Hip-hop vinyl essentials
DjArcadian
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Please list all hip-hop vinyl essentials. No raers. Just solid hip-hop needed for a well rounded collection.
DjArcadian
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Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique
NWA Straight Outta Compton
Public Enemy Nation of Millions
BDP By Any Means
Big Daddy Kane Long Live the Kane
Eric B and Rakim Follow the Leader
Eric B and Rakim Paid in Full
How's that? Am I showing my age?
it's like that/sucker mc's
the show/ladi dadi
psk/gucci time
my adidas/peter piper
its my thing/you're a customer
friends/five minutes of funk
run's house/beats to the rhyme
protect ya neck/method man
juicy/unbelievable
smooth operator/warm it up kane
big poppa/who shot ya
straight out the jungle/the promo
the breaks
planet rock
alkoholiks 12"s
ditc related 12"s
beatnuts 12"s
mc shan-the bridge
the message-grandmaster flash
mantroix 12"s
there is sooo much out there , are you looking for anything hip hop, old, middle, or new school ? anything in particular, i'll come with more later, i'm sure you;ll get some good results from the people here
i like the liks but really now.
Melle Mel - The Message
Mobb Deep - Shook Ones
Audio Two - Top Billin'
Common Sense - Ressurection
Puffy - All About The Benjamins
Too Short - Born To Mack (even tho the pressing kinda sucks)
too many
UTFO--Roxanne Roxanne
Ice-T--Six N the Mornin
Geto Boys--We Can't Be Stopped LP
Show & AG - runaway slave
Diamond D - stunts, blunts and hip-hop
Gangstarr - daily operation, step in the arena
Native Tongue including the later stuff such as mos def-black on both sides, J5 ep, bush babees, Blackstar
Main source-breaking atoms
co flow - funcrusher plus
slick rick-great adventures of slick rick
masta ace-take a look around
bdp-criminal minded
eric b + rakim-paid in full
Juice crew essentials from big daddy kane, biz markie aso
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Eric B & Rakim - Eric B Is President/My Melody (Zakia)
Spoonie Gee & the Treacherous Three - Love Rap/New Rap Language (Enjoy Records)
T La Rock & Jazzy Jay - Its Yours (Party Time/Def Jam)
Ultramagnetic MCs - Ego Trippin (Next Plateau)
Word of Mouth feat DJ Cheese - King Kut (Beauty & the Beat)
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious 5 - The Message (Sugar Hill Records)
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo - Its A Demo (Cold Chillin)
Biz Markie - Nobody Beats the Biz (Prism Records)
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious 5 - Adventures of Flash on the Wheels on Steel (Sugar Hill Records)
45 King - The 900 Number (Tuff City)
Big Daddy Kane - Raw (Prism Records)
Mobb Deep - Shock Ones Pt 2 (Loud Records)
Double Dee & Steinski - Lessons
Big Apple Productions - 2 & 3
When I think of essential hip hop,
'Classic' simply becomes the key tone...just in my own head of course.
To each his own.
Nas- illmatic
Wu-Tang-Enter the 36 chambers
Pharcyde- Bizzare Ride
Dre- chronic
Redman- What the album, there is a Darkside
Souls of Mischief
The Roots
Dr. Octagon
Snoop- doggie style
Dare I say- FreeStyle Fellowship
Digable Planets
Del- No need for alarm
Outkast
Goodie Mob
My guess is there are probably more.
pete rock & cl - mecca and the soul brother, main ingredient and the 12"
ultramagnetic mc??s - critical beatdown
organized konfusion - stress
gravediggaz - 6 feet deep
beatnuts ep
souls of mischief - 93 til infinity
digable planets - blowout comb
quasimoto - the unseen
jeru the damaja - the sun rises in the east (who else had burning twin towers on the cover + "you can??t stop the prophet" back in 93?)
Bush Babies is not essential
Runaway Slave is not essential but the original EP w/ Soul Clap is.
Co Flow - not essential
Masta Ace Sittin on Chrome > Take a Look Around........ i love this though,but Chrome is his opus imo
Classic but not essential.
If u cop the Native Toungues stuff, you dont need these guys. Derivative.
LL COOL J - Mama said Knock You Out - Marley Production
RUN DMC - Raising Hell
JAY-Z - Reasonable Doubt
LAUREN HILL - Miseducation...
JAZZY JAY & THE FRESH PRINCE - He's the DJ & I'm the Actor
I cant make the call on which OUTCAST album everyone should own. Maybe the first one?
That's what i thought was the general consensus.
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I would say yes, although if at all possible one should own Southernplayalisticadillacmusik and ATLiens, which together >[/b] Aquemini, Stankonia, & Speakerboxxx/The Love Below.
ATLiens is my favorite. Southerplayaa... was pretty shocking when it first dropped though.
NOT
Mecca and the Soul Brother is enuff. The first EP if u want more.
Essential for its delivery of lyrics or not? I'm on the fence. Both are classic, but should Becky cop?
Obv its nothing on the debut or the EP but I think its still a pretty great album, more mature R&Bish shit but still some incredible Pete Rock work.
1st Das Efx might be a classic. Probably not though. Bone's first album was good although it got old real fast. That shit was so big with the white trash and asian gangster crowd it was ridiculous. I think of Everett when I hear "Thuggish Ruggish Bone" Don't let Archaic see you giving Bone props. Its goin to turn into a 15 page Blowed post soon.
Becky dont need it.
Drop some essentials my bra. I was hoping you'd swing by.