Hip-Hop Vinyl Records

Repressed! J Dilla's 4th album from 2007 (2006 in Japan), which has been out-of-print for years, finally gets an official uncut pressing. Jay Love ...

Malibu comes by way of Venice and Compton, and it is the latter that really broke out the Oxnard triple-threat (he sings, raps, and produces) forme...

The smooth operator's BEST. There isn't much to say here other than BUY THIS ISH. While this is technically a 'Best Of' and there are plenty of hit...

Second studio album from Los Angeles' Earl Sweatshirt. I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside - An Album by Earl Sweatshirt opens with some rather c...

major breakout for Odd Future affiliates. Syd the Kyd and her Wolf Gang squad are back at it again with their unique brand of modern R&B. While...

Tunnel banger! According to long-time Tunnel DJ Cipha Sounds—he warmed up the crowd for Flex & broke a lot of new records until Flex would give...

So much drama surrounded Slum Village's debut album: first they were dropped from Interscope, then Vol. 2 was released as a Euro import/boot, then...

Official pressing of The Weeknd's sophomore mixtape! By this point in the Weeknd's burgeoning career we were started to get a better picture of the...

King Kendrick holds the throne. Gonna keep this short and sweet. This album is EVERYTHING Hip Hop should be in 2015. Conscious but not boring, styl...

Bronsolini going strictly for the jeeps. Though Bronson been getting a lot of flack lately from the internet masses, I still have a penchant for th...

Full length debut from Knxwledge on Stones Throw. Glen Boothe aka Knxwledge has been steady bubbling for a minute now. His beats have thoroughly pe...

Jurassic 5 flexed serious old-to-the-new muscles in the '90s, beginning with their independently-released single Unified Rebelution in 1994, and b...

D'angelo's 1995 debut reissued on double white vinyl! Remember how blown away you were when you first heard "Brown Sugar"? Dude was playing a B3 or...

Deluxe reissue of UGK's classic third album. Before Pimp C (RIP) and Bun B were guesting on Jay-Z records and "Sippin' on Some Syrup" with Three 6 ...

Critically acclaimed 1998 debut from Ms. Hill. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is a stone cold classic that launched Lauryn's solo career and lande...

Another sure shot collabo from the super MF villain MF Doom and 18 year old New Yorker Bishop Nehru. Feels like it's been a minute since we've hear...

Debut album from one of Norcal's most notorious exports. The Money Store found Death Grips signed to Epic Records and getting much attention in the...

Reissue of NOW's most popular album from 1995, Smoker's Delight, from the good folks at Warp. I always thought the cover and title had a lot to do ...

Another essential cassette release from Stones Throw with a limited edition pressing of Madvillainy on tape! You already know what it is. Easily on...

It's the new! Stones Throw hooking it up in a major way with a limited edition cassette version of Donuts. J Dilla's final release and a certified ...

Third installment in Madlib's vicious Beat Konducta instrumental series. This time the good professor embraces the Indian nation for a new mutation...

Ready or not here I come! You know what this is, if you don't it's time to get familiar. The Fugees' sophomore album, The Score, made the group wor...

Deluxe 20th anniversary reissue of Nas' classic debut! Columbia has pulled out all the stops to commemorate this landmark in hip hop's history. Fro...

'Lib and Gibbs full length collab debut! Freddie Gibbs describes Pinata best - "a gangster Blaxploitation film on wax" (or in this case, magnetic t...

This is where it all began folks. Before Stankonia, Aquemini, and ATLiens.. and long before Dre became "3000", they were two Southern rappers with ...

So damn good. The sophomore album from Devonte Hynes aka Blood Orange is here, and it's something of a revelation. With pop music becoming more and...

Certified West Coast classic right here! Straight Outta Compton introduced the world to Easy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, MC Ren and DJ Yella, and ushered...

Operation Doomsday never sounded better! For the Silver Age Set, the classic Doom album gets a fresh remaster. The records themselves are housed in...

It took me a long time to write this review. I tried to do it the way Madlib made the record: I smoked about 3 ounces of high grade and then got do...

Absolutely no Harlem Shaking was done while recording this record. A$AP Rocky caused waves of commotion via the interwebz in 2011/12 with the relea...

Instrumental hip hop album built from vintage Vietnamese pop records picked up in flea markets on a trip to the far east. Onra delivers a tight sel...

Man oh man oh man, Over 2 decades later and this still sounds so ridiculously fresh. Double vinyl version of this '91 hip-hop classic, featuring a ...

Can't believe we've never had this one up in the Lab before. K Lim said it best on his review of the Black Nostaljack 12" - "If any of you think th...

Hard to believe we never picked this up back when it was released, but you gotta understand that we were on the tail end of our hip hop snob days b...

"Bitches ain't shit but hos and tricks, lick on the nuts and suck the dick..." Ahhh, quality ish. My earliest memory of this record was when Dr. Dr...

All of ATCQ best material in one place - It's a no brainer! The Anthology is basically the "best of" Tribe - the classic jams are all here from the...

By special request, Stones Throw has pressed up copies of Dilla's beat sketch masterpiece Donuts with the "smile" cover, originally used for the CD...

This is the long awaited collabo between underground (if there still is such thing) hip-hop's two most esteemed producers: Madlib (Lootpack, Quasim...

Now with pic sleeve! Madlib steeze. Complete instrumentals from the Madvillainy album pressed on double vinyl. Let the music do the talking. Check:...

My style is the best. When those first Wu-Tang covers 7"s dropped, it was definitely a lightbulb moment for El Michels Affair. The response was ra...

Where were you in 1998? It feels kinda funny to look back at Peanut Butter Wolf's My Vinyl Weighs A Ton more than 10 years on. Does the dude even n...

2LP reissue of Dilla's lost masterpiece. Available briefly as a vinyl EP back in 2003 on the small German label Mummy, Stones Throw has gone super-...

Nothing much more to say about this... it changed mi life! black vinyl pressing original release year: 1993 music label: Jive 2015 reviewed by th...

In one of the biggest stealth moves ever, Jay Dee spent the last decade rising from underground prodigy to deified musical martyr, quietly redefini...

When Donuts first rolled into the Lab, I gave it a cursory listen, and, wanting to get home to the new episode of Lost as quickly as possible, toss...

The Roots have always come original, and the fans know better than to expect a trendy album in '06.  "Game Theory" definitely stays true to that.  ...

black double vinyl pressing gatefold sleeve music label: Universal 2009