee Martinez

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My Will (Audio CD)

My Will
My Will (Audio CD)
By Teflon

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Funky Technician (Audio CD)

Funky Technician
Funky Technician (Audio CD)
By Lord Finesse

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Customer Rating: 4.9

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Review & Description

Explicit Version. 2008 reissue of Funky Technician, the debut album from Lord Finesse & DJ Mike Smooth, originally released on Wild Pitch Records in 1990. Production came from former label-mate DJ Premier, as well as future D.I.T.C. members Diamond D and Showbiz. In 1998, the album was selected as one of The Source Magazine's 100 Best Rap Albums.Funky Technician is great snapshot of late-1980s pop culture. Littered throughout are references to Saturday-afternoon kung-fu movies, Nintendo, Eddie Murphy, as well as a free-for-all of funky samples from the likes of James Brown (most notably on "Here I Come" and the Black Caesar loop on "Bad Mutha"), Lee Dorsey, and the Honeydrippers. On tracks like "Funky Technician" and "I Keep the Crowd Listening," the "slick brother with a fade and a half-moon" flows confident and casual over DJ Premier-produced breakbeat standards from heavily mined rap resources like the "funkiest man alive," Rufus Thomas. Finesse and DJ Mike Smooth exhaust most of their tricks two-thirds of the way through the album, but Finesse's boasting and Smooth's beats do have their place in the hip-hop history book. --Todd Levin Read more


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Thursday, August 25, 2011

Blatino Fantasy Vol. 2: AftaBurn (DVD)

Blatino Fantasy Vol. 2: AftaBurn
Blatino Fantasy Vol. 2: AftaBurn (DVD)
By Various

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Straight Outta Compton [Vinyl] (Vinyl)

Straight Outta Compton [Vinyl]
Straight Outta Compton [Vinyl] (Vinyl)
By N.W.A.

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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. Read more


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When Fish Ride Bicycles (Audio CD)

When Fish Ride Bicycles
When Fish Ride Bicycles (Audio CD)
By The Cool Kids

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The Cool Kids' irresistible, hooky rhymes and club cramming beats seamlessly bridge the old and new schools of hip hop while assuring them a sure-fire path to world-wide attention. In their short amount of time as a duo The Cool Kids have been featured in Rolling Stone, XXL, The Source, Spin, Paper Magazine, CBS News, The New Yorker, The Fader, and on the cover of The Urb. The long awaited debut full length is here! The 14-track effort features collaborations with Travis Barker, Bun B, Ghostface Killah, Mayer Hawthorne Asher Roth, as well as production credit for Pharrell Williams on the track Summer Jam . The physical release contains three bonus tracks that are only available at record stores and are not on the digital release. Full feature in Esquire, 4 out of 5 in URB, 8 out of 10 in Spin and much more press to come. The duo will be supporting the release with a full summer/fall tour. Read more


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De La Soul Is Dead (180 Gram Vinyl) (Vinyl)

De La Soul Is Dead (180 Gram Vinyl)
De La Soul Is Dead (180 Gram Vinyl) (Vinyl)
By De La Soul

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Customer Rating: 3.2

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De La Soul's second album, originally released in 1991, was initially received poorly by the press and their fans due to its immediate rejection of the 'daisy-age' image created by their debut LP. In the years since, however, it has come to be accepted as a stone classic that may even surpass the feel-good jams of Three Feet High And Rising with its expansive scope and more diverse subject matter (drug addiction, incest, poseurs, in addition to the more expected, light-hearted material). Prince Paul's production is, again, nothing short of brilliant and rappers Plug's 1, 2 and 3 bring the flow that has made them, rightfully, hip-hop legends. 180 gram vinyl reissue.De La Soul burned out on their own hype fast, and their dark, strange second album is a counter-blast to their image and hip-hop culture: perverse, dissatisfied, sometimes brilliant, sometimes out of control. Occasionally it seems mean-spirited--the single "Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey)" finds them grousing about getting deluged by demo tapes, and "Kicked Out The House" is a nasty (if very funny) parody of hip-house. But no one's ever made a rap album that sounds like this. Sickly out-of-tune loops drift in and out; songs derail themselves with loud sneers, or give way to bizarre dialogues; Posdnuos and Trugoy chant together like the words have lost all meaning. The concept that ties the disc together---an imaginary radio station called WRMS--gives it an extra kick. --Douglas Wolk Read more


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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

World Is Ours (Audio CD)

World Is Ours
World Is Ours (Audio CD)
By K-Salaam

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Illmatic [Vinyl] (Vinyl)

Illmatic [Vinyl]
Illmatic [Vinyl] (Vinyl)
By Nas

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Vinyl Classics reissue of his debut album comes as a vinyl look-a-like CD that's packaged in a die-cut see-through Slipcase. Columbia. 2005Nasir 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 Read more


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Children of God (Audio CD)

Children of God
Children of God (Audio CD)
By Hasan Salaam

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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Banging on Wax (Audio CD)

Banging on Wax
Banging on Wax (Audio CD)
By Bloods & Crips

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Genre: Soul/R&B
Media Format: Compact Disk
Rating: PA
Release Date: 12-MAR-1993 Read more


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Rolling Stoned (Audio CD)

Rolling Stoned
Rolling Stoned (Audio CD)
By Smoke Dza

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Jotting lyrics from an elevated state of mind, Smoke DZA has earned a reputation as one of Harlem's most captivating MCs. With a smoked-out dialect all his own and tongue-in-cheek rhymes, DZA has gained critical praise and landed collaborations with Curren$y, Devin The Dude, Big K.R.I.T., Yelawolf, Sean Kingston, Nipsey Hussle, Asher Roth, Kendrick Lamar, Mac Miller, and many more. On the commercial follow- up to his mixtape "George Kush Da Button: The Deluxe Edition," Smoke DZA kicks it into overdrive and takes fans on an all new adventure, proving the grass is greener on the other side. Read more


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Thee Physical (Audio CD)

Thee Physical
Thee Physical (Audio CD)
By Pictureplane

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Produced and recorded by Egedy and mixed/co-produced by Jupiter Keyes of HEALTH, Thee Physical is a celebration of human touch in a digital world. The album is also unquestionably Pictureplane's best and most assured record to date: his vocals are confident and unnervingly sexy, the instrumentation is at once both purely electronic and surprisingly human. Pictureplane has managed to make electronic music deeply emotive--a synthesis of the human and the machine both in lyrics and sound. Summer 2011 belongs to Pictureplane. Read more


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Sunday, August 21, 2011

Romantic Piano (Audio CD)

Romantic Piano
Romantic Piano (Audio CD)
By FLOYD CRAMER, LONDON POPS ORCHESTRA, GORDON LANGFORD, RONNIE PRICE, DOUGLAS GAMLEY, NICK INGMAN, JIM TYLER, HENRY MANCINI ROGER WILLIAMS

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Customer tags: gangsta rap, tea party, hip hop, gangsta

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18 GREAT SONGS INCLUDING AUTUMN LEAVES, MISTY, DANNY BOY, SEND IN THE CLOWNS, I LEFT MY HEART IN SAN FRANCISCO, THE FIRST ITME I EVER SAW YOUR FACE, THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT Read more


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Saturday, August 20, 2011

Leviathan (Break The Spell) (IMPORT ONLY) (Audio CD)

Leviathan (Break The Spell) (IMPORT ONLY)
Leviathan (Break The Spell) (IMPORT ONLY) (Audio CD)
By Scienz Of Life

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Customer tags: hip hop(6), intelligent and truthful

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Group consisting of John Robinson aka Lil Sci & Invizible Handz aka I.D. 4 Windz, who released classic indie singles on Bobitto's legendary Fondle 'Em label in mid90s as well as albums on Subverse. Artwork by Gordon of Beta Bodega Coalition Europe. Album notes: We are living in a time now where more than ever the truth is being concealed on many levels. Have you ever asked yourself why is Chris Brown and Rihanna getting more media coverage than the true details about the worlds falling economy? Or why when you turn on the news all you hear about is sex, wealth and death. Why do most rappers in the mainstream industry today feel as if they have to spread falsehoods in order to stay relevant? Or even why is it not possible for us to think outside of anything being a person place or a thing? If you are tired of legends, myths, fables and fairy tales and want the Facts beyond any doubt, then you must be ready to listen with an open heart and mind. Fear no longer Scienz of Life come to you as the Hip Hop Reformers of this day and time and are here to Break the spell of Leviathan" for it has entrapped your divine potentials and imprisoned your souls in ignorance for far too long. Wake up! Read more


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Center Stage: Turn It Up (DVD)

Center Stage: Turn It Up
Center Stage: Turn It Up (DVD)
By Rachele Brooke Smith

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Customer Rating: 4.3

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Return to the Center Stage phenomenon with new passions and partners in the amped-up, high-energy Center Stage: Turn It Up. All Kate Parker has ever wanted to do was perform with the American Ballet Academy. But when she doesn't get in, she learns that it takes more than just natural talent to succeed in the dance world. With a turn in a cutting-edge hip-hop club and the help of a handsome former hockey player-turned-dancer, she may yet manage to make her dreams come true. Peter Gallagher (TV's The O.C., Center Stage), Kenny Wormald (TV's Dancelife), Ethan Stiefel (Center Stage) and a cast of hot, up-and-coming stars rock to a new beat in this unmissable sensation! Read more


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