Rap & Hip-Hop

Vinyl LP pressing. Independent hip hop artist Pouya releases his fourth studio album, Blood Was Never Thick As Water. Lyrical Lemonade says, "He's one of the most creative minds in music right now. His songs are always versatile and complex, considering...

Vinyl LP pressing. Includes digital download. Quik Is the Name is the debut studio album by American hip hop artist and producer DJ Quik, released by Profile Records on January 15, 1991. Production was mainly handled by DJ Quik along with his executive...

Vinyl LP pressing. Includes digital download. Life Is... Too $hort was Too $hort's fifth studio album and is his highest selling album to date. It is considered the cornerstone on which all of Bay Area hip-hop was built.

Vinyl LP pressing. Includes digital download. For Rarelyalways, a sense of purpose is rarely far from the surface. That's been true in everything he's done, as a musician across a huge range of scenes & sounds, as a writer, as an entrepreneur & youth...

Vinyl LP pressing. Includes bonus track. 2022 release. Entergalactic is the eighth studio album by Kid Cudi. The album includes production from high-profile record producers such as Dot da Genius, Plain Pat, Gazzo, Hot Sugar, Jean-Baptiste, Skrillex,...

Vinyl LP pressing. In the case of hip-hop's legendary Detroit lyricist Royce 5'9", you shut out all of the hype that places you in the same esteemed company as such revered, game-changing emcees as Jay-Z, Ice Cube, Eminem, Scarface, Nas, and Andre 3000...

Vinyl LP pressing. In his follow-up to the underground classic Soundtrack of Autumn, on Sooner Than Later, Marv Won brings a more focused sound and threads themes on the impacts of time on our lives. How it changes us, how we battle conflicting...

Vinyl LP pressing. In early 2017, CSC Funk Band deliver their most ambitious undertaking yet with Above The Starrs, an all-instrumental homage to the seminal East Coast hip-hop duo, Gang Starr, that consisted of MC Guru and the DJ/producer DJ Premier. In...

Vinyl LP pressing. In a Hip Hop match-up as heavy as Freddy vs Jason was to horror cinema, Los Angeles emcee's Mykill Miers and Pawz One have announced a collaborative album titled "Double Homicide". The project is packed with multi-syllabic lyrical...

Vinyl LP pressing. Imbued with the energy and ideas from all the creative embers floating in the atmosphere like fireflies, Shabazz Palaces recorded this entire album over the course of two weeks with Blood in Seattle. New gear and new equipment...

Vinyl LP pressing. If Octavia Butler and Howard Zinn co-wrote an episode of Black Mirror while bumping Sun-Ra, The Hues Brothers' Radio Activity is the soundtrack: politically-charged electronic hip hop pushing against the gravity of apocalyptic human...

Vinyl LP pressing. Identifying more with the butterfly's nighttime counterpart, the moth, Kilo Kish explores the darker side of learning to fly. By creating a kinship with the forward progression of all things, she becomes part of a larger whole...