Hip-Hop

Manolo's Theme is the newest release from LA based multi-genre producer Bei Ru, featuring the legendary Roc Marciano. Roc's colorful wordplay flawlessly paints a portrait with each bar and is a perfect counterpart to Bei Ru's gritty, lo-fi synthesizer, piano and horn driven production. Includes remix, instrumentals, and clean versions.

Everybody remembers KMD for launching a young Zev Love X’s career, during which he became known as MF DOOM. But the group’s work is not to be overlooked: Mr. Hood is a classic piece of '90s hip hop with a tonne of twisted sampling, tight flows and catchy beats in general. Part of your hip hop education, son!

First part of the Lewis Recordings ‘Podcast On Vinyl’ series. Fans of podcasts, vinyl, DJ Yoda and Golden Era Hip-Hop will love this podcast on vinyl featuring DJ Yoda talking about his favourite golden era Hip-Hop albums. Podcast heavyweights Chris Glasson and Stu Whiffen traveled to the Lewis Recordings offices to record a vinyl only version of their popular ‘Hardcore Listing’ featuring special guest DJ Yoda. Recorded in one take and unedited the lads find out Yoda’s top 5 rap albums and his personal stories associated with them.

New York rapper Your Old Droog and Atlanta rapper/producer Tha God Fahim present their latest collaboration in Tha Wolf of Wall Street. While Fahim trades in brass-tacks metaphors, Droog leans more toward punchlines and pop culture-laden double-entendre. Like any effective duo, their contrasting styles dovetail seamlessly on their new EP Tha Wolf on Wall St. The entire project is an assured slice of underground rap, but the pair’s compatibility shines brightest on the title track. Fahim and Droog move back and forth like co-stars on a long-running cable drama, and Fahim’s production provides a more serene mirror reflection. Fahim laces each of the EP’s eight tracks with sedate loops, splitting the difference between his and Droog’s clashing styles.

Originally only available in Europe in limited quantities, Lex have repressed the Deluxe double vinyl LP edition of ‘The Mouse & The Mask’ for 2019.

Lex has a history of lavish packaging but this remains one of the lushest sleeves in the catalogue. Designed by EHQuestionmark, the outer sleeve is made from thick translucent textured plastic with DOOM's mask printed on the cover, and mouse ears on each side of the mask forming a pattern that looks like a Rorschach test (a technique reused in another Danger Mouse project six months later). The inner sleeves, visible through the outer at first glance pattern based on an Ishihara test, but inside the circles in the pattern are tiny icons depicting different disasters - climate change, acid rain, holy war, nuclear leaks.

"The Mouse and the Mask" was produced by Lex super-producer Danger Mouse. The album features CeeLo Green (also of Gnarls Barkley), Talib Kweli, Ghostface Killah, Money Mark and the cast of cult cartoon show Aqua Teen Hunger Force and remains MF DOOM's best selling album to date.

All vinyl orders receive a 320kbps MP3 digital download of the album.

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Limited coloured vinyl.

Liquid Swords, the second solo album from the oldest member of Wu Tang Clan, Genius / GZA is widely regarded as one of the best hip-hop albums ever committed to tape. The lyrics were concerned with crime, philosophy and...er...chess. Here we concentrate on what backed up that smooth flow of sharp words with Liquid Swords (The Instrumentals). It was produced by fellow Wu Tang Clan rapper and producer, RZA, who creates the perfect soundscape for the lyrics. 

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Black vinyl 2LP on Get On Down. All tracks have been restored, with remastered audio from the original source tapes.

Released 23/04/21

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a1. Intro  
a2. The Whole World Looking At Me
a3. Survival Hungry
a4. When Disaster Strikes
a5. So Hardcore
b1. Get High Tonigh
b2. Turn It Up
b3. Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See    
b4. There's Not A Problem My Squad Can't Fix
c1. We Could Take It Outside  
c2. Rhymes Galore
c3. Things We Be Doin' For Money Part 1  
c4. Things We Be Doin' For Money Part 2
d1. One
d2. Dangerous    
d3. The Body Rock    
d4. Get Off My Block  
d5. Outro (Preparation For The Final World Front)

Elzhi, the “Syllable Sensei” is back again with a highly anticipated release titled Seven Times Down Eight Times Up. This 12-track LP is a collage of memories and metaphors layered atop beats crafted by up-and-coming producer JR Swiftz. With collabs from Detroit artists, Monica Blaire and Fes Rock on two of the album's stand-out tracks, Elzhi’s new masterpiece showcases his ability to create meaningful concepts while Detroit’s own comedian and real Hip Hop advocate Foolish provides commentary throughout the album.
As one of Elzhi’s most cohesive releases to date, his wordsmithing abilities paint images of royalty, excellence, and zombies wearing Gucci, all with an underlying message of resilience. Seven times Down Eight Times Up is the mantra for a year that has seen lots of downs, and reminds us that no matter what we're faced with, we will remain undefeated, and get back up after being knocked down by this machete-wielding maniac we call life.

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: GET51320LPC
Barcode: 5055869546591
Release Date: 12th February 2021
Genre: Hip Hop

The fourth album by Run-DMC gets a nice new re-pressing for 2017. Tougher Than Leather, first released in 1988, has a couple of the gang’s big tunes on it (‘Run’s House’, ‘Mary, Mary’), plus a particularly rich flurry of sampladelic turntablism from Jam-Master Jay. Vinyl reissue on Get On Down.

Your Old Droog is back with the much-anticipated new album Dump YOD: Krutoy Edition. Once again the rap savant is putting his personal story at the forefront, going even further than the themes of his previous collection Jewelry. “My last project was about unapologetically claiming my heritage as a Jew,” explains Droog. “This one is about embracing my Ukrainian and Eastern European roots”. Executive produced by Mach-Hommy and Tha God Fahim , the album features appearances from both of those artists along with El-P (Run The Jewels), Black Thought (The Roots), Phonte (Little Brother), and Billy Woods. Rooted in raw, minimalist production, Dump YOD: Krutoy Edition is a perfect showcase for Your Old Droog’s transcendent lyrical skills and vivid storytelling, imbued with the Ukraine-born emcee’s reflections on growing up as a Russian-speaking immigrant in Brooklyn.

1. To All The Girls (2009 Digital Remaster)
2. Shake Your Rump (2009 Digital Remaster)
3. Johnny Ryall (2009 Digital Remaster)
4. Egg Man (2009 Digital Remaster)
5. High Plains Drifter (2009 Digital Remaster)
6. The Sounds Of Science (2009 Digital Remaster)
7. 3-Minute Rule (2009 Digital Remaster)
8. Hey Ladies (2009 Digital Remaster)
9. 5-Piece Chicken Dinner (Instrumental) (2009 Digital Remaster)
10. Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun (2009 Digital Remaster)
11. Car Thief (2009 Digital Remaster)
12. What Comes Around (2009 Digital Remaster)
13. Shadrach (2009 Digital Remaster)
14. Ask For Janice (2009 Digital Remaster)
15. B-Boy Bouillabaisse: 59 Chrystie Street (2009 Digital Remaster)
16. B-Boy Bouillabaisse: Get On The Mic (2009 Digital Remaster)
17. B-Boy Bouillabaisse: Stop That Train (2009 Digital Remaster)
18. B-Boy Bouillabaisse: A Year And A Day (2009 Digital Remaster)
19. B-Boy Bouillabaisse: Hello Brooklyn (2009 Digital Remaster)
20. B-Boy Bouillabaisse: Dropping Names (2009 Digital Remaster)
21. B-Boy Bouillabaisse: Lay It On Me (2009 Digital Remaster)
22. B-Boy Bouillabaisse: Mike On The Mic (2009 Digital Remaster)
23. B-Boy Bouillabaisse: AWOL (2009 Digital Remaster)

“Shook Ones Part II” might be one of the biggest records to come out of New York in
the mid 90’s. From the moment you hear the bare hi-hat and the infamous line “to all
the killers and the hundred dollar billas” it is an immediate adrenaline rush. The beat
alone is a work of art, Havoc constructed what would go on for years as “how did he
actually come up with that beat?!” amongst DJ’s and Producers alike. The infectious
piano, cinematic sirens, it was no doubt that it was one of (famed New York nightclub)
The Tunnel’s most signature records. As Cipha Sounds put it - “How could it not rip
in The Tunnel? Just classic. 'Shook Ones Part I' was actually pretty big in the Tunnel,
but ‘Part II' ripped everything." When “Shook Ones Part II” came you couldn’t help
but nod your head and get lost in Havoc and Prodigy trading verses breaking down
the meaning of a crook…making you shook son. Not to be left out “Shook Ones Part
1” is on the flipside that came out months earlier with a much more subdued beat and
slightly different lyrics. Most 12” aren’t built like this, so to be on 7” for the first time
ever this is a must have….son.

Format: LP
Cat: TRU 1010LP
Released: 11 Dec 20
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B

Czarface, ironclad crime fighter, heroically returns to his lair after two spine-chilling adventures with MF Doom and Ghotface Killah. In his secret hideout, he has whipped up a few uncanny surprises for longtime Czar fans...expect curveball concepts, solo exploits, and noggin nodding neck-snappers alike. The Odd Czar Against Us sees Czarface go full Voltron, employing every asset in his arsenal, maximizing lyrical efforts from Inspectah Deck and Esoteric and pulse-pounding production from in house beatsmith 7L and Jeremy Page. This album stands to be the group’s most ambitious and challenging effort to date. Are the odds against him this time, or are they against the underworld? Tune in to find out!.