Various Artists - Street Level Presents (Street Level Records) 2002

This is the first full lenght LP released by Swedish label Street Level after few 12 Inches releases that had good critics in the press and the public, the best ones are compiled here with new tracks. Including 1999's Promoe's (from Looptroop Crew) classic Off The Record plus a remixed version. Other titles features Group Home, 8-Off, Agallah, as well as a french group called Interactif Crew (which I've never heard about before that...), and of course there's swedish MC's also (only one track is not in english). Usually I don't listen Rap from other countries than US or France but this one is pretty good compilation...



There's two swedish track that uses the same Michel Gonet's Flower Dance sample from his 1976 album Phasing News Vol 2. First one is from 1998, it's Thomas Rusiak feat. PeeWee - Suckers ; the other one is Off The Record and was released in 1999.

Check the style :
C2 Promoe - Off The Record

Thomas Rusiak feat. PeeWee - Suckers (256k mp3, I don't have the original vinyl/CD)



Tracklist :

A1 Scratchaholics - I Like To Introduce Featuring DJ TechNic
A2 Swing-Fly - Come Get It Feat 8-Off, Agallah, Ayo
A3 Form One - Three Poisonus Darts Feat Camu Tao, Copywrite
A4 Promoe - Off The Record (Remix)
B1 Group Home - Handle Your Bi Feat 8-Off, Agallah, Bleedz
B2 Swing-Fly - It's Alright Feat Dappa Don
B3 Glaciuz The Icy - Drunkard
B4 Promoe - It's Promoe
C1 Interactif Crew - Go Out There Feat Dinah
C2 Promoe - Off The Record
C3 Form One - Fight Club
C4 Ken - Artist Eller Kriminell*
D1 Swing-Fly - Don't Get Scared Feat Buc Norris, Mike Mulee
D2 Group Home - Street Life (E.N.Y. Story) Feat Bleedz
D3 Timbuktu, Promoe - Of Men And Mics (This is the correct title, I messed up the tag!)
D4 Ken - Artist Eller Kriminell (Remix)*

* This is the only one that's not in english....

One Be Lo (aka OneManArmy of Binary Star) S.O.N.O.G.R.A.M. (Fat Beats Records) 2005

One Be Lo other known as OneManArmy is one half of Binary Star duo (other half is Senim Silla) from Michigan. He went solo after they split up after several releases that were critically acclaimed (like Masters of the Universe or Waterworld). This dope album is from 2005 with the Trackezoïds on the production (here we have : Decompoze, One Be Lo, Magestik Legend and Chic Masters) and DJ Virus and DJ Phrikshun on the cuts...
Favorite tracks are : The UNDERground, enecS eht no kcaB (with the Redman scratch from EPMD's Headbangers) or Oggie. But theu're all good as the album is really homogeneous.



A2-The UNDERground


Tracklist :

A1 - Intro
A2 - The UNDERground (Prod Magestik Legend)
A3 - enecS eht no kcaB
A4 - Propaganda
A5 - The Ghetto

B1 - Oggie
B2 - Axis (Prod Chic Masters)
B3 - Sleepwalking Feat Kadi (Prod Magestik Legend)
B4 - True Love Feat Decompoze
B5 - Interlude

C1 - Used 2 Be Fly (Prod Chic Masters)
C2 - Deceptacons
C3 - The Future
C4 - E. T. (Scratches DJ Phrikshun)

D1 - The Capital IST
D2 - Rocketship (Scratches DJ Phrikshun)
D3 - Unparalelled Feat Magestik Legend (Prod Magestik Legend)
D4 - Follow My Lead

I uploaded two version, because there's no gaps between most of the tracks on the vinyl, so there's one splitted (get it by clicking the post title) and a non splitted one : here

Various - Heavy Ragga Hip Hop Vol 1 (Sure Delight Rec) 1992

Got some Reggae / Dancehall ready to post... But first, as I like collabos between the two style here's is a compilation from 1992 on a riddim named Hip Hop Rhythm (with a booming bassline !) produced by Larry Boswell (?). It's Raggamuffin time, early 90's guns, slack and a little bit of conscious lyrics with the usuall suspect of that time, like Mad Cobra ("Shoot first, then ask question"), Cutty Ranks (conscious style !) or Papa San. Something that's not usual is B4 (Charlie Sprang) where he spit both in Deejay and in Rap style !





Check it :
A1 Cobra - Quick Fishshoot


B4 Charlie Sprang - Girls



Tracklist :

A1 Cobra - Quick Fishshoot
A2 Cutty Ranks - Cool Down
A3 Dirtsman - Crack Head
A4 General TK - Signal
A5 Papa San - Women A The Best
B1 Gospel Fish - Talent
B2 Nardo Ranks - Samething
B3 Tenacat - Lean On The Girls Them
B4 Charlie Sprang - Girls
B5 Larry Boswell - Version

The U.N. - UN Or U Out (World Records) 2004

Usually I don't post full LP rips here (at least only compilations), I post this one and maybe it will be the first and last one... Don't sleep on this !

The group comes from Long Island, NY. Composed by Dino Brave, Laku, Mic Raw and Rock Marcy ( aka Roc Marciano ) who was former Flipmode Squad member.



Looks like they're close with Pete Rock and the less that we can say it's that he gave them ill beats, no doubt that it was one of the best that came out in 2004 ! It contain tracks that were already released by Archives Inc Records (check the other posts for almost all their releases) but reworked properly. Straight raw east coast shit !




Check the Fire :
D2 - The U.N. - Shakedown


Tracklist :

A1 Buildin'
A2 Mind Blowin'
A3 D.O.A. (Dead On Arrival) (Prod by Mahogany)

B1 Avenue (Prod by Pete Rock)
B2 What They Want (Prod by Large Professor)
B3 P. Money Setup
B4 Golden Grail

C1 Aint No Thang (Prod by Pete Rock)
C2 Monsta
C3 Get Yo ******

D1 Russian Hat Wear
D2 Shakedown
D3 The Art
D4 Game Of Death (Prod by Pete Rock)

Game Tight (Game Recordings - Landspeed Records) 2002

This one is a compilation made with all 12" singles released by Game Recording between 1999 and 2002. Some very dope shit ! You can find the Bad Meets Evil - Scary Movie 12" on HQ Hip Hop in flac (thanks to LY7E).

Track C4 (8-Off Agallah - Five Stars Millas) has a little scratche on it so it skips one time unfortunately, I put all the weight on the needle but nothing to do, one of the best track !



Tracklist * :

A1 Bad Meets Evil - Nuttin' To Do (Prod Reef) 1999
A2 Blahzay Blahzay - Federal Reserve Notez (Prod & Scratches P.F. Cuttin') 1999
A3 Blu Warta - This Is Luv (Prod Smooth Denali) 2002
B1 8-Off Agallah - Rising To The Top Feat Bazaar Royale & Sean Price (Prod 8-Off Agallah) 2001
B2 Pretty Ugly & Royce Da 5'9'' - Spit Game (Prod Rush aka Red Spyda) 2001
B3 Royce Da 5'9'' - Boom (Prod DJ Premier @ D&D) 2000
C1 Pretty Ugly, P-Dap & 50 Cent - Hit 'Em Up (Prod Sha Self) 2000
C2 Royce Da 5'9'' - I'm The King ( Prod Alchemist @ D&D) 2000
C3 Pretty Ugly - Stack G's Regardless (Prod Ric Riggler) 2001
C4 8-Off Agallah - Five Stars Millas (Prod 8-Off Agallah @ D&D) 1999
D1 Lord Digga - My Flow Is Tight (Prod Lord Digga / Scratches Megahurtz) 1999
D2 Bad Meets Evil - Scary Movie (Prod Reef) 1999
D3 Tre Little - Rowdy Niggaz (Prod Ric Riggler) 2002
D4 Ric Riggler feat Shecky Green - Game Tight (Prod Ric Riggler) 2002


Ang guess what mufuckaz ? Here's the wav !

-Part 1
-Part 2
-Part3
-Part4

* You should copy the tracklist from here, the one I tagged the files with is incomplete...

Back To The Beat - Vol. 6 (Nothing But Soul Records) 2002

This one is a Turntablists records, dope beats with dope cuts released by french DJ's.



Check It :



Producteurs & Featurings :
Solo, Uncle O, DJ Fab, Audiomicid, Shone, Eanov, Magicut, Lil Mike, Mr Finesse.

Tracklist :

[1] DJ Hitch & Quartz & Fly : Back To This
[2] DJ Fab : One Day
[3] Freon vs DJ Shone : Prolyxxx
[4] Dwaïne Rock : Da Funky Mama
[5] DJ Eanov feat DJ Brans & Jazz : The Soul Station Part 1
[6] DJ Magicut : On The Dancefloor
[7] Uncle O & Solo : Electro Fetich
[8] DJ Magicut : Dope Cut
[9] Mr Finesse : It's Funky Dope
[10] Wems : A Funky Story
[11] Lil Mike : Deglingo