Hip hop 45 picture sleeves...
waxjunky
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What's out there? I have "Goin' Back to Cali" with Less Than Zero art, and "You Be Illin' b/w "Hit It Run"... and that's it. If it had a Cassingle was there usually a 45 release?
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I'd say a good couple of hundred different ones
There's a UK only Ultra - Give The Drummer Some picture sleeve...
Generally yes, but since the 45's were made in such low quantities (i.e. more people buying cassingles than 45's), most of them (at least in the US) didn't have picture sleeves, just a generic label sleeve. I would say that was valid up until around 1993 or so. I had posted the "It's Tricky" and "Run's House" picture sleeves awhile back, and there was also a PS for "Follow The Leader".
Marvelous & Cash Money - All the Ugly People Be Quiet
Spoonie G - The Godfather (Remix)
Kurtis Blow - The Breaks
Numerous Fat Boys Singles
Some Stones Throw ones, Apple Juice Break and something (too recent?)
And a lot more, but I haven??t got them in front of me. I??ll see if I can post some pics later.
Are picture sleeve hip-hop 45s raer in the states?
- J
The 12" had always been the format of choice, and as with most 45's and picture sleeves, those that were bought weren't treated so well. They aren't so much rare as they are an oddity. As with pop/rock 45's, only a certain amount of picture sleeves were made for the first pressing and that was it. The cassingle would gain dominance in the late 80's and there was more of an emphasis with graphics on the cassingle (and later the CD5) than a 45. At that point, a lot of the mall stories (Musicland, Sam Goody, Eli's, etc.) started phasing out 45's. There was a story posted here about a year or two ago about a warehouse find where someone had found tons of unopened boxes of 45's that never made it to stores, all from between 1989-1992. This means that distributors just stopped sending them to stores, not giving fans an option to buy vinyl even if they preferred it. As the US phased them out, the UK kept on releasing 45's, which is why it's still an oddity to see certain songs in the format.
What Stones Throw and a number of other labels did was bring back the vibe of the 45 and the picture sleeve, which is great. I don't need to tell anyone here this.
I bring this up because I see people make inquiries like this all the time, only to turn around and jack up prices on eBay 500%, you know who you are. One common picture sleeves will now be "worth" $30 in M- condition. Bullshit.
I lived out in the U.K. for several years and I can say that almost every popular rap 12(and thensome) has been released on 7in.Almost all the Gang Starr 12's(from the first 3 lps),De La's,Tribe,Blacksheep,etc,etc,etc. but the only thing I really do not like about most of those 45's ,is they always have the really bad and it's always some Makintosh remixes on them(plllllluuuuuhhh).Allot of west coast rap 45's too, various shit to Divine Styler,Too Short,NWA,etc,etc,...
Oh..Juice Crew 7's for days!!!(pretty much all singles even early Prizim stuff, but released under cold chillin lbl..
the world is your oyster when it comes to rap 7's in the uk..or just Europe as a whole.
See, I'd love to get a lot of that stuff. Probably an odd choice, but there was a Brixton remix of Salt-N-Pepa's "Expression" that was in the video but not on the US 12". That mix wasn't too bad, but I was wondering if that came out elsewhere, maybe the 45.
EDIT: Almost forgot, I remember Fresh releasing a few 45's, some of them with small center holes, which outside of punk and Disneyland read-along story books, is an oddity in the U.S.
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There's also a fair few aussie pressings of hip-hop 45s with pic sleeves. I got a bunch of de La Soul titles, and stuff by the Beastie Boys, Run DMC, Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Ice T etc.
oooh - that's a good one.
Man, I wonder if my Grandpop and Papa had things like this back in the DAY.
Cause, man - this ain't worth it!
Another goodie I got at the same store was Gangstarr 2Deep UK only remix 7" with picture cover... there's loads of them here in the UK, I'ma start grabbing some more...
Not 1 but TWO boo-ya tribe pic sleeves?!!
truly
That Brixton remix was done by the production duo Blacksmith. I remember their remixes always had that UK "raregroove" jazzfunkfusion vibe to them. Same guys who also produced "Living In The Light" for Caron Wheeler. It's on the UK 12" and 7":
http://www.discogs.com/release/295632
Hiphop pic sleeve 45s show up on the regular here, but I never buy them. Co-sign on the ubiquitous crappy CJ Macintosh remixes. Perhaps I should start picking them up.
no more than 50p each...