Cheers everyone,
This is me back again with some rare hip-hop backstories. Got this one fairly recently as a supplement to my discogs order for other more notable vinyl records. I rarely order 1 vinyl separately in order to save on combined shipping. So this time I added what I needed to my order and started to fill those ''package gaps'' with 2-3 other records. And that cover caught my eye. Well, not a rare sight but the album cover resembled Beastie Boys...
2021-01-18 18:41:41 +0000 UTC
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What's up everyone!
Another day another batch. First of all I wanted to thank you for your support. And remember, this is not a sponsorship, premium or something. This is a supportive action which results in an acceptable hoster and for the left and unpaid money in taxes I get several records, I later rip and bring back to you.
So if you feel challenged by this and not finding 200-300 posts in 6-9 days not worth it, then you can alwa...
2021-01-18 14:03:23 +0000 UTC
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It's 2021. We have this COVID-19 ongoing now pandemic. We also have many self-proclaimed experts on the internet that seem to know THE TRUTH about everything. We also have conservatives, liberals, radicals... We have everything basically because we live in a multi-faceted society where everyone is entitled to and surely have their own opinion. So it seems only logical that it's hard to find understanding and animosity. There's an old saying in my country: ''where there are two persons...
2021-01-11 13:31:37 +0000 UTC
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This post might be the most controversial I have written here thus far, but those ''bad-good-ideal-wack'' opinionated (let's call it that way) assessments are always biased. My bias this time will be related to one of the hip-hop pioneers, most known 70's- early 80's party emcees - BUSY BEE STARSKI.
There's no discussion of how crucial he was to the emergence of hip-hop and how effectively he could move the crowd. The guy was popular back in the day and is...
2021-01-11 12:46:00 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone,
I hope you're having a blessed first one-and-a-half weeks of this new year. Up in here we are still battling the pandemics and still into the Wave 2 with terrible statistics and no light at the end of the tunnel... yet. In relation to this, I am making the biggest batch of digital cratediggin' goodies thus far. Unfortunately, remote work still means more duties for me even if it's Sunday. So, I will keep it short this time on the text side,...
2021-01-10 16:27:27 +0000 UTC
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Hi,
Today I was about to make another Digital Cratediggin' batch but had to change the course due to unfortunate news of legendary MF Doom passing away. News were reported in December 31, exactly 2 months after Doom left this world. This was as mysterious as his entire persona and career. No one else (at least in my opinion) could impersonate so many different alter egos and make us passionately follow their trials and tribulations, ups and downs. No one else co...
2021-01-03 17:22:27 +0000 UTC
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Greetings everyone,
Just a few days until the end of 2020, and this been a rough one. I won't dive into specifics because we all already know that. Anyways, I just hope everyone is allright and healthy, and ready to live the best of their lives next year. Of course, the pandemic won't swipe itself away starting 2021, but we can hope our collective effort, understanding and a bit of luck will eradicate it as soon as possible.
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2020-12-29 17:29:54 +0000 UTC
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Greetings everyone!
Christmas time has arrived and the new year is around the corner too. 2020 been kinda rough and challenging for everyone. Many bad things have happened to our society economically, socially and politically. The words ''tier'', ''restrictions'', ''curfew'', ''telecommuting aka working from home'' have become part of our daily life. Where I live the society has been extremely polarized. One side are willing to wear a mask and obey the restricti...
2020-12-25 12:21:41 +0000 UTC
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Profile Records has had a fair share of artists signed for one single or one album deal that were discontinued after the debut failing to sell quantitatively... or to deliver qualitatively. Our today's protagonists did (''or didn't'' might more precise) both in my opinion.
Since I haven't quite followed these guys, I had to rely on the wiki information which I gotta say is very scarce. What we get is this: ''The Surf MC's were an American hip hop group fro...
2020-12-22 18:09:29 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone,
I am back today with few goodies. Would have done these much faster but had some unwanted hype in relation to my personal condition and COVID-19 test I had to take. Turned negative so now I can dedicate my thoughts on the latest batch write-up.
This is the biggest batch thus far and was meant to be a Christmas batch, but I think I will make a separate post bout that in the next few days (will be about 10 of my fave Ch...
2020-12-22 13:40:10 +0000 UTC
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Whats up?
End of 2020 is approaching kinda fast. It's been not the best year of our lives I gather, but at least when I get the blues, I dig out some music I like. Today I took out more than expected.
Unfortunately, I will not do a write-up for this one due to my extensive recent workload. I will tr to bounce back in following weeks. I have few write-up things I plan to post aside from these digi cratedigiggin' posts so stay tuned.&n...
2020-12-16 21:04:46 +0000 UTC
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Good day everyone!
Today we get another batch of goodies inside this one. As always - some are rare, some not so much but together they take you to a solid aural escapade. Sub-genres are as always... I guess East Coast classics and contemporaries are predominant, but other gems from other geographical locations can be found here. So let's start with the nominations.
1) When you have 60+ items, it's hard to just highlight a few, but that's ...
2020-12-13 14:29:53 +0000 UTC
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Greetings my friends,
Today I have a solid megabatch for y'all. East coast, West coast, Southern hip-hop. Midwest, UK hip-hops mostly. So that's the geographical cross-section...
Many notable gems, some rare, some obscure, some more common. Since there are many gems in here, it's hard to nominate just three. But I will try.
1) Blak Prophetz is one of those underground rap groups that deffo need more...
2020-12-10 20:14:26 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone,
New day and another batch. Similarly to the one 2 days prior, I will keep the writing short without the nominations and all the background. Been mad few latest weeks with works and all that. But wanted you to know that working from home has its benefints aswell apart from restructuring my work schedule and specific duties being more time consuming. One of those would be that I get to spin few vinyls that were left in my shelves. Managed to ...
2020-12-07 10:38:06 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
Today I am back with another batch of digital random albums/singles that were randomly selected. Well, if there's more than 1 entry (let's say 3 Pete Rock releases), then the subsequent releases are not random, but added to the first one. But I hope you get what I'm thinking.
Today we got many solid releases. East coast mostly (sorry for those who into G raps). Please note that despite so many East coast releases, I w...
2020-12-05 11:21:31 +0000 UTC
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Hiya everyone!
Another day another batch. This time I had different time schedule so I went along with those who prefer to listen than to read. So today I will be skipping a write-up nominations and jus put the whole list of entries. This does not mean these lack goodies in here - just check that post cover compilation. Was spinning that one
2020-12-02 17:04:55 +0000 UTC
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Hiya fellas, another day another batch. I think I won't be able to deliver for the next 2 days so here's a load of goodies for the 2nd day in a row. And also 3 mentions:
1) 2 LIVE CREW - you either love them or hate them, but they are massive legends for the Miami Bass scene and for the overall freedom of speech within rap lyrics. These guys spent some time goi...
2020-11-30 12:39:33 +0000 UTC
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What's up eggedz, it's me again... Back with another installment of random digital cratediggin' nuggets. This time you get more UK hip-hop and a bit of compilations, West Coast hip-hop, Old school hip-hop, and the usual East Coast material is predominantly present as always... So here are my 3 nominations of today:
1) Named after Joseph Heller's 1950's satirical novel, the first nomination are British avant garde rap group KATCH 22. If you are into 90's UK hip-h...
2020-11-29 18:32:54 +0000 UTC
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Greetings everyone,
Sorry - been mad busy this week. The good thing is, I got my hands of few dope vinyl releases that haven't been qualitatively digitized so far. One of those is SHE-ROCKERS - ROCKER FROM LONDON . Already gave it a spin and it sounds greater than I remember...
Anyways, I also managed to do a wrap-up of what had happened from November 21s to 26s in our beloved hip-hop universe. Many good albums released, few unfortunate events, and few birthdays. So le...
2020-11-28 13:12:18 +0000 UTC
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Good day people!
Today we have a solid selection of some contemporaries and some classics. Some East Coast, some West Coast Underground, some Midwest, some Canadian, and some old school electro-funk. So what exactly for today's breakfast apart from some eggs and bacon? 3 nominations are here -
1) When two hip-hop masterminds meet, there's something good to come out of it. That's exactly what hatched in March 23, 2004 when Madvillainy...
2020-11-25 09:19:49 +0000 UTC
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Hiya everyone,
there are two types of crate diggers - ones who dig stuff they love and know, and others who kinda get entangled into that 'surprise me' mode when you just cop something you never heard about and partially hope it's rare, but also good. Well, I'm more of a latter, and sometimes I strike good, sometimes I got good+rare (when I got
2020-11-23 19:48:28 +0000 UTC
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Whudup everyone!
I am back with new cratediggin' selection - some West coast, funk/soul, old school and east coast, UK hip-hop in this one. Also one Swedish hip-hop boom bap release. Some rare, some less rare. Some classic, some less classic.
So here are my 3 mentions -
1) Kool G Rap and DJ Polo were a part of Juice Crew. One of first rap supergroups of artists united under a label. However, Kool G Rap's ...
2020-11-23 14:09:54 +0000 UTC
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What's up everyone! I know it's 21st already but there are some events in the hip-hop world I must remind of. Between 16th and 20th there have been many great releases and also birthdays of later known hip-hop figures. And as always, check the gallery, preview tracks. This time I will keep it a bit short.
November 16 (Part 2)
This date has had many significant moments. I posted the first ones few days ago 2020-11-21 14:56:22 +0000 UTC
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Hey ladies and gents once again. Today I got a big batch for you. Dropping random selection of 30 entries for all hip-hop tastes (hopefully). This one has few singles, few dope albums. So here are 3 my nominations out of it.
- As a part of ODB month (R.I.P.) I am including 3 releases by Ol' Dirty Bastard - N***a Please 20th Anniversary Remaster and Return to the 36 Chambers The Dirty Version 25th Anniversary reissue. Interestingly, both were made available...
2020-11-19 23:38:54 +0000 UTC
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Heyo everybody, I am back with another batch with 24 entries. Albums, singles, CDs releases, vinyl releases. As always, I will try to nominate 3 of these entries and tell what's up -
1) Wild Style Soundtrack CD reissue of 1998. Tell me, has there ever been more iconic and influential hip-hop movie? Wild Style movie is notable for featuring several prominent figures from early hip hop culture such as Busy Bee Starski, Fab Five Freddy, The Cold Crush Brother...
2020-11-17 23:26:38 +0000 UTC
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Well, another November day, another past events. This time I would like to highlight 4 albums that were dropped on this day back in 90's. I guess you know all them very well.
[1999] Raekwon released Immobilarity, his 2nd solo album that later went Gold. Unlike the first album, it had no production input from the RZA, or any guest features from Ghostface Killah. However, the album does feature Method Man and Masta Killa, and is quite similar to ...
2020-11-16 23:13:23 +0000 UTC
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Good day to everyone. As you might or might not have noticed I did not post write-ups on hip-hop history of the day for last several days. So I will catch up and do a brief wrap of what has happened related to hip-hop era on these dates. These mostly are releases of iconic rap albums, birthdays and unfortunate deaths of hip-hop icons we all love. I will keep it brief this time, since here's much to cover. Also you will find preview tracks attached and full HQ rips soon after the publi...
2020-11-15 22:09:19 +0000 UTC
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Today we got a solid selection of digital goodies. I will try to point 3 main recommendations out of this batch.
+ MC Overlord is widely considered as the best rapper ever to come out of Austin, Texas. He is also the pioneer of Austin's hip-hop scene. His career had spanned solid three decades and produced solid albums and tracks. However, while having a great recognition among local Texas communities, he remained obscure to nationwide and internation...
2020-11-15 11:41:29 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys. I know many of you are fans of the conscious rap. For myself, I always had special sympathies for anything that is released by Poor Righteous Teachers and Wise Intelligent, Brand Nubian (incl. solos of Sadat X, Grand Puba and Lord Jamar). Those records and lyrics are great and possess additional more...
2020-11-14 18:02:25 +0000 UTC
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Allright, ladies and gents. Today we get more tunes because I can't guarantee how my tomorrow schedule will go. So you get 21 cover. Mostly 80's - 90's jams. Notable mentions?
- Poor Righteous Teachers Rare and Unreleased comp. not so easy to get. Despite the fact it sounds as mastered quite poorly, it's always to get some extra material from one of the finest Golden age conscious rap groups. Also gotta mention ROCK THIS FUNKY JOINT - a dope track from PRT's debut album....
2020-11-13 16:26:59 +0000 UTC
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