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Classic Hip-Hop Records

August 21, 2009



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to read the record reviews of these classics hip-hop records from 1983 – 1990;

The Rake – Street Justice – 12″
Beastie Boys – Cooky Puss b/w Beastie Revolution
Rammelzee vs. K-Rob – Beat Bop – 12″
Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five – Scorpio
Afrika Bambaataa & Soul Sonic Force – Renegades of Funk – 12″
Herbie Hancock – Rockit – 12″
The B Boys – Rock the House b/w Cutttin’Herbie
MC G.L.O.B.E. & Whiz Kid – Play That Beat Mr. DJ
X-Visitors – The Planet Doesn’t Mind – 12″
Cybotron – Clear – 12″
Kurtis Blow – 8 Million Stories/A.J. Scratch – 12″
The World Famous Supreme Team – Hey DJ – 12″
LL Cool J – I Need A Beat
The Art of Noise – Beat Box – 12″
D.S.T. – Why Is It Fresh – 12″
Arthur Baker – Breaker’s Revenge – 12″
Rock Master Scott – Request Line b/w The Roof Is On Fire
Dougy Fresh – The Original Human Beat Box – 12″
Doug E. Fresh – Just Having Fun (Do the Beat Box) – 12″
Cold Crush Brothers – Heartbreakers – 12″
Whodini – Escape – LP
Dynamic Force – It’s Not Right – 12″ Single
The Bboys – Girls PT. 1 and PT. 2 – 12″ Singles
Toddy Tee – Batterram – 12″
Beastie Boys – Rock Hard – 12″
MCA & Burzootie – Drum Machine – 12″
The Organisation – Big Beats – 12″
N.Y.C.Cutter – D.J. Cuttin’ – 12″
Marley Marl featuring MC Shan – Marley Marl Scratch – 12″
Death City Boyz – Bopsey Twins -12″
L.L. Cool J – You’ll Rock (remix) – 12″
Schoolly-D – Saturday Night b/w Do It Do It – 12″
The Real Roxanne w Hitman Howie Tee – Bang Zoom (Let’s Go-Go!)
Stereo Crew – She’s A Skag – 12″
Just-Ice – Cold Gettin’ Dumb – 12″
DJ Polo & Kool G. Rap – It’s a Demo b/w I’m Fly – 12″
Mr. X and Mr. Z – We Drink Old Gold/Kick It Wicked – 12″
Mikey D and the LA Posse – Bust A Rhyme Mike/My Telephone/Dawn
MC Mitchski – Brooklyn Blew Up the Bridge b/w Goya – 12″
Sean Baby & Ninja D – K.G. Dance (Wop) – 12″
Biz Markie featuring TJ Swan – Nobody Beats the Biz – 12″
Public Enemy – Public Enemy #1
Gangstarr – Believe Dat/Bust A Move/To Be A Champion
Gang Starr – The Lesson – 12″
Criminal Element Orchestra – Put the Needle to the Record – 12″
Kool Moe Dee – How Ya Like Me Now – LP
Eric B. and Rakim – Follow the Leader – LP
BMOC (Big Men On Campus) – Play That Funk – 12″
Biz Markie – Vapors – 12″
Cash Money and Marvelous – The Mighty Hard Rocker
The 45 King – The 900 Number
Father MC and the 1’st Fleet Crew – I’m Getting Better – 12″
Positive K. & M.C. Lyte – I’m Not Havin It – 12″
Too $hort – Life Is… Too $hort – LP
Tuff Crew – Back to Wreck Shop – LP
Butchy B – Hip-Hop Terrorist – 12″
Lord Finesse & DJ Mike Smooth – Funky Technician – LP
Special Ed – Legal – LP
L.L. Cool J. – Mama Said Knock You Out – LP
Above the Law – Livin’ Like Hustlers – LP

Back In The Day

May 2, 2009


Tony D (r.i.p.) at our Beatbox Fridays radio show at KCSF. This photo was taken in 1990 or 1991. Tony D was in a fatal car accident on April 4, 2009.


My Posse Is On Broadway! This photo is probably early 1992. Pictured 9 people but I can only name 8 – Darryl Lindsey, Billy Jam, Ed Locke, David Paul, Brian Samson, Davey D, Jammin John and Nasty Nes.


Ultramagnetic MCs at the Bomb “Summer Concert” at DNA Lounge, San Francisco – July 5th, 1993.


New Music Seminar – New York 1993. Pictured left to right – Apollo, Q-Bert, 8-Ball, Clark Kent (i think that’s him… right?) and Mixmaster Mike.

Essential Hip-Hop Albums

May 1, 2009

ESSENTIAL HIP-HOP ALBUMS FOR YOUR RAP COLLECTION

Hip-Hop Album Covers

There are so many albums that we split the rap lists into A and B. List A are must haves and list B are albums you should get after you have all the ones on list A. The list below is compiled so far by David P., Nicole A., Jeff H., DJ Pone, Chase, Jimmy Taco, Eric. R., Skinny Fresh, Nick, DoodlebugV2, Bps, T-Rock, Maurice J., Spence Dookey, Mike Nice, Mike P., Gert, Pej, Vincent V., Corey N., DJ Toast, M. Bull.

RAP ALBUMS : A LIST
DOC – No One Can Do It Better
Ultramagnetic MC’s – Critical Beatdown
Lord Finesse – Funky Technician
Alkaholiks – 21 & Over
Masta Ace – Slaughta House
Del – I Wish My Brother George Was Here
Main Source – Breaking Atoms
KRS One – Criminal Minded
Diamond and the Psychotic Neurotics – Stunts, Blunts, & Hip-Hop
Fugees – The Score
Black Sheep – A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing
Gang Starr – Step In the Arena
Geto Boys – Geto Boys
Run DMC – Raising Hell
Eazy E – Eazy Duz It
Dr. Dre – The Chronic
Pharcyde – Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo – Wanted : Dead or Alive
Organized Konfusion – Organized Konfusion
Mantronix – The Album
Wu-tang – 36 Chambers
Nas – Illmatic
Cypress Hill – self titled
Ice Cube – Amerikkka’s Most Wanted
Biz Markie – Goin’ Off
L.L. Cool J – Radio
NWA – Straight Outta Compton
Digital Underground – Sex Packets
EPMD – Unfinished Business
De La Soul – 3 Feet High And Rising
De La Soul – De La Soul Is Dead
Public Enemy – Yo! Bum Rush The Show
Public Enemy – It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
A Tribe Called Quest – The Low End Theory
3rd Bass – Cactus Album
Beastie Boys – Licensed To Ill
Beastie Boys – Pauls Boutique
Eric B & Rakim – Paid In Full
Jungle Bros. – Done By the Forces of Nature
BDP – By All Means Necessary
JVC Force – Doin Damage
D-Nice – Call Me D-Nice
Big Daddy Kane – Long Live the Kane

RAP ALBUMS : B LIST
Common Sense – Resurrection
Pete Rock & CL Smooth – Mecca & the Soul Brother
GZA – Liquid Swords
Ice T – O.G.
Slick Rick – Adventures of…
Nice & Smooth – self titled
3rd Bass – Derelicts of Dialect
A Tribe Called Quest – Midnight Mauraders
A Tribe Called Quest – People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
Jungle Brothers – Straight Out The Jungle
Paris – The Devil Made Me Do It
Brand Nubian – One For All
UMC’s – Fruits of Nature
Big L – The Big Picture
Jurassic 5 – Quality Control
Aceyalone – All Balls Don’t Bounce
Freestyle Fellowship – Inner City Griots
Outcast – Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
Leaders of the New School – A Future Without a Past
Geto Boys – Geto Boys
Run D.M.C. – self titled
T La Rock – Lyrical King
MC Shan – Down By Law
D-Nice – Call me D-Nice
X-Clan – To The East Backwards
Organised Konfusion – Stress
Hijack – The Horns Of Jerico
King Tee – At Your Own Risk
Low Profile – We’re In This Together
Alkaholiks – Coast 2 Coast
Kurious – A Constipated Monkey
Beatnuts – Street Level
Eric B. & Rakim – Follow The Leader
Big Daddy Kane – Looks Like a Job For…
Souls of Mischief – 93 Til…
Jeru – The Sun Rises In The East
Redman – Whut the album
Blackalicious – Melodica ep
Stetsasonic – On Fire
King Sun – Righteous But Ruthless
Chill Rob G – Ride the Rhythm
Too Short – Life Is…
Black Moon – Enter Da Stage
EPMD – Strictly Business
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo – Road to the Riches

classic UK hip-hop : Hijack live

April 26, 2009

The Cream Always Rises To The Top

April 25, 2009

Here’s part of an email that DJ Agent 86 sent to me the other day. Words of wisdom.

“There’s something I learnt a long time ago (well, about 7 or 8 years ago) – and this sounds pathetically cliche, but I’ve found it to be true: the cream always rises to the top.

When I first moved to Melbourne in 2000, I’d already been DJing for 11 years, but I found it extremely difficult to find work. In time, however, people started booking me every now & then, here & there, and it grew from there.

Now I’m not the world’s best DJ, but I ain’t crap either – and at the time most cats were stuck in one style: you were a “Hip-Hop DJ” so you weren’t allowed to play anything with vocals or anything that the most seemingly “hardcore” Hip-Hop DJ wouldn’t play, or you were a house DJ and you would never consider playing anything with a “boom-bap”, or you were an RnB DJ so you could never play anything too hardcore or “electronic”, etc, etc. I came along & smashed that. I was playing everything (rock, pop, hip-hop, r&b, funk, techno, house, disco, electro, new-wave, etc) – and cuttin’ it up and breakin’ it down to boot. Hip-Hop DJ’s hated me, house dj’s didn’t get it, promoters didn’t know what to say and many punters were confused – but in time it started working – and now? Everyone is “eclectic”!!

I guess what I’m tryin’ to say is, stick to your guns & I’m sure things will turn around. These homeboys who bought Serato & download music from blogs? You know, blogs are now the way kids “dig” – they don’t get their fingers dusty anymore. Chances are they don’t even really like music. When it comes time to take the next step, 95% will step off. In my 20 years DJ’ing I’ve seen suckers come & go more times than I can remember.”

Hip-Hop Stickers

April 14, 2009







Perfect “hip-hop” Christmas gifts

December 1, 2008

BACK IN STOCK. We’ve imported two posters from Canada. Both are limited edition posters and are $25 each (price includes shipping & handling in the US/Canada) or $30 each with international shipping anywhere in the world . If you would like to purchase one CLICK HERE.

Poster Title: History of Rap
Artist: Mcleod, Kagan
Dimensions: 17.5″x30″
Specifications: Metallic blue/black ink, 100 lb paper
Front: 469 Rap Portraits
Back: Bios and recommended listening for each artist
History of Rap poster

Poster Title: Hip-Hop LP’s Poster
96 LPs covers total
Design and layout by U-Tern
Dimensions: 24″ x 37″
A perfect gift for any hip-hop fan.
Hip-Hop LP's poster

Bomb Hip-Hop Anniversary

October 4, 2008

In Oct of 2001 Bomb Hip-Hop celebrated it’s 10 year anniversary. Mark your calendars, October 2011 we will be celebrating our 20 year anniversary in San Francisco. Yeah, yeah… it’s in 3 years, but hey, it gives you plenty of time to make your reservations…


Dan the Automator


Peanut Butter Wolf


DJ Apollo