‘PSK we’re making that green/ People always say, “What the hell does that mean?”‘ What it means of course is that Schoolly D was bigging up his gang on one of the first gangsta records ever, thirty years ago! On the flip was the equally great Gucci Time. Yo Schoolly! What time is it? It’s about that time for MC Schoolly D to start hummin’ a rhyme, of course. Why? Because prestige hip-hop re-issue
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SCHOOLLY D: PSK (What Does It Mean)/ Gucci Time 12″ Colour vinyl re-issue (2015)
RAEKWON: Only Built For Cuban Linx (2015) ‘Purple Tape’ Watch Box
Right then – so this’ll be a re-release of the original ‘Purple Tape’ a.k.a. Raekwon’s debut LP Only Built For Cuban Linx – which in its original limited cassette form was known as ‘The Purple Tape’ as opposed to the recent Method Man single featuring Raekwon and also called The Purple Tape. Obviously – as a tape or ‘cassette’ – the original ‘Purple Tape’ came in a cassette case
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COMMON: ‘Resurrection’ 7″ (2015)
If you were to re-press a Common track on 45 – you couldn’t pick one with a better name than Resurrection, the title track from Common’s 1994 LP back when he was known as Common Sense. But hang on – it’s not one of Common’s dreaded Mr Loverman raps is it? Fear not – it’s a reassuringly cringe-free slice of lyrical free association. Incidentally, you’re not actually
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GET ON DOWN: Jukebox Series – Hip-hop classics on 45 for first time (2015)
As seven inch mania metastasizes, prestige re-issue label Get On Down is all set to release a number of hip-hop classics on 45 (including MOP’s Ante Up) that have never previously been on the format because, as one of the label’s co-founders has discovered, not that many hip-hop singles were released on seven inch back in the day. Quite possibly this had something to do with hip-hop djs’
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KMD: ‘Bl_ck B_st_rds’ book/ CD/ 7″ (2015)
The second of two more re-released hip-hop classics in interesting formats in the run-up for this year’s Record Store Day is this version of KMD’s lost classic LP Bl_ck B_st_rds in a collector’s edition cd. A stone classic – the second LP from KMD finally received an official large scale release in 2001 but dated from eight years previously when it was criminally shelved by the band’s label
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JURASSIC 5: Quality Control 7″ (2015)
The first of two more re-released hip-hop classics in interesting formats in the run-up for this year’s Record Store Day is more 45 craziness in the form of two cuts off Jurassic 5 LP Quality Control. The seven inch release is a dinked 45 of the low ‘n slow title track off J5’s second LP from 2000 with piano-stomp-underpinned Jurass Finish First on the flip. You should be able to afford that even if
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FRED WESLEY & THE JBs: Damn Right, I Am Somebody (2015) LP re-press + flexi disc + poster
Back in the day, there were so many more occasions on which artists managed to stick it to the man and party. Maybe because back in the day, people weren’t quite as brainwashed as they appear to be now. And few stuck it to the man and partied harder than myriad funk acts in the 1970s. Fred Wesley and the JBs were one of those funk acts and 1974 LP Damn Right, I Am
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MANTRONIX: ‘Bassline’ blue 7″ (2015)
It’s a blue seven inch vinyl re-press time for Mantronix’s seminal Bassline a.k.a. the opening cut off Kurtis Mantronik and MC Tee’s debut album, The Album. Recorded in a day, the track is world famous and a seminal slice of music – though as much (if not more) inflential outside of hip-hop than within. Why? One listen to the combo of the 3-note bassline (played on a Juno 60) and the
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RECORD STORE DAY: Wu-Tang Clan, Jurassic 5, Cypress Hill deluxe re-issues (2015)
Prestige hip-hop re-issue label Get On Down, get on down for Record Store Day with three fat re-issues. One can well imagine vinyl junkies salivating at the prospect of a 7″ re-press of Cypress Hill’s Phunky Feel One/ How I Could Just Kill A Man with an embossed black skull outer sleeve for example. If that causes salivation however, a veritable pool of drool could well result
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THE ARSONISTS: The Session (2014)
The Arsonists first emerged in 1993 and set the underground on fire with tight rhymes and a bass-heavy, jazz-sampling sound on debut single The Session. They went on to release two LPs and appear on Atari Teenage Riot’s final LP. There was talk of a new album called Lost In Fire due last year featuring Q-Unique, D-Stroy, Freestyle, Swel Boogie and Jise One but that appears to be – well
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