Rap/Hip Hop

Madvillain (MF Doom, Madlib) Madvillainy on 2LP

Two of hip hop's most brilliant minds and prolific artists met on 2004's Madvillainy which features music by Madlib and words by MF Doom. Ranks with the best work from either artist. Features the smash singles "Curls" and "Money Folder," plus cameos from Lord Quas, Wildchild, M.E.D. and Stacy Epps.

Madvillain Madvillainy Track Listing:

1.  The Illest Villains
2.  Accordian
3.  Meat Grinder
4.  Bistro
5.  Raid (feat. Medaphoar)
6.  America's Most Blunted (feat. Quasimoto)
7.  Sickfit (Instrumental)
8.  Rainbows
9.  Curls
10. Do Not Fire (Instrumental)
11. Money Folder
12. Shadows of Tomorrow (feat. Quasimoto)
13. Operation Lifesaver aka Mint Test
14. Figaro
15. Hardcore Hustle (feat. Wildchild)
16. Strange Ways
17. Fancy Clown (feat. Viktor Vaughn)
18. Eye (feat. Stacy Epps)
19. Supervillain Theme (instrumental)
20. All Caps
21. Great Day Today
22. Rhinestone Cowboy

Special edition double vinyl LP. The week this debut album came out, Kanye's name was all over the Top 20s for his hit singles "Through the Wire," "Jesus Walks," "All Falls Down" and "Slow Jamz." What's even more remarkable is that this breakthrough came during his recovery from a car wreck that nearly took his life-the song "Through the Wire" is about the accident, and was recorded two weeks after he was in the hospital, with his jaw still wired shut. He's hailed the event as both the worst thing that could've happened to him, and the best. The record sold 441,000 copies in it's very first week and has been named both by "Time" and "Rolling Stone" as one of the greatest albums of all time. Guest appearances here include Jay-Z, John Legend, Ervin "EP" Pope, Miri Ben-Ari, Syleena Johnson and Jamie Foxx.

Tracks

• Intro
• We Don't Care
• Graduation Day
• All Falls Down - Syleena Johnson, Kanye West
• I'll Fly Away
• Spaceship - Consequence, GLC, Kanye West
• Jesus Walks
• Never Let Me Down - Jay-Z, Kanye West
• Get Em High - Common, Talib Kweli, Kanye West
• Workout Plan
• New Workout Plan
• Slow Jamz - Jamie Foxx, Twista, Kanye West
• Breathe in Breathe Out - Ludacris, Kanye West
• School Spirit Skit 1
• School Spirit
• School Spirit Skit
• Lil Jimmy Skit - Harlem Boys Choir, Mos Def, Kanye West
• Two Words - Freeway, Harlem Boys Choir, Mos Def, Kanye West
• Through the Wire
• Family Business
• Last Call

Kanye West's highly anticipated new album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is his fifth, following The College Dropout (2004), Late Registration (2005), Graduation (2007) and 808s & Heartbreak (2008).

The album features Nikki Minaj, Jay-Z, Rick Ross and Justin Vernon of Bon Iver on the smash street single "Monster" and Pusha T on "Runaway" which received the Best New Music stamp from Pitchfork. Other guests include Kid Cudi and Raekwon and contributing producers include RZA of Wu-Tang Clan, Pete Rock and Q-Tip. The new album was recorded in Honolulu and at the legendary Electric Lady Studios in New York City.

Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Track Listing:

1.  Dark Fantasy
2.  Gorgeous (feat. Kid Cudi/Raekwon)
3.  POWER
4.  All Of The Lights (Interlude)
5.  All Of The Lights
6.  Monster (feat. Jay-Z/Rick Ross/Nicki Minaj/Bon Iver)
7.  So Appalled (feat. Jay-Z/Pusha T/Prynce Cy Hi/Swizz Beatz/RZA)
8.  Devil In A New Dress
9.  Runaway
10. Hell Of A Life
11. Blame Game (feat. John Legend/Pusha T)
12. Lost In The World
13. Who Will Survive In America 

Kendrick Lamar Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City: Deluxe Edition on 2LP 

Deluxe 2LP Edition of Final Studio Album with Two Bonus Tracks

Circles is the sixth and final studio album by the late Mac Miller. Conceived as a sister album to 2018's Grammy-nominated Swimming, the album was completed with the assistance of Jon Brion, with whom Miller worked on Swimming and had been working together on Circles at the time of his passing. While sonically distinctly different than its predecessor, Circles features many of the hallmarks for which Swimming was critically-acclaimed upon its release - Miller further realizing his singing voice in addition to rapping, live instrumentation and earnest, confessional lyrical content. Listeners will hear shades of some of the album's influences in its songs, from the T-Rex guitar tone of "Surf" to the Plastic Ono Band-era John Lennon feel of its production and the inspired cover of Arthur Lee's 1972 single "Everybody's Gotta Live." It's a momentous final entry into the discography of an artist that remains at the center of reimagining the limits of rap. This deluxe colored vinyl 2LP edition comes complete with two bonus tracks.

1. Circles
2. Complicated
3. Blue World
4. Good News
5. I Can See
6. Everybody
7. Woods
8. Hand Me Downs
9. That's on Me
10. Hands
11. Surf
12. Once A Day
13. TBA Bonus track
14. TBA Bonus track

Introduced by the sonically laid-back and funk/R&B-heavy tracks "Self Care," "Small Worlds" and "What's The Use?", Swimming is the latest exploratory offering from shape-shifting rapper/singer/producer Mac Miller and follow-up to 2016's The Divine Feminine. Serving as his fifth full-length studio effort overall, it includes contributions from fellow rapper/producer J. Cole, British singer/songwriter Dev Hynes (aka Blood Orange) and composer/instrumentalist John Brion. Miller told Zane Lowe that the album is focused on space and "what it means to be inside of a record."

1. Come Back To Earth
2. Hurt Feelings
3. What's The Use?
4. Perfecto
5. Self Care
6. Wings
7. Ladders
8. Small Worlds
9. Conversation Pt. 1
10. Dunno
11. Jet Fuel
12. 2009
13. So It Goes

Double 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Because The Internet is the sophomore album from Childish Gambino, the stage name of Grammy, Golden Globe, and Emmy Award-winning recording artist, actor, and producer Donald Glover. Released in 2013, the album lends perspective to the complications born from an Internet-obsessed society. In creating Because The Internet, Glover set out to not just release an album but to build a world, also releasing a companion screenplay and short film, "Clapping For The Wrong Reasons." The album features appearances from Chance The Rapper, Jhene Aiko, and Azaelia Banks.

Tracks

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 The Library (Intro)
• 2 I. Crawl
• 3 II. Worldstar
• 4 Dial Up
• 5 I. the Worst Guys
• 6 II. Shadows
• 7 III. Telegraph Ave. ("Oakland" By Lloyd)
• 8 IV. Sweatpants
• 9 3005
• 10 Playing Around Before the Party Starts
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 I. the Party
• 2 II. No Exit
• 3 Death By Numbers
• 4 I. Flight of the Navigator
• 5 II. Zealots of Stockholm [Free Information]
• 6 III. Urn
• 7 I. Pink Toes
• 8 II. Earth: The Oldest Computer (The Last Night)
• 9 III. Life: The Biggest Troll [Andrew Auernheimer]

Vinyl LP pressing. This debut emerged as one of the most influential rap albums of the '90s. It laid the groundwork for the rebirth of New York hip-hop, an underground, hardcore new sound that went on to influence Biggie, Jay-Z, Nas, and Mobb Deep, among others. Rap became at once theatrical and cerebral, MCs lyricists and powerhouses capable of violence, metaphor, humor and revolution in their performing. The album is full of hard, gritty beats, references to pop culture and martial arts, eclectic piano and string sounds, as well as surrealist overtones, and there truly was nothing like it in the hip-hop world at the time. Even now, it's an original album in a league of it's own. Get it. You won't regret it.

Wu-Tang Clan Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Track Listing:

1.  Bring Da Ruckus
2.  Shame On A Nigga
3.  Clan In Da Front
4.  Wu-Tang: 7th Chamber
5.  Can It Be All So Simple
6.  Protect Ya Neck
7.  Da Mystery Of Chessboxin'
8.  Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthing Ta Fuck Wit
9.  C.R.E.A.M.
10. Method Man
11. Tearz
12. Wu-Tang: 7th Chamber - Part II (Conclusion)

Double vinyl LP pressing. Kendrick Lamar's highly anticipated 2015 album, To Pimp a Butterfly: "honest, fearful and unapologetic". The album is the follow-up to the rapper's critically-acclaimed 2012 Effort Good Kid, M.A.A.D City. The album was recorded in studios throughout the United States, with executive production from Dr. Dre and Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith. Boi-1da, Flying Lotus, Terrace Martin, Pharrell Williams, Knxwledge, Sounwave, Thundercat and several other hip hop producers also contributed. It's music was influenced by aspects of funk, jazz and spoken word. To Pimp A Butterfly debuted atop the Billboard 200 and received widespread acclaim from critics, who praised it's musical scope and the social relevance of Lamar's lyrics.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Wesley's Theory
• 2 For Free?
• 3 King Kunta
• 4 Institutionalized
• 5 These Walls
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 u
• 2 Alright
• 3 For Sale?
• 4 Momma
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Hood Politics
• 2 How Much a Dollar Cost
• 3 Complexion (A Zulu Love)
• 4 The Blacker the Berry
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 You Ain't Gotta Lie (Momma Said)
• 2 i
• 3 Mortal Man

In five whirlwind years, Kendrick Lamar has gone from being hip-hop's hottest rising star to one of the most important voices of his generation. And as his latest album, DAMN., proves, he shows no signs of stopping. His third No. 1 in a row, the hotly anticipated release sees Lamar make another about-turn after the fearlessly creative excursions of 2015's To Pimp A Butterfly. If DAMN. is a more stripped-back, direct album, it's also another utterly compelling one. With his laidback flow and thought-provoking lyrics, it finds Kendrick at the very top of his game, making the personal political – and vice versa – and ensuring that he leads the charge, at a time when the world very much needs a voice like his.

1. Blood
2. DNA
3. Yah
4. Element
5. Feel
6. Loyalty feat. Rihanna
7. Pride
8. Humble
9. Lust
10. Love feat. Zacari
11. XXX feat. U2
12. Fear
13. God
14. Duckworth

If you've been sleeping on young Chicago rapper Juice WRLD, you're making a huge mistake. His dark and heartfelt new album Goodbye & Good Riddance is a strong major label debut for the fast rising 19-year-old. A 15 track ode to unrequited love and drug-addiction with zero features, it's home to the name making singles "All Girls Are The Same," "Lean Wit Me" and "Lucid Dreams." "I'm just trying to make music to help people through their situations and tell them about some of my own," he explains. "It's all genuine, so I think that's what adds to it."

1. Intro
2. All Girls Are the Same
3. Lucid Dreams
4. Lean Wit Me
5. I'm Still
6. Betrayal (Skit)
7. Candles
8. Scared of Love
9. Used To
10. Karma (Skit)
11. Hurt Me
12. Black & White
13. Long Gone
14. End of the Road
15. I'll Be Fine

Travis Scott Rodeo on 2LP + Download

Rodeo is the rousing, raw, and raucous full-length major label debut from Houston recording artist, producer, and songwriter Travis Scott, due out in November 2015 on Epic Records. Scott has been making serious waves across the industry. His most recent mixtape, Days Before Rodeo, received unanimous critical acclaim in 2015. FADER wrote, "He always brings an entirely new sound to each of his tracks," Billboard claimed " Travis Scott is in hot pursuit of solo rap stardom with his debut album," Complex called the production "top notch," and Pitchfork said, "Songs like "Mamacita" give you a good idea of just why Scott's star has risen so quickly."

LP1
1. Pornography
2. Oh My Dis Side
3. 3500
4. Wasted
5. 90210
6. Pray 4 Love

LP2
1. Nightcrawler
2. Piss On Your Grave
3. Antidote
4. Impossible
5. Maria I'm Drunk
6. Flying High
7. I Can Tell
8. Apple Pie

J Dilla Donuts on 2LP

Donuts began simply enough as an idea to turn a particularly good demo beat tape into a full-length release, and has since became a classic hip-hop album, one of the defining works of J Dilla's life.

Completed during a year J Dilla mostly spent in a hospital bed at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Donuts would gain particular poignancy when, only three days after it's release, February 10, 2006, the artist passed away, losing his battle with a rare blood disease.

Announced in the Fall of 2005, the concept of a “rap album without rappers” struck some as minor novelty, but Donuts would prove to transcend the rigid definitions of what a hip-hop album could be. It plays part like a DJ mix, part like a hip-hop beat maker at work, its songs starting and stopping unexpectedly, like someone turning the dial on an imaginary radio station. But it's an unmistakably modern album, and one which perfectly encapsulated the artist's reputation among his peers and fans as a top-rated architect of soulful hip-hop. 

J Dilla Donuts Track Listing:

1.  Donuts
2.  Workinonit
3.  Waves
4.  Light My Fire
5.  The New
6.  Stop
7.  People
8.  The Diff'rence
9.  Mash
10. Time: The Donut of the Heart
11. Glazed
12. Airworks
13. Lightworks
14. Stepson of the Clapper
15. The Twister (Huh, What)
16. One Eleven
17. Two Can Win
18. Don't Cry
19. Anti-American Graffiti
20. Geek Down
21. Thunder
22. Gobstopper
23. One for Ghost
24. Dilla Says Go
25. Walkinonit
26. The Factory
27. U-Love
28. Hi
29. Bye
30. Last Donut of the Night
31. Donuts (Intro)

Limit one per customer.  Double vinyl LP. Watching Movies With The Sound Off is the second studio album by rapper Mac Miller, originally released in 2013. The album continues the changes in his musical sound that he began with the mixtape Macadelic. Mac Miller has described the album as very introspective and very personal. The album features guest appearances from Earl Sweatshirt, Ab-Soul, Action Bronson, Schoolboy Q, Jay Electronica and Tyler The Creator among others. Production was handled primarily by Miller himself (under the pseudonym Larry Fisherman) among others such as Diplo, Tyler, The Creator, Flying Lotus, The Alchemist, Clams Casino, Earl Sweatshirt, J. Hill, Chuck Inglish and Pharrell Williams.

Tracks

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 The Star Room
• 2 Avian
• 3 I'm Not Real (Feat. Earl Sweatshirt)
• 4 S.D.S
• 5 Bird Call
• 6 Matches (Feat. Ab-Soul)
• 7 I Am Who Am (Killin' Time) [Feat. Niki Randa]
• 8 Objects in the Mirror
• 9 Red Dot Music (Feat. Action Bronson)
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Gees (Feat. Schoolboy Q)
• 2 Watching Movies
• 3 Suplexes Inside of Complexes and Duplexes
• 4 Remember
• 5 Someone Like You
• 6 Aquarium
• 7 Youforia
• 8 Goosebumpz (Bonus Track)
• 9 O.K. (Feat. Tyler, the Creator) [Bonus Track]
• 10 Claymation (Feat. Vinny Radio) [Bonus Track]

Debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and already certified Gold within a month of its release, Astroworld is the critically acclaimed third studio effort from Grammy-nominated rapper/producer Travis Scott. Named after a closed down amusement park in Houston, the sonically diverse collection matches its rollercoaster imagery (cover art by photographer David LaChapelle) with pulsating futuristic trap symphonies and wide-ranging guests like Stevie Wonder, Kid Cudi, Frank Ocean, Drake, The Weeknd, James Blake, Swae Lee, 21 Savage and Quavo. "...the project is Travis' best, most-progressive and most-well-rounded album to date. Hip-hop's token rager is becoming a truly unstoppable force" (XXL).

Tracks

1. Stargazing
2. Carousel
3. Sicko Mode
4. R.I.P Screw
5. Stop Trying To Be God
6. No Bystanders
7. Skeletons
8. Wake Up
9. 5% Tint
10. NC-17
11. Astrothunder
12. Yosemite
13. Can't Say
14. Who? What!
15. Butterfly Effect
16. Houstonfornication
17. Coffee Bean

OUTKAST/STANKONIA (2LP)

More ambitious and hook driven then their debut album, 2000's Stankonia is a trippy sort of technopsychedelic funk. Blending elements of hip-hop, alternative rap, southern rap and dirty south music with electronica and psychedelia earned the duo critical acclaim and broad audience appeal.

    1.   Intro (Benjamin/Brown/Patton/Sheats) - 1:09
    2.   Gasoline Dreams  performed by OutKast / Khujo Goodie / Goodie Mob - 3:34
    3.   I'm Cool (Interlude) - :42
    4.   So Fresh, So Clean (Benjamin/Patton) - 4:00
    5.   Ms. Jackson (Benjamin/Patton/Sheats) - 4:30
    6.   Snappin' & Trappin'  performed by OutKast / Killer Mike / J-Sweet - 4:19
    7.   D.F. (Interlude) - :27
    8.   Spaghetti Junction (Benjamin/Organized Noise/Patton) - 3:57
    9.   Kim & Cookie (Interlude) - 1:12
    10.   I'll Call Before I Come  performed by OutKast / Gangasta Boo / Eco - 4:18
    11.   B.O.B. (Benjamin/Patton/Sheats) - 5:04
    12.   Xplosion  performed by OutKast / B-Real - 4:08
    13.   Good Hair (Interlude) - :14
    14.   We Luv Deez Hoez  performed by OutKast / BackBone / Bigg Gipp - 4:10
    15.   Humble Mumble  performed by OutKast / Erykah Badu - 4:50
    16.   Drinking Again (Interlude) (Benjamin/Patton/Sheats) - :24
    17.   ? (Benjamin/Patton/Sheats) - 1:28
    18.   Red Velvet (Benjamin/Patton/Sheats) - 3:52
    19.   Cruisin' in the ATL (Interlude) (Andrews/Barnett/Benjamin/Loving/Mahone/Patton/Sheats) - :19
    20.   Gangsta Sh*t (Andrews/Barnett/Benjamin/Clinton/Loving/Mohone/Patton/Sheats) - 4:41
    21.   Toilet Tisha  performed by OutKast / Cee-Lo / Goodie Mob - 4:24
    22.   Slum Beautiful (Benjamin/Burton/Patton/Sheats) - 4:07
    23.   Pre-Nump (Interlude)  performed by OutKast / Big Rube / Sleepy Brown - :27
    24.   Stankonia (Bailey/Benjamin/Brown/Patton/Sheats) - 6:51

A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory on LP

A 1991 landscape-changing release from the pioneering hip-hop group, The Low End Theory embraced a minimalist approach and set the tables for the alternate rap movement that followed. The record spawned three hit singles and remains an oft-referenced classic.

A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory Track Listing:

1. Buggin' Out
2. Butter
3. Check The Rhime
4. Everything Is Fair
5. Excursions
6. Jazz (we Got The...)
7. Rap Promoter
8. Scenario
9. Show Business
10. Skypager
11. The Infamous Date Rape
12. Verses From The Abstract
13. Vivrant Thing
14. What?

In 1994, hip-hop was going through an at-times painful growth spurt. Since N.W.A.'s and Ice-T's ascent in the late '80s, the rap game was no longer owned by the East Coast. After the worldwide popularity of Dr. Dre's The Chronic in 1992, things were looking even worse for hip-hop's hometown. The East Coast / West Coast feud that would later indirectly claim the lives of Biggie and 2Pac was still in its infancy, but New York needed a shot in the arm. The hype behind young Queensbridge native Nasir "Nas" Jones had been in full swing months before his smash debut album Illmatic, thanks to Columbia Records' promo machine. From his earliest appearance on Main Source's "Live at the BBQ," to his own accomplished debut "Half Time" (as Nasty Nas, on the Zebrahead soundtrack in late 1992), it was clear that this kid was something special.

In fact, the pressure on him must have been overwhelming at times. April 19, 1994 couldn't have come soon enough. And as soon as the first lines of "N.Y. State of Mind" kick in, bolstered by perhaps DJ Premier's darkest beat of all time, the entire East Coast breathed a collective sigh of relief. God's Son had arrived. Backed by an absolute all-star cast of New York's top-shelf producers – Premier, Pete Rock, Large Professor, Q-Tip and a youngster named L.E.S. – the album never lets up. Serious to a fault, and lyrically dense to an extent that has possibly never been matched, the 20-year old Nas stood on the shoulders of his predecessors and proudly proclaimed, "Don't fuck with the East...we are back."

Illmatic was actually a slow-burn, which might surprise fans that have come to its genius more recently. Despite an unheard-of "5 Mics" in The Source – despite an unwritten rule of never awarding classic status to debuts – it didn't go gold until early 1996, and didn't hit platinum status until late 2001. But when you dive deeper that shouldn't be a shock: like Black Moon and Wu-Tang's debuts, it was a dark, hard record, tailor-made for heads in New York. There were no dance beats, no crossover love songs. Just boom-bap and rhymes, skills and heart.

1. The Genesis
2. N.Y. State of Mind
3. Life's A Bitch
4. The World Is Yours
5. Halftime
6. Memory Lane (Sittin' In Da Park)
7. One Love
8. One Time 4 Your Mind
9. Represent
10. It Ain't Hard To Tell