Essential Hip-Hop Records on Vinyl

Deluxe 20th anniversary reissue of Nas' classic debut! Columbia has pulled out all the stops to commemorate this landmark in hip hop's history. Fro...

Reissue of NOW's most popular album from 1995, Smoker's Delight, from the good folks at Warp. I always thought the cover and title had a lot to do ...

So damn good. The sophomore album from Devonte Hynes aka Blood Orange is here, and it's something of a revelation. With pop music becoming more and...

The song titles speak volumes for A Seat At The Table: "Don't Touch My Hair," "Rise," "F.U.B.U.," "Where Do We Go," "Borderline (An Ode To Self Car...

Deluxe reissue of UGK's classic third album. Before Pimp C (RIP) and Bun B were guesting on Jay-Z records and "Sippin' on Some Syrup" with Three 6 ...

Digable Planets' classic second album! This deluxe limited edition pressing of Blowout Comb comes pressed on thick double vinyl with detailed liner...

What can I say about this album? Easily in the top 10 of all time, there is no way to pick favorites on this album. Not even one okay track on her...

This is the long awaited collabo between underground (if there still is such thing) hip-hop's two most esteemed producers: Madlib (Lootpack, Quasim...

It took me a long time to write this review. I tried to do it the way Madlib made the record: I smoked about 3 ounces of high grade and then got do...

Jurassic 5 flexed serious old-to-the-new muscles in the '90s, beginning with their independently-released single Unified Rebelution in 1994, and b...

D'angelo's 1995 debut reissued on double white vinyl! Remember how blown away you were when you first heard "Brown Sugar"? Dude was playing a B3 or...

Man oh man oh man, Over 2 decades later and this still sounds so ridiculously fresh. Double vinyl version of this '91 hip-hop classic, featuring a ...

Originally released in 2000, Mama’s Gun is Erykah Badu’s 2nd album. With Baduizm’s immense success under her belt, the iconic neo soul artist tackl...

Lil Peep, who's been described as being "at the forefront of bridging hip-hop, emo-pop-punk, and one of the most promising musicians in any genre,"...

Originally an offshoot of LA creative collective Odd Future, it was Ego Death, The Internet's Grammy-nominated third LP, that put Syd, Matt Martian...

THE WAIT IS OVER. After show-stealing collabs with SBTRKT, Jessie Ware, Drake, Solange and Kanye West (check Ye's 2016 non-album cut "Saint Pablo")...

Certified West Coast classic right here! Straight Outta Compton introduced the world to Easy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, MC Ren and DJ Yella, and ushered...

Common's first album (Can I Borrow A Dollar?) had some promise, but he really solidified himself with Resurrection, one of the best full lengths of...

So much drama surrounded Slum Village's debut album: first they were dropped from Interscope, then Vol. 2 was released as a Euro import/boot, then...

ON AND ON AND ON AND ON... Mz. Badu's stunning debut album from '97 reissued on wax! Almost 20 years after its release, Baduizm is still on regular...

2LP reissue of Dilla's lost masterpiece. Available briefly as a vinyl EP back in 2003 on the small German label Mummy, Stones Throw has gone super-...

Who is Cindi Mayweather? Janelle Monae's debut EP, Metropolis, introduced the singer's futuristic alter-ego to the masses, and the ArchAndroid's st...

Digable Planets' classic second album! This deluxe limited edition pressing of Blowout Comb comes pressed on thick double vinyl with detailed liner...

The third Roots album (counting Organix) is still criminally slept on. Thankfully DGC has given it a proper vinyl reissue so more heads can get up ...

In one of the biggest stealth moves ever, Jay Dee spent the last decade rising from underground prodigy to deified musical martyr, quietly redefini...

Man, I am so excited for this shit! New Erykah!! Ak Boogs here at the Lab was telling me that producers have been sending her beats steadily over t...

The missing link is finally back on vinyl in a great repress on 2LP. There's still a reason to hunt for the original though cuz it came on blue and...

"Aaliyah is the self-titled third and final studio album by the 'Queen of Urban Pop,' Aaliyah. Originally released in 2001 by Blackground Records, ...

Erykah is back with the second installment of New Amerykah!  Boasting an impressive list of like-minded collaborators (including James Poyser, Karr...

"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...

It's IRONMAN! If you don't know this one, here's a little Wu lesson for ya. First came the 36 Chambers, which then brought forth Raekwon's Only Bui...

Ready or not here I come! You know what this is, if you don't it's time to get familiar. The Fugees' sophomore album, The Score, made the group wor...

Resurrection was your anthem. It was political and spiritual, but Common could still bust a verse about NBA Jams right in the middle of it. With mu...

"Few hip-hop artists have achieved the same level of critical acclaim and praise that 90s veteran and Queens native Nasir 'Nas' Jones has. In parti...

Fresh off high-profile remixes and collaborations with A Tribe Called Quest, Janet Jackson and The Pharcyde, Jay Dee aka J Dilla was eager to draw ...

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...

"N.W.A.'s Greatest Hits is a greatest hits album originally released on July 2, 1996. The re-released version contains two bonus tracks by the reun...

"XL Recordings will mark the 20th Anniversary of Dizzee Rascal’s seminal debut album Boy In Da Corner with the release of a two-volume deluxe editi...