$65.00
The 20th Anniversary edition of OutKast's landmark 2000 album, it is the Essentials Record of the Month for October 2020. It's on exclusive black and white galaxy vinyl. Vinyl Me Please
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When OutKast released its fourth studio album Stankonia, the pioneering duo out of Atlanta, Ga., was not new to this, but they remained true to the hip-hop thing. Released on Halloween 2000, months after the initial Y2K scare that left people terrified of being throttled back into a period of darkness and technological paranoia, Stankonia took full advantage of the new millennium. They stayed true to what they did best and created something powerful on the fringes of mainstream pop culture's expectations of them as southerners and as rappers.
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Breaking new ground cleared from the debris of nostalgia, burned with their Chonkyfire, Stankonia challenged listeners to reconsider what it meant to be OutKasted in the wilderness of an unknown new world. Never ones to shy away from the stank of imagined and social-historical realities, Stankonia is a demonstration of André Benjamin and Big Boi evolving their sound, their identities, and their art. Benjamin was blasting centuries ahead with his latest moniker, André 3000, an Afrofuturist prediction that the future was Black and dope as hell, and Big Boi was growing increasingly experimental in not only his lyrical delivery but his fashion sense, paralleling Benjamin's own eccentric flair for fashion. - NPR
Label: LaFace Records 88875100511, Arista 88875100511, Sony Music Commercial Music Group 88875100511 |
Series: Vinyl Me, Please. Essentials E094 |
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Club Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Black And White Galaxy, Gatefold |
Country: US |
Released: Oct 2020 |
Genre: Hip Hop |
Style: Pop Rap, Conscious |
$39.00
Ishmael Butler and Tendai “Baba” Maraire of Shabazz Palaces have always been proud iconoclasts, consistently breaking ground in spaces once thought incompatible with hip-hop. They were among the few rap acts signed to Sub Pop; they were pretty much the only rap artists to ever perform at the avant-garde Big Ears festival in Knoxville. This adventurous spirit continues down the Butler family line with Ishmael’s son Jazz, aka Lil Tracy. It seems that Jazz’s work has had a profound effect on his father’s project; in recent interviews, Butler cites his own son as an influence.
As one of the original members of the GothBoiClique, Tracy is an important figure in the development of “emo rap,” and what’s fascinating about Shabazz’s new album The Don of Diamond Dreams is the degree to which Ish seems to be learning from the new generation. Like polarizing label mates clipping., Shabazz’s brand of “alternative” hip-hop is not so much opposed to the mainstream as it is reflective of it, absorbing tangents of influence from trap, Auto-Tuned R&B, chopped and screwed, and other variants. Their lyrics are often shaped by the hip-hop hegemony too, playing off Rap Caviar tropes and taunting the Top 40 with a tongue-in-cheek braggadociousness, the kind that lets you know that Butler is still the same MC who told us he was cool like that all those years ago.– Pitchfork
Label: Sub Pop – SP 1335 |
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album |
Country: USA & Europe |
Released: 17 Apr 2020 |
Genre: Electronic, Hip Hop |
Style: Conscious, Leftfield |
$39.00
The rapper, who also lives in the German capital, has cooked 10 gorgeous tracks where beats, samples and smooth flows perfectly intertwine into a staggering sonic experience.
The record focuses heavily on themes like spirituality, something you can pick up from "Intro" - album's opening track. There's something utterly mysterious engraved in those beats. That being said, those who dig the good old school hip hop vibe won't be disappointed. With production that flows from laid back hip hop to contemporary trap, JuJu's multi-faceted identity is in the spotlight.
Born to an American GI out of New Orleans, and a German mother with Austrian roots, JuJu was raised in Schweinfurt; a southern-German city filled with stationed US Army troops. From this, he was exposed to a rich New Orleans musical heritage, alongside the German culture. These influences have manifested into a unique perspective, perfectly reflected in 40 Acres N Sum Mula. - Stereofox
Label: JAKARTA – Jakarta146 |
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album |
Country: Germany |
Released: 27 Sep 2019 |
Genre: Hip Hop |
Style: Conscious |
$45.00
“The first generation of rockers who grew up in public faced their share of ridicule, a fact that does not escape Chuck D. A keen observer of history who also possesses a sly sense of humor, he raps over a sample of the Rolling Stones' "Honky Tonk Women" on Man Plans God Laughs, Public Enemy's 13th album. Like the Stones, PE have been around so long and their influence has been so thoroughly absorbed into the culture that it's easy to take them for granted, but where Mick & Keith played arenas, Public Enemy consciously shrugged off the majors and remained fierce insurrectionists, existing just under the radar. By the end of the 2000s, they may not have been regulars in mainstream music publications, but they still had underground hits, such as "Harder Than You Think," which surprisingly became the group's biggest-ever British hit in 2007. PE brings back that track's producer, Gary "G-Wiz" Rinaldo, to produce the entirety of Man Plans God Laughs, and he helps Chuck D create a hard, furious flash of a record that deliberately leans on Public Enemy's history while keeping a steely eye on the present. All the self-allusions -- samples from Nation of Millions, lyrical callbacks, horn stabs straight out of the Bomb Squad -- aren't a way to revive the past but rather to provide a context: this isn't music that came from nowhere, it is tied to history as well as the future.” – All Music
Item description:
Artist: |
Public Enemy |
Title: |
Man Plans God Laughs |
Label: |
SPITdigital Recordings, Enemy Records |
Format: |
Vinyl, LP, Album |
Pressing: |
USA, Canada & Europe |
Release Date: |
31st July 2015 |
Genre: |
Hip Hop |
Style: |
Conscious, Boom Bap |
Catalog No: |
SDER1016L |
Condition: |
New |