The first ever vinyl reissue of Gap Mangione’s ‘Diana In The Autumn Wind’, produced with the full and extensive participation of the artist. An exceedingly rare album, it’s been coveted by funk, soul, jazz and hip-hop sample fiends for decades. It’s unarguably the most sought after album for J Dilla/Madlib sample collectors. It has also been brilliantly sampled by A Tribe Called Quest, Large Professor, Ghostface Killah, Kendrick Lamar and Talib Kweli. But this record is so much more than a sample-spotters curio. It’s solid gold throughout. #gapmangione #dianaintheautumnwind #jdilla #madlib #classicjazz
Exactly twenty-five years ago today Missy Elliott’s fantastic third album ‘Miss E ...So Addictive’ was released.
Missy’s third album is a tribute to her incredible songwriting skills and Timbaland’s continuing production excellence. She can have it any way she wants it and still come away with a full-length that hangs together brilliantly. Get ur freak on.
Missy Elliott-Miss E ...So Addictive: The Samples:
Spotify playlist via Linktree in bio. #missyelliott #missesoaddictive #geturfreakon #oneminuteman #classichiphop
Exactly thirty-five years ago today De La Soul’s MORE CLASSIC THAN CLASSIC sophomore album ‘De La Soul Is Dead’, KMD’s classic debut album ‘Mr. Hood’, Ice-T’s classic fourth album ‘O.G. Original Gangster’, Son Of Bazerk Featuring No Self Control And The Band’s classic debut album ‘Bazerk Bazerk Bazerk’, and Chubb Rock’s fantastic third album ‘The One’ were released, and exactly five years ago today J. Cole’s fantastic sixth album ‘The Off-Season’ was released.
Anyone with a pulse can unquestionably benefit from Pos, Dave, and Mase’s seasoned wisdom and undying respect for the art form, and can benefit from listening to De La Soul Is Dead, the most masterful of De La Soul’s multiple masterpieces.
KMD’s debut album Mr. Hood is an album brimming with imagination, youthful enthusiasm, and strong rhetoric.
O.G. Original Gangster is a sprawling masterpiece that stands far and away as Ice-T’s finest hour.
Bazerk Bazerk Bazerk is one of the rowdiest, craziest, noisiest, most animated records the hip-hop world has seen.
‘Treat ‘Em Right’, ‘Just The Two Of Us’ and ‘The Chubbster’ reached number one on Billboard’s Hot Rap Singles chart list in 1991. The big man indeed.
If ‘KOD’ was Cole drifting into the player-coach stage of his career, The Off-Season is Cole lacing up squeaky high-tops and drilling 100,000 hours of threes.
Spotify playlists with the samples via Linktree in bio. #delasoulisdead #mrhood #ogoriginalgangster #bazerkbazerkbazerk #theone
Exactly ten years ago today Chance The Rapper’s fantastic third mixtape ‘Coloring Book’ was released.
When music comes like this, personal and panoramic, full of conversations with God, defying hip-hop norms while respecting them, proving that the genre can still dig deeper into its roots, it needs to be contextualized as what it is. This is an ultralight beam; it’s a God dream.
Chance The Rapper-Coloring Book: The Samples:
Spotify playlist via Linktree in bio. #chancetherapper #coloringbook #angels #noproblem #classichiphop
The Queens MC and chef continues leaning into his psychedelic, left-field style across the project, pairing vivid storytelling with eccentric production and an eclectic list of collaborators.
Action Bronson-PLANET FROG: The Samples:
Spotify playlist via Linktree in bio. #actionbronson #planetfrog #peppers #classichiphop
Exactly twenty-five years ago today Cannibal Ox’s CLASSIC debut album ‘The Cold Vein’, and Hi-Tek’s fantastic debut album ‘Hi-Teknology’ were released.
While it can be said that many underground crews have been floundering in the gray matter of indie hip-hop, Cannibal Ox filled that area in with 2001’s The Cold Vein. Aire and Megilah swirl around in b-boy posturing and obtuse nonsense as their innovation rears its head at every corner.
Though Hi-Teknology follows no discernible path, it is a grab bag of aural treats that enables Tek to display the full range of his production prowess, as he claims his rightful spot among hip-hop’s elite soundboys.
Spotify playlists with the samples via Linktree in bio. #cannibalox #thecoldvein #hitek #hiteknology #classichiphop
Exactly thirty-five years ago yesterday Terminator X’s fantastic debut album ‘Terminator X & The Valley of the Jeep Beets’, exactly thirty years ago today Dr. Octagon’s classic debut album ‘Dr. Octagon’, and exactly five years ago today Czarface and DOOM’s fantastic sophomore collaborative album ‘Super What?’ were released.
Terminator X is best-known for his work as Public Enemy’s DJ. His debut is the vinyl version of a great block party backed by one of hip-hop’s most creative turntable manipulators.
It’s hard to exaggerate the role that Kool Keith’s debut solo album as Dr. Octagon played in revitalizing underground hip-hop. Dr. Octagon represented the first truly new, genuine alternative to commercial hip-hop since the Native Tongues’ heyday. Earth people, he was born on Jupiter.
Super What? is hardly DOOM’s definitive work, but it gives us one last snapshot of a solitary mind that spurted in wonderfully volatile ways. In his own words, as hurled on the ghoulish ‘So Strange’, this is DOOM ‘remaining weird, dancing ‘round with evil.’
Spotify playlists with the samples via Linktree in bio. #terminatorx #droctagon #czarface #doom #classichiphop
