Resultado de búsqueda
16 de feb. de 2020 · The Best Albums From Rawkus Records. This post, which is continuing on the best labels and their releases in Hip Hop, will explore the underground.
Explore the top 10 Rawkus Records albums, featuring landmark releases from Company Flow and Kool G Rap's comeback.
- Soundbombing I
- Big L – The Big Picture
- Black Star – Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star
- Soundbombing II
- Reflection Eternal – Train of Thought
- Hi-Tek – Hi-Teknology
- Lyricist Lounge Vol. 1
- Pharoahe Monch – Internal Affairs
- Company Flow – Funcrusher Plus
- Hip Hop For Respect Ep
The compilation album was the thing in the late-1990s, including Funkmaster Flex’s 60 Minutes of Funk series, DJ Clue’s mixtapes—which eventually turned into actual studio albums—and Tony Touch’s 50 MC’s. So, it made sense for Rawkus to get in on the mix and put together their own compilation album in 1997 to highlight some of the talent on their l...
Big L’s death in 1999 was an unspeakably tragic loss for the hip-hop community. He was in the process of recording a follow-up to his classic debut Lifestylz ov da Poor & Dangerous at the time of his passing, and while there was talk that he was on the verge of signing with Roc-A-Fella Records, his posthumous album The Big Picturewas released on Ra...
Not just one of the most impactful albums from Rawkus Records, the Black Star album has every right to make any conversation about the greatest hip-hop projects of all time. Mos Def and Talib Kweli developed the kind of chemistry that few rap groups have. From the first track of the album, “Astronomy,” (produced by Da Beatminerz) to the final track...
The second Soundbombingcompilation was a bit more commercially accessible. Mixed by the Beat Junkies, it also features maybe the most on-brand opening lines to an album ever, when Eminem opened his first verse on “Any Man” with: “Original Bad Boy on the case, cover your face, came in the place, blowed and sprayed Puffy with Mase.” Which, years late...
Grouping both projects together just so I can include 11 albums on this list. The success of Black Star helped Mos Def and Talib Kweli launch their solo careers. Black on Both Sides remains, in my opinion, Mos Def’s best ever work as a solo artist. The album brimmed with confidence, showing off Mos Def’s lyrical skills, but also his versatility, wh...
This project might not have received as much attention as Mos Def and Talib Kweli’s solo debuts, but let it be said that Hi-Tek was probably the MVP of Rawkus Records, helping out with numerous projects, and finally getting his own compilation in 2001. I mean, who else can produce something like “The Illest It Gets” with Buckshot and then turn arou...
Lyricist Lounge was a famed hip-hop institution in New York, an open mic space founded by Danny Castro and Anthony Marshall. Many emcees, from Big Pun, to Eminem, to The Notorious B.I.G. graced the stage at Lyricist Lounge, and Rawkus Records paid homage to it in 1998 by putting together a double-disc studio album that recreated the vibes of the cu...
Pharoahe Monch had already established himself as a rapper in the group Organized Konfusion, but his solo debut Internal Affairsallowed him to really vault himself into another stratosphere. Everybody knows “Simon Says,” a song that crossed over in the mainstream, but it’s the storytelling on “Queens,” and classic tracks like “The Light” and “The T...
One of the earlier Rawkus Records releases, I still struggle to pin down exactly how to describe the brilliance of Funcrusher Plus. It was ahead of its time, it challenged listeners to reconsider the creative boundaries of hip-hop, it was an apocalyptic masterpiece, it was a record with a menacing attitude, and most of all, it was music worth divin...
Amadou Diallo was gunned down by the NYPD in 1999, when he was mistaken for a rape suspect and shot 41 times by the police while he was reaching for his wallet. Diallo was only 23. Mos Def and Talib Kweli banded and recruited 41 emcees—one for each bullet Diallo took—for a tribute EP. Police brutality remains, unfortunately, very much a persistent ...
12 de oct. de 1999 · The greatest albums of all time released by Rawkus, as voted by RYM/Sonemic users.
24 de ago. de 2012 · In honor of the anniversary of Black Star's legendary album, originally released on August 26, 1998, Complex has compiled a list of The 50 Best Rawkus Records Songs. Get enlightened.
7 de jun. de 2022 · Not too long before the city was attacked and the planet went to hell, New York’s Rawkus Records gave us the greatest hip-hop compilation ever: no skips or runners-up.
Rawkus Records was an American hip-hop record label known for jump-starting the careers of many rappers. Rawkus started in 1995 with initial releases ranging from hip-hop, drum and bass and...
