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singonavine71 · 1 year

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Joseph "Run" Simmons, Darryl "D.M.C" McDaniels and Jason "Jam Master Jay" Mizell (rest in peace)..

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disease · 1 year

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PUBLIC ENEMY | LONDON, 1987 PHOTOGRAPHY: DAVID CORIO

#public enemy #david corio #def jam #80s #hip hop #conscious #hardcore hip hop #black and white #monochrome #london #def jam recordings #music #u

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tha-wrecka-stow · 5 months

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The Original & The Expanded Edition

#The Original & The Expanded Edition Series #rap & hip-hop #rap #hip hop #hiphop #1990s #90s #ll cool j #Mama Said Knock You Out #def jam #def jam records #def jam recordings

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possible-streetwear · 1 year

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#record label #def jam #def jam recordings #so so def #so so def recordings #death row #death row records #ruthless records #ruthless #label #logo design #logo

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 1 year

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06:42 / 13:21Rick Rubin: The 60 Minutes InterviewAs an NYU college student, Rick Rubin launched Def Jam Recordings some 40 years ago and has been a hitmaker ever since. Anderson Cooper interviews the music producer about his unique approach.

What a great interview! Exploring the creative process.

#Rich Rubin #The 60 Minutes Interview #Anderson Cooper #Def Jam Recordings #interview #personalities #music production

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revkilltaker · 1 year

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Beastie Boys – Licensed To Ill - LP - Def Jam Recordings - B0032443-01

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Pressing #: 2023 Walmart Repress

Color: Clear

Qty Pressed: ???

Additional Info: Other Pressings Available

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Rhymin & Stealin

The New Style

She's Crafty

Posse In Effect

Slow Ride

Girls

Fight For Your Right

No Sleep Till Brooklyn

Paul Revere

Hold It Now, Hit It

Brass Monkey

Slow And Low

Time To Get Ill

8.0/10

#Beastie Boys #Def Jam Recordings

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timmurleyart · 1 year

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Rebels without a pause. 💣🔴⏰🎤

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 1 year

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FROM "A MOUTHFUL OF MILLER" TO SOBRIETY IN ENCROACHING MIDDLE AGE -- A B. BOY EVOLUTIONARY STORY.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on the BEASTIE BOYS during their "Licensed to Ill" era, on tour, shot just before they went onstage at their first ever Toronto gig, c. 1986. 📸: Rick McGinnis. Also included are portraits of the B. Boys 20 years later, c. 2006, in Toronto, by Rick McGinnis.

OVERVIEW: "HERE’S ANOTHER BUNCH OF NEGATIVES I NEVER THOUGHT I’D SEE AGAIN. These old pics of the Beastie Boys were in the same old file folder, buried behind old receipts and tax stuff, as the photos of THE MINUTEMEN I featured here a few weeks ago. More juvenilia, back from when I was still learning how to use a camera.

These are not great portraits. They’re not even particularly good snapshots. But thanks to my new Vivitar 285 flash, bought at B&H in New York City the previous fall, they were at least properly exposed – if you like the look of direct flash, which I don’t, and didn’t, even then.

So why even bother posting them? Well, they might not be great shots, but if I’ve learned anything from putting old photos online, almost any picture becomes history when even a minority of the audience for it wasn’t born when it was taken. Especially so, I suppose, when someone in the photo is no longer alive.

I shot them just before they went onstage at their first ever Toronto gig, at a tacky new wave disco in Yorkville called the Copa. I was double-dipping – these shots would end up being used by both "Graffiti" magazine and "Nerve." According to the recollections of Perry Stern, who was writing the "Graffiti" piece, he’d spent much of the day before the show with them, walking up and down Yonge Street trying to buy amyl nitrate poppers, which they’d heard were legal in Toronto. (Apparently not, as far as Perry could tell.)

They were boisterous but likeable goofs, according to Perry, more than living up to their budding public image, which would become gold-plated with the release of "Licensed to Ill" a few months later. Their madcap antics would deflate a bit a few minutes after I took these photos, when they went onstage and threw around some beers that broke one of the neon “sculptures” hanging over the dance floor at the Copa. (An incident I’d completely forgotten about until Perry reminded me the other day.)."

-- RICK MCGINNIS (Toronto-based photographer)

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Source: https://rickmcginnisphotographs.wordpress.com/tag/beastie-boys.

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nineteenfiftysix · 1 year

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Foxy Brown - I’ll Be (Feat. Jay-Z) (Ill Na Na, 1996)

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apanthropydotorg · 4 months

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The Top 25 Metal Albums of 1986

Disclaimer: Please don’t unleash years of suppressed anger and throw a hot cup of coffee in your dog’s face if you don’t see (insert name of band) at (insert position) or any such situation. This feature is based on the opinions of an author that writes, primarily, based on experiences and makes no claims that the collection of releases you’re going to be reading about is certified by God,…

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royaltyrules816 · 5 months

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Happy Birthday Rev Run

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warhead · 1 year

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#public enemy #PE #chuck d #flavor flav #terminator x #adidas #professor griff #def jam records #hiphop #jack mitchell #1987

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comfortfoodcontent · 2 years

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I was talking to some friends about old hip hop music and thought I’d play a little game of - If I could only pick 10 Rap Albums to exist forever, what would I pick?

These are a blend of my favorite albums ever. To me it’s the best of the best here. I had some painful cuts like Biggie’s Ready To Die, Nas’ Illmatic, Method Man/Redman - Blackout, Ruff Ryders’ Ryde or Die 1 & 2, Jay-Z’s Vol. 2 and Vol. 3, any album by Big L, N.E.R.D.’s In Search Of.., Dr. Dre’s Chronic & Chronic 2001, The Lox, Jadakiss, Ghostface, Raekwon - Hell any Wu-Tang solo album really. But I had to think strategically and go with my gut. What would be the best variety and which albums do I like pretty much every single song on them. Here they are, in no particular order:

Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers): Wu-Tang Forever and future solo and team-up albums by the individual members also rank very high but nothing beats this original album that is memorized in my brain. Probably THE quintessential 90′s rap album. Generational anthems and a mind blowing amount of talent on display here.

Kanye West - Graduation: I have always loathed the man Kanye West but I can’t deny that for a little while there he had some crazy talent and made some great jams. But yeah FUCK that dude. I have to separate the art from the artist here. This album hit at a time in my life when I really needed it and it’s a foundational part of me forever even if I want to leave Kanye behind forever. I’ve never really been a fan of Kanye’s lyrics or messages and I think this album is him at his LEAST serious and that’s why it works so well. It’s dare I say, a fun record. Just a talented dude doing fun, basic rap shit with great collabs and iconic beats. No dreary slog through whatever fixation the man had that year or watered down pretentious dork message he feels he needs to tell. Sometimes even a circus clown can make you chuckle. I had a hearty guffaw here.

Timbaland - Shock Value: Just like Graduation, this album hit me at a really transitional period in my life and got me through a lot. While a lot of music for me unfortunately becomes attached to specific periods in my life and I end up outgrowing said times and preferring to abandon what I listened to at the time, this one has persevered and I can reminisce as well as live in the current day and enjoy the tracks equally. The collabs on this one are INSANE and so delightful. Timbaland may be the most underrated rap creator ever.

Puff Daddy and the Family - No Way Out: This takes the spot over Biggie’s Ready To Die and as devastated as I am to lose “Gimme The Loot”, this album has all bangers. Ever single song. This is that very small period of time when Bad Boy had The Lox signed on and was super cozy to people like Ginuwine and Foxy Brown. It seemed like they had or collaborated with the best of the best and that’s what you get here. Such a varied mix of tone throughout leads to thoughtful introspective songs mixed with go hard party beats. It’s crazy.

Nujabes - Metaphorical Music: RIP. Real talk, I could fill this whole list with Nujabes albums and mixtapes. Such an eclectic mix of East and West to create an incredible fusion of sound. I absolutely love all of his work. It is legendary and on another level. This album takes the spot as I feel it is the strongest overall package of songs and it contains my fave Nujabes beat - “Latitude Remix”.

2Pac - All Eyez On Me: 2pac will always be one of the greatest rappers and fly as hell guys for me. I’ve listened to all his albums so many godamn times. Even as a little kid and a stupid teen I always fucked with that dude. He just really cultivated that cool as hell aura. This one was actually harder than I thought as this album battled with Makaveli for this spot. In the end this won out due to the sheer volume of content as well as the fact it has my favorite 2pac song, “Picture Me Rollin. Disc 2 is definitely kind of weak but the collabs he has on here are legendary. This is prime Death Row Records bullshit and I am so here for it. Iconic. Sensitive. Hard.

Lil Wayne - Tha Carter 3: Man, I remember just playing this CD on repeat whenever I drove anywhere for like a solid year. Surprisingly, it’s not one I play a lot over the years like the rest of this list, but anytime a song from it comes on I remember how great this one really was. Incredible talent, incredible rhymes, a sense of humor, a message, great collabs, inventive and wildly varied beats, this is the very rare album that honestly has it all.

Mos Def - Black On Both Sides: Let’s start off by giving Mos Def his due. This man may be the most underrated rapper to ever exist. Constantly overshadowed by the big names, the party beat rappers, the clowns, and the pretentious bullshit rappers who think they’re him. A musical genius if I’ve ever heard one. Amazing beats, top tier songwriting, a flow delivery that can be as fast or as slow as the song demands, he possesses just an unparalleled musical talent. I also adore this one because it encapsulates that 1999 y2kcore new millennium era that I miss so much. I had Ms. Fat Booty playing on a Winamp playlist for years and never got tired of it. So good.

Outkast - Stankonia: This is my shakiest pick. Not for Outkast, they are ALWAYS going to make my top music list, but for which album to represent them. Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik is fantastic, one of the best debut albums ever, but the intros & interludes drag on you and although it channels that Southern Hip-Hop feel so perfectly, this isn’t them at their full power. ATLiens has them finding new lyrical vistas as they bring some of their strongest rapping skills to the forefront, but you can almost feel the alien theme, the beats and their self-producing trip them up a bit here (Still one of the finest rap albums ever made!). Aquemini, again terrific, but this always felt to me like the duo went to college, threw on some drugrugs, dropped acid and wouldn’t shut up about how amazing their grandmother’s vintage record collection was. Growing pains and a melange of different eras of and styles of music make this one feel disjointed to me. Love the collabs on this one though. Stankonia comes next and to me this is the duo at the absolute height of their power, a prime Shaq and Kobe. Such a wide range of subjects to rap about. Smart, impactful, creative lyrics blend with some of their catchiest beats. The collabs are great as these rap gods sook out basically younger versions of themselves to elevate. Not a fan of the interludes returning but this one is just a perfect example of quite possibly the best to ever do it DOING IT! Probably Stankonia’s biggest competitor for this spot is Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. Two separate packages from Big Boi and Andre, each maximizing their respective strengths. Big Boi absolutely murdering it as he just goes hard like a fullback giving you pure hardcore rapping excellence while Andre cooks up a pop/funk/jazz hybrid masterpiece (what Aquemini tries to be a little too much). It’s phenomenal. The only reason it doesn’t take this spot is simple - you’d rather be watching Shaq and Kobe play together than separately.

Ma$e - Harlem World: Ok let me get this out of the way. Dozens, probably hundreds of rappers are more talented than Ma$e. I know this, you don’t have to tell me. But, do I care? Hell nah! Ma$e is the first rapper I can remember being MY guy. I was 7 or 8 when he first debuted. I have 4 older brothers so I was able to osmosis so much stuff from them just by being around them. I remember just loving this cool young guy hanging out with Puffy rapping over some fun as hell ear worm songs. He was just so cool. I don’t know why but I really identified with him and he was my favorite rapper as a little kid. Harlem World was essentially my first CD. Not a hand me down or whatever but a CD I got for myself. MINE. And look, while in retrospect my man wasn’t the best to ever do it, he did have a literal Dream Team of people producing (Puffy, Steven "Stevie J" Jordan, Jermaine Dupri, Ron "Amen-Ra" Lawrence Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie, and The Neptunes), as well as an all star cast of collabs (Jay-Z, Lil' Kim, Busta Rhymes, 8Ball & MJG, The Lox, Total, and DMX). What a massive combination of elite level talent. It’s such a mix of styles and voices that influence every single song to be something creatively different and wonderful. I also think this album’s biggest strength is it just oozes FUN. Every track makes you want to dance, laugh and just have a fun ass time (”Jealous Guy” is playing in my head making me crack up as I write this.) Of all rap albums throughout history, this one is the most “Me” of all of them.

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tha-wrecka-stow · 7 months

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The Album

The Single(s)

#The Album & The Singles Series #rap & hip-hop #rap #hip hop #hiphop #1980s #80s #ll cool j #BAD #I'm Bad #I Need Love #def jam #def jam records

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aiiaiiiyo · 1 year

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#Rick Rubin in the NYU dorm room where Def Jam Recordings began #1983. Bonus picture of Rubin with his partner Russell Simmons in the label's early days.#L0st_in_the_Stars #oldschool

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