Hip-Hop Cassette Tapes......

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Originally Posted by fatboybrandon

Then there's people you should check outside the US who are collecting tapes still to this day, like a number of Japanese record stores and European hip hop fans on eBay. Soundtable Records in Japan was one, but their site no longer exists

http://mitglied.multimania.de/rapacent/newpage3.html

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Ohhhhh shit, now that's a coincedence right there. That was my website, yo. I shut it down a couple of months ago, but I updated it until 2003 I believe, so just imagine all the shit I copped to this day. I sold all of my vinyl though and a lot of Wu-Shit, but still got lots of tapes and CDs I'm trying to sell.

BIG D O, man... I really enjoy reading through this topic and reading all those funny stories... can't stop laughing from time to time. Nough respect. I used to live in Philly by the way - that's where I got most of my CDs and tapes at. I'm really into diggin in the crates and finding rare shit and I got 800 CDs and more than a 100 tapes, so I really gotta start thinking about selling some shit haha. I love the music though.

Come check out 2 of my sale topics from about half a year ago... I sold about 50 % of that, so if you're interested in buying some rare tapes, there's a good chance I still have em.

http://www.wutang-corp.com/forum/sho...71#post1691771

http://www.wutang-corp.com/forum/sho...75#post1733275

I'll update the list soon though... like I said, I'm trying to sell that Screwball - Y2K, InI - Fakin' Jax, Ras Kass - Soul on Ice and a couple more of my tapes. Holla at me.


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Flowmingo

Why would you get rid of most of your albums but you're keeping a lot of tapes? That doesn't make sense.

No, you got me wrong. Where did I say anything like that? I meant to sell all of the tapes that are worth some money. I also got some that nowadays aren'T worth as much, so I'm keeping them. If you got any CD wishlist or whatever, let me know.

I know how to read. Don't be telling me what you didn't say. You need to get rid of all of your tapes hahahahahahahahahahaha. Tapes are a waste of time to listen to because of the fucking rewinding and fast forwarding you gotta do. Do you know how to download music? If you do, i'll send you some blank cd's and i'll pm you a list of albums i want from you.

Dog, you need to stay off this topic if you ain't interested in listening to tapes. Bottom line. Also, do you not know how to download music or why would you want me to burn you stuff you could easily find online?

If i knew how to download music, you think i would be asking you to burn me some albums? LOL. I don't download music because i don't know how. And besides my mom has a computer but she won't let me use it. Now can you burn me some albums or not? I used to have a guy that i talked to at another rap music website burn me some albums but he takes too damn long to send my cd's back to me and then he has the nerve to get a attitude sometimes when i ask him how long is it gonna take for him to send my cd's back to me. I don't have time to be dealing with assholes like that especially when i haven't met the guy and i'm the one that's paying him to burn the cd's. I don't be giving money to strangers especially strangers online that get a fucking attitude with me about some shit that i'm paying them for. I usually don't do business with people online because i don't trust people online.



One time i talked to a guy about some old tv shows he was gonna send me on a vhs tape and i was gonna pay him. He gave me his address but when i sent him the money, he didn't send what i wanted and i got pissed. That shit has also happened to me with a customer at Amazon.com that was selling a music cd or a movie on vhs that i wanted because when i sent him or her the money, i didn't get what i was supposed to get. I'm not doing that shit anymore. I also don't like the fact that Amazon.com has changed their payment policy because they don't accept money orders anymore. I used to buy a lot of music cd's from them and now them muthafuckas don't wanna accept money orders. That's some bullshit because ain't nothing wrong with a money order.

---Return of the audio cassette

Just when you thought it was dead, the audio cassette is catching the imagination of music fans again. So what's making us pause and rewind?

During its heyday, the audio cassette was easy to take for granted. It was cheap, portable and simple to duplicate but, unlike a vinyl album, never a thing of beauty. It always seemed so disposable, and was prone to unspooling in a spew of magnetic spaghetti, thus requiring laborious restoration with the aid of a pencil.

But just as it is facing extinction, the clunky old cassette has been reborn. Last year, feted indie bands Deerhunter and the Dirty Projectors both took the unusual step of putting out albums on cassette, and Universal made the celebrity poetry album Words for You Britain's first major-label cassette release in six years. The 6 Music DJ Lauren Laverne celebrates old compilations on her regular Memory Tapes feature. In the US, there are hundreds of underground labels that specialise in the format and package it with a degree of artistry never witnessed in the old Woolworths bargain bin. In the era of iPods and bitrates, the cassette has become the fragile repository of a generation's affection for the analogue age. You can buy iPod cases, T-shirts, computer hardware and even jewellery that pays tribute to its iconic shape.

British record labels began releasing cassettes in October 1967, shortly after the electronics giant Philips perfected the design, and it took off as a mass-market medium after the introduction of the Sony Walkman in 1979. Between 1985, when it overtook vinyl, and 1992, when it was eclipsed by CDs, it was the most popular audio format in the country. But sales collapsed towards the end of the 90s and major labels abandoned the cassette in 2003.

Universal's decision to press 4,000 cassettes of Words for You was prompted by requests from older listeners who didn't use CDs, let alone MP3s. But specialist cassette labels, which have boomed over the last two years, are born out of choice rather than necessity, quixotically running off limited-edition tapes on stacks of secondhand decks. The low cost is just one factor. Once derided by audiophiles, cassettes are now cherished for their imperfections. The way the sound subtly warps and mutates over time does no favours to Lady Gaga, but it breathes extra vibrancy into lo-fi, experimental music.

"I grew up listening to tapes," says Canadian Al Bjornaa, who set up his label Scotch Tapes in 2008. "It was kind of cool how each tape sounded different depending on what cassette deck you used." Bjornaa even reuses old cassettes as well as fresh blanks. "You can sometimes still hear the original music playing behind the new tracks. It adds a certain something that makes each cassette unique." And unlike MP3s, which encourage the listener to dismantle albums into their constituent tracks, the cassette "helps preserve the notion of 'the album' as a complete work of art."

Bjornaa admits that nostalgia plays a part. People old enough to remember the importance of cassette labels in the post-punk years (one indie genre, C86, even took its name from a tape sold via the NME) are aligning themselves with a long DIY tradition. They are also the home-taping generation. An iTunes playlist, easily burned on to multiple CDs, can never be a labour of love in the same way as a mix tape brought to life through hours hunched over the pause button, perfecting clunk-free segues.

Children of the 80s, too, are affectionately revisiting the format on which they first discovered music. "What you grew up with just sounds right," says 22-year-old Brad Barry, a student at the University of Texas who hosts a weekly cassette-only radio show called C60 Radio. Meanwhile, people who sport cassette-themed Urban Outfitters' T-shirts or iPhone cases are just using it as a retro prop in the never-ending 80s revival.

Clearly, nostalgia alone won't reverse the cassette's commercial nosedive, but that's rather the point. While an MP3 can travel around the globe within hours of release, tapes inhabit the cloistered world of the true underground – although, ironically, most are sold online. "It keeps it from becoming mainstream," says Barry. Faced with the bloodless convenience of digital music, it is human nature for some people to hanker after the cumbersome, the labour-intensive and the fallible – to pause and rewind. The record industry, too, might have reason to look fondly on those plastic rectangles, now that the alarmist slogan "Home Taping Is Killing Music" is just a retro T-shirt design and digital piracy is wreaking financial devastation. If only they'd known.

-http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/mar/29/audio-cassette-comeback

what the deal flow...I seen you is holdin a grip of tapes, i'm really tryin to do some b.i. wit you my dude...

just hit me up here: nickyledez@yahoo

should be way easier to correspond w/ one another....

hit you wit a PM too....


as far as this Charles Jones cat, why you coming in here jostlin wit ppl man? You like the lonely, bitter drunk that comes in and ruins the vibe at the party and end up gettin stomped out by like 40 people...

if you think tapes are wack or the thread is wack just let us be wack and keep it movin'....SMH...

my favorite place to get sealed cassettes and rare ones closed down. fucc technology fucc itunes fucc all that

im done!

That Dream Warriors cassette looks interesting, I never heard of the group but I'm sure they have something good to offer. Looking at the cover image I thought it was some type of alternative music act, it reminds me of some early 90's R&B covers which are great to find on cassette also, that's a whole 'nother cassette shopping experience in itself.

Diamond D's SB&HH is a gem to find on cassette still to this day, I remember the insides of new cassettes having a great smell too after you rip the cellophane off and open the fold-out cover.

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Originally Posted by Flowmingo

Ohhhhh shit, now that's a coincedence right there. That was my website, yo

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That's funny, I guess the circle of tape diggers online is a small place. I'm glad to know your on the forum. I'll check out your sales links too.


Nice article by check two, I've read about that type of resurgence, even though some people feel tapes are a thing of the past. I'm the type of person to never say never, it's one inner quality of the hip hop community that keeps things moving and the right direction and the nostalgic digging vibe around.

I think someone should come out with an EQ specifically designed to emulate tape saturation and warmth in iTunes, like how certain DAWs have plug-ins that achieve vintage analog effects. I have a stack and drawer full of tapes next to my computer and I switch btwn listening to each at least once a week. I can definitely say the analog warmth of cassette sound is still great to hear, regardless of updates in technology.

does anyone have any of these:

buddha monk the prophecy (sampler) cat. #: EDL-CS-PRO1
dj doo wop dj doo wop and gza beneath the surface sampler
ghostface killah ironman starks (sampler) (sony/razor sharp RS002)
gravediggaz demo tape cassette
wu-tang clan mystagogue volume 2
wu-tang clan wu-tang demo tape


i have the following tapes up for sale/trade:

Brooklyn Zoo Masterz Of The Zooniverse + Original Brookyln Zoo (EP)
Buddha Monk Spark Somebody Up
Ghostface Killah Ironman (Album)
Gravediggaz Diary Of A Madman b/w Constant Elevation
Gravediggaz Nowhere To Run Nowhere To Hide
Gza/Genius Come Do Me
Gza/Genius Liquid Swords (Album)
Gza/Genius Cold World (Remix)
King Just Warrior's Drum b/w Move On 'Em Stomp
Method Man I'll Be There For You/You're All I Need To Get By
N-Tyce Hush Hush Tip
Raekwon Immobilarity (Album)
Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx (purple tape, signed by dj memory man)
Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx (purple tape)
Raekwon Latest & Greatest Hits (Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Sampler Tape)
Remedy Remedy (Album)
Remedy Genuine Article (Album)
Shyheim On And On
Shyheim Pass it Off
Various St. Ides 94 Promotional Tape (Shaolin Brew,...)
Wu-Tang Clan Wu-Tang Forever Sampler Tape

Update!!!

6/14/10:

Getting back into the swing of things and decided to hit up one of my old reliable spots way off on da eastside of town....

Lately this spot has been dog shit, like real heavy, moldy, dog shit as far as it comes to tapes....it once was a place where I bumped into classics left and right... from Biggie, Mobb Deep and Big L I could usually count on findin' a lil' somethin' 9 times outta 10.... but for about the past 3 or so odd months they been dry. today I was around the way eatin some fried cat fish and said fuck it, I'm nearby, lemme check these fuckas out....

I walked in and was greeted with the sight that they had remodeled and everything was switched around a grip... Now not only was the tapes in a diff. part of the store, but they also were displayed differently than they had been....there still was a bunch and I started in scanning....BOOM! Right off the bat I struck gold spotting this gem; Erick Sermon's debut solo LP "No Pressure" from 1993....

This album was basically considered by many of his fans as Sermon's best solo ever, and featured guest spots from Redman, Keith Murray, Joe Synystr, Ice Cube and his cousin Kam and a group that ppl frequently forget about nowadays in Shadz Of Lingo; a Virginia based collective that rocked outta Atlanta and made their debut here....

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Big D O what's good man? Finally got around to signing up for this forum. Loving this thread man...I'll get some pics of my collection up as soon as I can...some real gems that you'll appreciate I'm sure...

Keep diggin for those gems...

Peace

Update!

6/22/10:

the latest grab...sadly I didn't stumble upon this in a store, but rather copped it from a reliable source via the net...

The half Puerto Rican, half Cuban MC known as Kurious that hails from Spanish Harlem is often most remembered for his joint "Walk Like A Duck", but honestly his debut "A Constipated Monkey", was not the critical failure many Hip-Hop journos tried to tag it as being...

In fact, the 12 track LP was a funked out boom bap construction complete with many a Jazzy sample source. It featured most of the production duties being handled by the Beatnuts and IMO only had a couple mis-steps.

At the time, Kurious was on Columbia Records and so was a then new artist named Nas, I always felt like "Illmatic" (released several months later on Columbia) contained a good amount of choice trace elements from "Constipated Monkey", that combined with Nas being naturally a stronger, more concise MC breeded a classic album....

If you're nat familiar with this album, please get up on it...


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I'd really like to show my appreciation for this thread Big D O.

You've uncovered some real gems, the best part about it is that you've come across them on cassette.

You really seem to have a grasp of what Hip-Hop is all about, I applaude your dedication.

Thanks man, I'm definitely gonna check for some of these albums that I wasn't already aware of.

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Originally Posted by Divine_Complex

I'd really like to show my appreciation for this thread Big D O.

You've uncovered some real gems, the best part about it is that you've come across them on cassette.

You really seem to have a grasp of what Hip-Hop is all about, I applaude your dedication.

Thanks man, I'm definitely gonna check for some of these albums that I wasn't already aware of.

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preciate this to the fullest....

No problem, I don't schmooz or ass kiss jsut to get people to like me.

So when I give props it's sincere and this thread deserves it.

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Originally Posted by Divine_Complex

No problem, I don't schmooz or ass kiss jsut to get people to like me.

So when I give props it's sincere and this thread deserves it.

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I didn't presume you would....

all the better....

again preciate that....more updates comin soon!

UPDATE!!!

7/6/10:

Really cam up nice over the holiday weekend..

Was in the city at one of my usual vinyl haunts...pretty well-known place in the Denver LoDo area...I initially went b/c it was a holiday on the 5th and all the parking was free as a jay bird and trust that's a huge thing....Anyway, yeah they have tapes in this spot too, but for the most part they haven't had a tape I wanted to cop outta there in months....low and behold this day they had three....

Now, see, the thing about this spot is that they're smart, so my brand of sticky fingeredness is ineffective...what I mean is that they have all their tapes on display, case only....no tape inside....you grab the title you want and head up tp the front and pay...

LOL, no one loves tape jacking more than me, but longtime readers of this thread know I pay for tapes too, in a big way sometimes (i've dropped nice coin on cassettes), so ya'll should know even if the establishments loss prevention is full proof, I still will come away with what I want. Anyway, they had "on display" amongst other things three tapes that I didn't have and really wanted to pick up..

1) Brand Nubian's "Everything Is Everything"--their 1994 opus that I also own on Vinyl and CD and had been wanting to grab on tape for a minute in white tape copy...

2) Souls Of Mischief debut "93 'til Infinity"; widely considered their best work and one of the best Hiero albums ever to drop...period. This was in mint condition, everything was perfect from the case to the tape's print....

3) and the pick of the litter; The Beatnuts debut full length, "Street Level"....this I had come a bout a cunt hair's length close to copping for like $10, but instead bumped into it here and only had to drop $2.95....everything about it was perfect as well, the pullout insert is a lil water damaged, but the pictures still are fine and it unfolds fine....a great pickup, perhaps my best of the entire Summer thus far!


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Update!

7/8/10:

today got one of my "mail-ins" as i like to put it...ordered this from my dude out on the east coast awhile back...

Many folks are very passionate about The Roots man and personally I see where they comin from...

to me, this album; their 3rd, released in 96', was their strongest effort ever as opposed to 1999's "Things Fall Apart"; a critic's favorite amongst their catalog...

The actual tape insert and cassette are in perfect condition, the case was a shabby, but i'll clean that up properly later on....was a lil disappointed that this tape wasn't one of the ones that were released that had the special tracklisting order that started at #34.

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Update!!!!

7/29/2010:

ayooooo....it's been a minute, but today I stumbled upon a serious gem and some sturdy doubles....

I was runnin around town tryin to find someplace to cop some decent gear...the mall wasn't hittin so I came back thru to my neighborhood and while I was skating around I noticed a big ass sign on one of my usual thrift haunts advertising a special sale...99 cents for everything in the store...naturally I swooped in for a sec, originally thinking I'd just go ahead and cop some vinyl....

they had a bunch of new tapes and pretty quickly I scooped out 5 gems that were all in great condition....I found Illmatic, Doom and The Killarmy tapes first and I was kinda amp'd, I already have a copy of all three, but they're all a lil' harder to come by (especially Illmatic and the Mood tape) so I was happy with that, but then I started diggin deeper...

soon I found the gem of the day: La The Darkman's "Heist Of The Century"....besides being IMO one of, if not thee hardest Wu affiliate album ever, it's a rare ass find...I mean, it's getting difficult to even track down the CD of this jawn let alone the tape and when I do see the CD in spots they ain't never lettin it go cheap...ever...

I also spotted an S&S tape, that many heads prolly missed, but due to the fact that I'm an old school NYC mixtape fiend I know the name...I guess S&S actually dropped an album back in 99' (i don't remember him doin so) and this is it...Harlem World Order capitalizes on the Harlem World mania that was going on back then and while S&S features a bunch of obscure names on this, I mainly grabbed it b/c of Smoothe Da Hustler, OGC, G Dep and Tragedy Khadafi appearing on it, not to mention Kool DJ red Alert...It's rare that I actually encounter an album on tape that I haven't heard b4, but this was one of those moments...

I decided to be halfway decent and cop 3 of the tapes (the La, S&S and Illmatic) and shove the other two in my jacket lining...it was mad busy in there and in all liklihood I could've scaped' with em' all, but hey, my conscious got the better of me and since thrift stores are shutting down in my area like crazy I decided to support a bit...

on a side note, all three of the double tapes I'll take trade offers for....


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I actually found Ready To Die on tape by accident. Is this rare at all, because I dont know much when it comes to buying tapes since not many sell them anymore. Im not trying to sell it or anything, just curious.

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Originally Posted by GhostfaceThaPharoahe

I actually found Ready To Die on tape by accident. Is this rare at all, because I dont know much when it comes to buying tapes since not many sell them anymore. Im not trying to sell it or anything, just curious.

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yup, pretty rare indeed....that album is out of print and actually I think it's restricted from being printed ever again as a result of a lawsuit that was brought against Diddy a few years back over sample clearances...a judge halted the sales of the album and actually had it pulled from stores....

you find a new copy of it you can cash in to the tune of $130 bucks....of course this broadly applied to just the CD format of the album, but the tape is pretty well regarded amongst heads/collectors too...depending on the condition of course, I've seen it go for about half that...

I'll be honest, I was never all that thrilled with Heist Of The Century.

I had it on CD back when it was released, paid a grip for it too.

It bored the shit out of me, maybe I should re-visit the album and see if I still feel that way.

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Originally Posted by Divine_Complex

I'll be honest, I was never all that thrilled with Heist Of The Century.

I had it on CD back when it was released, paid a grip for it too.

It bored the shit out of me, maybe I should re-visit the album and see if I still feel that way.

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yea, I can feel that perspective a bit....I mean La's rhyming is pretty one dimensional....really the production was my fav. aspect...that man Carlos Broady got down somethin serious on it... he's one of Hip-Hop's long slept-on boardsmen...

Yeah the production was crazy. Hes a good rhymer.

Killa Sin and La The Darkman has to be in the top 20 Killa bee songs, crazy beats and rhymes

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Originally Posted by BIG D O

yup, pretty rare indeed....that album is out of print and actually I think it's restricted from being printed ever again as a result of a lawsuit that was brought against Diddy a few years back over sample clearances...a judge halted the sales of the album and actually had it pulled from stores....

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the original white cover issue was pulled from shelves but i'm pretty sure it wasn't over no sample clearance issues cuz the black cover remaster w. dvd is still on sale and it's the exact same music on there. i remember reading that "Ready to Die" is the most stealed album in musics history tho haha.

btw, rep on "Illadelph Halflife" - one of the illest LP's ever released.

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the original white cover issue was pulled from shelves but i'm pretty sure it wasn't over no sample clearance issues cuz the black cover remaster w. dvd is still on sale and it's the exact same music on there. i remember reading that "Ready to Die" is the most stealed album in musics history tho haha.

btw, rep on "Illadelph Halflife" - one of the illest LP's ever released.

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i'm pretty sure Puf settled out of court and was able to secure the re-release or something....I'll have to read up and see what the fall out was, but rest assured the reason the original was pulled was over sample clearances: http://www.chartattack.com/news/4078...mpling-lawsuit


thanks for the rep...Illadelph is indeed a great, great reecord...

Update!!!!

8/6/2010:

Yoooooo....I think i'mma keep on just diggin for vinyl, b/c lately everytime I've gone diggin for it I come away with some ill tapes...Today was no exception, I headed out looking for vinyl w/ my digging buddy and after we exhausted the massive amount of crates in this thrift store waay out on the westside of town I peeped out that there was a healthy ass couple of boxes of cassettes just chillin'....

I went to work and after rumaging a bit I spotted Ant Banks' 1994 "The Big Bad Ass"...For those not knowing, Ant is one of the west coast's all time great producers...ever. Another thing you may not know bout Ant is that he also rhymed quite a good deal and put out some studio albums of his own....This Jive release is marked by Ant's g funk'd, Okaland production....."Streets Of Oakland" is a joint I remember from this and decided it made the rest all worthwhile....I admit i never really dug Ant's rhyming all that tuff and teh Dangerous Crew was an after thought to me when it came to Oakland rap acts...i much more preferred Heiro and whatnot, which brings me to my next tape....

2nd tape I spotted made my day, truly did....it was Del The Funkee Homosapien's debut album "I WIsh My Brother George Was Here" laying under a pile of country tapes...lol...what a find...one of my last "must have" tapes that I always wanted to own my own copy of....condition was really decent too...case was a lil' dogged, but that ain't no thing....


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Originally Posted by BIG D O

I was runnin around town tryin to find someplace to cop some decent gear...the mall wasn't hittin so I came back thru to my neighborhood and while I was skating around I noticed a big ass sign on one of my usual thrift haunts advertising a special sale...99 cents for everything in the store...naturally I swooped in for a sec, originally thinking I'd just go ahead and cop some vinyl....

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ain't nothin like traveling around on a good day with nothing else on your mind but buying some good music and gear. Those are some good buys D O, it's inspiring to see someone who appreciates digging, especially for cassettes.

I've seen some Japan vinyl stores that also sell 90's cassettes, check those if you haven't already, they hold onto that same type of nostalgic value for Hip Hop.

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Originally Posted by fatboybrandon

ain't nothin like traveling around on a good day with nothing else on your mind but buying some good music and gear. Those are some good buys D O, it's inspiring to see someone who appreciates digging, especially for cassettes.

I've seen some Japan vinyl stores that also sell 90's cassettes, check those if you haven't already, they hold onto that same type of nostalgic value for Hip Hop.

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Or even stealing as it seems to be. im not sure i understand the quest for tapes, vinyl sure but tapes??

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Originally Posted by fatboybrandon

ain't nothin like traveling around on a good day with nothing else on your mind but buying some good music and gear. Those are some good buys D O, it's inspiring to see someone who appreciates digging, especially for cassettes.

I've seen some Japan vinyl stores that also sell 90's cassettes, check those if you haven't already, they hold onto that same type of nostalgic value for Hip Hop.

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ain't nuthin like it indeed! TY my dude...it's important to me to uphold that tape culture from years past....

some ppl will just never understand yo...*shrugs*

I wanna go to this place called "Into the Music" up here. Got alot of Funkadelic records I wanna go get and I know they'll have other shit that I'll enjoy once I get there. They actually have the Eddie Hazel album on vinyl if I'm not mistaken.

bumpin'.....

expect some updates soon!

yessss! ALREADYYYY!

I saw on the wu tang forum someone found an ODB dirty version on ebay for $500! Is it really worth that? I have that tape and if it is I'll gladly through it up on ebay. I also have Tical and Liquid Swords. Any value to those?

Im looking forward to the updates. Big D O inspired me a while ago to get back into tapes. Its a cheap and fun little hobby that can pay off big benefits.

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Originally Posted by 9th Chamber

I saw on the wu tang forum someone found an ODB dirty version on ebay for $500! Is it really worth that? I have that tape and if it is I'll gladly through it up on ebay. I also have Tical and Liquid Swords. Any value to those?

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I picked up each a couple years back for less than $10

UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

8/10/2011:

yOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, What's good ppl... I know it's been a minute since the last update, but you knew I had to get back on my tape jackin grind... Life has changed a good deal for ya boy since I last was hittin ya'll heavy with updates and tape diggin' everyday... schedule got more hectic, had more responsibilities, so on and so forth.. it is what it is...

IN ANY CASE, I'm back now with two new joints from yesterday and they are fuckin gems man...really was surprised that I just cam up on em' like this...

Yesterday I was in my old neighborhood and couldn't resist swooping by an old favorite thrift store that is pretty large in size...when I walked in I couldn't help but notice that they had switched the placement of the tapes and records and that there was a good deal of them up in the front...

I scanned the records and picked up a few for legit purchase, then I sifted thru the tapes, which for some reason were stacked in a way that I had to fucking stand on a foot stool to be able to see all of them and look down...

1st joint I noticed was WC And The Mad Circle's "Ain't A Damn Thing Changed"... A classic release from 1991, littered with great drum break fueled production and a time in WC's career before he fully jumped into the whole Crippin', fast rappin', Westside Connection hype... Tons of production done by a young and primed Sir Jinx as well...

and then I found the gem of the day..fuckin Lords Of The Underground "Keepers Of The Funk".... Now I realize a lot of ppl really only prefer the Newark trio's debut from 93', but this, their sophomore album from 94' was always a huge favorite of mine as well... it featured in bulk production from K-Def, i.e. easily one of the most slept-on and un-recognized producers of our time and Marley Marl, who incidentally, K-Def has many times accused of taking credit for the work he put in during this era...

It wasn't terribly busy in the store and the employees were swarming for some reason...I decided that I'd just utilize the ole' screen technique where I'd float thru a row of clothes and make sure the rows blocked most of my person while I shoved the tapes into my shorts.. predictably the tactic worked and I was able to stand in line and then pay for a few records w/o any problems... it was only a couple of tapes so I didn't really expect anything to happen, but I have encountered beefed up security in a lot of thrift stores recently so I took the precautions...


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