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The Bake Sale
ListenThe Bake Sale by The Cool Kids

The coolest kids you knew when you were younger always displayed a weird mastery of meaningless skil...

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Daptone 7 Inch Singles Collection Vol. 2
ListenDaptone 7 Inch Singles Collection Vol. 2 by Various Artists

Of course Brooklyn funk factory Daptone Records isn’t going present its label compilations in a neat...

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Super Gold Greatest Hits
ListenSuper Gold Greatest Hits by Mingering Mike

This delightful and highly inventive collection of lo-fi archival recordings is the result of a wond...

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Blues With A Beat Sufferin' Mind Classic Cuts 1946-1953 The Classic Earliest Recordings

Post War R&B #1s by Michaelangelo Matos

The term "rhythm and blues" was coined by Jerry Wexler in 1947, while the future Atlantic Records producer was working for Billboard magazine. Prior to Wexler's definitive phrase, which the weekly trade publication adopted for its ranking of the most popular African-American records in the nation in its June 17, 1949 issue, the black charts had been known as Race Records (February 1945 to June 1949) and before that, the Harlem Hit Parade (October 1942 to February 1945). This Dozen starts up after the end of World War...
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Innovative Life

A User's Guide to Electro Hip-Hop by Dave Tompkins

While Kraftwerk's legal team was busy trying to sue Tommy Boy Records for bogarting a synth riff, Los Angeles electro hip-hop went on to clone both plaintiff and defendant throughout the 1980s, long after New York had ditched the 123 BPMs of "Planet Rock" for RUN-DMC, Marley Marl and Roxanne's grandmother.

Because of this, the early ‘80s L.A. electro scene has often been treated with snickers and neglect, despite boasting some of the nastier DJs by any time zone. For a while, knowledge of early West Coast hip-hop was...
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Top Hip-Hop/R&B Tracks

  Listen Track Name Length Download
1. Listen Sexy Can I (feat. Yung Berg)
Artist:
Ray J
Album:
All I Feel
3:24 Download
2. Listen Mastermind
Album:
Deltron 3030
3:34 Download
3. Listen Ain't That Peculiar 4:36 Download
4. Listen Handle Bars
Artist:
The Flobots
3:26 Download
5. Listen Inferno feat. Lunar Heights 5:58 Download
6. Listen Buff Nuff
Artist:
Roots Manuva
2:16 Download
7. Listen Can't Knock The Hustle
Artist:
Jay-Z
5:17 Download
8. Listen 3030
Album:
Deltron 3030
7:29 Download
9. Listen Wild Thing
Artist:
Tone Loc
4:23 Download
10. Listen Take Money (Feat. Planet Asia and F.l.O.)
Album:
Planet F.L.O.
3:36 Download

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