Hip Hop Vinyl 7 Inch 998 Items

7" | 1989 | UK | Original (Sleeping Bag)

I'm Housin'

110,99 €*

To The Max / It's My Turn

Release: 1989 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Ships in a label sleeve.
Record and sleeve are close to NM.

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Stezo

7" | 1989 | UK | Reissue (Sleeping Bag)

Calm Down Record Store Day 2022 Vinyl Edition

Release: 1989 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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This hip hop dancefloor gem from 1989 has been lovingly remastered and reissued in Tribute to Stezo's sad and far too early passing last year! The original '89 copies, backed with the equally strong "It's My Turn" are changing hands for £100+ and the iconic label Sleeping Bag Records can't have that! This isn't Antiques Roadshow, music is for all...but this is a rare find! Original '89 designed Sleeping Bag Sleeve. Often played by Steve Lamaq on 6 Music which surprises us too.

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Most Wanted

7" | 1989 | UK | Reissue (The Fever)

Release: 1989 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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This was THE crossover uptempo hip hop/breaks dancefloor jam in 1989. Played in many many clubs and rave scenes, this genre-busting, "The Commodores" sampling one-off is finally available on 7" for the first time ever using the original 12" artwork, on the original NYC label.

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The Big Payback Transparent Orange Vinyl Edition

7" | 1989 | EU | Reissue (Mr Bongo)

16,99 €*

Release: 1989 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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7" | 1989 | US | Reissue (Flipnjay)

Maestro Fresh Wes

Let Your Backbone Slide

23,99 €*

Think / Atom Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 1989 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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The debut single from the godfather of Canadian Rap, Maestro Fresh-Wes, is the cornerstone of Canadian Hip-Hop. Point blank.

Although the single was originally released as an import record into Canada, Maestro solidified himself as the gold standard for all Canadian hip-hop artists to follow for the next 30 years.

According to Maestro himself, the origins of the famous phrase “Let Your Backbone Slide” was inspired from a line from Billy Squier’s “The Stroke” and the drum pattern is modelled directly off of the 45 King’s “900 Number.” Those two elements serve as the “backbone” for the video version aka The Power Mix. Add in an intro featuring a cornucopia of original break samples leading into “Funky Drummer”, a chorus with the b-boy standard “The Champ”, vocals from the 808 canon “Set It Off”, AND Wes’s superior lyrical flow and voice and you have the most influential hip-hop record ever recorded in Canada.

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Main Source

7" | 1989 | EU | Original (Mr Bongo)

7" | 1988 | DE | Original (Tin Pan Apple)

Release: 1989 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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A year before Wild Pitch Records properly introduced us to the trio of Queens native Large Professor and Toronto’s Sir Scratch and K-Cut, the soon-to-be-legendary group self-released their own debut single. Dropping on Actual Records, the 12” of ‘Think’ and ‘Atom’ was soon a sought after rarity, with scarce originals still fetching upwards of three figures. On it, they only hint at the greatness to come, while simultaneously showing that they’d already mastered the three-minute rap single – this is concise brilliance with no flab whatsoever. Engineered by the late, esteemed Paul C, ‘Think’ is a study in how to turn well-worn samples into something new. The combination of several James Brown snatches, along with bits lifted from Lyn Collins and Jimmy Castor Bunch, could have been tired and almost parodic by 1989, but instead the group weave something interesting from old fabric. ‘Atom’ is arguably even better, built around a brace of elements from Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell’s 1967 duet ‘Little Ole Boy, Little Ole Girl’. On it, Large Pro gives the first real hints that he’ll not just be a super-producer, but a committed MC to watch. Mixing threats with humour, positivity with braggadocio, it’s a calling card performance on a track that could have still sat comfortably on 1991’s ‘Breaking Atoms’ album.

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Fat Boys

The Twist

4,99 €*

Release: 1988 / DE – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

7" | 1988 | EU | Original (Hansa)

Milli Vanilli

Girl You Know It's True

3,99 €*

Release: 1988 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Electronic & Dance, Pop

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Medium: VG, Cover: VG

7" | 1988 | EU | Reissue (Mr Bongo)

You Gots To Chill

Release: 1988 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Endlessly sampled, covered, quoted and requoted, this may well be one of the most influential hip-hop singles ever released. But, in many ways, its importance goes beyond its sheer classic status as a single in its own right. In retrospect, it shows the duo of Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith as pioneers in production, creating a funk-based sound that helped to provide a blueprint for artists on the other side of the country. In 1987/88, most West Coast rap still adhered to an East Coast audio blueprint. By 1989, they were leaning as heavily on Zapp and Roger Troutman samples as Epmd were on this single. The foundations of the track are interesting, with a snatch of Juice’s much-plundered ‘Catch a Groove’ (which has popped up everywhere from The Beastie Boys to Kings of Pressure) overlaid with big chunks of Kool & The Gang’s ‘Jungle Boogie’ and Zapp’s irrepressible ‘More Bounce to the Ounce’. Vocodered funk was a rarity in New York hip-hop until this song, but it’s the West Coast G-Funk artists who really ran with it. Its popularity spanned the country (and the globe, to be fair), with Epmd performing numerous shows in California on the basis of the sound, moving away from their James Brown-obsessed peers to display their own musical tastes. That said, the flipside – here presented on 7” and, indeed, on any single, for the first time – takes it back to that JB-era. ‘(It’s Not the Express), It’s the JB’s Monaurail by The JB’s is woven with Otis Redding and Beastie Boys to create a mid-tempo headnodder par excellence. It was always too good not to be a single.

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7" | 1988 | EU | Reissue (Mr Bongo)

Strictly Business

Straight Out Of The Jungle / Black Is Black Record Store Day 2021 Edition

Release: 1988 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Few groups arrive as fully formed as Epmd did. This dropped as the third single from the album of the same name, and further cemented their distinctive aesthetic: Slow rhyming, trading lines rather than the rappers being confined to their own verses, and backings that were ruthlessly funky and simple at the same time.

They’d go on to be labelmates with Public Enemy when Def Jam picked up their contract in 1990, and to compare and contrast the two is illuminating. While PE at that time were making waves with the Bomb Squad’s breathless, kitchen sink approach to production, Epmd were equally adored for taking the opposite approach.

Here, there’s a sprinkle of drums from Kool & The Gang’s oft-sampled ‘Jungle Boogie’, paired with a very recognisable portion of Eric Clapton’s ‘I Shot the Sheriff’. And that’s pretty much it – the two samples are linked, looped and left to their own devices. Such was Erick and Parrish’s confidence in their own rhyming ability and strong voices, no further embellishment was needed.

That confidence extends to the subject matter. While their debut album and later projects were heavy with concepts – the ‘Jane’ series – and notable guest verses, this was the third straight single of pure brag rap. Two MC’s, one beat, a whole heap of lyrics about how good they were. It’s something you can’t do unless you truly are special, and this duo most certainly were.

Paired with the classic instrumental version, which didn’t make it to the US 7” releases – it’s only on a hard-to-track-down French 7” pressing from 1989 – this this is a timely reminder of how breathtakingly perfect hip-hop can be.

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Jungle Brothers

7" | 1988 | EU | Reissue (Idlers)

Because I Got It Like That Record Store Day 2020 Edition

Release: 1988 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Record Store Day 2021 Release. Following on from last years successful RSD 7 Inch, Idlers are proud to release the title track from the JBs 1988 debut album 'Straight Out The Jungle' that has never had a full release on 45 before. Backed with the more relevant than ever 'Black is Black'. More golden era hip hop on 7! With a Picture sleeve.

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Jungle Brothers

7" | 1988 | US | Reissue (Idlers)

Travelling At The Speed Of Thought / M.C.'s Ultra (Part II Edit)

Release: 1988 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Record Store Day 2020 Release.

The Sly Stone sampling, scene smashing hip hop track 'Because I Got it Like That' that launched the Jungle Brother's to the world in 1988, housed on their groundbeaking debut album 'Straight Out The Jungle'. Original copies of the single now change hands for £50 if you’re lucky so a fully remastered, official reissue is exactly what the doctor ordered! Backed with the rare Ultimatum mix (aka The Stereo MC's).

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Ultramagnetic MC's

7" | 1987 | EU | Reissue (Mr Bongo)

Ego Tripping / Funky Potion

Release: 1987 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Let’s be honest – the first time many of us heard the otherworldly talents of the Ultramagnetic MC’s was on a compilation. A smattering of singles in 1986 had barely registered beyond a small circle in New York, but the inclusion of the 1987 single ‘Travelling at the Speed of Thought’ on Street Sounds’ ‘Hip Hop Electro 16’ set, sandwiched between classics from MC Shy D and Just-Ice, was a watershed moment.
In a way, it’s their most atypical release. The deceptively simple combination of drums ‘borrowed’ from The Rolling Stones and a scratched hook from The Kingsmen’s definitive version of Richard Berry’s ‘Louie Louie’ is one thing. The simple by their standards vocals, however, render it into a loveable pastiche of rock-rap, a more esoteric equivalent of Run DMC’s ‘Walk This Way’.
The flip is more in keeping with their style both on their earlier ‘Ego Tripping’ single and the soon-to-arrive landmark classic album ‘Critical Beatdown’. Over some heavily chopped drums from erstwhile breakbeat classic ‘Apache’ by the Incredible Bongo Band, Ced Gee and Kool Keith showcase flows that were different from anything out there at the time.
‘M.C.’s Ultra (Part II Edit)’ is part brag-rap, part baffling science lecture. Leaning heavily on the thesaurus, it’s a slang heavy manifesto that elevated the boast rap to the next level. While Kool Keith would go on to be the group’s breakout star, this is a showcase for the whole collective, right down to DJ Moe Love’s slithery scratching sliding from one channel to the next.
Only previously released in the UK as a 7” that’s now very hard to source, this is a chance to re-embrace this breakthrough from a legendary group.

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Ultramagnetic MC's

7" | 1986 | EU | Reissue (Mr Bongo)

7" | 1985 | JP | Original (Warner Bros.)

Release: 1986 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Melvin Bliss’ iconic ‘Synthetic Substitution’ (1973) has been sampled hundreds of times. Gracing records from Naughty by Nature’s ‘O.P.P’ to Public Enemy’s ‘Don’t Believe the Hype’, it’s one of the foundations of hip-hop. However, there’s a school of thought that says the sample could have been retired forever after Ced Gee used it for ‘Ego Tripping’. It was the first song to use those wonderful Bernard Purdie drums, and arguably the best.
Their first release on Next Plateau Records, this instant 1986 classic slams from the first bar, that hard-as-hell beat underpinned by stabs and the breathy ‘ultra-magnetic-magnetic’ chant beneath. Meanwhile, Ced and future legend Kool Keith go to town with pseudo-science and a thinly veiled diss of Run DMC – ‘Say what, Peter Piper, to hell with childish rhymes’. It’s a song shot through with promise they’d more than fulfil on their debut album, 1988’s landmark ‘Critical Beatdown’.
The flip, ‘Funky Potion’, doesn’t coalesce with quite the same genius but is still more than a curio, with the MC’s doubling down on their futuristic nonsense approach to lyricism. Rufus Thomas’ ‘Do the Funky Penguin’ is the base for yet more stabs, discordant scratches and a kitchen-sink approach that shows just innovative the group were prepared to be.
Never before released before on 7”, this undeniable hip-hop classic comes complete with bespoke hype stickers incorporating one of the great rap logos of all time.

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Chaka Khan

This Is My Night

9,99 €*

Computer Love Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 1985 / JP – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

close to NM

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Egyptian Lover

7" | 1985 | EU | Reissue (Mr Bongo)

Computer Love - Neon Green Vinyl Edition

Release: 1985 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Seminal electro-fusion / machine-funk classic. Includes previously unreleased radio edit. The genre, electro (or electro-funk), is sometimes perceived to have a separate identity to hip-hop; however, this electronic cousin was integral to the early development of the hip-hop sound. Drawing on drum machines, such as the Roland Tr-808, and influenced by funk, these two genres were intertwined and rode a parallel axis for a while, with rap, breakdance, and graffiti as pillars of the culture and community. The mechanical sound of electro would later go on to inspire a different set of producers and played its part in influencing contemporary electronic dance music. For this 7" release we are taking things back to 1984 and 1985 with a split single from The Egyptian Lover and Jamie Jupitor. First up is a track from The Egyptian Lover, AKA Greg J. Broussard, the cult Los Angeles-based producer, vocalist and DJ, who is a true hip-hop / electro-fusion pioneer. 'Computer Love (Sweet Dreams)' is a seminal electro-fusion / machine-funk classic that saw a release on the iconic label Freak Beat Records (owned by Greg himself). The original 7" release is now very sought-after by collectors. On the flip we have another electro jam from The Egyptian Lover disciple, Jamie Jupitor. 'Computer Power’ was additionally produced and arranged by The Egyptian Lover, and was released on Egyptian Empire Records (the label that evolved from Freak Beat Records). For this release we have opted for a special 7" unreleased radio edit, that has Greg kindly provided us with, which differs slightly in composition from the previously released versions. One for fans of Dãm Funk, electro and 80s funk.

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Egyptian Lover

7" | 1985 | EU | Reissue (Mr Bongo)

16,99 €*

7" | 1984 | JP | Original (Planet)

Release: 1985 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Pointer Sisters

Neutron Dance

Release: 1984 / JP – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG+

It's Yours Record Store Day 2020 Edition

T La Rock & Jazzy Jay

7" | 1984 | US | Reissue (Partytime)

12,99 €*

One For The Treble (Fresh) Record Store Day 2019 Edition

Release: 1984 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Record Store Day 2020 Release.

The debut release on Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons now seminal Def Jam label that shook the world with its evil bass and percussion. Never released on 7" before, this is a true Hip Hop collectors dream. Featuring the ground-breaking "Scratch Party Death Mix".

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Davy DMX

7" | 1984 | EU | Reissue (Tuff City)

11,99 €*

7" | 1983 | US | Reissue (Fraternity / Specific)

Release: 1984 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Limited Edition for Record Store Day 2019! LTD 500 units 7″ of this seminal Hip Hop/Electro jam from 1984. Mint “Styrene” copies are changing hands for £100+, but this remastered reissue version is now avaiable on 100% virgin vinyl at a snip of that price. A slice of Hip Hop history.

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Fantasy Three

It's Your Rock

14,99 €*

Release: 1983 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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7" | 1982 | CA | Reissue (X-Ray)

Grandmaster Flash

White Lines

14,99 €*

Release: 1982 / CA – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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My Part Of Town / Mountains World Record Store Day 2022 Vinyl Edition

Tuff Crew

7" | 1982 | UK | Reissue (Warlock)

The Headhunters / The Counts

Release: 1982 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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True club dancefloor Hip Hop from '89 that inspired many a hit there after. Legendary double hitter from the cult Philly crew that have never been on 45 together before. Black Vinyl in Picture sleeve Exclusive for RSD 22.

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God Make Me Funky / Motor City

7" | 1975 | UK | Reissue (Breaks & Beats)

14,99 €*

Release: 1975 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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The 6th Sense / The Light

Common

7" | UK (45 Kings)

Release: UK

Genre: Hip Hop

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Weed Is Life Hip Hop Remix

Round Head

7" | JM (Special Remix)

3,99 €*

7" | US | Original (Shake It)

Release: JM

Genre: Hip Hop, Reggae & Dancehall

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: Generic

Writing on label.
Small light scuff on side A.

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Mr. Dibbs

Ugly and proud volume 3

3,99 €*

7" | FR | Original (Tempesti)

Release: US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG

Small light scuff on side B.
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Dynasty

Baby Come Back

6,99 €*

Case Of The Ex / Boom Feat. Juvenile

Release: FR – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Back cover with stamp and sticker.

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Mya / Mario

7" (Kiss Klassics)

12,99 €*

Genre: Hip Hop

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7" | US | Original (Threshold)

DJ Create & Masta Ace

Let's Go Test Press

26,99 €*

Release: US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Jingle Jangle / Legion Groove

The Legion

7" | US | Original (Legion)

Release: US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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The Maxi-Single Feat. Planet Asia

Fredfades & Sun Raw

7" (KingUnderground)

12,99 €*

Genre: Hip Hop

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Tank Gawd (Kutmasta Kurt & Moka Only)

We're Rhyming Test Press

7" | US | Original (Threshold)

26,99 €*

Release: US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop

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Otherwize Feat. P.E.A.C.E.

Hey Young World / That's Wize

7" | US (Sle)

8,99 €*

Release: US

Genre: Hip Hop

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Stoe Rok / DJ Blake 9

Flume / Flipside

7" | US (Icb)

7,99 €*

Release: US

Genre: Hip Hop

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Terrachrome Feat. Ad-Rock / C Da Unseen Feat. Son Doobie

Bashton

7" | US (F5r)

9,99 €*

Release: US

Genre: Hip Hop

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Strap On The Side / Welcome To The Ghetto

Spice 1

7" | CA | Reissue (Pels)

21,99 €*

It Was A Good Day / You Can Do It (Feat Mack 10 & Ms Toi)

Release: CA – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop

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Rels Records is back with more Bay Area classics on wax. This time they’ve released two of Spice 1’s biggest songs, both on 7” for the first time ever.

Side A features “Strap On The Side” from Spice 1’s third studio album “Amerkkka’s Nightmare” and on Side B - “Welcome To The Ghetto” from his self titled debut.

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Ice Cube

7" | EU (Throwdown)