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Review: Clipse dropped his hip-hop LP Til The Casket Drops in 2017 and it has been pretty much out of print and hard to find ever since release day. It turns out to be his final record but now six years later it gets reissued by Get On Down on 'fruit punch' coloured was in a gatefold jacket with cover art by the much-hyped model maker KAWS. As well as a standout guest spot from none other than Kanye West, the record packs a punch with weighty hip-hop joints and hard hitting bars addressing a wide range of subjects.

Review: Easily riding the hypewave of their infamous album The Infamous, Mobb Deep (Prodogy and Havoc) released the almost hilariously identical follow-up album 'Infamy', still to critical acclaim, on December 11th 2001. Topping up the original black vinyl pressings which first appeared on Loud Records, this new version from Get On Down comes to limited edition 'marbled copper' vinyl. It's clear all the block hustlin' and stack counting paid off.

Review: You will not be surprised to learn that the last issue of this earlier in summer sold out almost instantly so Sony has done there right thing and reissued it also straight away. It is a 2002 compilation album by the legendary rapper that arrived a year after the game-changing wordsmiths come back. It includes several tracks that were unreleased at the time having been culled from recording sessions done during Nas's previous studio albums I Am... in 1999 and Stillmatic in 2001. Sparse, lo-fi beats are detailed with observational lyrics about urban life. Nostalgic and personal and a bit of a departure from his usual style, they still bite pretty hard.

Review: One of the most iconic groups of the eighties music scene was Run-DMC, no question. They blew up the world of rap with their raw, swaggering beats and impactful lyrical insights, which often came with a tag-team delivery between numerous band members. Their self-titled album remains a high water mark for the band, and the genre at large, with singles like "Rock Box" and worldwide smash "King Of Rock" still resonating today. This landmark album was the first rap full-length to achieve Gold status, and the band kept the pressure on with two even bigger follow up albums in the years after.

Review: 'Down With The King,' the title track from RUN DMC's 1993 album, marked a pivotal moment in hip-hop. Collaborating with Pete Rock and CL Smooth, the iconic rap trio delivered a bold anthem asserting their dominance. The track's robust production, featuring a dynamic sample of 'Walk on By' by Isaac Hayes, complements the assertive lyricism of RUN DMC. The album it is from is just as vital and now celebrates 30 years with this special limited and numbered coloured vinyl double album, Revered as hip-hop royalty, the group asserted their reign in the rap kingdom with this release and changed the soundscape of the genre forever.

Review: Hieroglyphics Crew's very own Souls of Mischief's '93 'til Infinity' is a bona-fide hip-hop classic that is as fantastic now as when it was released first time around. That was 30 years ago and to mark the occasion it now gets a special release on limited-numbered blue and yellow cloudy vinyl. It shows the Souls were quietly forging a charismatic, critically acclaimed and cohesively shaped sound with distinctive lyrical wit and a rhyme scheme based on internal rhyme and beats centered around live bass and obscure jazz and funk samples. Superb.

Review: The fifth studio album by American hip-hop group Three 6 Mafia first dropped in 2021 and now, a year late, it gets a special 20th anniversary reissue. The album was a soundtrack to the direct-to-video (videos, remember them?) movie, Choices, and mixes up crunk, gangsta rap, hardcore and hip hop in the group's usual hard hitting style. The Memphis, Tennessee, outfit first formed in 1991 but were still going strong a decade later and enjoyed plenty of mainstream success despite their decidedly underground sound.

Review: Memphis crew Three 6 Mafia are one of the most vital forces in Southern rap, still reigning supreme more than 30 years since they formed. Back in 2000 they helped define the sound orbiting the group and their label with the Hypnotise Camp Posse compilation, bringing in all their different collaborations and configurations and other MCs riding on beats from DJ Paul and Juicy J. Gangsta Boo especially shines on the likes of 'We Ain't Playin' while Lord Infamous tears it up on 'Don't Make Me Kill'. This is the real deal, from the razor-sharp beats to the deadly flows from the extended Three 6 family, now pressed up on a double 12" with an insert.

Review: Shorty The Pimp was the seventh album from Too $hort and it dropped back in 1992. It has been regarded as something of a smooth hip-hop classic ever since and now gets reissued on limited edition orange-coloured vinyl for the first time since 2018. Its title is taken from a 1973 Blaxploitation film and the record finds Shorty in full flow with his boastful bars of funky beats with conscious rhymes and layers of swagger pimp talk all intertwined nicely. There is wit and comedy in the lyrics - as well as some things that show the album's age - but it remains a superb listen on the slower, funky end of the hip-hop spectrum.

Review: Re-issue of the 1987 Profile Records holiday compilation in a red and white split colored pressing, with songs by Run-DMC, Dana Dane, Sweet Tee, The Showboys, The Surf M.C.s, Spyder-D, and more. Leading off with the Run-DMC smash, 'Christmas In Hollis', this classic Christmas compilation features some of the hottest rap artists of the era, celebrating the holidays, hip-hop style. Highlights include Dana Dane's 'Dana Dane Is Coming To Town', Sweet Tee's 'Let The Jingle Bells Rock' and even the Surf MC's' 'A Surf MC New Year,' adding a California surfer (and, ahem, Beastie Boys rip-off) twist to the proceedings. Not to be overlooked is the classic front and back cover artwork, featuring a gift-wrapped B-Boy. It remains an essential, evergreen (pun intended) holiday album to this day.

Review: British-American rapper-producer Daniel Dumile drooped his third album Vaudeville Villain back in 2003 under the Viktor Vaughn pseudonym. Most of the cuts are produced by Heat Sensor, King Honey, and Max Bill, who are members of the Sound-Ink label, with plenty of fun-to-identify samples from classic records gone by. The record came about when Doom was working with Madlib on the seminal Madvillainy and an early demo was stolen and leaked. Both went their separate ways and this album is the result of what came next. It's a timeless bit of hip hop with sick beats and sicker bars.