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I know I will be in the minority here, but i know a few of you guys collect some hip hop music. texasvinyl put a UGHH sticker on the package he sent me (BTW Thanks) and toosoonjunior posted that Ghostface instrumental. I used to have a decent collection, but the soundtracks basically took over full time.
I rarely cop any new releases anymore

But I still have some records from some cool artists
To name a few

MF DOOM


Quasimoto


Doppelgangaz


Brothaz Bent


El-P


Non Phixion

I've kinda made a point to almost never buy hip hop/rap albums on vinyl because that music tends to be so mainstream and fad-centric, and I just can't pay $20-30 for a mainstream record that sounds so dated (all rap/hip hop sounds dated the second it's released to my ears).

With that said, I LOVE listening to rap and hip hop. I grew up in Texas - and at the height of screw music, I was seeing Swisha House perform live, as well as some of the Southside crew from Houston. I have lots and lots of rap CDs and mix tapes, but just couldn't ever really bring myself to buy into the vinyl. Also because I really only listen to hip hop & rap when I'm driving. I don't ever listen to it when I'm at home or at work.

With all that said, I do own the first two albums by The Streets, as well as the very first Outkast album on vinyl. I would probably buy some classic '80s hip hop on vinyl if I ran across it and it wasn't expensive, and I would ABSOLUTELY buy the first few albums from Triple Six Mafia if I could find them on vinyl (they use to be brilliant! and extremely horror-centric before they bought into the money/hoes/clothes stuff).

Not really my scene but since I know we are neighbors I figured I'd mention living stereo, block south of other music, he always has some pretty cool and interesting hip hop releases, you should check them out if you don't know them. Be warned, he is primarily an equipment dealer and has some truly beautiful setups that I've almost dropped a stupid amount of scratch on.

I like to hippity hop myself, but I actually don't own much. If I come across some older stuff I like, I'll snag it, but I don't make a habit of it. The only things in my collection I can recall off the top of my head right now is a little beastie boys, jay-z's first blueprint, eminem's greatest hits and childish gambino. I know I have a couple others, but can't think of them. I want to pick up biggie and cyprus hill eventually if I catch it at a decent price.

I like the unique quasi 7" you have up there.

I do like hip hop. I'm more of a beat head than into rhymes, so the interest dovetails with some soundtracks and library records that have funky breaks on them.

My "set" tonight (which you can listen/watch here: https://new.livestream.com/accounts/986 ... ts/3447413) had some hip hop stuff in it like BadBadNotGood (instrumental hip hop jazz), Blockhead, DJ Day, The Roots, & RJD2 towards the end.

Im the same as @Ghost pretty much. listen to much more than I own. Ive a few pieces ill post later but mainly i like hip hop when I'm driving so don't tend to pick up much on vinyl.

I do keep meaning to pick up Killer Mike's R.A.P Music though

I have most my favs from the late 80's/early 90's.

Bunch of Run DMC, B.D.P.,ATCQ,De La Soul,Beasties,Dead Prez,biggie,Jurassic 5 etc.

Jimmy Spicers classic 12 minute "adventures of Super Rhymes"



Mur "3:16"


Afrika Bambaataa "looking for the perfect beat"



Pharcyde "Sold my Soul"



and possibly my most loved hip hip track Ahmad "Back in the day"

@Phil - Bad Man!!

I don't collect hip-hop per se, but I was into the scene in the late 80's/early 90's (old skool etc). I even attended a few Westwood 'live to London' events from Vauxhall Arches...which was an interesting experience.

These days, I have very little time for the genre.

In The Ghetto - Eric B & Rakim (instrumental) is one of my all time favs.
Rakim & Guru (Gangstarr) are my fav rappers from yesteryear.

@Phil I own that Killer Mike LP and having been thinking about selling it. It's the limited edition version w/ instrumentals. Pretty rare these days with copies selling for over $100 on discogs. Let me know if you want to make a deal.


@Texasvinyl That DJ Day album 'Land Of 1000 Chances' is so frigging good.one of the few records I held onto. I'm with you in the sense that I have shifted over to the instrumental side of hip hop more then caring about the actual emcees.


Some other rare records I own still are

Captain Murphy - Duality



Death Grips - Exmilitary

I've got quite a lot of classic earlier hip hop vinyl - 3rd Bass, A Tribe Called Quest, Jungle Brothers, NWA, KRS-1, EPMD, Eric B & Rakim, Stetsasonic and, of course, Public Enemy - I prefer the jazzier daisy age stuff these days.

I don't like to hippity hop myself or whatever this should mean but i have quite a collection of approx. 3000-4000 hip hop records. starts from 1985 till now. most stuff is golden era (90s) but i did not miss any milestones from 2000 upwards.

Ultramagnetic MC's
ATCQ
Wu-Tang
Hit Squad (Redman, EPMD,...)
Flipmode Squad
D.I.T.C. (maybe the most complete collection you have ever seen)
Nas
Rakim
BDP
...

the list is very long, too many to mention.

hip hop music is the music of my youth. I turned 10 in the 90s and started buyig hip hop records back then...

basically i got into ohter music through hip hop as i was always wondering where the samples come from. obviously a lot of scores have been sampled and i guess this is why i am in here too...

@milliondollars - exactly right! I am the same way. Hip hop samples introduced me to a whole new world of music.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6idusu8Hxk[/video]

Everyone into beats & horror should enjoy this one! I absolutely love the really old school Juicy J / DJ Paul sound. Most of them are cassette tape mixes, which makes them sound even better.

And if any of you are unfamiliar with Koopsta Knicca, and like drug-fueled rap...he is my most favorite. I ALWAYS break out his album The Devil's Playground during Halloween...it fits perfectly. I would give anything for this to be released on vinyl one day!

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WND3gAyzO1U[/video]
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50S-WzsMLOk[/video]

Demonique by Aim from the Cold Water Music album has some awesome vocal samples taken from Halloween. And I remember Therapy? doing a track that had a lot of blade runner samples. I always loved hearing movie quotes in records.

@Cult, thanks for the offer but I've deliberating on the £25 standard so I think your version will be way off the ballpark for me. Appreciate the offer though.

Also there is a great UK magazine called Bonafide which is essential - http://www.bonafidemag.com

I think Land of 1000 Chances was the best album released in 2013, but it really flew under the radar. I missed out on Duality and have been looking for a copy ever since; could really use a 2nd press, but not sure it will get one.

All things Stone Throw, particularly the mighty Madlib, are worth checking out.

Flying Lotus.

Sampling Fabio Frizzi - Pavor na Cidade dos Zumbis (city of the living dead)

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD-dpVdNxSY[/video]



Sampling Fabio Frizzi - Verso l'ignoto ( The Beyond)
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvdYelyCEMQ[/video]

Sampling John Harrison - Creepshow
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htkgx7uvWfU[/video]


@Ghostfires you might want to check some of this out. I dont really listin to much of this hardcore stuff anymore, but this is far from mainstream or fad-centric. I do agree that the majority that gets realeased is exactly that mainstream or boring. thats really why i dont listen to much southern rap besides guys like Devin The Dude, Geto Boys, UGK.

But there is a decent amount of underground hip hop that really good.

Like several of you have mentioned, recently I've moved more towards instrumental hip hop (Oddisee, Damu the Fudgemunk, etc). I started listening almost exclusively to rap/hip hop starting in the early 90s up until about 2000 when (in my opinion) the quality really began to fall off. Much of what I was listening to back then was southern (I'm from TX) and west coast underground rap tapes/CDs. A lot of it was pretty difficult to find even back then, but I've always been a collector at heart, so that was fun for me when I was a kid.

Over the past 5 years, I have sold off my collection of underground rap tapes/CDs to overseas buyers. Fortunately, there has been a big demand for this stuff in recent years, so I got back way more back than I ever invested. I'm still nostalgic for the golden era rap/hip hop.

I do still have probably one of the larger collections of local Dallas-Ft. Worth hip hop records from the 80s and early 90s. Mostly consists of private press obscurities...



Glad to know I'm not the sole hip hop head here.

if you like the creepy type of stuff you should also check Dr. Dooom (aka Kool Keith). there are two volumes. i remember buying the tape in 1999 in San Francisco. one week later i almost turned mental. the rhymes are so ill and Keith&Kurt did a great job on the beats...

@toosoonjunior: great to see a TX collector in here. i have some TX stuff too but not the private ones. i admire you for letting your collection go. i could never do that although my girl would be really happy if i did...

I LOVED old Three-6 stuff. It was so unique at that time and they were clearly influenced by horror movies. It was really great stuff.

+1 with blackwaterrisin...

Most my favs are from the late 80′s/early 90′s