Legendary Rap Shops (Dem Otha Kind a Rekkid Stoes)
HarveyCanal
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VIP Records ??? Long Beach, CA:
Screwed Up Records and Tapes ??? Houston, TX:
Peaches ??? New Orleans, LA:
Music Mania ??? Austin, TX:
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Screwed Up Records and Tapes ??? Houston, TX:Peaches ??? New Orleans, LA:Music Mania ??? Austin, TX:Add on...
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Good one.
And are you familiar with a shop that was out in Richmond, in a completely industrial area leading out to the Richmond Bridge?
can't find a flick of the old music menu on rainer in seattle....
Sound Of Market 1
Funk-O-Mart
Val Shively's R&B Records
PRX
Honorable Mentions:
Third Street Jazz
Radio 437
Ninth Street Records
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Psyche! There are a grip of STRAIGHT UP LEGENDARY record stores in New York.
Beat Street.
Fat Beats
Fuck it, why not Burkina too.
Don't have pictures of them.
now.. on to my armands gripe.
1. They now put the price sticker directly on the records label no matter the record. Way to ruin every record in the store.
2. maybe i keep missing it, but there's no random bin in the whole store to find a surprise. Every last record in the store in under the right name. So digging kind of isn't fun. You have to be looking for something.
I still see lots of records with Peaches stickers on them...
We got a batch of screw CDs straight from Big Bub the other day. Eric said he had a huge bbq stain on his shirt that he couldn't stop staring at. We're going to see if we can't rob some of MM's market share. Dude at the other rap shop in Austin (now closed) said MM used to straight up burn mix CDs and sell them for $15.
I'm sure you have been out to Piranha in Round Rock. He's got a pretty serious operation as far as tx rap goes and even has the fake grills, incense, and NES games.
Peaches I believe was a chain they had at least one here in Seattle before my time.
Peaches in Atlanta is cool, but Peaches in New Orleans was THE shop in town.
I"M SAYIN'!!!
Yep, their cd's are pricey...but they've got everything. 12 years ago primarily Master P and ESG then the rest of the Screwed Up Click made Music Mania a well-oiled rap selling machine. It's going to be hard to pull folks over to your store, but if you undercut them on price surely some will stray.
I'm sorry, but rap shops and Williamson County just don't mesh for me.
Oh yeah, another Texas shop that deserves a big mention is T Town Records up in Dallas, where allegedly DSR sold 250,000 copies of their mixtapes...yielding them a deal with Universal and an award for Soundscammers of the year.
Austin loves it some Kemetic Suns, Kirby Dominant, Mystik Journeymen, Hobo Junction ish...and no, it's not just me.
that peaches was the shit for a long time. i bought a lot of my first rap records there and when they closed down in 92 or 93 and cleared their stock, i came up on a lot of sealed jazz joints. i wish i knew more about what to look for back then. i still see some of those wooden crates with the peaches sticker on one end.
Is that in Atlanta? I tried to go there the last time I was in ATL and they were closed at 11:30 AM on a weekday.
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4700 Loyola is in the same strip mall that used to house KAZI radio. So when you park your car in front of Screwed Up #5, you're in the same parking lot that Run DMC performed in 20 years ago. My wife grew up only blocks away from there on Loyola. Hells yeah on the synchronicity...
Even though Records is technically open still, this spot was legendary on K Street.
On another note, does any Bay Area heads know anything bout Bobby G's? I've never been but I've heard stories bout that spot.
Re: Beat Street, is it still open?
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SOUL DISCO
fuck, man I can??t even begin to speak about Bobby G??s record pool. Basically some offical o.g. shit. I was about 11 when me and my brother use to go there. In a nutshell bobby ran THEE record pool in the bay and was the first in bringing a lot of major artists through to the bay.
Seriously, I wish I was around buying records back in the early 90s.