Essential Hip-Hop Records on Vinyl

There's a lot of hubbub in the rap cognoscenti around this new release from Daniel Dumile, man of a thousand (well, at least 5) names. He's hardly ...

Although Mac Miller started working on Circles soon after Swimming, his tragic, untimely passing in September of 2018 didn't allow the beloved rapp...

Now on deluxe colored vinyl! For me, buying MF Doom records is one of the few activities that captures that feeling of refuge found in thrift store...

Heavy album of the year vibes here. SZA hails from New Jersey (born in St. Louis, Missouri), and after 2012's self-released See.SZA.Run, she inked ...

Everybody knew 6 months ago that Kanye's album was gonna be serious. Ever since the buzz on his solo stuff started, he's been producing bigger and ...

4th full-length from Tyler, The Creator! And yes, it's the one where he raps "I've been kissing white boys since 2004" ("I Ain't Got Time"). There ...

Finally reissued! In the grand scheme of things, 10 years isn't really THAT long for a record to be out of print... but for an album as seminal as ...

New Kung Fu Kenny!!! DAMN. is the name of the album, and damn, Kendrick Lamar has done it again. 4 albums in, K.Dot... Rather, KUNG FU KENNY (Kid C...

Mos' classic full length solo debut, back on official double vinyl! Black On Both Sides is one of the crown jewels in the Rawkus catalog - an esse...

The long-awaited collaborative album between Kanye West & Kid Cudi, aka Kids See Ghosts, came as the third release of a series of 5 LPs executi...

DEBUT ALBUM FROM RAPPER / ACTOR DONALD "I LOVE MIGOS" GLOVER. Preceded by 2010’s Culdesac mixtape and 2011’s EP, Camp is the first offical full-len...

What do you follow up Illmatic, one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time, with? For Nas, the answer was It Was Written, the Queensbridge MC's...

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...

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...

Eyo, can you believe this freakin guy? I have no clue where I stand on Kanye West. Why is he the only rapper whose ego bugs the fuck out of me? How...

This official Bad Boy and Rhino reissue of Ready To Die is obviously a much welcome release - finally making one of the greatest hip hop albums of ...

It’s hard to think of any other rapper with as many classic records under their belt at the age of 24 as The Notorious BIG. The epic and eerie trip...

Finally repressed! Here's our original review circa early 2000 (sku: hh-009!) When this came out everybody I know was feelin' exactly the same way ...

Lab exclusivo! Celebrating ten years of DJ Rashad's full-length masterpiece, newly reissued on Partisan Records with refreshed gold foil stamped co...

The return of the Canadian crooner. The former OVO affiliate that once was very much behind the scenes grabbing attention with a three part mixtape...

The Roots' unknown first album, produced so they would have something to sell on their first European tour and released independently in 1993 befor...

Finally, El-P's explosive solo debut gets a proper vinyl reissue! Originally released on the Def Jux label in 2002, the album saw El Producto pushi...

Isn't it cool when a group you really like comes out after a long hiatus with a really dope record? That's what happened with De La Soul on Stakes ...

Vaudeville Villain back in print! Fans of the metal faced villain probably already know this album inside and out, but for those who slept on it, h...

Triple black vinyl edition! Call it a phenomenon. Atmosphere, an enigmatic frontman and one of the best producers to come from the of Mid-West scen...

It's bigger than hip-hop! Dead Prez' politically-charged 2000 debut full length gets the Get On Down reissue treatment. Lets Get Free offers politi...

"Grammy Award-winning multiplatinum superstar Drake returned in April 2016 with his fourth official full-length effort, Views, and yet another Bill...

1990 seems so far away. This was an important record back then and anything that had "sex" in the title was so edgy. Add black dudes wearing pimp g...

"Double vinyl LP pressing. One In A Million is the second studio album by Aaliyah. First released in 1996 by Blackground Records, the album feature...

Ten whole years of Jewel Running! El-P and Killer Mike reissue their first dispatch as Run The Jewels to celebrate the occasion, expanded onto 2LP ...

Gatefold pressing of KMD's classic Black Bastards! KMD's Mr. Hood is an early 90s lost masterpiece... deceptively playful. For their second album, ...

"Street's disciple, my raps are trifle / I shoot slugs from my brain just like a rifle." Breaking Atoms is the album that introduced Nasty Nas to ...

The art of storytellin, nobody does it better than Slick Rick. Every song is constructed of full sentences with some of the funniest shit I had eve...