VARIOUS - 50 Years of Hip Hop: The Solo MC Jams [Black Friday 2023] - LP + Bonus 7'' - Coloured Vinyl [NOV 24]

LP + Bonus 7'' - Limited Edition RSD Black Friday Release half on red vinyl, half on yellow vinyl with Bonus 7'' celebrating 50 years of hip-hop.  

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Tuff City anthology of Old School group rap classics half on red vinyl, half on gold featuring Ultramagnetic MC’s, PHD featuring Havoc from Mobb Deep, Flavor Unit featuring Queen Latifah, Spoonie Gee with The Treacherous Three feat. Kool Moe Dee, etc. Tuff City is pleased to present the best possible reissue program of Hip-Hop's first decade. These reissues were made as a tribute to Hip Hop’s 50th Anniversary. Each volume represents an important facet of performers on Tuff City: The Solo MC’s, The MC Crews, The DJ’s and The Female MC’s.

Each volume features an inner sleeve with liner notes and bonus 7” insert. Each pressing consists of 750 on red vinyl and 750 of an opaque colour specific to the volume (Yellow in this title). A bonus 7” single is slipped in the cover encased in a Tuff City logo sleeve in the style of its iconic 12” singles.

The series was also conceptualized as a multiset release to stand side by side with the classic Old School Rarities series (The Funky Drum Jams, The Electro Jams, The Linn Drum Jams & The Disco Jams) issued by our Ol’ Skool Flava imprint.

The Solo MC’s kicks off with Harlem’s pioneering Spoonie Gee’s influential “Spoonin’ Rap” from 1979. “Catch The Beat” from T-Ski Valley captures the post-Disco Bronx era of Rap. The side closes with the underground personality Funkmaster Wizard Wiz whose “Knucklehead Rappers” came after he broke from The Undefeated Three. Brooklyn’s Jimmy Spicer delivers a 14+ minute marathon “Adventures of Super Rhyme (Rap).” Grandmaster Caz from Cold Crush is paired with the Fantastic’s Whipper Whip for “To All The Party People” Captain G Whiz from Freddy B’s Mighty Mic Masters closes with his solo 12” track “All The Way Live.”

The bonus single features a Kool Keith solo from the Ultramagnetic MCs backed with Grandmaster Caz by himself doing “I’m What Is and You’re What Wants To Be.” 


Qty. (UK/Ireland): Limited to 750 copies in either red or yellow vinyl.
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
 

Tracklist: 

LP
A1. Spoonie Gee - Spoonin' Rap
A2. T-Ski Valley - Catch The Beat
A3. Funkmaster Wizard - WizKnucklehead Rappers

B1. Jimmy Spicer - Adventures of Super Rhymes 
B2. Grandmaster Caz with Whipper Whip - To All The 12 Party People
B3. Captain G. Whiz - All the Way Live

Bonus 7'':
A: Ultramagnetic MC's - Kool Keith Wild

B: Grandmaster Caz - I'm What Is Your What Wants To Be