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

Vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. 2019 release. Igor is the fifth studio album by rapper Tyler, The Creator. Produced entirely by Tyler, the album follows the 2017 release of Flower Boy. It features guest appearances from Playboi Carti, Lil Uzi Vert, Solange, Kanye West, and Jerrod Carmichael, along with backing vocals from Santigold, Jessy Wilson, La Roux, CeeLo Green, Charlie Wilson, Slowthai, and Pharrell, among others.

Tracks

1. Igor's Theme
2. Earfquake
3. I Think
4. Boyfriend
5. Running Out of Time
6. New Magic Wand
7. A Boy Is A Gun
8. Puppet
9. What's Good
10. Gone, Gone / Thank You
11. I Don't Love You Anymore
12. Are We Still Friends?

Odd Future co-founder and mini mogul Tyler The Creator issues his fourth studio album, Flower Boy on Columbia Records. Debuting at No. 2 on the US Billboard 200, the fully realized follow-up to 2015's Cherry Bomb is ushered in by the formidable singles "Who Dat Boy" with A$AP Rocky and "911 / Mr. Lonely" with Frank Ocean, Steve Lacy and Anna of the North and finds Tyler maturing as both a writer and producer. "Built on memories and not relying on nostalgia too heavily, Flower Boy is a beautiful album about the realities of growing up," writes Pigeons And Planes. "Losing friends, reminiscing, but not glorifying the teenage days when jokes were funnier the more offensive they are."

Tracks

LP1

1. Foreword
2. Where This Flower Blooms
3. Sometimes...
4. See You Again
5. Who Dat Boy?
6. Pothole
7. Garden Shed

LP2

1. Boredom
2. I Ain't Got Time!
3. 911 / Mr. Lonely
4. Dropping Seeds
5. November
6. Glitter
7. Enjoy Right Now Today

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

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

Awaken, My Love! is the Gold-certified third album from entertainer extraordinaire Donald Glover aka Childish Gambino (a leading voice in contemporary culture who was recently ranked in TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of the Year) and first since 2013. As Childish Gambino once again sheds his skin, Awaken, My Love! is a true sonic evolution described as R&B meets Pink Floyd, and an amalgam of rock, funk, and soul influences. It serves as the groundbreaking next step from the multi-talented artist following the genre blending STN MTN / Kauai mixtape, the twice-Grammy nominated Because The Internet and his Golden Globe winning FX series Atlanta. Featuring the singles "Me and Your Mama" and "Redbone," Awaken, My Love! was released to critical acclaim in December 2016 and marked Gambino's highest Billboard chart debut to date. Earmarked as one of the year's most seminal albums on an array of year-end lists, it's also been praised by fellow musicians like George Clinton, Questlove, Drake, Chance the Rapper and Pharrell, who stated "His album is genius."

Tracks

1. Me and Your Mama
2. Have Some Love
3. Boogieman
4. Zombies
5. Riot
6. Redbone
7. California
8. Terrified
9. Baby Boy
10. The Night Me and Your Mama Met
11. Stand Tall

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

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

Tyler, The Creator (OFWGKTA) Goblin on 2LP

“Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All are a 10-deep hip-hop collective. But don’t dare call them the new Wu-Tang Clan. They insist they’re different. The collective features rappers, producers, visual artists, skate kids, contrarians, outcasts, amoral teenagers, and fatherless children. Their de facto leader is a 19-year-old who calls himself Tyler, the Creator AKA Ace Creator. He is a rapper-producer. His album, Bastard, is among the most stunning things released in the past 12 months. He possesses a charred, viscous groan of a voice; sometimes he manipulates the frequency to make it even deeper and darker.”- Pitchfork

Tyler, The Creator Goblin Track Listing:

1.  Goblin
2.  Yonkers
3.  Radicals
4.  She (feat. Frank Ocean)
5.  Transylvania
6.  Nightmare
7.  Tron Cat
8.  Her
9.  Sandwitches (feat. Hodgy Beats)
10. Fish/Boppin Bitch
11. Analog (feat. Hodgy Beats)
12. Bitch Suck Dick (feat. Jasper Dolphin & Taco)
13. Window (feat. Domo Genesis, Frank Ocean, Hodgy Beats & Mike G)
14. AU79
15. Golden

Kids See Ghosts is the eponymous debut from the hip hop duo of the same name featuring Kanye West and Kid Cudi and the third of five 7-track 2018 albums produced by West succeeding Pusha T's Daytona and his own ye and preceding Nas' Nasir and Teyana Taylor's K.T.S.E. Fans have been anticipating an album length project from the longtime collaborators for a decade now and the intriguing Kids See Ghosts is a cathartic and confessional affair with both artists documenting bouts of depression and struggles with drug abuse throughout. "We just have this chemistry that's undeniable, especially when we have to fight for it with each other," Cudi said. It includes contributions from Pusha T, Yasiin Bey, Ty Dolla Sign and a posthumous vocal sample of Louis Prima.

1. Feel The Love
2. Fire
3. 4th Dimension
4. Freeee (Ghost Town Pt. 2)
5. Reborn
6. Kids See Ghosts
7. Cudi Montage

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

In November 1986, the Beastie Boys released their debut album Licensed To Ill on Def Jam/Columbia. It stands as one of Columbia's fastest-selling debuts to date and eventually sold over nine million copies in the U.S. alone. Licensed To Ill is still the only album by a white hip-hop act to receive the coveted 5 mics from the Source who has selected the album as one of the best 100 Best Rap Albums of all-time. Playful music videos were made for the classic cuts "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)," "No Sleep Till Brooklyn," "Girls," "Hold It Now Hit It," "Rhymin' and Stealin'" and "She's Crafty," while further gems like "Brass Monkey," "Paul Revere," and "Time To Get Ill" proved Licensed To Ill to be all killer no filler.

Kerry King of Slayer even made an appearance on the album playing lead guitar on "No Sleep Till Brooklyn," which was named as a spoof on Motorhead's No Sleep 'til Hammersmith album. King's appearance came about because Rick Rubin was producing both bands simultaneously (Slayer's Reign in Blood was also originally released on Dej Jam). The album's iconic cover, front to back, features a Boeing 727 - with Beastie Boys emblazoned on the tail - crashing head-on into the side of a mountain, appearing as an extinguished joint. The tail of the plane has the Def Jam logo and the legend '3MTA3' which spells 'EATME' when viewed in a mirror.

1. Rhymin & Stealin
2. The New Style
3. She's Crafty
4. Posse In Effect
5. Slow Ride
6. Girls
7. Fight For Your Right
8. No Sleep Till Brooklyn
9. Paul Revere
10. Hold It Now, Hit It
11. Brass Monkey
12. Slow And Low
13. Time To Get Ill

Double vinyl LP pressing. 2014 release, the third album from the rapper. The album was named after his childhood home address 2014 Forest Hills Drive. Produced by J. Cole with guest producers Elite, Ron Gilmore, Tray Samuels, DJ Dahl, Illmind, Cardiak, CritCal, Vinylz, Organized Noize and Jproof. Cole calls out white rappers Justin Timberlake, Eminem and Macklemore on the track "Fire Squad" hinting "history repeats itself" ala the Elvis rip-off controversy in the '50s.

Tracks

• 1 Intro
• 2 January 28th
• 3 Wet Dreamz
• 4 03' Adolescence
• 5 A Tale of 2 Citiez
• 6 Fire Squad
• 7 St. Tropez
• 8 G.O.M.D
• 9 No Role Modelz
• 10 Hello
• 11 Apparently
• 12 Note to Self

“Whitey Ford Sings the Blues” is the first album from Everlast, following his departure from House Of Pain and was released in 1998. The record was both a commercial and critical success, selling more than 3 million copies worldwide and certified double platinum. The track “What It’s Like” earned Everlast a Grammy Award nomination for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance.

A1. The White Boy Is Back
A2. Money (Dollar Bill)
A3. Ends
A4. What It's Like
B1. Get Down
B2. Sen Dog
B3. Tired
B4. Hot To Death
B5. Painkillers
C1. Prince Paul
C2. Praise The Lord
C3. Today (Watch Me Shine)
C4. Guru
C5. Death Comes Callin'
D1. Funky Beat
D2. The Letter
D3. 7 Years
D4. Next Man

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

Double vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket including digital download. 2017 release from the El Paso-based singer/songwriter. Khalid burst onto the music scene with his first single "Location", which received great critical acclaim. By 18-years-old, Khalid, who is classically vocal trained, had drawn on his experiences with moving often and the unique experience of growing up having lived in two continents and parlayed them into the creation of his viral smash, "Location". Khalid released "Location" before his high school graduation and it garnered over 1.52 million plays in less than two months, along with critical praise from various music tastemakers. And to think he became a sensation right out of high school!

Tracks

LP1

1. American Teen
2. Young Dumb & Broke
3. Location
4. Another Sad Love Song
5. Saved
6. Coaster
7. 8Teen
8. Let's Go

LP2

1. Hopeless
2. Cold Blooded
3. Winter
4. Therapy
5. Keep Me
6. Shot Down
7. Angels