Underground/Alt Rap CDs

EMI are releasing the long awaited sophomore Tommy Ill album ‘New Hat And A Haircut’ on 2 April. “I am so stoked that we are finally putting this album out. James, Buck, Kelvin and I have been working on it for pretty much our whole lives and now that it’s coming out we will have to find new things ...

LEGENDARY WEAPONS’ throw-back sound is inspired by classic soul and kung fu imagery.  It features raw tracks by RZA together with members of the Brooklyn, NY-based band The Revelations. Together, they provide a solid foundation for the crew’s tales of violent New York street life. ...

Insane Clown Posse: this horror core shock rock band may be more infamous than famous, more reviled than renowned, but they have made quite a mark on music history and on the lives of the 1,000,000+ fans that follow their music. Insane Clown Posse is closing in on sales of 10 million units in...

Includes DVD disc.The Roots: Black Thought, ?uestlove, Leonard Hubbard, Kamal The Klanger, Scratch, Ben Kenney.Additional personnel includes: Musiq, Nelly Furtado, Cody Chestnutt, Jill Scott, Talib Kweli (vocals); James "Blood" Ulmer, Jeff Lee Johnson (guitar); Sarah Chun, Nuah Vi, Ken Golder, Miche...

Within a genre that is growing at an exponential rate, Adelaide's Hilltop Hoods will always remain leaders. The group continue to move forward at light speed without ever looking back, and their new album 'Drinking From the Sun' is no exception. The first single 'I Love it' was voted in a #10 on Tri...

"The future of the industry" - P Diddy "The video of 2011" - Kanye West Tyler is a skinny 19-year-old with a booming voice. Bright-eyed and buzzing, he is also rap's most talked-about new star. He's the founder of and de facto spokesman for Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them ...

We shouldn’t need to tell you what Roots Manuva has achieved over the past decade, commercial success for an underground artist who has never strayed from making the music he believes in. 4everevolution is just a few seconds under an hour long, consists of seventeen tracks and covers every style ...

A Tribe Called Quest: Jonathan "Q-Tip" Davis, Malik "Phife-Dawg" Taylor (rap vocals); Ali Shaheed Muhammad (turntables). Additional personnel: Large Professor, Trugoy, Busta Rhymes, Raphael Wiggins. Producers: A Tribe Called Quest, Skeff Anselm, Large Professor. Engineer...

Black Eyed Peas: Will.i.am (vocals, Fender Rhodes piano, Clavinet, Hammond B-3 organ, Moog synthezizer, programming); Apl.de.ap (programming); Taboo.Additional personnel includes: Wyclef Jean (vocals, guitar); De La Soul,Mos Def, Macy Gray, Les Nubians, Chali 2Na, Esthero, Kim Hill (vocals); Michael...

The Dreamer, The Believer is the ninth studio album for artist Common, with longtime friend and collaborator - No I.D. handling production for the entire album. When Common released his first album, 1992’s Can I Borrow A Dollar, he was a scrappy kid from Chicago that helped put the city on hip-ho...

Shot In The Nite is spaced-out banger beats from San Francisco’s glitch duo Lazer Sword "Lando Kal & Low Limit", which fuses rap, electro, dubstep & grime with an old soul vocal sample, sounding like Hudson Mohawke or Flying Lotus. This limited edition 7” singl...

TIMELESS is a 19-track collection of greatest hits by '90s hip hoppers, De La Soul, including "Eye Know," "Me Myself And I," and "Copa."

The Beastie Boys: Mike "Ad-Rock" Horovitz (vocals, guitar); Adam "MCA" Yauch (vocals, acoustic bass, electric bass); Mike "Mike D" Diamond (vocals, drums). Additional personnel: Q-Tip, Biz Markie (rap vocals); Eugene Gore (violin); "Money" Mark Nishita (keyboards, organ); Amery Smith (drums); Eri...

Launching into the stratosphere in 2009, Die Antwoord (that's Ninja, Yo-Landi Vi$$er and DJ Hi-Tek) have gained a massive cult following online from their amazing video vision and incredible content. Ten$ion was recorded and produced in South Africa by DJ Hi-Tek with additional production by Ninj...

"The future of the industry" - P Diddy "The video of 2011" - Kanye West Tyler is a skinny 19-year-old with a booming voice. Bright-eyed and buzzing, he is also rap's most talked-about new star. He's the founder of and de facto spokesman for Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them A...

Volumes 5 & 6 in the on-going Beat Konducta mixtape series from the onelike Madlib - and these two are tributes to the equally genius-like J Dilla (RIP). Here Madlib (& guest J.Rocc) drops some of his finest, most bumping mixtape work, cutting & chopping up all manner of s...

A Tribe Called Quest: Q-Tip, Phife (vocals); Ali Shaheed Muhammed (DJ). Additional personnel includes: Ms. Vinia, Diamond D., Busta Rhymes, Charlie Brown, Brand Nubian, Lord Jammar, Sadat X (vocals); Ron Carter (bass). Producers: Skeff Anselm, A Tribe Called Quest. Engineers include: Bob Po...

The Roots: Black Thought, Malik B, Leonard Nelson Hubbard, Kamal, Shou-Out, Rahze. Additional personnel: Ursula Rucker (spoken vocals); Anthony Tidd, Warren Wimbly, Spanky (guitar); Igor Szwec, Emma Kumrow (violin); David Garnet, Larry Gold, Deidra Murry (viola); D'Angelo, Scott Storch, James Poy...

The Odd Future Tape Vol. 2 is the debut studio album by Los Angeles, California hip hop group OFWGKTA. It is scheduled to be released on March 20, 2012. It is the sequel to OFWGKTA's 2008 debut mixtape, The Odd Future Tape.

The wait is over, again: Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, Beastie Boys' long anticipated eighth album, will be released May 2. After going back and mixing the album one last time, the final sequence of the forthcoming HSC Part Two has now been confirmed. Hot Sauce Committee Part Two was produced ...

The Beastie Boys: Ad Rock, Mike D, MCA (rap vocals); DJ Hurricane (turntables). The only collection to span the Beastie Boys' career from 1986 to 2004, SOLID GOLD HITS features songs from each of the New York City rap/rock trio's first six studio albums. Arranged in non-chronological order, this ...

WZRD is rapper-singer Kid Cudi's rock inspired collaboration with long-time friend and producer Dot da Genius. Dot and Cudi have created a sound that is far from cookie-cutter on WZRD, their self titled debut album. "We're just trying to push the envelope and put people up on a new sound" says Sc...

We shouldn’t need to tell you what Roots Manuva has achieved over the past decade, commercial success for an underground artist who has never strayed from making the music he believes in. 4everevolution is just a few seconds under an hour long, consists of seventeen tracks and covers every style ...

Fresh off major festival gigs at Coachella and Bonnaroo (“Best Performance. Period.” – SPIN MAGAZINE), the highly acclaimed duo, People Under the Stairs are back on OM with their 7th artist album, “Carried Away.” Fans of PUTS’ records know that unlike other hip ho...

This Deluxe Version of Man On The Moon includes a DVD disc that every Kid Cudi Fan will LOVE with a CD/DVD version that includes +hour of footage plus bonus tracks. The one hour of footage follows Cudi over the last year, as his buzz grew from his fist mix tape release until present. It also include...

Gnarls Barkley: Danger Mouse, Ceelo. Recording information: 2006. Gnarls Barkley--a collaboration between hip-hop/soul crooner and Goodie Mob founder Cee-Lo and DJ/mash-up kingpin Danger Mouse--sounds like it came from another planet; or what inhabitants of another planet might make of the ele...

Wiley has never made a record which reveals so much of his character, his contradictions and inner workings, his humour as well as his anger. A short, sharp, brilliant album, it shows Wiley as more than Godfather to a scene and penner of occasional hits, but as an artist who continues to develop, re...

The latest arrival in the Stones Throw camp is none other than CX Kidtronik aka Krak Attack, who has produced for the likes of Kanye West, Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails), Antipop Consortium, MF DOOM & Saul Williams. You may remember him from his Big Girl, Skinny Girl anthem on the Stones Throw 2...

Legendary alternative festival (& record label!) All Tomorrow’s Parties present ATP2.0, a compilation CD featuring bands & artists who performed at the 2002 UK All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival curated by indie rock legends Shellac. As is the tradition, the featured artists - in...

Childish Gambino, is the moniker for actor Donald Glover. With a unique blend of hip-hop and lyrical genius, Childish Gambino has gone from a viral cult following to a mega sensation.

The leading female MC in Latin America, ANA TIJOUX exploded onto the international scene in 2009 with her Grammy nominated smash debut album ‘1977’ which hit #1 on the iTunes charts and won widespread critical acclaim. Ana’s hit single, the title track ‘1977’, was featured in shows such as ‘Break...

East London grime MC Durrty Goodz is known for his versatility, which can be seen in his ability to rap on grime, hip hop, bashment, and R&B beats. He was been part of the underground scene for many years before being signed by Polydor in 2005 and being recognized as one of the biggest talent...

From Oakland California, underground hip hop veteran Del tha Funkee Homosapien (cousin of Ice Cube, founding member of DELTRON 3030 and the Gorillaz collaboration.) Del has continued to release quality, critically acclaimed material for over 10 years and with the release of Golden Era, a 3 CD set...

'Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam' showcases Ghostpoet's loveable ramshackle but hook-laden productions, his lazy baritone and imaginative desolate take on the world -- a most impressive statement of intent. Opener "One Twos" is a distorted and warped microphone check that s...

Ad writer, DJ & collector Steve Stein aka Steinski produced his first record in 1983, in response to a nationwide remix contest by Tommy Boy Records. He & Douglas DJ Franco aka Double Dee produced The Payoff Mix. A panel of 10 judges - including Afrika Bambaataa, Shep Pettibone, Jellybean...

It’s pretty hard to walk your own path in rap music this late in the day, on his debut album, “[sic],” twenty one year old Elliott Egerton aka Bang On achieves just that. Slamming together a raw mix of contemporary sounds that he describes as “punk-donk-dub-hip-hop,” then colliding this with the me...

Spanning 41 tracks over almost 70 minutes, the hip hop collective lead by Trip Hoper Geoff Barrow of Portishead fame is joined by 7-Stu-7 and Katalyst on production duties and the Quakers’ roster reads like an underground rap dream team, comprising of just as many legends (Aloe Blacc, Dead Prez, Gui...

DJ Drama's third album Third Power. Oh My is the first single from the forthcoming album and features Fabolous, Whiz Khalifa & Roscoe Dash is the biggest song in DJ Drama's career and one of the biggest hip hop records of the US summer. The record has received a total of 25,000 spins and was Top Ten...

Kidz in the Hall are back with their 3rd studio album for Duck Down, entitled 'Occasion'. Naledge, MC from Chicago, IL & Double-O, producer from New York, NY first met while attending the University of Pennsylvania. In 2008, they released their debut national album, 'The In Crowd'. The 'Occasion'...

Evidence, the producer/MC who won praise and adoration of fans globally as a member of the venerable LA outfit Dilated Peoples, is primed to release his second solo full-length, Cats & Dogs, on Rhymesayers Entertainment on September 27th. With lyrical contributions from Slug of Atmosphere, Raekwon, ...